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they aren't Jeep seats of any sort.....they're something like "Raccaro" or some kind of BS. They don't fit the floorpan at all, and have very wide bottoms that rub badly on the tranny tunnel and the center console. I can pull them if ya want, but I don't really think they are worth it..... Jeff

it's about 20 minutes south of Richmond, right off I95. Pay $1 and bring your toolbox, pull off what ya want/need. It's about 10 minutes from my house :brows: PM me if you want more specific directions.... Jeff

No 44, just a plain old D35. The more you look this thing over, the more odd things you can find on it, that's for sure. I'm still trying to figure out what the PO used to graft in the extension. There's at least one XJ there now with a D44 under it, if you're in the mood to pull it, too. Pat is supposed to be coming up this weekend to pick up my old drivetrain....c'mon down if ya want and we can go snag those spring packs (maybe the front coils too...) I'm off on Monday the 13th, so it's a long weekend for me. Jeff p.s. I have those shock bolts for ya too, plus Jerry's step bumper, down at the shop.

Came across this, ummm…..creation in the ‘yard on Saturday. Interesting to say the least. The bodywork was done decently, you couldn’t see any lines where the extension was grafted on from the outside, but from inside it was a different story. I snagged the fuel pump assembly for my MJ and the AX15 crossmember/mount/mounting plate for Pat. Here’s a profile shot…. Image Not Found an interior shot….. Image Not Found has a power sunroof….. Image Not Found Hey, it’s a 4WD! Image Not Found not…… Image Not Found frame braces in the way? Just cut ‘em! Image Not Found it does have MT springpacks under it, though, and a beefy set of front coils (hey Greg!) Image Not Found and it HAD a nice fuel pump assembly, which is now on my MJ Image Not Found

and Tony Stewart winning Talledega.......I hit the trifecta! :D I'm hurting a bit today though....probably gonna take it easy this week and not work too much on it. I've got a long weekend coming up this weekend, hope to get it all buttoned up and start cleaning out the storage unit so we can move my neighbor's junk in it. Jeff

put a glasspack on it with a turndown tip :chillin: Jeff

Yeah, I've got about 75 psi on startup.....that was after it had been running for about 20 minutes. It stays at a constant 35-40 when hot, and blips when I hit the throttle. Might switch to 10W40. I've got a few little issues, such as the idle.....it is right around 1K. When it first starts up it revs to about 1800 then drops to a steady 1K....may swap the IAC, but I'm not sure I don't have a vaccuum port that isn't connected yet. I just booty-fabbed things to get it running....I'll fine tune it later on this week. Other than that, my fuel gauge is pegged (and I only have 1/4 tank in it). I think it's becuase I have a Renix-era cluster in it, and I swapped in a HO fuel pump assembly. Something else to figger out :D Thanks for all the compliments guys! :cheers: I had lots of help from alot of you on here, and I wanna say a big thank you to the CC community It wasn't the easiest thing I've ever done, but it was sure worth it. I took it out for a short spin earlier today and the power difference is night-and-day. Didn't want to push it with just the front shaft in it.....I'm picking up the rear (shortened) shaft tomorrow after work. Then we'll see what she can really do. Jeff

USAR, 10 years...... :USAflag: Have fun! Jeff

Fire in the hole............

Also if a manual tranny, take a peek under the dash at the back of the clutch master cylinder for leaks. If it's leaking, it will be dripping down directly on the fuseblock, and will eventually trash it and all the fuses in it. Make sure the fuseblock is in good shape....pulling the interior harness to install a new one is not fun. Jeff

couple random pics…… shot from underneath: Image Not Found new TC installed: Image Not Found shot of the AX15 crossmember, showing the divet in the center where the mount attaches: Image Not Found got the flange welded up on the new cat and got it installed: Image Not Found

I'm running a late model 231 TC that has the sealed output. Just put it in 4HI and you get FWD with no rear shaft..... Not planning on any roadtrips with it, just moving it in/out of the garage, and maybe up to the corner gas for a fillup. Once I measure for the rear shaft and drop it off at the shop, I should have it the next day. I'll probably do that next week (they aren't open on weekends). Jeff

I'm not sure, I only have the FSM for 87-90. I'd look at the ID plate on the door jamb for the letter codes to see if they match. Gimmie an e-mail addy and I'll fwd it to ya. :cheers: Jeff

If you can't read this, PM me an e-mail address and I'll send you the diagram..... Jeff Image Not Found

got the fuel pressure regulator swapped, changed the front U-joint on a stock front AX15 driveshaft I got from Pat and installed it. Charging the battery, have to bleed the clutch yet and install the radiator, pipe up a new muffler and put the seats back in. Should be driveable on Saturday (FWD for now, until I can get a rear driveshaft cut down to fit). Jeff

:cheers: C'mon up....beers are on me! Jeff

Anyone have any good pics of a 4.0 Renix engine bay with all of the factory vaccuum lines routed correctly? I'm going to install only as much of it as I absolutely need on my 4.0 swap, but I've got a box full of stock tubing right now that I pulled out of the junkyard and am not sure what went where...... Any pics to help me figger out where it all is supposed to go would help! TIA, Jeff

