Advice for future plans

[Ben]

If you had a 96 4 door xj already paid for and could mod it on about a 8-10000$ budget, what would you do? What if the overall tire goal was less than or equal to 33x12.5? Nothing extremely exotic is wanted, just a solid trail rig set up more for low country than for rock country. This is my situation. I do not know much about xj's, the hardware they come standard with, (axles, t-case, etc...) mine is an auto with 130,000 miles on it.

[Ben]

also, can anyone steer me toward a good xj forum?

[xjtrailrider]

If you had a 96 4 door xj already paid for and could mod it on about a 8-10000$ budget, what would you do? What if the overall tire goal was less than or equal to 33x12.5? Nothing extremely exotic is wanted, just a solid trail rig set up more for low country than for rock country. This is my situation. I do not know much about xj's, the hardware they come standard with, (axles, t-case, etc...) mine is an auto with 130,000 miles on it.

Go with a Claytons long arm kit, 4.5-5" lift, trim it. I would go with a Ford 8.8 rear axle, 4.88's locker or spool. For 33's the D-30 front will be fine just go with 760X axle u-joints, 4.88's and a Aussie locker.

Tera low and Tera 2-low kits in the NP 231 and a Advance Adapters slip yoke eliminator and a couple of Tow Woods shafts.

Detours sliders/stiffeners, A good quality tank skid, good quality front and rear bumpers for recovery.

I could keep going on and on but with that kind of coin I could build one hell of a XJ!

Go here and learn all about the XJ:http://www.naxja.org/forum/index.php?

[Ben]

Thank you sir that is enough to get me started thinking in the right direction. And thank you for directing me to the xj forum, lots of good stuff there.