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94 ZJ


I purchased this truck for $500 in June of 2006. I am a big Jeep fan and will try to document here, what I do to and with this truck. Any tech write ups as far as parts fabrication or installation will be linked to another page. This particular page will be for history of this vehicle only. (index)


This is what the truck looked like after I put the motor in and got it registered.

Firstly I replaced the motor. The previous owner told me the head gasket was bad. The motor had a loud knock from cylinder #1. I replaced the original 4.0L with a cheap used motor from a local junk yard. Upon investigation the old motor had a melted piston in cylinder # 1, the water pump was also leaking. The replacement motor got a full set of external seals, belt, a tune up, and a water pump. After replacing the motor I replaced the radiator and the mechanical fan clutch because both were bad. The truck has some little idiosyncrasies. These things include: passanger side front window operation, 4wd selector switch.

After the basic mechanicals were repaired I installed a skyjacker 3.5" lift kit, skyjacker front sway bar disconnects, four 31x10.5R15 BF Goodrich M/T tires and Rockcrawler series 84 "black" 15x8x3.5 rims.


In the shop the day after the kit was installed.

The skyjacker kit left a little to be desired. The rear its lower than the front as you can see from the last picture. The stock rear track bar also seemed to make the rear list to the left and the truck looked all crooked. I installed a Hidden Hitch rear receiver before I took the truck on its first road trip to Outer Banks, NC. On the trip I knocked the rear bumper cover off. And while in the parking lot of a surf shop me and my friends cut away a large part of the front bumper and front wheel wells.


Back roads N Corova Beach, OBX, NC


Me and Mary, OBX, July 15, 2006


Paragon in the playground, August 26, 2006


Paragon, lunch time with NJJC, January 21, 2007


Last pic ever by this sign at Paragon, February 4, 2007

List of Mods and Parts


Camping trip September 17, 2006; Tohicken Family Campground PA.

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