- If you guys have been following my Instagram,
"Josh from TrailBuilt," then you've already seen,
or you may have already seen the project
that we're about to introduce to you guys.
If you're looking for a project to build very inexpensively,
maybe you've never had a 4-wheel drive vehicle before,
or you're just getting into off-roading,
and you wanna keep it relatively on the inexpensive side,
well, this is a great project to start off with.
Now through our searches, we just happen to end up with...
Well, it's a 1989 Jeep Cherokee XJ Laredo 4-Door,
with an inline six cylinder, four liter.
One of the most bulletproof engines out there I think.
Now this is a project that we found over a year ago,
and the gentleman wanted about $2,500,
and at that time just weren't ready to commit to anything,
and over about the next 10 months or so,
we ended up finally coming to an agreement on $1,000.
And this thing's pretty clean for being a 1989.
It actually came from North Carolina, South Carolina,
one of those states which is well below the salt belt line
or the rust belt.
So it's got a nice clean chassis on it,
it's not all rusted out.
In fact, there's very little rust on it at all.
And over the last 10 years,
it's been just hanging out in Wisconsin,
but we just ended up with this Jeep Cherokee.
So we thought, "what better to share this project
with all of you guys,
just to show you how inexpensive it really can be
to get into off-roading,
to get into a 4-wheel drive vehicle."
It does take a little bit of patience sometimes
to find that right deal,
but if you keep searching Facebook Marketplace
or Craigslist, or even eBay,
or even through friends and family
that might be keeping their eyes out for you,
eventually you can find that right deal.
And so what we ended up going with is...
I actually ended up buying a set of 31-inch tires,
a 265/70 17's.
I bought those probably about a year ago,
originally for my Highlander.
And of course I took those off,
put another set on my Highlander,
so I had those tires sitting around
that we ended up throwing on here,
which we're gonna save that more
towards the end of the Built series,
but we're gonna show you guys how we fit those on here,
and we're gonna show you guys what products we went with,
and why we went with those products.
Front and rear recovery bumpers,
we'll show you guys that, show you the install on that,
but basically throughout several different videos,
we gonna take you guys along for the ride with us,
show you how much money exactly,
my son and I ended up spending on this.
So if you are looking for that right vehicle,
approximately just about how much
you might end up anticipating to spend
on that particular project.
So we wanna show you guys all of that,
kinda bring you from the beginning to the end
through this whole Built series.
Have you guys like I said, come along and ride with us.
So make sure to hit that subscribe button,
but we're gonna walk you through some of the issues
that this thing does have.
Some of them we already took care of already.
Like because it was sitting for about 10 years,
we had to change out the fuel pump,
change out the fuel filter,
it wasn't running like almost barely at all.
In fact, the drive home from Appleton to where I live
is about normally a 30-minute drive,
and it took me over an...
Actually it took me two hours to get home
in freezing weather,
because I could only go about 15 miles an hour,
because that fuel system was clogged up.
So we're gonna walk you through some of that stuff,
how much it costs us to repair it, the transmission...
It is an automatic transmission,
however, you have to shift it manually,
you have to start off in first gear, shift to second,
shift to third and then come up to a stop sign
or traffic light, down shift second, first,
start off in first again,
so I don't know what exactly the issue is.
Maybe some of you guys know,
you can let us know in the comments,
but I'm assuming it's something electrical,
will take a look at that as well.
Dive into some of that stuff,
and just share this whole build with you guys
as my son who is just about to get his temps,
learns how to go through the mechanics of a vehicle,
and build it up together,
with something eventually at the end of this build
that's gonna be reliable,
it's gonna be pretty robust and capable out on the trails.
And remember guys, if you didn't already know,
wheels, tires, suspension, accessories,
for your off-road vehicle or even your gearly driver,
you can find all of that right on your website.
That's trailbuiltoffroad,
or to make it easy,
we'll have a link posted in the description below.
And guys as always, we appreciate all of you for watching
and all of your support.
I'm Josh from TrailBuilt,
and we'll see you guys out in the trails.
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