MancheKid86

great progress, i like all the detailed pictures. question about your exhaust adapter plate you have made. will you be cleaning it up after total exhaust mock up is finished? the reason why i ask is all those inside corners will become stress risers, which will eventually promote and radiate a crack from the butting intersection of those corners ( i have seen this alot in aviation) taking a file and smoothing them out actually relieves alot of the stress that intersection will see keep up the unreal work, I want to see that engine running in the beast!!!

thanks! the feed back is appreciated :D

You really need to stop buying MJ's. Out of 7 you've scrapped 3. Quit it. technically, the last shell was written off through insurance when i had it given to me. and the second one was a freak accident. from all of these trucks have taught me a VAST knowledge of things and life experiences. if you think three comanches sent to the bones by a member is bad, you havent been around cc that long. but no more clutter, on this thread

diggin it, looks like you have your sway bar attached! i bet it would have flexed alot nicer if it was undone for stuff like that, you undo it for offroading right? keep up with the awesome progress man!!

i know i have probably posted in this,but i am bored and want to introduce all my comanches that i have had in my possession 1st 1986 2wd 2.5l 4 speed (stripped, scrapped) 2nd 1989 4wd 4.0l Auto (sold) 3rd 1987 2wd 2.5l 5 speed (sold) 4th 1988 2wd->4wd 4.0l 5 speed (stripped, scrapped) 5th 1989 4wd 4.5l 5 speed (alive) 6th 1988 shell (scraped) 7th 1987 2wd->4wd 4.0l 5 speed (alive) thats all for now

updated its build thread, hahaha cyber jeeping

Time to unload more photos, i thought i would have built up more photos by now at this current time i have down graded my tires to 37's from 40's, the 40's were too unsafe to street here is an aspect photo of a stock xj with taller tires and my truck 10" lift, 37's then me goofing off on the side of a trail, walk around poser shots (high tire psi because i was just out for a stroll) the only winter time shots i had gotten, (co pilot takes pics, so without him i just wheel) i had done alot of recovery's this winter, and alot of winching myself snow conditions sucked my truck got abused this winter, i stumbled onto a hiking trail and had no options but to keep on going through so I'm in the midst of doing alot of straigtening, swapping to 97+ doors i picked up some fenders and a front clip for dirt cheap, so i did my best at color matching. i think it looks spot on while swapping fenders out i decided i was going to do the quick pin mod, super straight forward. only thing i did differently was i DID NOT cut the lower tang. i see no point in doing so, you put more stress on the only remaining tang, plus i can still line the door up and remove/install it the way it is the new front clip i picked up was the later 3 peice style for the trim. i do not like the way it looks so ive been drilling and modifying the older trim style to fit the newer clip. it looks cleaner IMO i have had my double apart and did more mods to it. i want to put a lock pin shift kit into it (it has the tendency to pop out of gear while coasting down hill) here's a photo shoot of a comanche that showed up to buy some parts off me!! its got the cancer real good but still looks badass! this is all i have for now. plan to repaint sometime and do an exo. when life permits more pics when i start digging into it more

4.88 gears, i was running a set of 39.5x15x15's, I'm running 37's till i can find a set of 40" iroks i have an ax15 with two custom tcases powered by a 4.5L stroker

mines all over the place front axle is a Scout II Dana 44 retubed for a drivers side pumpkin, the spring perches fabbed onto it has 2.5" lift built in it. as well as the control arm brackets are extended about two inches aft to correct for geometry with 7.5" springs ontop of that netting 10" of lift custom control arms rear is typical SOA on another Scout II Dana 44, with not so common 3/4 eliptical setup made from a toyota leaf spring with a shackle from a 2011 avalanche works great, will three link it some day but the setup performs flawless so far front driveshaft came out of a grand cherokee for the extra length. the stock tubing was replaced with 1/4' thick DOM

diggin it, looks great good to see another person with over + 8" of lift

I figured i'd add some more photo's to this thread. life has been keeping me pretty busy recently, my work transferred me to a different base for my permanent location. i'm still getting settled in, for the time being my little truck is my only rig out here. just waiting till i can bring my crawler up and stuff it in my new shop first photo i recovered some local girl off "tinder" hahaha, she plowed into the bank and left her car up there over night the last three photos are where i parked my truck for a lunch break, after my clutch line blew up and set on fire. at that point i was in the middle of a drainage nearing the top of a mountain i decided it was best if i turned around and parked her until my new clutch line shows up from advanced adapters rev matched like a boss down the mountain and all the way back up the mountain to my place. she now sits in the underground parking waiting for some attention

