russell3
New Member
- Location
- Bountiful, UT
Hello everyone, I just registered and thought I'd introduce myself. I got a Jeep for free last august. Yes, for FREE 
It's a 95 white 2 door cherokee sport. There was a reason the jeep was free though. One of my dad's friends bought the jeep for his daughter and she drove the wheels off it, 250k miles on it. I guess it had a dead battery and they jumped it backwards and fried something and they couldn't get it started. Then they left it in the bushes and let their dogs live in it, which is pretty gross. Anyway, the daughter went off to college or something and didn't want it, so the guy gave it to my dad.
My dad got it started, but it was only running on 4 or 5 cylenders. None of the electronics worked either. He limped it back to our house(this was all in washington state) My dad put a new computer module in it and it fixed it. It ran fine again. Then, there was something wrong with the trailer brake module that was in it. My dad cut that out and all the electronics worked again. Don't know what the deal with that was, but it was working again. I came home to visit(I was in college here in utah at the time) and I cleaned the jeep. it was still nasty from the dogs. my mom, dad, and brother all cleaned it. it was still nasty. It sat in the garage for a while. I asked my dad what he was going to do with it and he said nothing, you want it?
I brought it to utah and then took all the seats out and rented a rug doctor and cleaned the heck out of it. Now it's pretty nice. The jeep still has lots of things that need fixing, but it's a capable wheeling machine. The nice thing is it was free and it's already beat up, so I can beat the crap out of it on the trails and have a blast!
I've done some wheeling growing up with my dad in our truck, so I got the basics down. This is my first jeep. I've got lots to learn. I want to do all kinds of cool mods to the jeep, but I don't have much money to throw at it right now.
I've grown up mostly riding dirtbikes. I pretty much love all motorsports though. I like bikes, cars, jeeps, crawlers, snowmobiles, anything with an engine
Anyway, always looking for some jeeping buddies to go with. I live like right down the hill from the big B in Bountiful.
Does anyone know of any other areas that are kinda close besides the B and farmington canyon? everything is closed. The B is great, but it gets old after a while.
It's a 95 white 2 door cherokee sport. There was a reason the jeep was free though. One of my dad's friends bought the jeep for his daughter and she drove the wheels off it, 250k miles on it. I guess it had a dead battery and they jumped it backwards and fried something and they couldn't get it started. Then they left it in the bushes and let their dogs live in it, which is pretty gross. Anyway, the daughter went off to college or something and didn't want it, so the guy gave it to my dad. My dad got it started, but it was only running on 4 or 5 cylenders. None of the electronics worked either. He limped it back to our house(this was all in washington state) My dad put a new computer module in it and it fixed it. It ran fine again. Then, there was something wrong with the trailer brake module that was in it. My dad cut that out and all the electronics worked again. Don't know what the deal with that was, but it was working again. I came home to visit(I was in college here in utah at the time) and I cleaned the jeep. it was still nasty from the dogs. my mom, dad, and brother all cleaned it. it was still nasty. It sat in the garage for a while. I asked my dad what he was going to do with it and he said nothing, you want it?
I brought it to utah and then took all the seats out and rented a rug doctor and cleaned the heck out of it. Now it's pretty nice. The jeep still has lots of things that need fixing, but it's a capable wheeling machine. The nice thing is it was free and it's already beat up, so I can beat the crap out of it on the trails and have a blast!
I've done some wheeling growing up with my dad in our truck, so I got the basics down. This is my first jeep. I've got lots to learn. I want to do all kinds of cool mods to the jeep, but I don't have much money to throw at it right now.
I've grown up mostly riding dirtbikes. I pretty much love all motorsports though. I like bikes, cars, jeeps, crawlers, snowmobiles, anything with an engine
Anyway, always looking for some jeeping buddies to go with. I live like right down the hill from the big B in Bountiful.
Does anyone know of any other areas that are kinda close besides the B and farmington canyon? everything is closed. The B is great, but it gets old after a while.
