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If "Jeep" is the sticky wicket, the "official" Comanche Club logo doesn't use "Jeep," it only uses "Comanche." I wouldn't reach out to Jeep before finding out what Amazon's issue(s) is (are). There's no point in solving a problem that doesn't exist. Jeep may not care two hoots about us. But if we're that insignificant, they also shouldn't have a problem giving us their blessing to help publicize the Jeep brand. They have to go after small enterprises that use their trademarks or trade names without permission, because if they don't pursue those that's how they lose control over it. (Anybody besides me remember the legal battles that were waged over the use of grilles with seven vertical slots?) On the flip side, it doesn't cost them anything to give us permission, but the fact that they did so preserves their right to control the use of their trademark or trade name.

CADD -- Computer Assisted Design and Drafting. CADD allows drawing plans and sections to 16 decimal places of accuracy. The engineers and drafters who are creating vehicles today are doing it in 3-D on computer screens, and I'm sure many if not most of them have never used a wrench in their entire lives. The goal is to make vehicles small and lighter, so all they care about is if the parts can fit togther. They aren't interested in whether or not there's any room left to service it in the field. One example: my 19913 Honda Accord. Nice car, drove well, got good gas mileage. The oil filter was DIRECTLY above the exhaust pipe. There was NO WAY to get a wrench or a hand on it without your hand or wrist making contact with the exhaust pipe. Which meant that I didn't drain the oil when it was hot, as you're supposed to. 1984 XJ Wagoneer 2.5L. Only four cylinders. Should have been a piece of cake, right? It wasn't possible to access the #1 spark plug without first removing the A/C compressor.

If their objection is trademark-related, I'd suggest contacting Fiat-Chrysler (or is it Chrysler-Fiat?) and describing who we are and what we do, pointing out that many of our members also own newer Jeep vehicles such as Patriots, Grand Cherokees, Liberties, and Wranglers, and that we are loyal supporters of the brand who happen to have an eclectic appreciation for the Comanche pickup, so we would like their permission to use the Jeep and Comanche names in the club logo. Include a reproduction of the logo image, and see if they'll bless it.

Which design are you referring to as "that" design?

Personally, I need shirts with at least one pocket, for my eyeglasses and pens. So I'm not in the market for tee shorts, sweatshirts, or hoodies. If you expand to long-sleeve, button-down oxford type shirts and/or fleece-lined nylon windbreakers, let me know.

Nope. That's a Wrangler YJ, not a Comanche.

Now that's a REAL Range Rover ... not like those yuppie utes they sell these days.

That makes sense. I knew they were different, and the tranny tunnel of my red '88 was hacked by the previous owner because he stuffed in a YJ tranny and transfer case -- complete with the YJ shifters. So I have a tall shift handle for the transmission, and the YJ transfer case shifter is an interference fit with the dashboard so he just cut off the top half of the shift handle.

That's because on the YJ the shifter attaches to the transfer case, and on the XJ/MJ the shifter attaches to the body. The arm just gets flipped vertically on the stud -- the stud stays in the same position.

Yeah. Car-part.com. Several years ago a friend in NAXJA found a yard about two hours from home that claimed to have TWO Cherokee D44 rear axles. We hooked my trailer onto his XJ and we high-tailed out out there. The yard's policy was that we had to pay first, so we paid up, THEN they took us out to the loading dock ... where we found two Dana 35 axles. Then they broke our stones about refunding the money. Idjits.

Heck, grab the tailgate. It's straight, and the right person could easily patch the rust on the bottom right. What I want to know is how an Eliminator came to have base model steel wheels, a base model steering wheel, and a mini console.

Are you talking about Jeep Metric Ton springs, or springs from a Ford or Chevy 1-ton that you want to adapt into an MJ?

The missing cap isn't a part. The part is the entire horn button. Find or make whatever you like that's the same diameter and glue it in place.

I didn't. Most of you are too young to remember either Charlie Chan, or the television series Kung Fu. Don should at least remember the latter. Anyway, spare yourself the trouble. I went out to help move a tree that fell across the road in front of my house, and one of the idiots who was "helping" rolled the butt end right onto my leg. At the moment, there's nothing left here to kick.

Ah, so. Very good, Grasshopper.

There should be at least two threads exposed ... Unless you're using double-height nuts, which is what the local spring shop provides.

They are 14mm, but I don't recall the length. In a pinch, I've been able to use a grade 8 9/16" bolt, liberally coat it with anti-sieze, and hammer it through the spring bushing, but it was a tight fit. The spring itself is 2-1/2 inches wide. Add an inch to allow for hanger or shackle thickness on both sides plus a nut, and you're at 3-1/2". In metric, that's 88.9 mm. So look for a 14mm x 90 mm (or so). 100 mm would be 3.9 inches long, so that should certainly be safe, and you can always cut off any excess if it's too long.

Then you don't understand what death wobble is. Death wobble is any time a shimmy, wobble, or whatever you want to call it in one wheel on an axle is transmitted through the axle/suspension to the opposing wheel on that axle and the opposing wheel then begins to wobble in a harmonic frequency that cause the wobble to escalate as each cycle on one side reinforces the amplitude on the opposing side. I have posted innumerable times that there is a difference between simple tire imbalance and death wobble, but the fact remains that if one imbalanced tire starts the opposite tire vibrating in a harmonic ... you've got death wobble. Abd death wobble is far more common in vehicles with solid front axles than it is in vehicles with independent front suspension.

IIRC, the spring eye bolts are 14mm.

How do you figure "NEVER have death wobble"? It's still a solid axle.

There are similarities and differences between the two. The one I posted has steel wheel, the one agamble posted has alloys. The color is different, and the badging on the front fender is different. But they both have the windshield sun visor. They have the same roof rack. They both have VentShade rain visors on the side windows. They both have the new style Cherokee nose, and they both have new style side mirrors on the old style doors. So it could be the same truck with a new paint job.

Those wheels were used on the '84 - '86 XJ Wagoneer, not the full-size Grand Wagoneer.

The Grand Cherokee didn't come out until 1993.

The North Atlantic Chapter of NAXJA (NAXJA NAC) was founded in Bensalem, PA, right across the line from New Jersey and used to be very active. We lost Paragon (in Hazelton) when they closed, but last I knew NAXJA NAC still did events at Rausch Creek. There have been a number of NAXJA NAC rides in the Pine Barrens, and a number of years ago we teamed up with several other off-road clubs to do a huge, all-day clean up in the Pine Barrens park.