Pete M

Depends if the spacer (poly?) will squeak against the coil. I would keep the rubber isolator in contact with the coil 'cause I know it will be quiet.

Plenty of crazy things happened in the MJs life span. During the early years AMC was desparately trying to get products out the door. During the middle years there was the transition from AMC to Chrysler, both in manufacturing and then design. And then it was abruptly cancelled and who know what they were throwing at it in the last days. But then, the 92s are now 14 years old and a lot can happen in 14 years, especially when it comes to easily swapped parts. P.S. Are you typing your signature each time?

I swiped them all from other sites. :D That's the easy part. Getting them uploaded and saved into the forum program, that part was hard and confusing. :hateputers: But well worth it.

Dana 44s were offered right up to the end.

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Which ones?

Au contraire. how else could I prove that my baby got to Moab!

I love your rig! But I also love the original MJ lines. Plus there are laws around here that would make it difficult to park your rig at my house (everything has to at least look street legal and running). I'm not too worried about my head (the rollbar should be adequate to keep me alive), I worry that a mild mishap will destroy the one part of the truck that's hardest to replace in any sort of proper manner, the A-pillar and windshield frame. Jeep on! --Pete

I upgraded to an animated one, is that close enough? :eek:

Maybe I could make some parts of it removeable, like a windshield down bar.

Ahh yes, diminishing returns. That's my big concern. Where do I draw the line? It's probably for the best that I can only do this in stages, since if left in a garage with all the right tools I might just keep going and going till I starve to death. :roll: I've thought about using slightly lesser metal for the gussets and connections and leave the big stuff for the main bars. It'll all be DOM, but the large stuff will likey be 1.5" so maybe I can use 1.25" or even 1" for the other stuff. And as much as I claim to be a function-over-form guy, it may be just my odd sense of form that allows that. :D All my engineering experience makes me think that the right design can be strong enough, yet not overbearing in weight or appearance. I want protection against this: and this: but I don't want this: Not that those aren't great looking Jeeps. It's just not what I want my 88 to be.

As similar as the two beds are, I wouldn't build a bumper based on measurements alone. I'm sure there's somebody near enough to loan their MJ.

Oh yeah, life is good. :jump: :banana: :popcorn: :D 8) Do make sure you click on "view more emoticons". Unfortunately, this means a lot of old posts are going to look a little funny since some old smilies are now gone. :roll: :headpop: Oh well. Sorry guys! :hateputers: :headpop: :mad: :eek: :cheers: :( 8) :oops: :cry: ;) :idea: :bowdown: :brows: :USAflag: :Canadaflag: :chillin: :nuts: : :redX: :waving: :clapping: :nanner: :???: :yes: :P :ack:

Yup, sb and lb bumpers and bumper brackets are the same. But other surrounding parts are different and it all depends on precisely how the new bumpers will attach and mate up.

All the info I've seen says that the disco axle was discontinued in 94 and before that, all MJs/XJs that had the np-231/207 had the disco and all MJs/XJs with all-wheel drive had the non-disco (meaning a handful of 86 MJs got it). It's a very easy swap though, I plan on doing it to my 90 in a couple weeks (mostly to gain the 3.55 gears). Plenty of crazy things happened back then, so it's impossible to say what exact the factory was throwing on the trucks.

Um, maybe this is a question that you should ask on the yahoo group? :roll:

I've thought about a bar in that location (seen pics of 2 MJs that had gotten pinched in by trees at the exact spot) but I was going to go straight down from the halo to the rocker guards, meaning that most of the bar was hidden behind the sheetmetal and nothing can snag the trees. It was part of the next stage for protecting the rear. It's hard to see in the pics above, but there's a support gusset at the rear that ties into the rollbar to help keep the halo up. Since much of the work will be done on campus, it will most likely be done in steps. I haven't ironed out all the details quite yet. :roll: and I can only imagine how much weight this will add to my already heavy truck. :D There has to be a balance between too much and not enough.

I'll preface this off with why I'm contemplating this at all since my wheeling style tends to be more on the cautious side. I've seen more than one Jeep that did a light roll or a mild impact into a tree when the driver wasn't doing anything that could be considered dangerous. I don't fear sheetmetal damage, but with a roll the A-pillar deforms and the Jeep is suddenly either a total write-off or a convertible candidate. I really like keeping the rain/snow out, so I'd like to provide some protection for my roof structure. But I love the look of a stock MJ and have no desire to cover it all up with a jungle gym. Any dashed lines you see are bars that will be hidden behind the sheetmetal. It'll be more work that way, but I recently learned that I have access to all the tools at school, so I'll be doing all the work myself (except for maybe the final welding). Oh, and for anyone that doesn't know, my current rollbar and rockerguards and very strong and very securely attached to the frame. So anyway, here is the basic cage. Just a simple hoop (tied back to the rollbar) and A-pillars (which are tied into the rocker guards). But then I thought about protecting the front. The outer sheetmetal is easy enough to replace, but the inner stuff really isn't. As a plus, this would help give considerable strength to the A-pillars. The front down bars will be exposed and bolted to the bumper. But I realized that there wasn't enough triangulation, so I added gussets and diagonals. The diagonals on the roof will line up with the down bars of the rollbar. So when all is said and done, you'll only see this: I also have plans for steel fender flares, but that's a topic for another day.

http://www.picturetrail.com/petermontie in the drivetrain folder you can kinda see what I did to fit a TJ AX-15 into my MJ. I bought a complete trans, so I don't have a list of necessary parts, but the 4x4 shifter assembly and tranny mount was different between the two Jeeps. Aslo, I mated the stock MJ master cylinder line to the TJ slave cylinder line with a simple compression fitting from the hardware store. Saved me from trying to retrofit the later model master.

Damn that sucks. I stickyed your post and added a pic for you.

The voting is to decide which magnets will be made. None have been made yet.

I wish I had money for a toy like that. Of course I also wish I had a place near me to ride it... :( Stupid suburbs.

I'll talk with the graphics guy and see what it costs to do a small amount of the flag trucks. It's probably a bit too flashy for most people. Jeep on! --Pete

Hmmm, 500 magnets with a bedless MJ.... I don't see why that wouldn't work. :roll:

In my opinion, a 2" or 3" AAL is superior to a 9" shackle.