So yeah this thing needs some serious help, especially if it ever plans on seeing anything other than pavement!
First thing i had to address was the "overheating" issue. My buddy had replaced the radiator in it and uh failed to burp the xj's cooling system which led to the coolant boiling within minutes which caused the overflow tank to warp due to heat and spew coolant everywhere. To fix it i simply burped the system, replaced the coolant tank with that from the donor(rollover) xj, and installed a 21lb stant coolant cap from a volvo.

She runs nice and cool now.
Being as that was all that was mechanically wrong with the Heep, time to start moving on to the funner stuff, starting off with the Interior which I'm positive a clan of homeless people were taking up residence
I removed the 5(thats right FIVE) yellow TREE air freshners, cleaned out 3garbage bags of junk, pulled the carpet, found a brand new tool set, AND found rust
SOOO time for the grinder to come out and play. Stripped the whole floor, firewall to the back hatch, Cut out all the rust spots, replaced with new sheetmetal, prepped it, then applied the roll on Herculiner. I must say I'm really impressed thus far with the Heculiner. It goes on really easily, lays down pretty thick, and has a nice texture.
While i waited for the bedliner to dry, i redid the seats with Duplicolor tan. Also did the dash duplicolor satin black with tan trim. While everything was apart i took out the stock idiot lights and speedo and replaced it with the whole actual gauge cluster from the donor XJ. Only mods needed to get the gauges to work in my XJ were swapping in the coolant and oil pressure senders. Huge improvement over the idiot lights!
Bedliner down and starting to reinstall the interior