Wow what response. As a follow up to the light question I went the more budget route with the sylvania silverstar headlights and after having them in for several days just got a chance to drive them at night. What an improvement. I put one in and compared it to the old headlights, light was white vs yellow. At $50.00 for the pair it was worth the investment.
Thanks to all gave input it was a true education. Next to get brake help. Has any one put the HP pad in?
GSD 
As a follow up on the lights. After a long time with the silverstones that did make an improvement over stock. My wife drove it one night and made the command decision to upgrade even further. I talked to DPG Offroad and went with IPF replacement lights and "fat boy" bulbs. After noticing that the left silverstone was a little yellow so also went with ARB relay harness. WHAT A DIFFERANCE. It is night and day. The bulb and headlight combo is great I know that the harness also made a difference. Also added to the package is a set IPF 968 diving lights that will be wired today. This is a great investment in safety and sight. To date the low beans have not been flashed.
Ha! I love resurrected posts. It is funny to look back on comments you (meaning I) made a couple of years ago to see where I am at now.
I totally forgot about this thread, but have since totaled my YJ and have had a 2000 Cherokee for over a year now.
Sounds like the IPFs will do the trick, if you upgraded your harness you should get 80/100w bulbs, night and day difference, no pun intended.
The sealed stock headlamps in my Cherokee were garbage and I went with the Hella E-codes from http://www.rallylights.com as Ian suggested.
While installing the new housings I also made a custom wiring harness with a dual relays (one high beam/one low beam) setup and added 80/100w H4 bulbs.
The advantage the higher watt bulbs is 2 fold. High watts simply means more light and because you are using a standard bulbs and not an xenon gas charged type like Silverstars they don't burn as hot as Silverstars which means longer life.
Here are few pics of my mod.
Here is the Hella E-code housing, nice all glass construction, with a good reflector and excellent beam pattern. The triangle portion of the pattern actually shoots some light onto the right side of the road to illuminate road side signs.
Here is the little dual relay bracket I created to hold the relays on the front side of the engine compartment. I think the best thing about the way I setup the wriring harness is that the light power comes straight off the battery but I was able to use a male H4 spade connector to tap into the factory harness to get a current to switch the relays by using the factory headlamp switch. The factory harness is also left in place so it would be a breeze to go back the factory setup if I ever had a problem with my harness or want to remove the E-code before sale of the vehicle.
Here is an shot of the E-code lamp with 80/100w bulb on the left and stock 55/60w on the right. There is a noticeable difference here which is even more noticeable on the road. This is low beams!
While on the topic of lighting I figured I would mention and picture the fog lamp relay mod for the Cherokee. (This or a procedure very similar may work on TJs too.)
Essentially if you would like to be able to run your factory fog lights with your high beams on you need to do this simple mod. Remove the "Fog 1" relay from your underhood fuse box and simply bend back the pictured relay spade as shown. Reinstall the relay and now you fogs will stay on with your high beams.
I believe that headlamp upgrades on Jeep or any vehicle for that matter are the most important worthwhile mod that you can do. I can't think of any mod that is more useful or gets more return on investment over the life of your vehicle. I have trouble driving at night, and a good set of headlamps even a simple bulb upgrade to Silverstar or Silverstar Ultra bulbs is a dramatic difference in improved visibility and night driving safety.
My current setup with Hella E-codes, factory fog lamps, and a set of modified late model TJ factory Hella fog lamps with YellowStar foul weather bulbs seems like the perfect setup for driving in all conditions.
they sell disc break conversions for the rear drums just look on the net or in the back of a jeeping magazine thats where i see them the most.
Mine has the rear disc convo on there. I have 35s and it stops well enough.
[RANT]When you do it don't forget to do the damn e-brake.[/RANT]
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