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[Pape]

How far are you ready to go ?
The simple anser is to swap a crate engines like a diesel and a transmission. All the rest can probably be deal with aftermarket stuff.

 

[TrailScooter]

I'm with ya man.

 

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[yokramer]

You can do anything with enough money. Nothing stopping you from removing all the stock stuff and replacing it with non Jeep parts. Buy a pre 24 and get a manual windows/locks model, halogen lights, swap the engine out for a carbed small block with a manual behind it, plenty of aftermarket a/c heating options

 

[Dusty Dude]

The quick and easy way is to get a standalone engine/transmission control module and go to an aftermarket dash for the gauges. Otherwise it will be a trial and error method of disconnecting a module at a time. Airbags and ABS would probably be the hardest to keep intact.

However, not sure how the laws are as far as documenting mileage, etc.

 

[yokramer]

The quick and easy way is to get a standalone engine/transmission control module and go to an aftermarket dash for the gauges. Otherwise it will be a trial and error method of disconnecting a module at a time. Airbags and ABS would probably be the hardest to keep intact.

However, not sure how the laws are as far as documenting mileage, etc.

There are ways to make it legal, just like if your cluster fails and it needs to be replaced.

 

[BigMaCro]

Sorry, the JL is the wrong platform, in my opinion. If you want XJ level, go with an XJ, TJ/"LJ", ZJ

The JL depends on many separate computer modules networked together, to achieve basic functions. You would still need many or all of these. If you want airbags, you need that module and the BCM, which you need for the dash, turn signals, etc

If you want a dumb vehicle, start with one. Or, get a JL tub with no electrics and put absolutely everything in it from aftermarket or donor vehicles.

 

[roaniecowpony]

Well, if you bought a manual transmission jeep, I could see where it would be possible to gut all the electronics and put a carburetor and aftermarket ignition on it. The HVAC could go to all cables. PSC power steering, steam gauges, .... hell, you could turn 30 grand into nothing in short order, IMO, and it would still "work".

But why? Just go buy a perfect CJ that someone spent their life building.

 

[Dan M.]

I definetly think it would be easier to take an older Jeep platform and modernize it a little bit vs taking a new platform and "dumbing it down".

 

[silverooby]

You'll probably find that modules are multi-purpose in order to minimize cost. Remove a module and you'll probably lose the good with the bad, or disable it altogether. I'm not an expert on the JL, but have experience with electronics hell. I wouldn't expect much of anything to go right.

 

[silverooby]

Sounds like you'd rather have an LJ. Not a bad idea as they're great Jeeps.

 

[Terrymo]

Well, if you bought a manual transmission jeep, I could see where it would be possible to gut all the electronics and put a carburetor and aftermarket ignition on it. The HVAC could go to all cables. PSC power steering, steam gauges, .... hell, you could turn 30 grand into nothing in short order, IMO, and it would still "work".

But why? Just go buy a perfect CJ that someone spent their life building.

I wheel with guys in JKs and JLs that show pics of their CJs to each other with a tear in their eye like it is a baby pic of their first born child. When I ask if they wish they had it back they just say, “Nope!” And start talking about all the spare parts they had to carry amongst themselves and how they spent more time doing trail fixes than they did wheeling sometimes.

I’d take a pre-smog small block Chevy with some type of basic EFI, cause that’s about the limit of what I can understand mechanically.

 

[roaniecowpony]

Sooooo. Here's a snapshot of the electronic module list.

 

[YJdude]

@ciemnika If the earlier CJ/YJ Roxor was street legal I would've got it instead of a JL.

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