mustanggarage
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well since this site is new I guess I will go through the build of my 90 yj build. I have posted it on garage retreat already, but maybe it will help someone here.
I bought this jeep in 2013 for my daughter.
my wife asked me why it said joop on the side when we got it lol so that is how it got the name joopacabra. here is a picture of my new to me yj.
it is a 1990 with the 4.2 and automatic. it was exactly what i was looking for.
I had a 95 when I lived in utah that I did a 4 to 6 swap and a bunch of other things to. so I am not entirely a newbie to jeeps. I spend a lot of time building and playing with mustangs so I have a fair amount of experience tinkering with cars and I have a really nice garage and tool selection to play with.
here is a thread I did on my garage.
http://www.garageretreat.com/forums/f7/welcome-doghouse-1794/
I started looking for this jeep because I wanted something I could fix up for my daughter to drive to school in the winter, and because I really missed my old yj. We built a nice 67 mustang for her but it actually turned out a bit too nice and now she is afraid to drive it to school for fear of it getting vandalized so it is used more for special occasions and shows than as a daily like I had planned. here is a pic and thread of it if anyone is interested.
http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forums/projects/224094-mustang-sarah-pic-heavy.html
Anyway, I wanted a jeep that needed some mechanical work because I like doing that sort of thing, but I wanted one that the body was in decent shape because I don't like doing body work.
I wanted an automatic because the plan was for my daughter to drive it. I also wanted the 6 cylinder because after the headache I had doing the 4 to 6 swap before, I did not want to go through all that again lol.
the initial plan was to fix all of the little problems that it had and at some point swap in a fuel injected 4.0 engine. I have had it for 3 years now. I have already done a lot to it so I will go through some of that in the next few posts.
I bought this jeep in 2013 for my daughter.
my wife asked me why it said joop on the side when we got it lol so that is how it got the name joopacabra. here is a picture of my new to me yj.

it is a 1990 with the 4.2 and automatic. it was exactly what i was looking for.
I had a 95 when I lived in utah that I did a 4 to 6 swap and a bunch of other things to. so I am not entirely a newbie to jeeps. I spend a lot of time building and playing with mustangs so I have a fair amount of experience tinkering with cars and I have a really nice garage and tool selection to play with.

http://www.garageretreat.com/forums/f7/welcome-doghouse-1794/
I started looking for this jeep because I wanted something I could fix up for my daughter to drive to school in the winter, and because I really missed my old yj. We built a nice 67 mustang for her but it actually turned out a bit too nice and now she is afraid to drive it to school for fear of it getting vandalized so it is used more for special occasions and shows than as a daily like I had planned. here is a pic and thread of it if anyone is interested.

http://www.moddedmustangs.com/forums/projects/224094-mustang-sarah-pic-heavy.html
Anyway, I wanted a jeep that needed some mechanical work because I like doing that sort of thing, but I wanted one that the body was in decent shape because I don't like doing body work.
I wanted an automatic because the plan was for my daughter to drive it. I also wanted the 6 cylinder because after the headache I had doing the 4 to 6 swap before, I did not want to go through all that again lol.
the initial plan was to fix all of the little problems that it had and at some point swap in a fuel injected 4.0 engine. I have had it for 3 years now. I have already done a lot to it so I will go through some of that in the next few posts.
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