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rejeep

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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2012, 08:19:44 AM »
Smike.. how is your hand @ body work?
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2012, 08:20:30 AM »
this thing is in not so great shape lol 
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2012, 08:54:16 AM »
Quote from: M4wdFab on September 25, 2012, 08:20:30 AM
this thing is in not so great shape lol

Can you elaborate?

I know what I know... let me know what you think...  ;)
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2012, 10:26:42 AM »
smike.. how hard would it be to remove the bed?

I have some ideas brewing....

but I want to hear your honest assessment of the vehicle condition first...
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2012, 01:08:01 PM »
it was a shame, the one i pulled the motor out of was the best condition of all three.  should have moved a title trans and front axle to that one.


Also, im not sure the new springs lifted it at all, it may have lowered it.  The old springs like like soft ride dual rate 2", with 2" blocks.  new springs are 3"?


starter motor likes to stick on



lots of rust and dings on just about every pannel, its a jeep meh?



the lift, shocks and arms are in.  Didnt get to the PITA brake line that blew. 
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #20 on: September 25, 2012, 02:08:27 PM »
Quote from: M4wdFab on September 25, 2012, 01:08:01 PM
it was a shame, the one i pulled the motor out of was the best condition of all three.  should have moved a title trans and front axle to that one.

Emotional attachment to this truck….  Before the floor repair I had very little in that truck…

Quote from: M4wdFab on September 25, 2012, 01:08:01 PM
Also, im not sure the new springs lifted it at all, it may have lowered it.  The old springs like like soft ride dual rate 2", with 2" blocks.  new springs are 3"?

the old springs were Moog cargo coils I threw in there bc the old stock springs were just shot...
can always add a spacer if need be.. I have the new tires mounted.. prob mock one up later this week..
was never really looking for height.. just a more aggressive stance..

Quote from: M4wdFab on September 25, 2012, 01:08:01 PM
starter motor likes to stick on

ehh... youre talking to me remember..  Brake booster and MC will also need to get swapped out..

Quote from: M4wdFab on September 25, 2012, 01:08:01 PM
lots of rust and dings on just about every pannel, its a jeep meh?

need a new front fender for certain.. but agreed...

Quote from: M4wdFab on September 25, 2012, 01:08:01 PM
the lift, shocks and arms are in.  Didnt get to the PITA brake line that blew.

Thanks.. ill try and swing the tires over just to get them on and get the old ones out...
Ill check later this week on rear spring status...

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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #21 on: September 25, 2012, 02:33:31 PM »
I don’t know if I posted this ever anywhere... but here is the brief history of my MJ..

1986 2.5L TBI
4 speed
4wd
Long Bed.

Bought it for $287 on Shelter Island about 8 years ago.. (this is when I was in my saving for a engagement ring phase..)
wasn’t running due to a Fuel pump..
had AAA tow it for free >100 Miles to my now wife’s college house in Uniondale NY..
Had AAA tow it again for free >100 Miles to my house in Woodbridge CT

bought a FP, got it running.. emptied it out and found a Jaguar hood ornament.. sold on eBay for $250
rebuilt motor receipt with only ~20K on it..

used this MJ as a beater and gave it to my dad a few years ago when I moved up to Rochester..
the floor were beat from being on an Island .. had a local shop (CT) cut them out and that’s where the project died..
My dad went and bought another MJ and this one sat in the backyard for a little over a year..

this MJ has been like the giving tree..

it’s the only vehicle I own that I don’t have a dime into in the long run..

it was the dumpster when my parents remodeled, my delivery & pickup truck when I owned my first business, it taught my wife how to drive stick, and I have zero repair dollars into it..
(well minus the floor.. but that’s neither here or there)
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2012, 09:06:15 AM »

Wheels refinished, sneakers mounted...


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1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2012, 09:11:42 AM »
Lurve the turbines!
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #24 on: September 28, 2012, 09:31:53 AM »
Very nice. They do look sharp
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2012, 10:25:04 AM »
got a new starter and Brake Booster and MC in today.. was actually in stock in Richmond...
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #26 on: September 28, 2012, 11:11:04 AM »
All i can think of when i hear turbine wheels is a fox body mustang.
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #27 on: September 28, 2012, 11:32:34 AM »
2MJ's on site at M4 now.
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #28 on: September 28, 2012, 11:48:10 AM »
those wheels are going to look way to good for that thing lol
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Re: 1986 MJ "the keeper"
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2012, 11:55:56 AM »
yeah.. like im not going to paint it and drive a pile..

got to work from the ground up
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