cherokee EV

[LUISJG]

starting the cherokee expedition vehicle project.
hopefully starting thursday ,
installations will be

airflow snorkel
cb radio
gps chartplotter
3 inch rustys full pack
31x10.5 mtrs
soft 8 cragars 3.75 backspace
zacatal roof rack
hellas

and future bumpers and tire carrier.. as $$ permits

will post progress pics here

before picture...

[OverlandZJ]

Nice looking XJ!

I'd like to see you rethink the 3.75" backspaced wheels, you need more offset to keep your tires under the flares. IE..i'm running 33x12.5's with 4.5" BS'ing and have about 2" tire outside of flare.

Planning on an SYE? With 3" on a 97+ you'll need it.

Never heard of Zacatal...have a link?

[Scott Brady]

Very exciting! The Cherokee is right there with the Trooper for best value/performance for the $$ in an expedition platform. It will be fun to watch the changes

[LUISJG]

Nice looking XJ!

I'd like to see you rethink the 3.75" backspaced wheels, you need more offset to keep your tires under the flares. IE..i'm running 33x12.5's with 4.5" BS'ing and have about 2" tire outside of flare.

Planning on an SYE? With 3" on a 97+ you'll need it.

Never heard of Zacatal...have a link?

insatlling a transfer drop 1 inch




http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/jeep-...QQcmdZViewItem

[OverlandZJ]

insatlling a transfer drop 1 inch




http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/jeep-...QQcmdZViewItem

The rack looks good!

Not to take away from the excellent technical knowledge on this site, but are you familiar with NAXJA? It's a Jeep Cherokee specific site. www.naxja.org

[LUISJG]

yes , im fqamiliar with that site. thing is im starting to lurk arround here because i like expeditions a lot.

[LUISJG]

oh well,, for some reason i thought SYE,S were like 800 dollars,
just saw them for 179 .00.
so this is not bad ,,actualy better that the transfer drop

[YJ Dave]

Be a little careful when you look at SYE's the cheap ones tend to be "hack and tap" versions where you need to cut down your out put shaft and tap it for the fixing bolt.
As you spend a little more you get a output shaft that has been cut down and pretapped (is that a word?). If you keep spending more you get a more beefy out put shaft for the t-case, and an SYE that will be just short of indestructible with the 4.0.

[LUISJG]

thanks for that information, will look into the pretaperation deal

i put my order on hold for the suspention and wheels because im hearing diferent info every day about alot of stuff and need to be sure

[LUISJG]

this xj are lot difrent than tj,s
remembering my tj it was easy to modify. to bad it was a small vehicle for my needs, and what it was to be my family vehicle soon converted into a trail machine ,and there was to much invested in it, so i had no choice but to sell it and bought this cherokee and still had 12k left for my new family vehicle.

here is a picture of my late tj im stil crying....