Actually this is what I was gonna comment on, the thing about all the owners is they all took it to a Jeep dealership to do the scheduled maintenance (oil change every three thousand, tune ups every 15,000, transfer case and transmission flush every 30,000, they even changed the oil in the diffs every 15,000.)
Honestly, I haven't noticed anything wrong with it, it runs strong and drives straight as an arrow, even before the upgrades I've done, I didn't really have any issues (for the most part). I think the worst thing that ever happened to my Jeep is the previous owner. She and her cousin who had mechanical skills I guess, took the manual transmission out and put an automatic in, but didn't change the computer, drive shafts, transfer case, anything, they just changed the transmission because she couldn't figure out how to drive a manual. Her story is she drove it for about a month but didn't like it, so she parked it in her drive way and it sat for about 6 months to a year. When I got it, I jumped into it and tried driving it 60 miles back to my house, I made it about half way before the transmission and garden hose transmission lines gave out, no joke, they literally used a garden hose to run her transmission lines, they got hot and exploded from pressure while I was driving. It looked like it was on fire. Once we got under the hood we found that they spliced all the computers wires to get it to run the transmission but it was a crap job, it started in second gear and didn't down shift, it was a mess. I admit I probably should have towed it to my house but I was a little excited to get it home and didn't really think it through. Good news is I have a brand new manual transmission now and it runs like a champ.
Thanks for all the replies guys. On another note, we also ran the vin for my 95 YJ, that I sold a while back and found out some pretty crazy things. I swear some people should not be allowed anywhere near Jeeps, specifically Wranglers.
My YJ apparently had a power train swap done in 2000 (Motor, Tranny, and TC). So the previous owner bought it it 96, drove it 75,000 miles and then swapped the power train, but he must have gotten everything from an older vehicle because there was this major warning on the car facts that said it failed its vehicle inspection due to a major mechanical component not meeting the New Mexico state inspection requirements, not sure how it was even registered. Luckily I have a buddy at motor vehicles who let me register everything over the phone. When I read up on this the info page said this warning occurs when an engine or other major mechanical component that is not of the same age or newer, or has more miles than the original component, is put into the vehicle. The other astonishing thing is they must have at some point swapped the body, because the original vin is for a Forest Green '95 YJ Rio Grande edition. The reason I'm thinking the body was swapped is because the interior and paint don't match what a Rio Grande should be, not to mention mine was black not green. My buddy said "Maybe they just painted it", but even the interior paint, such as the paint on the inside of the windshield frame and the floor boards didn't match. The only thing that was green was the interior paint on the original half door, which according to the Rio Grande model would have been the original doors the Jeep was purchased with.
It's super confusing I know, but I thought it was an interesting story. Sorry for the novel.