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Topic: Another Cherokee (XJ)
Posted By: berettajeep
Subject: Another Cherokee (XJ)
Date Posted: 19 Mar. 2019 at 10:40pm
March 15th I was given a Jeep. They probably donated it to me because they felt bad I was driving a 45 year old vehicle


It is a 1994 Cherokee Sport. 4.0, 5 speed manual and 4x4 one owner Jeep.   I know some are thinking how rare it is to have a manual in a 4 door Cherokee, it is not. At least to me. This is my third XJ and all three were manuals. ( one AX-5 and two ax-15's)   ( The guy that bought my CJ7 years ago had two of them, have a friend with a 2x4 and I know of two or more in town with manuals, not rare in my world.)


It does have 275,xxx miles on it and almost all original. ( Told the clutch is original )


So far I removed all the interior to clean it out. Lots of coffee was spilt and a dog with white fur was a frequent passenger. I also "rebuilt" the drivers door handle. Spring was broken making it difficult to unlatch.
Also had to grease all door latches. I took the drivers side out and cleaned it of grime, The other three will be removed soon and cleaned as well.



So far I know it needs: ( not in order of importance)
Clutch
Drivers door window regulator
Speakers
Trans or engine mounts
Tires
Shocks
Told a seal in the transfer case is leaking


I will be degreasing in and checking brakes and suspension.


I'm happy I will be getting close to 20 mpg









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Posted By: Ol' Unreliable
Date Posted: 20 Mar. 2019 at 12:11am
I'd have taken it too.  Good deal. 

A year ago I saw an ad in Craigslist for a Cherokee with a 5-speed.  Guy only wanted $2K but I couldn't justify it.  I shoulda tried harder to convince myself.


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 24 Mar. 2019 at 5:06pm
Removed the bug guard on front and pressure washed it Friday after work.


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Posted By: mike in oregon
Date Posted: 26 Mar. 2019 at 1:01pm
Where's the pictures ?

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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 26 Mar. 2019 at 3:05pm
Originally posted by mike in oregon mike in oregon wrote:

Where's the pictures ?

Here it is at work.
 




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Posted By: Mike F
Date Posted: 26 Mar. 2019 at 6:23pm
Looks good Dennis.  I like the color


Posted By: mike in oregon
Date Posted: 27 Mar. 2019 at 1:30am
That is nice, My grandson Nolan is getting his 93 all fixed up as he turns 16 in June.

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Posted By: Flatfender Ben
Date Posted: 27 Mar. 2019 at 4:29am
That looks nice. 
I like the color as well.


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 27 Mar. 2019 at 2:21pm
Thanks guys! I like that it is not red. Original owner told me they know of only one other blue one in the area.

 Now to plant a money tree LOLConfused


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Posted By: Ol' Unreliable
Date Posted: 29 Mar. 2019 at 12:15am
Let us all know where you get the seeds for that money tree!  Big smile


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 05 Apr. 2019 at 9:08pm
Changed the oil last night. The place the previous owner had it changed before I got it put the oil filter on way to tight, had to put a pry bar through the filter. Even then it was difficult to remove.

Sadly ( or happily) it was the place I used to work at. ( One of the reasons I no longer work there)







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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 10 Apr. 2019 at 8:59pm
Ordered a bunch of parts for it that needed help. Clutch, trans. and engine mounts, wiper linkage bushings, stabilizer links and an all important cupholder .

Also a valve cover gasket and breather tubes. It leaks oil in the air filter box and being a known problem I found the "factory" way to stop it from happening.

Hopefully it will stop raining when I get these parts because this week has been rainy.

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Posted By: mike in oregon
Date Posted: 11 Apr. 2019 at 1:54am
Sounds like you got your work cut out for you Dennis. I hear ya on the rain I got 3-1/2 " in 2-1/2 days and all the lakes around here are at full capacity and they have the spill gates open. Our creek is higher then I have ever seen it.

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Posted By: Mike F
Date Posted: 11 Apr. 2019 at 3:57am
It’s that April showers bring May flowers thing guys


Posted By: Ol' Unreliable
Date Posted: 12 Apr. 2019 at 3:00am
Not to mention that it always rains there.  Unhappy


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Posted By: Mike F
Date Posted: 12 Apr. 2019 at 3:34am
Originally posted by Ol' Unreliable Ol' Unreliable wrote:

Not to mention that it always rains there.  Unhappy

Oh it does not. Just this morning from 8:00 to 8:15 it didn’t rain at all. Things were starting to get a little dusty. But then the drought was relieved. 


