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Looking good. I like the hood patina on old YJ's to be honest. I'd be tempted to just clean up the hood and seal it so it doesn't get worse but retains that look. I also understand wanting it to look good too though, so whichever lol. Good luck with it.

I still have a few things I need to get fixed on this YJ but it's been running great now since the rebuild. I have over 1k miles on it since and it's been great to just hop in it and go after having it torn apart for the first 8 months I have owned it. The e-brake has never worked since I...

Nice. Such a great handling car. A buddy had one and used to track it. He let me drive it a couple of times, such an awesome car around the track. I loved driving it. I can see your conundrum. I wouldn't want to be driving that all the time and putting a ton of miles on it. So you have an...

Thats a tough one. It would be hard for me to let go of the Jeep, its just too enjoyable to drive. Having it as a daily though, I am not so sure. My Accord handles the daily duties so the Jeep is the toy. Sounds like you have two toys in this situation lol. My biggest issue for the Sahara as a...

Yup, that is my attitude. I'll hang on to the parts since my Sahara came with it from the factory but I have no intention of using it. I don't plan to own a full top. I have a nice comfortable Honda Accord for the daily duties and the Jeep is for fun. Sits in the garage until I want to drive it...

It's funny, my Sahara had working a/c when I bought it. When I started tearing it down, I was annoyed at the lack of access under the dash so I wound up removing the entire system from the Jeep lol. I don't even own a full top for it so I figured, not gonna do me much good anyway, so I yanked it...

Yeah, left of the radiator is where it would be mounted. Sounds like it may have got snagged or something and was cut? Should be a little white breather "cap" on it.

Wow, those hangers really are smushed. The Walker tail pipe end is certainly nothing fancy, I have considered cutting a more angled tip to it. With no cat and this Walker muffler, my Jeep definitely has a rumble, more than I had expected but not enough to bother me. I'd be curious how the...

Ahh yeah, good point. Could be that 1" difference for clearance. The hangers for the muffler were very easy to get on and don't seem stretched or anything. It all went together very well, just had to clearance the JBA with a hammer so it wouldn't touch where the bellhousing meets the engine lol.

That is interesting. I am running a walker tail pipe and the same Walker muffler you have and I have no issue at all with clearance or vibration. It doesn't touch anywhere. I have a Banks header/JBA mid pipe/Walker straight section (where the cat would be)/Walker SS muffler/Walker tail pipe. I...

Cool to see it out of the garage. I remember that feeling after having in for 7 months and getting it back out the first time, also dusty and giving it a bath lol. Glad it was just the PCM which while annoying but is at least easy to swap. I'd like to find another as a back up myself. I...

Yeah, being that those trims were typically more "loaded" from the factory, that makes sense. I wish this one was in good shape. I will be hunting for a new 90 to replace the cheapie reman that is currently in it and I'll hang on to that one for a backup.

Some good information. I hadn't gotten to the alternator yet but it's something I had researched a little. I saw the Durango swap and had looked into it. When I bought my YJ, it sounded horrible under the hood and it turned out to be the alternator. My Jeep had been a mud jeep so it was no...

Agreed. What I love so much about it is it's so analog in nature. Compared to my other modern vehicles, this one you are really in tune with. You have to pay attention to it when driving. It's just a whole different experience. I don't even own a full top for it. I find myself looking for an...

I understand that, the previous owner ran tap water for coolant and wasn't big on doing maintenance. I flushed the hell out of it and then did it again when I pulled it and flushed the hell out of it some more. I hope with the coolant/distilled water that it will clean up the block. I saw a YT...

One piece at a time, getting there. It took me almost 8 months after I began tearing mine apart. One thing lead to another and it was torn down farther than I had originally planned. Didn't think I'd ever get it back on the road there for a while but some nights, I'd just go out and try to get...

Nice work. Looks factory but better. I like your attention to detail on the wiring, I try to do the same. My last YJ had so many freaking wire nuts all through the harness, it was ridiculous.

I never came back to post a final update. This swap went very smoothly. I figured mechanically it would be pretty straight forward and it was. After removing the auto trans and all the related brackets underneath to hold the shifter linkage in place, re-installing the new clutch/flywheel and...

It would definitely work in reverse. Easy to remove the gauge panels and then just tape them out the same way, cut them and peel away the centers. I actually need to do the same on my tach/speedo panel as the tach has an area like that where the black paint is worn away and needs to be sprayed...

lol I wouldn't mind at all, if you were closer. I grabbed the original bezel that came with my Sahara, it was damaged so I used the one from my old Jeep which was black. Just wanted to show you how I taped it out. You could use a burnishing tool but I just use my fingernail and there is a nice...