there is nothing wrong with trying to prevent rust with por15, the three step system is the way to go. just because it is called "paint over rust" does not mean you have to solely paint over rust, lots of members on this board have done it as rust prevention method. id say go for it. do you have a shop vac? if you you can shopvac all the water out and soak the rest up with shop towel of some sort. i wouldn't substitute marine clean for etching primer

black hides a bunch, p/o tagged both sides of it with a reciever hitch, and caved the right side in. this truck won't see much trail, just when my kralwer is torn apart, not too worried

rusty's off road http://www.rustysoffroad.com/jeep-suspension/jeep-leaf-springs-leaf-spring-accessories/rustys-add-a-leaf-3-5-full-length-pair.html

hey there, sharing this for my friend, i run his product and love it

bump to the top with another update! I'm liking this truck! it has that stock feel, and looks badass dug into my engine and found a stripped bolt on a rocker arm, it seems like it came loose and the fulcrum where the rocker arm pivots wore the upper shank of the bolt down lifter tick got way better after i put new parts in, still there though here's a perspective photo of my two rigs one is on 37's and 10" lft (which measure out to be 36's, thanks super swamper) and the other is on 35's 3" lift, the rig on 37's is usually on 40's so its tiny atm took the truck in to use my friends shop, the stethoscope to be exact some poser shots with another flat black truck! now to the fun, first time out using the 4wd system that was not native to this truck aaaaand then my second wheeling trip, realized i was not driving my rock crawler, and my tires suuuuuuuuck big time even at 8 lb's of air surprisingly zero body damage from the tree, i pulled the mirror off just in case, and when it finally rested on the tree i waited for the recovery vehicle to winch me away and back on to the trail. more to come! in need of a front locker in this thing, which luckily only takes 1 hour to install and be fully reassembled

two days after my last post i went back and bled the brakes topped the fluids up, installed the front drive shaft and drove it back home. shortly after, i installed exhaust (which turns out i was sold a swb tail pipe, which i bought almost two years ago so no chance on exchange) I then installed the 3 1/2 aal's in the rear of the MJ now its no longer scrubbing the rear end on the maiden voyage of the 4wd swap home, it was apparent that the front drive shaft needed to be gone through the centering ball is making good noises so that is out and getting a different one thrown in linkages need to be installed still the truck has a failed tappet i have to address, so it seems ill be tearing the head off ( i don't want to pull the cam and the engine needs a top end reseal anyways) will update with more progress as it comes

swapped out the axle today, 2 hours later my once 2wd truck now has a dana 30 installed to match that np231 swaps getting closer to completion

ended up going out of town for work for a while, during which i had this truck stored away finally drug it out on Saturday night and started the 4wd conversion today. ended up picking up a hp d30 with 3.07 gears complete end to end for $50, (i know those are horrible gears but they match the rear of my truck for now) anoter ax15, internal slave complete end to end with master slave assy still attached along with the np231 tcase and all the linkages plus xmember for $190 not bad i think. tore out the 2wd ba10/5 with blown reverse gear and tossed in the 4wd ax-15 [[[ will swap the front axle shortly and run new exhaust since it has none at this point, also will toss the aals in and then get my drive shaft shortened! can't wait till i can test it out will flip the grill oneday too

Just get a bolt that fits, either a m10 or m8

going through my fuse block on my 87 lwb comanche, the etr fuse was blown so i tossed a new fuse in. at this moment i heard a big clunk in the engine bay another big clunk when i removed it. this is with the key removed from the ignition so i am assuming it powers some giant solenoid? i did a quick google and it says its for "ETR (Delco OEM) radio, Power antenna" now with this being said, i do not see how a solenoid would be needed for either of the two items mentioned. any thoughts?

ive done three of them now, i always make sure each mating surface is bare with no left over sealant or oil, dab some rtv on the pan, and stick some of the oil pan bolts through i just have to ask also, are you using the felpro single piece gasket with the rubber outer and metal inner? <--- if not, you should be

thanks Tim off to the wreckers to complete my external ax15 noriyori_kudo ive done the ba10/5 to ax15 external slave and 4wd conversion before, i have a pre bled assy and 3 spare clutches and fly wheels but my issue is, i gave my external bell housing and release fork to another jeeper before i started on my 7th comanche i didnt want to spend more money than i needed thats all, external bell housings are hard to come by around these parts, LOTS of jeepers doing the same thing (I'm actually making a franken ax15 from 3 transmissions, and a np231 from 3 transfercases, gotta love free parts)

doing 4wd swap to my newest comanche to gain a functional reverse gear, i have an internal ax15 and an internal ba10/5 i know the clutch and flywheel are the same, but is the internal slave the same as well? would like to know before i pull the trans

diggin the build progess, if you ever find your self around kelowna hit me up and ill take one of the jeeps out wheeling!