Since I have had my '01 for a few months now I guess I should make a build thread.
So my '99 was totaled by a PT cruiser who wasn't paying attention and pulled out in front of me while I was going 40mph :brickwall
So after a few weeks of looking I found my current jeep, a 2001 patriot blue Cherokee Limited.
It even had the window sticker with it!
Took it out wheeling and forgot how bad stock tires are in sand.
I changed all the fluids in it and about two weeks later the radiator took a crap so I replaced it with an all aluminum one made by SILLA.
Then about 1000 miles later the real fun started! I noticed that it had oil pressure issues ever since I got it but shrugged it off as the sending unit being bad
Once I got all of that done I had to chrome it up some. I have always wanted the chrome grill, I know chrome won't get you home but it looks so darn good!
I then installed a Rough Country 3" AAL kit and once I drove it around for a little bit I knew the AAL was going to have to go, so I ordered some Old Man Emu Rear Leaf Springs.
I tried to save my C4x4 tow hooks but the one bracket was slightly tweaked.
Thanks for the compliments! Once I saw this Jeep in the ad I feel in love with it and I couldn't let it go!
For doing it for free it is a good project and the throttle response is much better but it whistles so much it gets annoying at times. There is some improvement top end but this jeep is much slower than my '99 even though it has the engine out of my '99 :laugh:
I had the 0331 head and the previous owner just put in tap water in it (coolant was all rusted) and then it looks like he overheated it. So the coolant leaked into the oil and destroyed the bearings in the block
Im so glad I live in Iowa. Everyone drives there farm trucks so we dont have emissions tests! I could run straight pipes and no one would care...well, the cops would for noise but whatever.
When you did the engine swap did it drop right in?? I did a similar swap when I blew my engine in a 2000. I used the engine out of my 99 that was crushed by a tree. It had different head casting and I had to switch over a lot to make it work. Swapped exhaust manifolds, wiring harness, ecm, ignition system. Finally got it to work though.
I used the 0630 head off the '99 but used the manifold gasket for an '01 and that let me use the '01 exhaust manifold on the earlier head design. Now the gasket did cover up a lot of the exhaust port but it seems to be working fine for now. for the ignition system I just transferred the cam sensor from the '01 to the '99. It wasn't that hard to do and it let me use all the ignition parts in the '01 without having to swap wiring harnesses. I was actually planning on swapping the ecm and wiring harness over just so I could have used the head and whole exhaust system from my '99 but I didn't do that.
Without shims I would get some vibes around 50mph while accelerating but none above that, I took it up to 80 with no vibes. My friend has the same rear leaf springs and a NP242 and he got horrible vibes at 60mph+ but he has a C8.25 and I have a D35.
From what I read and the people I talked to it seems the 2" light duty is exactly 2", the 2" medium duty is around 2.25" and the heavy duty 2" springs give 2.75-3". Worse case scenario if it ends up being higher in the back (I have 2" IRO spacers) I'll just get 3" coils haha.
Installed the track bar today..what a pain the the butt. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Eventually I had to get a new to me frame side track bar mount since I couldn't get the old track bar off.
Angle grinder required below.
The issue I am running into now is the joint on the frame side will move up and down if I move the steering left and right. The castle nut has been torqued to 100ft/lbs but it still moves.
Just scored a slightly used set of Goodyear Wrangler authority a/t 265/75r16 tires for a good deal. It is too dark now for pictures but hopefully I can get them mounted tomorrow!
I pulled some pictures from the internet to show what they look like.
lookin nice, get some black rims and bigger tires(; and more lift.. thats what im doing to mine i also put the RC 3' on and now realise i wasted my money and shiould have went with the 4.5'
lookin nice, get some black rims and bigger tires(; and more lift.. thats what im doing to mine i also put the RC 3' on and now realise i wasted my money and shiould have went with the 4.5'
So for an update, I did a 5 hour trip to and from Alabama this weekend and the tires are way loud but turning the radio up fixed the issue. The one thing I do like is now I don't have to worry about speeding tickets because once I go over ~75 it gets a bit uncomfortable so I slow it back down.
Since I never really got any good pictures of the tires here is the best I could get:
and 10.5" is definitely the widest you can go on factory rims.
When I get new tires I'm gonna be getting those ones. For how much I'm traveling lately my mud tires are just getting eaten up. Gonna have to go with an all terrain when they wear out.
When I get new tires I'm gonna be getting those ones. For how much I'm traveling lately my mud tires are just getting eaten up. Gonna have to go with an all terrain when they wear out.
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