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TurboCity’s Rock-It Tube and K&N Conversion

author’s note: After running the TurboCity kit for a while, I decided to swap it out for the K&N cone conversion kit offered by Rusty’s OffRoad. I really haven’t noticed any performance difference in the kits, other than it’s easier to check my oil now (see note about clearance issues below). Also, Rusty’s kit costs […]

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Custom 4×4 Fabrication XJ Winch Bumper

A while back a little “mis-hap” with the tailgate of a pickup truck left a big dent in the middle of my front bumper. Luckily the dent happened to be right in the middle of the bumper, so a front license plate covered it nicely, but the bumper was going to need to be replaced […]

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Holy Cross

Sunday was the big day: the day dad and I would take my XJ on Holy Cross with some of the guys from Jeep-L. The plan was for the Jeep-L guys to meet at Camp Hale at 9:30am for breakfast, then hit the trail. Dad and I pulled into Camp about 9:20am and were directed […]

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Camp Jeep 1998, Camp Hale, CO.

Since Camp Jeep started at 8am, and the parking lot opened at 7:30am, dad and I got up bright and early and headed to Camp Hale to try to get a good parking place. We got there about 7:50am and got a good spot on the second row of vehicles about 60ft from the main […]

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Build a hard deck for your XJ’s cargo area

Article by Greg Friedman One of the dilemmas I had when deciding to buy an XJ is that the rear compartment is awful small, even with the seat folded down. It’s too short to sleep on comfortably, only one person fits, and you can’t really stretch your legs out even when laying diagonally. But even […]

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CB install

I’ve had a couple of people email me about where to put a CB in a Cherokee, so I thought I’d do a little write-up about what I did with mine. As you can see, I mounted my Midland under the dash on the driver’s side. Another popular mounting place is upright on the transmission […]

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Rubicon Express 3.5″ XJ Lift kit

Installation date: August 1997 Why Rubicon Express? Well, after months of phone calls, emails, and looking through magazines and catalogs, I finally decided on RE’s Rockbound Cherokee lift kit after talking to the guys over at Rubicon Express. There were several things I was looking for in a lift kit — I wanted a kit […]

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