tazjeeper

You might be able to adapt this one from a Cherokee! HHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I have to psot over on the Cherokee site......LMAO X100

That is what most people comment..LOL

its great and the people here are aswell. I tell all mj drivers I see and meet to go on here... my nefew will be comming on soon. I gave him his first vehicale. its a 88 MJ short box, he is here for the week doing break lines, some bod work, ext ext... i will take pic's and then tell him to join and post the up...

family and just about anything elts..LOL I have already used it to haul parts jeep home on the float...

thanks and yes it does look right at home... I love all the looks it gets driving it around and the customers comments they give when they are here to pick up parts.. I knew some of you are over their but I thought I would post over here so others could see it..

hahhaaaa like my truck? and I jsut bought a 75 2dr cherokee to build, like I don't have enough to do...

I have been working away here at the shop, bissy bissy. I have sold off alot of the mjs and xjs ( still have the 88 that I gave to my nefew as he just got his lic and wanted it) and have been driving FSJ's. this is the latest.. 90 waggy with 33's 6" lift, I put a 360 with aluminume flat tops, first over, cam with 2brl carb in it. here are a few random pic's I hope you like them...

like it alot

well as things go around here I have an other yj 360 swap to do.. but on a good note i bought a tj, 74 wagyy and a cj... oh and a yj so this project is on hold till the customers yj is done.. but the 74 waggy I bought has a great frame, and runny gear. I am thinking i would take the rusted out body off and drop project payote ontop of said frame and running gear... would be more work or just asmuch but if i can do it right so the body sits on the waggy frame would turn out great. ( I think anyway) I think if i go this route i am just going to cut up the xj and use a 90 Mj that I have here with a very rusted out frame and floor. this way I am not killing the brown MJ...

and the bad thing is they do this to people everyday and everyone says ah its not worth it... they are and have made millions day after day $18 at a time....

man the one time I used paypal they riped me for over 800 bucks... I still can not git anyone on a phone that will say yeah I can help... its been over 10 years and every once in awail they send me a note saying they are holding my money and the fees they have taken to do so... I am thinking in a nother 10 yeas it will be all theirs and they will stop... I hope anyway becasue everytime I see that it bugs me to no end... Ebay paypal its all a big scam.. and Please sont anyone say oh you can just call and they will fix the problem.... because if you can fix it i will give you the numbers and you can have whats left of the money... they do not answer, they don't care when they do answer or for soemreson after about an hour of long distance charges the call gits droped... BLA EBAY CRAP

well as this project has been in the drafting stage for 2 years now I am a week behind again. I have the lined up and ready to be hauled apart but just to bizzy to start.. working for yourself most time you have no time to do anything... oh well I will start a build thread soon as I start...

not hard to understand whats up.. Jeep is owned by Dodge and they want to sell dodge trucks not jeep trucks thats why they stoped making them in the first place... they already make the j8 so they are not going to make anything for us just face it... Chrly sucks............ if they made a truck for us it would suck anyway so its better they don't. Lets face it.. they go on and on how they are not making money. I think thats a crack of crap ola. they are being paid rolyilts for the comanies around the world that make jeeps without jeep names, they have other companies they make money off of... they don't care about what people want in a jeep.

thats a great pic......

it does not look ugly nore does it look the best.. It is Chrly so it will never be what a real jeep owner likes... it will probably never happen anyway and if it did the sales will be dead in not time for a few reasons. 1 its a chrly so it will be trublesome and rot away in a few years. 2 they will make it ugly and people won't want to buy it.. 3 it will be so over priced most won't be able to buy it. and the list will go on and on.. I do like the fist link where the wrighter says he does not remeber the comanche... it looks nothing like what a gladiator truck looks like. call it a scrambler as its based on the CJ8 with ext cab. If it does come out I can see an bunch of yppie tyes driving it around town going wow look what I got.

yeah wheeling or not you need the extra angle like you said to stiff'n it up... can wait for the updates.... raining here and is going to for the next week we are told. I understand about the ho thing... I could use eather renix in mine as the xj has only 50k on it and the Mj has only 100 and they both work like a top. seeings how this is a creation i am going to go extream and put a v8 in it just becasue I can... I am realy leaning towards the mj roof with the brow from a J10 again becasue I can.... I like the head room in the mj...

just looked at some of your thread.. same type of idea i am going about it in a way different direction with the 2dr cherokee and its an 87 so the extra frame suports your dealing with on the mj that are not on your xj... are on my xj.... its an AMC they used them.. one many reasons a amc xj weighs in alot more then a chry xj... good luck looks like your having fun.. remeber that 9" of angle where you put your subframes togeather will only make 2 week points instead of one.. you should think hard about going front to back along way from where you seled the subframe... I was reading about your driveshaft... one of the reasons i am doing it the way I am is that at the end of my build i will be the same wheel bace as a long box mj so I am just using a DS from one of my parts trucks...