My TJ is a 2.5.......it barely gets 20 mpg with 31's (street tread) and it's gutless, especially on the highway, worse when it's windy. Jeff

I get a lot of crap in my e-mail from family and friends and usually never forward any of it, but I got this from my sister-in-law yesterday and thought I'd share it with y'all. Funny thing is that my wife and I took a long weekend up in DC last month and visitied all the memorials, including Arlington (and watched the changing of the gaurd.....I was speechless). To anyone, prior service or currently enlisted, or who has family involved in our Armed Services, THANK YOU! Jeff (old E-5, PMOS 63J :USAflag: ) Six Boys, 13 Hands by Bill Pederson Each year I am hired to go to Washington DC with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable. On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II. Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?' I told him that we were from Wisconsin 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.' (James Bradley just happened to be in Washington DC to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington DC but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.) When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.) 'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book called ' Flags of Our Fathers' which is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me. 'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it. (He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph... a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima . Boys, not old men. 'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.' 'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes; a Pima Indian from Arizona Ira Hayes was one who walked off Iwo Jima . He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero.' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?' So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken). 'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky . A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away. 'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley (A US Navy corpsman) from Antigo, Wisconsin where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell 's soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to the press. 'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a caregiver. In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died in Iwo Jima , they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain. 'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.' 'So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.' Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless. We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice. One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God. Great story - worth your time - worth every American's time

ya know, it's like tuner cars/drifters, or low riders....definately not my cup of tea, but I can appreciate the dedication, engineering, fabrication, attention to detail, and work-hours that went into it. Would I ever build it...hell no do I have the skills to build it in the same fashion....hell no X2 but props to whoever did.....they would be a welcome addition to the forum. Jeff

Still rockin' the stock steering wheel.....and glove compartment door, too :D Tossed the rear driveshaft up yesterday, just for s***s and giggles....it's about a foot too long. Gonna have to have it cut down, again :oops: Didn't try the front shaft, but I'm pretty sure I have one that will work. Jeff

I made it almost to the fourth quarter..... woke up at 0230 with the TV blaring :D Jeff

Made some good progress this weekend…I should have it running by this coming weekend if not sooner. Jerry came down and gave me a hand splicing the NSS wiring and helping me swap out tranny crossmembers. A note to anyone installing an AX15 in their rig if there isn’t one there to begin with……all the transfer case shift linkage parts except the shifter handle assembly are different (specific to the AX15 ONLY) as well as the #%*#@$ tranny crossmember, which is diveted out in the center where the mount goes. If you use any other crossmember the TC linkage will not line up and your catalytic converter will be kissing the floorboard. Found all that out the hard way, but two trips to the junkyard later all is well. Got the NSS wiring spliced, swapped the fuel lines, reinstalled the windshield washer reservoir, got the 2.5 coolant overflow bottle installed and happy with the wiring harness (eliminated the ballast resistor and have to relocate the EGR solenoid). Got the battery/alternator wiring all tied in and reinstalled the battery. Turned the key to check for fuel leaks and to test the starter circuit……starter works and engine spins but the battery needs to be charged. The fuel pressure regulator is puking fuel all over the place at the seam where the two pieces are crimped together. Will be installing a new one this week. Ended up stopping work on the engine and installed the trackbar brace, pulled the rubber cargo mat and reshot the floor with spray-on bedliner. I have a new cargo mat but I think I’m going to leave it out for now and see how loud it is. I can always pull the seats out and install it later. Couple pics: Spliced the NSS wiring (well, Jerry did…..:D) Image Not Found gas pedal is different between a 2.5 (left) and 4.0 (as well as the throttle cable) Image Not Found cover for the tranny hump is different (AX15 on R) Image Not Found RE trackbar brace installed (what a PITA!) Image Not Found fresh coat of bedliner on floorboards (you can see the repairs I made a couple years ago on the driverside……there was nothing there) Image Not Found

^^^^That would be me :chillin: It ended up being a comedy of error, of sorts.....the parts store gave me a clutch kit that was correctly marked as an AX15 kit, but was actually packed wrong at the factory with AX5 parts. When I went to install the pilot bearing that was in the kit, it was too small for the hole in the crank (and I commented to myself that it looked strikingly similar to an AX5 bearing, too). Thinking I needed a custom part, I had a brass bushing for a Ford tranny turned down to fit the 4.0 crank and installed it. Installed the new flywheel and went to bolt on the clutch cover, and that's when I realized I had the wrong parts. Took them back to the shop and they pulled another AX15 kit out of stock, and lo and behold, it had the correct parts in it, including the right pilot bearing...... In addition to the pilot bearing, you will also need a set of manual flywheel bolts. The ones used for the flexplate on the auto are too short to work with the flywheel. Also, you'll have to jump the ground wires on the NSS to close the circuit (B and C wires) and if you want reverse lights you have to splice the A and E wires on the same connector into the backup light switch wiring on the manual tranny. Other than that, it's a piece of cake ;) Jeff edit: start reading on page 4 of my build thread to see what I'm talking about... http://www.comancheclub.com/forums/view ... hp?t=11205

wrenches (and beer) are at the ready.... :wrench: Jeff