Project 1998 Jeep Cherokee Classic

[JustinG]

do you hear it trying to lock the door or no? If so, my car for some reason wouldnt lock the front doors because the arm that attached to the manual lock/unlock rocker at the door handle was binding up. My solution has been to just un hook that arm, I havent really figured out how its binding up. Also check to be sure the windows arent locked via the push button on the drivers door, that deactivates all the passenger switches.

[Jeff]

OK, basically they have a known issue with the driver's door switch module going bad. The button that locks out the other window's switches takes a dump. You can replace the switch or you can do what I did and bypass the lock out by providing power to the other switches with a fused jumper.

12v comes into the switch on a 12ga TAN wire. You need to jump 12v from that to the 14ga YELLOW wires that feeds all the other switches. Doing this will give he other switches power and disables the window lock out feature (child lock type thing). Use a 15 amp fuse.

I didn't read that you don't have lock. I am not sure about that. Maybe you need another main switch.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Sweet... So I got that street beat customs harness.. and looking at it I'm beginning to think they sent me the wrong one/ordered one for HID bulbs.. The ends are for H4 plugs..

Ordered

Or at least presumed thats what was coming because the connections look correct..

I got what looks like



Might have screwed up... :dunno:

[V1GiLaNtE]

Actually looking at their site this is exactly what they sent me.. a HID relay harness.. BOOOO. Now I have to deal with interwebz returns.

[JustinG]

lulz, im sure someone on here may pick it up from you for HIDZ yo. Instead of dealing with returning it.

[V1GiLaNtE]

The stock connections are indeed h4 right? Maybe I need to just dig into it until I get all antsy.. Yea but nobody here is going to buy it full price...

[Sully]

Put HIDZ in bro...get the 16,000k temp ones, they be all purple and sweet looking. Of course that means you have a whole lot of unusable light since anything past 5k starts to go out of what would be referred to as usuable. But it be mad tight bro.

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[JustinG]

yes, the yellow harness you pictured has the correct connections needed for the Jeeps headlights.

[V1GiLaNtE]

^ Damn.. Just wanted to install my harness this afternoon..

[V1GiLaNtE]

Called Street Beat this afternoon.. Sending me the "right" one no questions asked.. hoping this works out.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Forgot to bring my camera.. Changed front and rear diff fluid and gaskets, Rotated tires, replaced air filter, coolant flush & replace.. Think my front diff is leaking after change I'm gonna be irritated if I have to pull off and do it again.. Next up pads/rotors and VC Gasket next weekend.. Then we'll start looking into lifts.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Oh thank god.. Fixed the front Diff leak today.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Soooooo....Going to give myself about two weeks of saving from work and I should be able to get my lift... Have to keep some dough in the bank to properly budget for next years school expenses...

2 weeks ought to net me about ~$800 +/-

Which in return will just turnaround and buy:

Rusty's 2"BB
Rusty's Front Tow Hook Kit(unless I can Pull from JY)
D-Shackle Receiver ( probably will have pulled hitch from JY by then)
Look around for some used 31's..

On a unrelated note had ordered a HD harness from Street Beat Customs(Don't buy from them....) After going back and forth with CS about sending me a HID Relay instead of the harness I get a return email where they tell me they don't stock the H4 Harness anymore :finger: .. Frankly I'm irritated it took roughly 7+ days to get them to tell me that after I'd spoke to one CS rep and said they would send me the right one. Call back 3 days later to check on and had to do it all over again.. Should have just ordered from Eautoworks the first time.. :roll:

[V1GiLaNtE]

Wow.. Where do I begin??

So my passenger windows don't roll down.. So tonight I was like hey I'll do the harness jump mod to fix this. No biggie right? Had some decent quick splices hanging around so I spliced in a wire NBD..

Go to put my batter terminal back on and BAM! Aftermarket alarm after 3 weeks of ownage goes bat sH$t Crazy.. Never made a peep before. Indicator light never even turned on.. So finally figured out remove wire to alarm horn to shut it up so now I just deal with lights flashing and crap.. Yank off the knee bolster and it's a wiring nightmare under there. Find the inline fuse to the box and yank it.. Ok check aftermarket alarm makes no more noise/flash. Thank god. So I check out the window functionality. CHECK! Works great.. So I start to drive around just to make sure ANYTHING that could go wrong wouldn't.. My lock button wouldn't unlock before so what. But now if I press the lock button it locks and unlocks itself. Then my electronic lock latch for the trunk starts going haywire. Long story short I think I'll just be the master controller of the windows.. Except the lock button still locks/unlocks when I press it.. what gives????

