Ok, maybe it was the fact it fell on me, but I’m resurrecting this thread for the 78 Cherokee I picked up awhile back.
It’s been languishing on the back 40 of a Christmas tree farm and I’ve been working on getting it for the past 4 years. It finally all came together at the beginning of September, 2020.
After a few weeks of wrenching in her, she’s been on a few mild neighborhood runs to see how she’ll do.
Aside from the carb, complete tune up, serious cleaning, a round of wet sanding the firecracker red oxidized paint, I just wrapped up the new muffler, and coil over shocks in the rear.
It was the coil over shock install that got me thinking about the panel delivery. I was installing coil overs on it when the unthinkable happened.
Fast forward to this evening, I just cleaned up after the muffler and rear shock install, the plan moving forward is to keep her and tinker here and there, sparing my LJ some winter driving time.
Yeah, this was the muffler on her:
I’ve always had a wag around, but this is my first Cherokee. I’ve chased Cherokees before, especially the manual versions, but could never quite get one- this one is an automatic, though. It’ll certainly do.
It came out of the high mountains of Colorado 15 years ago where it served as a seasonal ski resort rig at their Condo for their occasional winter retreats.
The family sold off the condo after the last passed on and the cousin bought her off the estate, brought it to Spokane and never did much with it except buy a new carb for her (yet did not install it), and he also had new floor pans out in by a shop on the northside.
Then it sat for the rest of it’s time on the farm.