trail grenade

had a couple hours to work on it today, got the frame rails and rear crossmember tacked together

So i have recently started another major project on my comanche. I got sick of working around and fixing the stock bed and "frame" behind the cab, and decided to cut the frame rails flush with the cab and start fresh. I have a trip to rc planned for the weekend of october 29th, therefore it will need to be finished up and ready to wheel by then. With that said, on to the plans and progress. stock spring soa, inboarded, flipped stock wheelbase 113" 14.5" white body's 5" frame "z" my 8.8 rear crossmember with shackle mounts frenched you can see here, it was a little tweaked cut everything off behind the cab cut and folded the pinch seam along the back of the cab and started working on a plate to cap the back of the cab, frame rails, and tie into the boatsides the 8.8 pulled cut some plates out to connect the cab cap to my already existing frame stiffeners on all 3 sides of the stock rails tonight i got my rear crossmember tacked together ] That's where I'm at right now, i hope to get a couple hrs in a day to work on it.

i went soa on the rear of my comanche using like new 4x4 springs and a 2" shackle and only got 3 inches of lift and i can flex to the stock bumpstops with 33s and never rub :dunno:

this thing is strictly street queen. :banana:

prolly should have noted the top plate is temp. for mock up purposes and will be replaced by 1/4 or 5/16" when its wheeling time... antidisestablishmentarianism else arent u sure of?

stock 4wd comanche leafs in like new condition and 2" xj shackles (1.5" lift mj shackles)

y not make nice stuff for a trail beater? lol i hate wrenching on the trail.. havent driven it inboarded yet... but my shocks and bumpstops will be on the outside of the springs so i think that will add plenty of stability.. thanks

ok so ive owned this thing for like 5 years, it used to be the plow truck but it hadnt been used in 3 years. so last spring i decided to dig it out of the weeds, put some bald 31s on it and use it for trail cutting at my house. ive beat on it for the past year and the renix 4.0 and pukegoat 5spd are still holding up fine.. well a month ago i broke both front shafts at the same time.. so with rausch creek opening 1200 acres and my love for trail cutting i decided to make it a little bit more rock reliable. so i pulled an 8.8 with 4.10s at the jy and at the same time i pulled the gears out of a 4cyl comanche. i installed the gears in a hp non disco 30 i already had with 297 shafts. then i started bulding the 8.8.. i tig welded the spider gears up first and then i bent up some tube for a diff guard and welded it to the stock cover after i plated the lower lip then i built a removable pinion guard for it and fabbed my own u bolt eliminator spring perches that use 5/8" bolts and have integrated bump stop pads so once my 8.8 was ready to go in i decided that i didnt want to put it back in sua because of the crazy loss of clearance.. but my leaf springs were in awesome condition and would have given me like 8" of lift if i put them spring over.. i decided to inboard my leaf springs to the inside of the unibody rails and up about 5" i fabbed new spring pockets on some stiffeners and welded them up next i built new shackle boxes and set them up using some 1.5 shackles to get a nice nice shackle angle while i was working on the back half i recessed an xj gas tank down in the floor in the front of the bed to get it up out of the rocks and protected right now it has beat 3" coils in the front and its sitting level i got some 33" dunlop mud rovers with like 75% tread in trade for a gas tank skid i built for some one its a work in progress and needs to be finished for my trip to rc the weekend of may 1st.. i have a lot of work to do still fab front diff guard fab front stiffeners and bumper fab new crossmember and flat belly fab boatsides fab rear bumper fab rear shock mounts (upper and lower) install dual brake booster and zj prop valve and all new brake lines and hoses install front shocks install new u-joints wire up electric fan to a switch install renix sending unit into tank (so my gas guage works) figure out exhaust and a bunch of other random junk ill keep updating as it comes along

i would to... but these gears came out of a cad axle to go in my fresh non disco hp 30... my axle already has good calipers, rotors, wheel bearings and shafts w/ 760x joints. there is no since in downgrading.

i pulled a 31 spline disk brake 4.10 gear rear axle from an explorer a couple weeks ago for 75 dollars with good brakes... check out ur local u-pull it yards

ok so I'm getting ready to order my install kit for my upcoming gear swap and would just like some input from cny. i have a hp30 with 3.07s and i just pulled a 4.10 gearset and carrier out of a junkyard 4 banger, both the carrier and pinion bearings and races are in good shape, no scoring or excessive play. so ive decided to just go with a minor install kit. i have a friend with experience in gearing that is going to come and help me. I'm just wondering if there is any set backs to using used gears in a different housing? ive heard i will end up with a lil gear whine due to the gears already being broken in.. also if there is anything bad with using the nitro install kit as opposed to yukons minor install kit? its cheaper and is more complete. thanks http://www.justdifferentials.com/ind...oducts_id=3291 http://www.ringpinion.com/ProductDet...px?ProdID=3042

i was wondering if a windshield out of a 1995 xj will install in a 1991 mj?

thank u sir, ive heard alot of good reviews about this setup and i wanna keep my closed cooling system renix as cool as possible

antidisestablishmentarianism dual electric fan did u use?

so do u think this setup is worth purchasing?