[Jeff]

There might be a sort pulling the locks unlock all the time. I would have to see this thing.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Picking up a 2" hitch and Tokamen swing out tire carrier/bumper this evening on my way to the Burg'... install pics probably after the weekend.

[Jeff]

Picking up a 2" hitch and Tokamen swing out tire carrier/bumper this evening on my way to the Burg'... install pics probably after the weekend.

Bawlin' Hey SCOTTY! I need a "Seal of Bawlin" to stamp on threads.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Ho hum.... Where do I begin?

Picked up a Bad Ass Tomken Swing out rear bumper for teh ol XJ on Friday for $170. Included little did I know where some decent KC lights the guy had spliced into the back up lights but more on that later..

So here's I how go it when I made it to school..


Oh yea it's Tomken..


So it had some skin cancer but nothing to scary.. About the best I could do was put a wire wheel to my drill and attack attack attack.. Personal choice I would like to take it down to bare metal but I was limited by time and tools.. and my impatience to put it on..


After cleaning it all up I hit it with a couple of coats of Rustoleum spray on truck bed liner stuff. Came out really good IMO.


At this point I had been working with it for about 3 hours between skin cancer, prep, and paint and had some daylight still so off came the rear.. It's not terrible to do. I've had worse things on cars to take off



NOW THE FUN PART STARTS
The XJ this came off of was a 95.. Mines a 98' which apparently Chrysler actually changed something between these years other than cosmetics items.. All the mounting holes are the same but I guess before 98' the mounting holes were not recessed back under the lip where the trunk area was.. I was a little upset because I wanted this bumper so bad and did not want to part with it because of about 2 inches of steel on either side of the mounting brackets preventing it from mounting up... what to do what to do?

CUT THAT ISH YO!!


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Friend of mine made a call to a friend whom I'm friends/acquaintances with and headed over his dad's garage.. This is not a business this was his personal garage... The guy builds/restores muscle cars for hobby. Two bays, two post lift, you name it the guy had it..

Couple of more pesky things needed to be removed in order to fully mount the bumper.


Before had picked up all brand new Grade 8 Hardware to make sure this thing wasn't going to move... and It doesn't..
Couple of mock ups but I still hadn't bought any hardware yet to actually mount the tire to the swing out.. Night shots Immediately after install..







Got home after all this at about midnight.. Hell I still wanted to work on my truck.. I didn't like the gap between the bumper and where the truck area was because you could see all the rough frame and such.. So in the back of my jeep with my flashlight mocked up and cut the original piece and slid it in.. It fits but I need to fine tune it so the it will stay flush the entire length of the bumper..


Pretty picture time.. Grabbed the last of the hardware I needed and got the spare all mounted up this morning. Shit looks Badass.. And will look better when I order my lift within the next week..





Had to mount the license plate on the bumper cause can't see it with the tire on. My small issues I need to fix are the small gap filler I modified, find some end bumper caps in the junkyard so I can clean up the sides.. The original end caps don't fit and not having them on there bugs me cause it kills the "lines".. Oh and buy a D-Ring receiver for the hitch..

As for the lights I need to fix one of the them the trim around light is cracked but can probably be filled and fixed. I'm going to spray the housing with the same Truck liner stuff. I'm going to space them on either side of the 2" receiver and mount them up to there with a switch in the cab. That way I can use the lights anyway I feel the need for. I think they will be really handy to have..

Anyways that's all folks! :thumbup:

Unrelated note for those who have worked on their cars here,partied at, or just socialized here in general.. Those were all the best of times and I got everything and more I ever wanted out of living in a house in College. Was a sad day to lock the door to my empty house of 2 years for the last time and drive home..

"TO THE ALAMO!!

[Jake]

Unrelated note for those who have worked on their cars here,partied at, or just socialized here in general.. Those were all the best of times and I got everything and more I ever wanted out of living in a house in College. Was a sad day to lock the door to my empty house of 2 years for the last time and drive home..

It was a good run and lots of good times were had there... was always fun grilling, beer-ing and wrenching in that big ol' parking lot. And painting a certain EtaBaby.

MM fo lyfe, son.

[Goodspeed]

Awesome progress Cabell, I like seeing newly-birthed projects that are getting wrenched on within one week of ownership :thumbup: