What did you do to your Cherokee today?
11-01-2013, 08:43 PM
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Year: 1996
Engine: 4.0L HO
ordered the last of my "oh ****" bolts for the lift kit. shock bolts & a few leaf spring bolts from rockauto. once those are here, its all going in. used leafs w/ 3" AAL, new bilsteins for the front, jk pull offs on the rear, 3" front coils. wish i had the cash to replace all my ball joints at the same time, but moneys tight $$$$
11-01-2013, 10:52 PM
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Year: 1999 Jeep Cherokee
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0
New valve cover gasket. The old one was put in within the last year and it was the Felpro rubber/metal brown colored one but it was leaking after install of reworked cylinder head. Oil was leaking down from the back of the valve cover onto the cylinder head.
Got the new Felpro gasket today, and the gasket was blue and it had new rubber grommets to replace the old ones that go around the metal piece the bolts go through. The old one did not come with the grommets.
After seeing the inserts, I looked closely at the old ones and it looked like oil was leaking around the old grommets. Appears that the leaks are gone now.
See lower right of pic for rubber grommets.
Got the new Felpro gasket today, and the gasket was blue and it had new rubber grommets to replace the old ones that go around the metal piece the bolts go through. The old one did not come with the grommets.
After seeing the inserts, I looked closely at the old ones and it looked like oil was leaking around the old grommets. Appears that the leaks are gone now.
See lower right of pic for rubber grommets.
11-02-2013, 12:03 AM
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Year: 1994
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 190-hp, 4.0-liter I-6
11-02-2013, 12:05 AM
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Year: 1994
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 190-hp, 4.0-liter I-6
Won't handle to bad with just a 3 inch lift. I only noticed slight handle improvement when upgrading my tie rod. My jeep handles good IMO. Sway bars will help handling too I'm sure lolol
11-02-2013, 12:09 AM
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Year: 1989
Model: Cherokee
Engine: I6 4.0
11-02-2013, 12:35 AM
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Year: '99 and '91
Model: Cherokee
11-02-2013, 02:06 AM
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11-02-2013, 02:49 AM
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Year: 89
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0 I6
Re-doing the fabric is tricky. I've done it twice with great results, 3 times overall. Needs to be a warm day, and the adhesive needs to set correctly. Costs me about 80 bucks and 2-3 hours of labor to do it.
I've got my rig to do it on soon, maybe this weekend if its warm enough. There's a storm brewing offshore so we might actually see some scrappy weather in sunny califor-ny-ay.
11-02-2013, 09:49 AM
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Year: 2001
Model: Cherokee
Engine: 4.0L I6 HO
11-02-2013, 10:14 AM
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Slapped a coat of paint on my little bumper project. I hope to finish it up and bolt it on sometime this weekend. It'll eventually have a winch mounted on the back side of it.
Ignore the redneck hobo looking shop/thing that I have to work in.
Ignore the redneck hobo looking shop/thing that I have to work in.
11-02-2013, 10:33 AM
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Year: '99 and '91
Model: Cherokee
Looks good. Also, looks like you brew some moonshine in that shack of yours lol.