justinquilliam

what about xjs

does anybody know what years came with 2 row rads and what years came with 3 rows, or if they were package specific?

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I'm going to try and go back to where i left off with the rebuild of the tranny. I bought a rebuild kit from advance adapters and a adapter kit from novak so that I could put the box4rocks doubler behind the T-19. The T-19 came out of the scout with the odd texas style bolt pattern dana 300, and the rear shaft fed into the 300 with a large gear on the end of it. to adapt it to the np231 for my box4rocks I needed to change the rear shaft and use novaks adapter clocking ring.

well its been almost two years since i have posted any progress of my comanche project on here, but been busy with a lot of other things. was layed off for a year and thought i would have plenty of time to work on my mj but ended up putting all of my time into trying to start a business, built a paint shop, worked on cars for customers then got a job three hours away running heavy equipment. some progress has been made, a lot of parts have been aquirred and tools purchased, and now with the gov shutdown i have some time to attack this thing again.

Now take the four bolts out of the bearing retainer on the front of the transmission, slide it off the input shaft and remove the small snap ring off from the input shaft. Next take the large snap ring off from the input shaft bearing. This is still on the outside of the transmission, it keeps the bearing from sliding further into the gear box. Some instructions say that this bearing needs to be pressed out, all I did was use two pry bars on each side in the lip where the snap ring goes, and the bearing slid right out of the tranny housing very easily. Support the input shaft and interior gears, because it will fall once the bearing is removed. The next step is on the back of the transmission. Because this came out of a Scout, International had their own version of the Dana 300, with the goofy "Texas Style" bolt pattern. And the output shaft of the transmission had a gear on it that went into and directly drove the transfercase.

The first thing I did was to take the bell housing off and then take the top load out, which was fairly simple. There is four nuts on the studs from the tranny housing that hold the bell housing and then six bolts on top that hold the top load shifting mechanism. To take the stick off first just push down on the little round cover and screw it off, just watch for the spring and the little alignment pin. Novaks instructions for the rebuild are detailed but leave a little to be desired on the pictures and references. They give you an exploded view of the transmission but I think it is a picture of a T-18 and it is an early version. There is enough different in the T-19 that it can be confusing if your not careful. As always the very best thing to do is to work in an area that is large enough that you can lay everything out as you go in the order that you take it apart so that nothing is in question. Anyway when you take the six bolts out of the top load one should have a nameplate or tag attached to it. I don't ever throw these away. The numbers on it should be traceable for parts or to find out where it came from. They can also tell you what gear ratios you might have. With these older transmissions there were a lot or variations, so any info you have will help, especially when ordering conversion or rebuild kits.

I'm putting a Nissan SD-33T from a Scout in my Comanche. The transmission that was in the Scout is a Borg Warner T-19 four speed. It is actually a one ton Ford transmission. I am using the NP231 from the Comanche with a Box4Rocks kit to a Dana 300 that I got from a junkyard CJ-7. To mate the NP231 to the T-19 I needed to change the mainshaft, for this conversion I bought a kit from Novak Adapters. This is the Scout that I bought just to get the diesel engine. The frame from the doors back was gone. The green paint doesn't look too bad but you could just about push your fingers through any panel in just about any place you wanted. Here is the drivetrain after we pulled it out. I sprayed the engine down with degreaser and hosed it off acouple of times to clean it up as best as I could before giving it a good coat of blue engine paint Now a year and a half later I finally have everything I need to rebuild the transmission and change the main shaft for the Box4Rocks kit.

where is the best place to find patch panels for the rockers and cab corners??

here's an i found on cars.com for a comanche http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.js ... f=national

i know its early to be thinking about paint but i think this is the scheme that i want to go with i know its only a paintbrush image but its the best i could do

you can see a video on it if you go to gottrikes.com

pete did you ever come up with another place to get shirts from

i bought the plans for this bender from gottrikes.com

I will post some pics of the assembly later but here are some pics after powdercoating the grey is the zinc rich primer hazard yellow base coat and transparent red topcoat these pics really don't do the color any justice i will get some of it outside in sun light

another couple of pics of the right bedside. its all welded together now, but there is a lot of grinding to do. tore down the T-19 4 speed today, to change the main shaft. gonna clean it up and paint the case while its apart.

well i finished the end of one bedside. cut my np231 and welded in the block off plate and powder coated it transparent copper. welded my tubing bender all up and bought my 8000lb Road Shock winch.

started shaping the ear of the bedsides, this is going to be a long process!!

i tore my np231 apart to get it ready to cut and install the box4rocks kit. also stated taking the dana 300 apart just to go through it and make sure everything was alright.

i also aquired a 82 CJ-8 Scrambler from a friend of mine and i have a doner for a front clip and interior for my comanche

in order to use the factory location for the throttle pedal and be able tp weld my firewall back together i need to move the engine to the passenger side about an inch. so i pulled the engine out and set it on the floor. i needed to take the transmission out and change the main shaft anyways.

i started fitting up my bedsides, shaping the corners for the tail lights is gonna be another story. i just cut enough around the wheel for now so that they would set flush

back at it VHT ceramic coating for the exhaust manifold and turbo. Ford blue engine paint on my Nissan Diesel in my Jeep Comanche NICE