Badger

i need to cut off the last remaining bit of roof .then cut it down and put it back on.

ok walked out to the garage to get some measurements ok from the upper corner of the windshield frame (along the gutter line) tothe rear corner of the cab is 4' .the same line but below the gutter from the back of the door frame to the rear of the cab is 16 1/4".down the bottom at the first body line from the rocker is 68 1/4" from the front of the door and fender gap.along the same line from the rear of the door frame is 19 3/4".those are rough guesses since i have yet to finish getting all together and ready for welding .by rough i mean i still have a gap of about 1/2" to get them fitted still .i took this off of all the measurements i took. with in the next few days i will be going after that roof line.before i start welding i will be showing every thing i did a little better here is a link to a pic with the numbers

Badger is doing a variation of that. and yeah, I thought of it. problem is that cherokee xj and comanche mj frame rails are not even close to being a match from about the foot area on back...you can't line them up. yep frame rails are not only shaped different but the Mj's is thicker as well about double that of the Xj . i'm not so much building a MJ with a bed .its going to be more of a truggie when i'm done .i really just building a cab.i'll be making my own frame rails for it then doing a bed like Mudzilla.i had a tube bed stuck in my head then the other night i saw his and was like is it.even down to the storage compartments and fuel cell. oh and i'm shooting for a 6" rear window.

well in that case you get 6 extra inches before the wheel gets in the way. if you plan on do a full room rear seat you will need to measure a 4 door to the rear of the back seat for how long to make the cab. you could most likely get a set of buckets in the back of mine but you would have to slide the front seats forward a bit to make room for the person in the back.i can measure mine if you would like

with an entire extra cab its completely do able since you will also need more rocker to add on for the added door length.your going to have two seems either way.if you really wanted to have some fun .you could do a true quad cab.now i don't mean true 4 door but make the extra cab section open in suicide fashion. if you cut you're cab right before the turn up for the B pillar ,stretch it back the 2 feet or what ever.then take you're the other cab and take the center section out of it.weld that in as your fill from the roof to the frame rails .leave some extra frame rail on the bottom of it to sleeve into the original frame.this will help strengthen it.now this ring of body so to speak gives you a full length door opening from the front to the back as well as a roof opening.from this point you take the original Comanche door and cut the front off of it and section it down to what you need.go to a junk yard snag the rear doors of a 4 door Xj as well as the B pillar.take the B pillar weld it to the front of the rear door.section the front of the door off and weld that to the rear of the Comanche door.this gives you the rear door with the ability to make a working roll down window.put suicide hinges on it and get some latches from say a Ranger or S10 and get them into the B pillar area.next bolt on the front doors of the 2 door. here is a guy that kind of did it with a 2 door Xj of course if you started with a Comanche and do it the way i describe(can you tell i have thought about this a bit) you get to keep the square corners of the cab,you get work doors all the way around for easy access to the rear seat or storage,and it stays clean looking if not almost factory.if you don't stretch the frame along with it you don't get enough room before the rear wheel.don't the long bed and short bed have the same wheel base just a different bed length ,longer over hang to the rear.if so the rear tire would be right there at the back of the cab.

the reason for the extra cab is for my dog. he needs a seat to since i usually have a passenger.i left just enough room for the bottom of the rear seat but not the back of the seat.i could move the bottom forward to just behind front seats then use the back of the seat.this would leave no room from the front and back seat IE leg room but that wouldn't matter since its just for him. as for beating somebody to the punch .i have had this idea in my head for a long time and never thought i would get around to it.my last Xj had massive body failure and i swore i was going to build something with a frame.i got a Tj tub and chassis with no drive train out of a salvage yard for cheap.i was getting ready to build it when i had to sell it ,you'll see it in the pics since i sold it to a friend that doesn't have a garage to build it in.then a few months ago i got handed this.

so i started cutting some more then started working on grafting the Mj back half on now for anybody that ever chooses to do this.the roofs don't match the Mj roof has a different crown to it and sits higher then the Xj roof. from the gutter down you are good to go other then the floor pans being different. a quick photochop of what i'm shooting for

Well I'll start by saying hello since I'm new to the site. next i will let you all in on a project i'm in the middle of.it was a 2 door cherokee that has been chopped behind the rear seats.i'm in the middle of grafting a MJ rear cab half onto it.once that is finished it will be receiving a full tube chassis front and rear with exo cage. 1 1990 2 door Xj started the chop i had one Mj rear half to start and was going to do a usual chop was getting ready to start welding it up then i decided naaaaaa...just not going to work for me.so i went to the junk yard and got a full cab half from the floor to the roof.