Posted By: Ol' Unreliable
Date Posted: 12 Apr. 2019 at 4:25am
Originally posted by Mike F Mike F wrote:

Oh it does not. Just this morning from 8:00 to 8:15 it didn’t rain at all. Things were starting to get a little dusty. But then the drought was relieved. 


LOL  LOL  LOL


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 23 Apr. 2019 at 4:42am
Excited to get back to work, as I had a bunch of parts waiting for me!  Would have started replacing items but it was raining when I got home LOLCry  Now hopefully everything I ordered is correct replacement for the Jeep. Sucks when you order a part and then you find out the factory changed the design mid year.



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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 26 Apr. 2019 at 6:26am
After work today I spent 2 hours replacing some parts. Change the front sway bar end links, probably original. I will need to replace the sway bar bushings as soon as I order some.
 Replaced the clutch and brake pads on the pedals. Both very worn with 275,xxx plus miles on them.

 Then I removed the cowl to get to the wiper motor and linkage. This was replaced at least once before, still had the yellow markings from a junkyard. It was from a 1990 Cherokee.  The bushings were bad.
 Cleaned out the CCV tube, the 90 degree fitting in the valve cover and the fitting in the intake manifold. This is a common problem on these motors. The vent tube gets clogged up so it ends up pushing oil onto the air filter.
Lastly I replaced the breather tube to the air filter box. It was cracked.


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 27 Apr. 2019 at 3:51pm
Went to a Junkyard yesterday and got both front door window regulators. They were in a '90 Cherokee. I get home and start removing everything in the way to access my broken regulator.

 Of course the way they mount to the doors are different. Mine are bolted in, the junkyard ones were riveted in. After comparing everything else I decided to just remove the cable/window mount from the junkyard bracket to the stock one.
 
 Cleaned the bracket, greased the cable and it works great. Will be nice to roll the window all the way down now.

 I did all that last night. This morning I put the regulator back in the door and it tested it. It is nice rolling the window all the way down! 

 The speaker is blown, so before I put the panel back on I will get some cheap replacements. I don't have stereos in my '47 or '74 so this will be spoiling me LOL


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 27 Apr. 2019 at 3:56pm
Forgot I also picked up a set of used tires and rims yesterday from a Grand Cherokee. Tires are passenger car tires and 215's instead of the 225's I have now (and the stock size) but have a lot of tread left so they will be fine for how I use this Jeep.

 I paid less for the four tires and rims then I did for both window regulators.LOLConfused


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Posted By: mike in oregon
Date Posted: 28 Apr. 2019 at 3:00pm
Sounds like it will make the trip to Fall Creek in style

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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 29 Apr. 2019 at 3:27pm
Both front doors now have operating windows Big smile 

I removed the tailgate panel to look at the wiper motor and to see if there were speakers. No speakers and will need to get a new wiper motor now.


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Posted By: Rus Curtis
Date Posted: 29 Apr. 2019 at 4:24pm
Sounds like you're whipping it into shape!  I will miss my '95 XJ (450K +) as I need to replace my Willys tow vehicle.
 
What kind of radio do you have?  My stock speakers had paper so it didn't take long before needing to replace them.


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 29 Apr. 2019 at 7:04pm
Originally posted by Rus Curtis Rus Curtis wrote:


Sounds like you're whipping it into shape!  I will miss my '95 XJ (450K +) as I need to replace my Willys tow vehicle.
 
What kind of radio do you have?  My stock speakers had paper so it didn't take long before needing to replace them.



Previous owner upgraded it to a CD player, not sure what brand it is off hand. Only one of the two stock speakers worked. I just bought some cheap replacement from the auto parts store and I will look for a factory rear speaker bar to put in.

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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 06 May 2019 at 3:26pm
Over the weekend I managed to:
Bleed the brakes, swap out the tires and rims for the new to me Grand Cherokee ones, new valve cover gasket, plugs, wires cap and rotor. New Air filter to replace the oil soaked one. Replaced some of the breather vent tubes. Also a new transmission mount/ exhaust mount.
 When I removed the valve cover I also did the mod to keep it from blocking up again.

 


Mileage 275,499

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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 11 June 2019 at 6:43pm
Have not done anything to this except drive it. Found a crack in the exhaust manifold ( Not sure if I mentioned that before) Just another thing.

