man of la manche

I was giving the 88 mj (Operation: 33DD) I just picked up the once over this morning and it looks like the 5.5" or 6.5" rough country lift kit that was "installed" was only half way done. From poking around the rough country website I saw that their kit includes a longer shackle in order to accommodate the rear lift, along with moving the axle under the leaf spring. The axle is still over the spring and I was just wondering if anyone new how long the shackle for the rear spring should be? If it turns out that the shackle was installed then I will ho ahead with moving the axle, if it wasn't installed then I will probably be returning the front end to stock height, as I still have all the stock parts for the front suspension. If no one knows how long the shackle should be then could anyone at least tell me the distance between the top of the rear axle housing and the bottom of the frame. Knowing that should at least give me an idea as to where to go next. Thanks

interesting to know that, this sort of stuff is why I like this site the cluster doesn't have a tach in it, so I am hoping to swap it out for one that does include the tach later

it was the best deal I could find, for these reasons: it was fairly close to home (less than two hours), it didn't have as much rust as the others I had seen, and it was the only 4x4 available, and it was cheaper than all the others I had seen up front I am thinking of a late 90's xj axle with the bigger u-joints and a 4.1 gear, if not then I will at least try to swap out to the bigger axle shafts in the rear I will probably go with an exploder 8.8 with the 4.1 gear, that way I can get some rear discs at the same time and use some spacers to move the wheel's out to match the front as for the grille, its going to end up on the floor as it will be getting replaced with a newer header panel/grille the passenger rocker is rusted so I am thinking of replacing both sides with a piece of 2x4 3/16ths steel, it should beef it up a little bit as the whole deal cost me less than $400, after unloading the extra parts it came with, I think that works out to about $320 US

This is one of the projects that convinced me to get an mj instead of an xj! Did you manage to get the climate controls to work with the old system, or did you swap that as well?

Like most of you I suffer from Sick Old Truck Syndrome (SOTS) and the only cure is to find an old rig and bring it back ;)6 I picked up my 88 mj yesterday, it has over 210000 km (around 130000 miles), 4l 4x4 with 5.5 inch rough country lift, or so the seller claims as the rough country site lists 4.5 and 6.5 inch lifts, at any rate its lifted. The pukeguts tranny it does shift smoothly so I am in no rush to replace that, unless an ax15 falls in my lap for really cheap. The immediate needs are, rip out the carpet, new windshield, exhaust from catback, quick tune up/brake job, gas tank straps and maybe new shocks in the back. I already got a set of power leather seats from an xj last summer, they were free so I took them to use as garage seats, but now it looks like they are going to end up in the truck. I would like to have a daily driver running on 33 inch tires, but dd33 doesn't have the same appeal as 33dd ;) I was waffling between and xj and an mj and the posts/projects I saw on comanche club convinced me that mj was the way to go. If I am lucky I can get it on the road, legally, in a couple of week and then go from there. My wife thinks I'm crazy, I know I'm crazy. http://picasaweb.google.com/canajien/ComanchePt1#