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Originally Posted by gotmudnj
go with the newer model anyways thats older as you can tell by interior and body newer ones much better imo. I owned a 2000 cherokee and now have a 04 wrangler and lifted a few cherokees myself. Newer body style is so much nicer lifted and all compared to that style. For the one guy who said that jeep sucks offroad you must be misstaken for something else. I never had a problem with mine. I actually would rather that than most others. Its one of the most common things to lift and wheel being its so easy..No problems here with any of the ones i worked on. two of my friends have cherokees that i lifted and no problems with them.
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Ok if your referring to this comment
"O and PS the cherokee is the bastard step child of the offroading world. Unibody and offroading dont mix well. And as an FYI your pushing the front axle to its very limits with 33s. Plus if its got a 35 rear it junk. Often times ditched for 8.8s and dana 44s"
Please dont take offense to this but your above statement is a completely generalized and typical "jeeper" statement. You cant rate an overall brands ability to be turned into an offroading vehicle simply because "you did a few lifts on them and they've turned out fine". Thats like saying well my LS1 is fast with a few mods so I guess my Cavalier will be fast with the same mods too.
The fact is Cherokees are unibody. If you thought it was bad for racing its 100x worse for offroading. Yes they have solid motor/trans/tcase combos in them. Yes the dana 30 front is good for what it is and yes the dana 44 or 8-1/4 that some came with are good strong units.
In the end they get beat up and bent up way easier than a full framed rig and they are a pain in the ass to install proper pull/recovery points from.
O and as far as newer models, why? Other than rust and interior factors? The newer models have unibearing front axles which are terrible for offroading.