Just trying to save money to replace the radiator and master cylinder/brake booster and its taking forever.

So I bought a 97 Wrangler with the 4.0 inline 6 with a 5 speed stick shift.

Fun as hell with the roof off putsing around town but the rover definitely has it beat off road.

 

Was the jeep cheaper than a masyer cylinder and a radiator?

 

As you get older you realise that patience is a virtue (something I have very little of), particularly if you live in France where customer service and speed of delivery is NOT of the essence. You also realise that a great majority of vendors don't give a toss about your predicament and many are just total a***holes without any customer service interests. It's the modern idiom.

 

LOL. So you got tired waiting for your parts and went out and bought a Jeep to pass the time?

I want to walk behind you, money must be falling out your pockets! When I need to pass some time I try and beat my high score on the old skip-it.

 

When you get your parts through I'll take the Jeep off your hands...............cheap..........

 

Wranglers are great fun - and so are the older Cherokees and Grand Cherokees (I have one of each)

 

I used to drive Jeeps and miss taking the top off, do not miss the highway driving experience in a CJ. Loved a 87 Cherokee that I had, and did not like the '96 Grand Cherokee I had. I would buy either an old CJ or a Cherokee to have fun with. So easy to work on. My Dad and I restored a '76 CJ-7 when I was in High School.

 

you have to have a jeep to chase rover parts

 

I remember test driving a new '96 Grand Cherokee back then. IMO it felt loose or sloppy on the tarmac and rolled around like a donkey and after 10 miles the autobox expired When I picked it up I reported that someone had crunched in the LH side cill in, it was a bad day for that dealership.

Obviously I didn't buy the truck what with the sloppy ride and dodgy autobox going pop. I stuck with my old Range Rover V8 and V6 Ford Probe until I bought a D2 V8 in 2000.

 

Well I work for Chrysler now (thanks to the Land Rover and this community for the experience) and I got a good deal on this trade in seeing as they are all trying to convert me.

Both of them will be my project vehicles and between the 2 hopefully 1 will work.