Forman, the XJ years

Just documenting the journey from stock craigslist XJ, to everything I could want it to be, on my broke college kid budget.



Background: picked this XJ off of craigslist for $3600 (little pricier around winter in my area.) It was clean, inside and out, with a couple rust bubbles under the paint on the lower driver side door, and rocker. My goal with this project is to turn it into a clean DD, with some off-roading capabilities.



Sorry for crappy CL screenshots, dont have many pick of bone stock jeep.









Frame had recently been cleaned up, and coated. Seller had invoice from the shop.





Messin' around





What's been accomplished so far:

• Rebuilt rear wiper motor, so it functions now.


• replaced front speakers with walmart pioneers


• mounted a Surco 60"x45" roof rack with homemade roofrack mounts


• 2 6" 36W LED light bars, mounted to roof rack

Pics:

The lights are wired into a relay, and switched with a stock fog light switch





I've wired in a quick disconnect into the lights since this pic was taken





I'll post a couple more pics from the building of the mounts in a follow up post





Plans:

Suspension is completely shot soooooo....

• RE 3.5" superflex (purchased)


• Bilstein 5100s with DIY BPE's (purchased)


• IRO double shear track bar (purchased)


• IRO SYE (purchased)


• General grabber 31x10.5 ATs (purchased)


• Headliner replacement


• nexus 7 radio replacement (to be purchased, writeup to come)


• rock sliders (TBD)


• Orfab front winch bumper (to be purchased)


• hitch


• Monstaliner everything below side trim black, and drip rails and up white.

If you don't like it I'll put