thanks man I know you love your mjs... I am about 2 days behind other work here at the shop but i am going to start next sunday... stop in if you want. I am going to pull both engines, trannys and tcases so I can be ready to start cutting.

will do dave,,, like I said I have done a lot of measuring and I have 6mjs here. I have parted out over 40xjs this year... I do know where the differances are.. I actualy have choped 7xjs this year and put mj cab backs on them for customers.. one with the mj bed rails and tailgate off a j10... I have a good idea of what needs to be done and how I am going to do it.. I will be onhere with pics of the build and be looking for suport from people that are doing similer builds like you.. the plan for the roof line is to use the xj and do away with the mj one all togeather. but If I do use the mj the hole roof will be a few mj roof's welded togeather... I am just not sure on how that will look... I do however have a brow from a j10 that will be grafted in if I decide to go with the mj roof. as far as the subframe extra mounts and rockers.... where I plan on grafting the xj front and mj togeather this does not realy come into play... one of the main reasons I have decided to do it the way i am is becasue the front part of the rocker is the same as the xjs and theirfore will line up. as far as the subframe mounts they stay with the mj's subframe... now thats where the inside reinforcment subframe comes into play.. should be fun to so and I am sure I will be looking for help along the way. thanks for the offer.

when I drank I would not dream of putting any of that into my system.. wast of time and money.. water water water.. but I am Canadain and out light beer has more alhcool % then you high end stuff. good little read..

well 3 grand for the work that involved is not a bad deal at all.

I am on the same thinking patern.. I have a friend at a sheet metal fab shop and he is going to make me an inside frame rail. it will go from the xj front LCA mount all the way back to the Mj's frame where it is solid for the box. and also a frame rail for the outside of the subframe if needed. I know that the mj is in great shape. I have it here and was going to stay stock as I have strong beleafs in keeping some jeeps stock.. they are harder and harder to find, most have not been lifted and wheeled to death. SO with that being said I have decided that I will cut up to good jeeps and make one fine looking great jeep out of the 2. No point in starting with rusted out stuff and making more work for myself... others cut and lift good ones and its time for me to do it..LOL

actualy to have the rear seat in place I have to cut 1" behine the rear pop out window. that leaves head room for anyone in the rear. as for doors and where elts I am cutting. as you know the subframe on the mj is different then the xj. so I am cutting the mj's floor at the firewall. that way the subframe and foor stay togeather. cutting the xj's floor just behine drivers seat the sliding them togeather.. like I said I have spent alot of time doing measurments and where things have to fit togeather to make it work out. I will be trimming the floor of the mj back once I line it all up but just the floor not the subframe. the subframe on the xj will be trimed ahead but not the floor. and yes I have to keep the vents so its a mj...LOL thanks for the insite JeepcoMJ I know you will be alot of help along the way as I am builing this thing. Two heads better then one thing....

OK so this is something that I have been working on for a few years and its time to start building. I am driving the j10 for dd/work truck. Krista has the 90 waggy all on the road for her and the baby... me sometimes LOL so I am going to cut up the 87 2dr xj and the 88 shortbox mj to make a 2dr 4 seater MJ short box. I have done a lot of measuring and drawings to how I want it to look. Where to cut and reweld... I have the int out of 3 2dr xjs and int out of 6 mjs here so I can match all inside panels to give it a nice finished/factory look inside. I have a cage here from a cj5 that will just about fit inside, with some small mods to front bars around dash. I would like to put amc 360 in it with a ax15 combo... or I have a 350chev with 350 turbo and np231 set up in a xj all ready that I could use. thinking of bucket seats in the rear with console and arm rest. the 87 2dr has 6.5" lift and I have a great d44 for the rear of the MJ to lift it up to match. will probably put d44 in the front out of one of the waggys. going to be a fun project Anyway let me know what you guys think... cutting starts next wednesday. I will start posting pics then.

Man, she's a beauty Taz. About the only thing that stands out like it doesn't belong is the ratty hood pad, but that's easy to remove/replace. :D Love the color too. Do you know the paint code? I can git it for you it would be on the tag.. the jeep is now on the road lic/insp and off and driving... I have a set of 2" lift springs from Roughcountry new for the front and the back.. then a set of 30" tires to go on it... the only other mod is cd player in a custom console I am going to make and some good speekers... I want to leave the factory am/fm/tap deck in the dash. she wants the CD player for her and the baby to rock out to tunes with.. I am older and have all kinds of taps so I am good with factory stuff...ahhahahahhaaaaa