I’ve been casually looking for a mild project. I picked up this 1999 Tj. Now I know some of you are going to look at the first few pictures and be like angry grill, massive pocket flares, eBay, light bars, and purple…. That doesn’t look like a project that looks like a completed masterpiece.
I took it for a test drive, and it went into instant death wobble around 35 mph. The jeep appears to have about a two or 3 inch lift and an aftermarket front track bar that was running a hiem joint on the frame side that was completely trashed.
After some negotiation I handed over some cash tried to call AAA to come pick it up. They wouldn’t because it’s not registered called if you tow truck companies they wouldn’t tow it because it didn’t have a license plate.
So I hit up @Hickey and he was super clutch in letting me borrow his trailer to get home. Sidenote, that trailer tows jeep so freaking well. If I didn’t know any better, I would say it was purpose built for that.
I got it home in first thing was first.
Yesterday I hit up midnight, 4 x 4, and replaced the bad joint on the track bar. And ripped off those hideous fender flares. I had emissions done yesterday and then went and registered it today. I’ve driven it around town a little bit taking it on the freeway. It drives pretty good but the rear end felt a little weird so I took a look at that and the track bar bracket does move some so I think I’m probably just going to weld that into place. And see if that fixes the issue everything seems tight otherwise.
So my plans for this are pretty simple I’m not looking to build a rock crawler, but it would be nice to do some easier trails and be comfortable off-road. But I do have twins that are going to be driving soon and they’re already fighting over who gets the jeep so having some thing that is kid friendly wouldn’t hurt my feelings either.
I ordered some 33 1250s and some new wheels. Stock style fender, flares. And a bunch of supplies to get going on bodywork. I plan on painting the whole thing definitely with a color change and just trying to put together a clean little TJ on 33’s I’ll probably add an arb or other selectable locker.
I’m not sure what it’s geared currently. It has 245 tires on it and to reach 65 mph on GPS speedometer is currently reading nearly 85 miles an hour in 5th gear.
And 60 mph on GPS in fourth gear which I believe should be one to one ratio is nearly at 3000 RPMs. So it may have some stock gearing? I’m not sure what size tire that jeep would’ve come with factory. But I’m guessing it’s probably 3.73 or 4.10s
I’ll have to see how it drives with the new tires and decide if I want to regeared down to 456 or 488 when I add the rear locker.
I took it for a test drive, and it went into instant death wobble around 35 mph. The jeep appears to have about a two or 3 inch lift and an aftermarket front track bar that was running a hiem joint on the frame side that was completely trashed.
After some negotiation I handed over some cash tried to call AAA to come pick it up. They wouldn’t because it’s not registered called if you tow truck companies they wouldn’t tow it because it didn’t have a license plate.
So I hit up @Hickey and he was super clutch in letting me borrow his trailer to get home. Sidenote, that trailer tows jeep so freaking well. If I didn’t know any better, I would say it was purpose built for that.
I got it home in first thing was first.
Yesterday I hit up midnight, 4 x 4, and replaced the bad joint on the track bar. And ripped off those hideous fender flares. I had emissions done yesterday and then went and registered it today. I’ve driven it around town a little bit taking it on the freeway. It drives pretty good but the rear end felt a little weird so I took a look at that and the track bar bracket does move some so I think I’m probably just going to weld that into place. And see if that fixes the issue everything seems tight otherwise.
So my plans for this are pretty simple I’m not looking to build a rock crawler, but it would be nice to do some easier trails and be comfortable off-road. But I do have twins that are going to be driving soon and they’re already fighting over who gets the jeep so having some thing that is kid friendly wouldn’t hurt my feelings either.
I ordered some 33 1250s and some new wheels. Stock style fender, flares. And a bunch of supplies to get going on bodywork. I plan on painting the whole thing definitely with a color change and just trying to put together a clean little TJ on 33’s I’ll probably add an arb or other selectable locker.
I’m not sure what it’s geared currently. It has 245 tires on it and to reach 65 mph on GPS speedometer is currently reading nearly 85 miles an hour in 5th gear.
And 60 mph on GPS in fourth gear which I believe should be one to one ratio is nearly at 3000 RPMs. So it may have some stock gearing? I’m not sure what size tire that jeep would’ve come with factory. But I’m guessing it’s probably 3.73 or 4.10s
I’ll have to see how it drives with the new tires and decide if I want to regeared down to 456 or 488 when I add the rear locker.
so for the rant earlier.
