New from Newmarket, Ontario
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New from Newmarket, Ontario
Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum and am impressed with what I have seen. I purchased my third Jeep earlier this year. It's a 1995 XJ 2 door. It has over 300,000 km on it runs great but I need to replace the floor boards. I have restored several cars over the years and it looks like a pretty straight forward job. My previous Jeeps were a 1969 CJ back in the 70's and a 1990 XJ 4 door that I purchased new. I used to race off road cars in the 70's and am looking forward to doing some "mild" off-roading with my Jeep. Attached are a few pictures of my XJ and the utility trailer I just finished building for it.
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Re: New from Newmarket, Ontario
The secret is the 4L goes well over 500 000km before it has issues. I bought my last XJ with 306 000km and wheeled the **** out of it for a year and it still ran perfect when i had to sell it.
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Re: New from Newmarket, Ontario
That's a fair question but I really don't let the mileage of a vehicle bother me. First, it's the model I wanted - a 2 dr. with no options. The 1990 XJ I bought new had about 280,000 km on it and it ran great when I sold it. It was fully loaded and it was the "stupid" things that broke down on it. I've restored several cars with a lot less mileage on them that were in terrible condition when I got them (mostly 50's to 70's MG's). Like any restored car, they're basically like new when you're done. I expect to have some mechanical problems along the way with this one but I'm quite happy to rebuild things as I go. Right now it's a second vehicle for me and I have no intention of selling it so it's worth putting some money into.
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Re: New from Newmarket, Ontario
Welcome glad you picked us. 95 XJ a very good jeep, cannot say anything bad about them had a used 89 for a few years until the fire, but except for changing the axles for 3.73 from 3.07 did only the normal changed starter, alternator (twice) was mounted in bad place got filled with clay and did a floor job with sheet metal from an old filing cabinet. Ran real well, solid machine, great for offroading too
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Re: New from Newmarket, Ontario
I have lots to do before I get in to axle swaps but it's good to plan ahead. I'm sort of familiar with the Dana 44 and the Ford 8.8 (... at least I know where to look!) but not with the C8.25. What are those found in? Has this been discussed in the "Tech Talk" section? ... I'll do a search.
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Re: New from Newmarket, Ontario
Welcome glad you picked us. 95 XJ a very good jeep, cannot say anything bad about them had a used 89 for a few years until the fire, but except for changing the axles for 3.73 from 3.07 did only the normal changed starter, alternator (twice) was mounted in bad place got filled with clay and did a floor job with sheet metal from an old filing cabinet. Ran real well, solid machine, great for offroading too
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