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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 13 Aug. 2019 at 9:17pm
Been my daily driver now. Still have not replaced the clutch, but it still works. Last tank of fuel almost got me 500 miles, most of it in town with one trip to Portland and back so I was impressed. Not bad for a 25 year old Jeep with 277,xxx miles on it!
Will be taking this camping when we go to Bend so I am hoping to exceed 500 miles although it will have be carrying a lot more weight this time ( and maybe Jeep parts on the way back )

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Posted By: Rus Curtis
Date Posted: 13 Aug. 2019 at 10:19pm
Originally posted by berettajeep berettajeep wrote:

Have not done anything to this except drive it. Found a crack in the exhaust manifold ( Not sure if I mentioned that before) Just another thing.
 
Cast exhaust?  They swapped my 95 XJ exhaust out due to defect. 


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Posted By: rocnroll
Date Posted: 13 Aug. 2019 at 10:50pm
Seems like they all cracked. First one I had I took off and welded a reinforcing plate what it needed one.

Second one I had I just bought a header....most of the headers for them were stainless and built better (and were cheaper ) than standard manifold.



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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 14 Aug. 2019 at 12:24am
Originally posted by rocnroll rocnroll wrote:

Seems like they all cracked...



Common problem on the 4.0 motors that I've seen. Didn't happen on my '96 though that I had years ago but it also didn't have 277,xxx miles on it I'll end up just replacing with a good used and be done with it. I can't justify the expense of putting a header on it.

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Posted By: rocnroll
Date Posted: 14 Aug. 2019 at 2:38am
Finding "a good used one" is why I put a header on mine....(my '95 had about 280,000 on it when I was rear ended)

The stock one was replaced about 130,000 or so.



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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 09 Oct. 2019 at 12:55am
So Monday morning I get in the Jeep and so does my girlfriends children. I was going to drop them off at school.

Start the Jeep, move roughly 10 feet to the edge of the driveway and wait as traffic drives by. The Jeep dies. Okay, weird. Try to restart and it is just cranking. Crankshaft position sensor went bad. (or Camshaft sensor)


Don't have time to deal with it, as it is about to start raining, so I let my girlfriend know and she drives here kids to school and I nervously drive my '74 Cherokee. I have not driven it on the street in a while and both fuel tank are near empty. I was able to make it to the gas station though.

Of course it has been raining the these last 2 days so I have not fixed it yet.




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Posted By: Ol' Unreliable
Date Posted: 09 Oct. 2019 at 4:34am
Originally posted by berettajeep berettajeep wrote:

Crankshaft position sensor went bad. (or Camshaft sensor)


One day early last year I drove my '89 YJ (with the MOPAR Performance fuel injection kit) to work.  No trouble, just the usual boring commute.  Time to leave and the engine just cranks and cranks.  No spark, nothing.  "Cam position sensor" in the distributor just died, apparently right there in the parking lot, as I shut it off in the morning.  I guess they just do that.


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 09 Oct. 2019 at 3:09pm
Last night after work I looked over the Jeep. Too much stuff in the way to reach the CPS from the top and it has been pouring rain on and off for a few days straight. No desire to lay on the gravel/dirt driveway to work on this.

 Just for fun I tried starting it and it came to life. Let it run a minute or so and shut it off. Did that 4-5 more times and it started and ran. 

 The only other time it just shut off by itself was in the first 2 days I owned it. It started right back up then and I thought it was user error.





 


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 20 Oct. 2019 at 2:33am
Replaced the heater blower motor fan and the resistor earlier.  Both may have been original and with 279,xxx miles on them were not working efficiently or at all. . Took apart and ceaned the blower motor switch as well because the pigtail melted slightly around it. (Common with XJ's) 

Now I need to set aside enough time to replace the clutch and replace the  cracked exhaust manifold. 


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 20 Oct. 2019 at 2:35am
Guess I forgot to add that I replaced the CPS finally and that I've been driving it daily. LOL 

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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 28 Oct. 2019 at 8:04pm
It was a wonderful 32 degrees this morning as me and my girlfriends 2 girls got in the frost covered Jeep. Had to dig the ice scrapper out of my '74 Cherokee to clean the windshield and side windows.

15 minutes into our drive and the heater is blowing ice cold Turn off the blower motor wait a minute and turn everything back on...instant heat.


Thinking maybe the coolant froze in the heater hoses or ??? Will change the coolant after work regardless since I have no idea when the previous owner did.


Just as Rob ( otto ) said in his parts Jeep thread, JEEP stands for what again?


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Posted By: otto
Date Posted: 28 Oct. 2019 at 11:51pm
Ain’t that the truth Dennis, when it rains it pours.

