I'd steer clear of anything with a wobble. Once it starts wobbling it will kill front end parts pretty quick.
i agree with the above..."death wobble" is not something you want to deal with for yourself, let alone a 17 year old.
gas gauge not working...could be sender, gauge or wiring... not a hard fix, but something a 17 year old should have fixed unless you want to go get him every time he forgets about it (i did it a couple times in my CJ)
keep in mind...alot of TJ's are starting to have serious frame rot issues....good ol northeastern winters...
stupid thought for the day, while typing this. the time frame between the first TJ, to now is longer than the Last CJ to the release of the TJ.
what's your price range?
I agree with MellowYellow that a death wobble isn't something you want your kid dealing with on the road. Maybe you can find a good stock TJ for cheap? Let Wendy know I'll keep an eye open down here and will pass along anything I find to her at work.
Chris
I would not call "wobble" "normal".
It is "normal" to a worn out, abused, improperly setup (or all of the mentioned) rig.
Yeah maybe normal but not right or good especially for a lifted 99 XJ with 200k on it for a 17 year old.
http://www.autotrader.com/car-…=JEEP&modelCode1=WRANGLER
We bought both of our jeeps from Jeff at European Coach Werkes in Frankford. Two stubby thumbs up. 
not trying to derail this, but almost $7k for a stock 4 cyl 97 with almost 140,000 miles? much better deals can be had. I bought a 98 nine years ago with 65,000 less miles for $6100 and it was pristine.
Don't believe so. Or at least I can't with the scanner I have but it's not the best scanner out there either.
Someone else may be better to chime in, but I thought that you could read historical codes on one of the higher end readers?
The Torque app for android (along w a bluetooth obdii reader) has a section for historical faults but I've never seen any in there which leads me to believe the TJ doesn't store them. Totally unscientific bs/best guess answer though.
You can tell if it had been recently reset by the emissions readiness, other than that I have not seen stored old faults on a jeep and I have a pretty advanced code reader
can anyone tell me if Check Engine Codes that have been cleared recently be retrieved from a jeeps history???
I'm pretty sure if it was cleared from the computer it's gone unless the problem was not fixed and eventually it will be back.
Hopefully it's a nice TJ can't wait to see pics.
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