BREEZE1

i kicked the long bed to the curb..... :hateputers:

your jeep looks good but DANG were you live looks awsome!!!! sorry just had to get that out. keep up the good work.

$20, not too shaby. its just one of those things you got to have.

Yeah you could have any machine shop make you one for a few bucks. Just a good ol chunk of oil filled bronze. Sorry you know I can’t read good I’m dyslexic. Ha ha ha! :cheers:

just check out my GOLD MEMBER BUILDUP thread. i had this same problem last week. get a cj bushing and open it up to .75 and your good.

Hey guys thanks for all the comments and input. Well I didn’t get too much done scene the last update. I slapped the ax-15 into its new home. I was wondering what yall do for rear drive shafts. I’ve heard of people doing a TJ front driveshaft and having it shorten or lengthen witch ever you need.

Dang you could have saved your self a lot of sawzaw blades if you would have started out building a buggy. But its just one of those things I guess, cut here bob there then nothings the same. looks good though. :popcorn:

i vote for DO DO BROWN!! :chillin:

well i got it out the hard way, i broke the tool when i rented it. all is well now.

I finally got the pilot bearing out. Man that thing was a pain. I started off doing it with the rod but then it got stuck. So I looked some more for a puller. I finally found one. After 15 or 20 minutes of no success with it I kinda broke it. @$#!%. Now I was really hot so I packed that bearing full of grease again and I beat that rod in there like it owed me money. Then what do you know, the bearing popped right out. And its been smooth sailing ever sense then. All the time I was spending under the jeep helped me to notice other things. Like this front exhaust pipe. This has to be watering down my already low output renix motor. Does anybody know were I can get another one pretty cheap. I keep moving the parts closer to the jeep in hopes that they will just magically be installed when I come in the shop the next day. Yeah, well it hasn’t happen yet. But theres a first time for every thing.

Once I took the old transmission out, I noticed that the main shaft was different from the ax-15. I needed a pilot bearing with an OD of 1.055” and a ID of 0.75”. After search around I come to realize that they don’t make one that size, or at least I couldn’t fine one. Pete told me that he had the same problem and used a pilot bushing out of a CJ. So I went to the local auto zone and picked one up for $3. The OD was right but the ID was 0.625 or something like that. So back to the machine shop I went. I also have to convert the slave cylinder to an external mount. I got kind of worried about this one. But with the help of a few buddies I found a quick, easy, & reliable answer for this. We machined it out of stainless steel then welded it to an adapter.

I really like the ol jeep bed but I'm afraid I'm going to have to toss it to the side. I plan on doing a tube bed. I will make it proportional to the truck and chop off the rest. I was going to shorten the wheel base but after looking at it with the bed off it doesn’t look so long. But thats kinda still up in the air. I will be listing some parts on the classifieds soon.

I couldn’t agree with you more, I just can’t find one of those tools around town for some reason. So I turned down some round stock that will fit in it and I plan on beating the crap out of it. So hopefully ill come out triumphant. But to be honest I don’t have much faith in it. :cry:

Ill take some pictures soon and up date my gold member thread. I got lucky, I was talking to one of my buddies the other day and he had an easy fix for it. This guy just so happens to be the smartest man on earth, or at least that’s what I tell him. He always has an easy fix for every thing. Any ways we were talking about it and he came up with a good adapter for my slave cylinder. (I was thinking that maybe I shouldn’t show how I was going to do this so I could make a patent on it. But heck whats the odds of that going threw). Ill show it on my build thread. The only hold up I have now is getting that dang pilot bearing out!!!! Man I rented one of those slide hammers and the fitting wouldn’t fit inside the bearing. I guess I will machine out a rod today so I can knock it out with some grease. I will keep yall updated. Thanks for every thing.

I think its fine. Don’t worry too much about it. Just keep wheeling it and break the springs in. a lot of the other pictures you see of flexing jeeps when the hood is level the back is flexed in the opposite direction. Just take that into account. Go put that bad @$$ Comanche in a real bind then take some pics of it. And if it’s not flexing right, maybe your shocks are not long enough. (Disconnect the shocks and flex it just to see). I think it looks BOMB DIGGADY!!! Keep up the good work. :chillin:

the second one is fred. yes it is sweet. that thing is a beast. I too like how its low, but now the guys are making them lower. And they work well.

I would like to do what you did. But I can't find the lines to go into my new slave cylinder. If I could find them I could cut them and use an adapter like you did. Man I got to get on the ball. I can't stand seeing my jeep sit there with its guts all over my shop. Thanks for your input! :D

Well I have another question for you. The slave cylinder in my old transmission is around the shaft and the ax-15 is mounted on the side of the bell housing. Now what do I need to do, just get a newer slave cylinder? Will all of this hook up fine & dandy? Thanks in advance!! Yall have already helped me a ton!!

thanks man, your a life saver!!!!!!! :bowdown:

Well this won't give you back your time you spent working on your jeep but THANK YOU! I was going to try it that way. But ill be heading to the autozone now to pick up that tool. :bowdown:

Hey guys, I know yall can help me on this one. I pulled my old tranny out of the Comanche tonight. I was looking at it and then I looked at the ax-15 and the main shaft seems to be bigger. So I did a little research on the size of the pilot bearings. The old style OD is 1.055 and the ID is .63, the pilot bearing I got for my ax-15 has a OD of 1.00 and a ID of .75!!!! What do I do???? I know there is a fix, I’m sure this has been done a million times or dang near close to it. :mad:

Whats up guys & gals?? I have 90 2wd long bed 4.0L low output (renix) Comanche. My goal is to build a highly capable off-road vehicle that is good on the road too. Ive had a trailer queen in the past, and ive learned that half the fun of wheeling is getting there. So no more trailer queens for me. This is how it looked when i first got it. AX-15, NP231, 8.8 w/ 4.10 LS JUST INSTALLED AN SYE WITCH WAS EASYER TO DO THAN I THOUGHT. It took me about an hour and a half, of course the case was free from the jeep. That always helps. HP DANA 30 While having some time to kill I thought about making some bump stops. I like the thread on here were they use hockey pucks for an adjustable bump stops. That’s pretty cool. I always try to think of how to do something cheap and easy, with out sacrificing function. I would have done this but theres not too many places that sell hockey pucks in South Carolina. So I looked around and found some scrap round stock Delran 5.75” long, perfect. I’m not quite sure how tall they need to be but I can make more shims or cut some off when its time. I made them 2.25”. I think my bump stops are SEXY, even if they don't work. Ha Ha.

NICE WORK, CONGRATS!!

Man I'm ten kinds of jealous of yall. Nice hats, but the cuzzie with a sparkdawg in it is were its at!!!! Look’n good guys!!

Thursday night I was at our local jeep night (this is were a lot of jeep guys go to hang out and fellowship with one another. You know eat, drink, shoot the bull). Its always a good time, but any way. I was leaving when Fred Perry stopped me to talk about the Comanche. He was complementing me on the Comanche, then he told me that he was building a Comanche for the Petersen’s Ultimate advancer. The past few years Fred has been doing this event, I think he has did it in his stretched yellow tj for the last two years. I don’t know about yall but I think its pretty exciting. Fred builds really nice rigs and I’m looking forward to see how this Comanche turns out. He told me to come by the shop and take a look at it, so I might just do that and snag a few pic’s of it. :cheers: