After I sold the LJ I just wheeled my Tundra but it is so big for some of the trails around here that I found my self wishing for something that drives nice on the road like the Tundra and is reasonably capable but was shorter and narrower.
Someone offered me a 2wd XJ from Georgia. Someone had put a ton of miles on it as a commuter then sent it up here for their son to drive. Then they had attempted to install an alternator without disconnecting the battery which had burned up the wiring harness and pcm. It was cheap and did not even have surface rust anywhere. It did have a scrape on one side that we will fix after we fix a couple of flip cars that are ahead of it in the queue.
About $100 in parts and it was running. But still 2wd. I started rounding up parts, and was pretty happy that we have parted out a couple of XJs. And that XJ parts are cheap. I converted it to 4wd, it was really a simple job. I used Azzy's transfer case shifter linkage kit. I am not sure how he managed to figure out something that the engineers at Chrysler and Jeep didn't but his linkage is a massive improvement over the stock junk.
I ordered some parts: RE add a leaf, Aussie locker (after I put a Powertrax in and it blew up) sway bar disconnects, bar pin eliminators
I rounded up some sitting around my shop: new takeoff JKU shocks, a front receiver hitch, RE front springs, the Rigid cubes I bought from Dunbar, rear flush mount cubes, etc
I bought bumpers off someone on Craigslist
Pics are on the way.