Your front fenders have have been raised tward the front bumper. The turn signal on the fender has been deleted. Looks like they did a good job, but I don’t know how legal that is where you reside.
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And I would ditch one of the stabilizers, it’s not needed.
Keep the wheels and hubcaps
That is all
That is all
First and foremost- it looks good. Isn't that all that really matters?
Fully agree with what's been said here. Just reiterating what I see as a priority:
Make sure you have no frame cracks under your steering box. ORD (Off Road Design), a great company, has a weld-on repair kit as well as a triangulated frame brace that you'll probably want to install. Consider a 2WD reman steering box from a reputable company like RedHead (I went with them and love it) in order to do a crossover steering swap. That will fix some steering geometry issues presented by the lifted suspension. You can also ditch that factory steering shaft and replace it with one off a Jeep XJ, it should slip right on. This replaces the inherent slop of a rag joint with a sturdier u joint.
Make sure your brakes are in good working order. Seems like the PO did that right, giving enough soft line for suspension travel.
What's the interior looking like? Is the RPO sticker still in the glovebox and legible?
Fully agree with what's been said here. Just reiterating what I see as a priority:
Make sure you have no frame cracks under your steering box. ORD (Off Road Design), a great company, has a weld-on repair kit as well as a triangulated frame brace that you'll probably want to install. Consider a 2WD reman steering box from a reputable company like RedHead (I went with them and love it) in order to do a crossover steering swap. That will fix some steering geometry issues presented by the lifted suspension. You can also ditch that factory steering shaft and replace it with one off a Jeep XJ, it should slip right on. This replaces the inherent slop of a rag joint with a sturdier u joint.
Make sure your brakes are in good working order. Seems like the PO did that right, giving enough soft line for suspension travel.
What's the interior looking like? Is the RPO sticker still in the glovebox and legible?
K5_Bigfoot
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Been gone a couple weeks haven’t been able to work on jimmy at all. But yea it does look good, thanks haha. Been looking into a 2wd steering box and crossover steering, and have done the cherokee steering shaft swap in the past and will do again, but first priority is to get heater hooked up and vents behind dash put in. Pulled some from a square suburban in the junkyard. And to also get the matching 4.88 gears put in the front axles so I can use 4wd. Found the np241 was low so I drained and topped off. Then found out why it’s low. Has multiple leak points. Interior is ok. Somebody redid the dash but it’s incomplete. Lots of incomplete work, missing screws, done light etc. PO made new side panel for rear which look pretty good but are not attached either. I just put in some original style 3point front seatbelts as those were gone. RPO codes are legible but with the swapped axles and the turbo 350 trans now not much original remains. PO also took off console shifter and put B&M floor shifter in which im not crazy about. No rust found so far but will be redoing the entire interior eventually. I really appreciate all the input here it’s great. I’ll snap a few pics of interior and post them up
You can tell by the shape of the axle inspection cover that it is a 14bff, also it has a bolt in pinion, a semi floater does not.
The transfer case has a two piece bolt on extension housing, which means it is an NP241. An NP208 has a one piece rear extension housing.
Martin
Post a picture of the transmission pan, and the transfer case adapter. If it is a TH350, most likely then used a Fitzall spacer (or similar brand) between the transmission and the transfer case adapter.
Nice rig.
Martin
Nice rig.
Martin
Shouldn’t be too hard to put a column shifter back in it. The shifter is the same for a TH350 or TH700R4/4L60, so that won’t matter.
Martin
Martin
K5_Bigfoot
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Well here’s pic of trans pan. Definitely not a th350. Looks like stock 700r4. Now I’m wondering if the B&m floor shifter needs to be change with a different shift plate as it only has 1,2 and drive. Now another thing to add to the list is get it back to the factory column shifter
RPO's just nice to have, IMO. Figured with it being modded it wouldn't be too crucial, but it's just good info.