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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 25 Nov. 2019 at 9:54pm
Nothing new to really report. Still have not replaced the clutch, currant one still works so far    


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 28 July 2021 at 7:30pm
Been a while since I updated this one too.

 Still my daily driver, just a little over 292,xxx miles now. Have not replaced the clutch yet either Embarrassed

 I did replace all shocks, that looked original. After trying to remove the oil filter during an oil change the 90 degree adaptor started leaking. That was a fun to replace (Not really) 
 
 Took it camping the next day and it did fine that week other than the electric fan not kicking on when we were in  Bend, Oregon and it was 90 degrees.  ( If you don't know this Jeep has a mechanical and and electric fans.  I have since added a toggle switch to the dash so I can flip on the fan when I need it. Living on the coast I have not needed it yet.) 

  Short time later the water pump seized on me just as I got home one night ( Big cloud of smoke all the sudden.)   Replaced the pump, new hoses, thermostat and a month later had to replace the radiator that started leaking. (Figures, right?)  I replaced the alternator at this time, since I had everything apart and access. 



 




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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 13 Feb. 2022 at 12:27pm
Went to the junkyard for the first time in a long time. It was also 60+ degrees yesterday which was wonderful. 
  Picked up the wiper transmission linkage and wiper arms from a '92 Commanche and an extra set of cross bars for the roof rack from a '97 Cherokee.

Since the last update I also bought a replacement exhaust manifold to replace the cracked one on the Jeep currently.  Still have not replaced the clutch LOL   Had to replace the drivers side caliper since it started sticking. While there I also replaced the brake hose too.

My daily driver now has close to 296,xxx miles


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 24 June 2022 at 11:38pm
Pressure washed the Cherokee today after work. The weather is getting nicer so I had to wash all the moss and pollen off. 




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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 14 July 2022 at 7:02pm
Put a lot of weight in the XJ this afternoon.




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Posted By: Downs
Date Posted: 15 July 2022 at 5:26pm
Nice.  Good to see another XJ living it's best life, not having a sawsall taken to it. I've had 4.  Currently in a 95 Country, but previous were 94 sport, 00 sport, and 97 sport.  


Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 15 July 2022 at 7:19pm
Originally posted by Downs Downs wrote:

Nice.  Good to see another XJ living it's best life, not having a sawsall taken to it. I've had 4.  Currently in a 95 Country, but previous were 94 sport, 00 sport, and 97 sport.  

My first was a '94 bare bones 2 door, 2.5 five speed 4x4. It had to be the lowest cost Cherokee when new. Unfortunately this one spent its life in the rust belt and was neglected before I got it around 2000. Front axle upper control arm rusted off on my way home one day. Replaced the axle with an '89 limited, drove it for a little then I bought a '96 Sport 4.0 5 speed 4x4 4 door that was very rust free.
Lifted the '96 shortly after, put 31's on it and since the '94 had the 4:10 gears  I just swapped axle gears over. Took anything of value, which was not much and sent it the the junkyard. 
 Other than the different wheels and the two extra roof top cross bars I put on it this one will stay completely stock. Red



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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 16 Sep. 2022 at 12:51am
I'm horrible at updating. I am now a member of the 300,000 mile club. Had to replace the passenger side axle shat u-joint as it was clicking more and more. 

It has been marking its territory ever since I got it so one day I sprayed the motor, transmission and transfer case with degreaser and pressure washed them. After work today I did an inspection and try to locate the leak/s. Looks like it is the engine rear main seal and a plug ob the upper half of the manual transmission. I also noticed that the rubber boot for the shifter to the case was off. 
I removed the center console and was able to secure the boot. 


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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 25 Sep. 2022 at 1:57pm
Yesterday I had to wait until this jerk and his family moved before I could leave. 




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Posted By: berettajeep
Date Posted: 18 Oct. 2022 at 10:57pm
Used the pressure washer to clean the Cherokee up. Was looking quite filthy and had a '97-01 XJ follow me today, for our very own parade! I felt ashamed with all the cobwebs and dirt. LOL




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Posted By: Scratch
Date Posted: 18 Oct. 2022 at 11:18pm
Looking good!  I had a 90 XJ a while back. Liked it a lot.

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43 GPW 93487 Blk
44 GPW 230283 OD
46 CJ2A 50100 Tan
46 CJ2A 77632 Wht
47 CJ2A 141681 Grn
48 CJ2A 156240 Red/Yel
48 CJ2A "Lefty" 181341 Red
61 CJ5 123120 Tan
03 TJ Inca Gld



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