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I think the isuzu mua5 tranny (from behind a 2.8l) will bolt to the 2.5l and is a passenger side drop? maybe the aisin ar5 from a late model trooper also? I'm not sure if it is passenger side drop, but it is technically an ax-5 (edited: it appears to fall between an ax-5/ax-15) and has the right bolt pattern for the 2.5l. Starter location may be an issue.

I feel like restoration trends kind of follow the hot selling car trends. When trucks started to become daily drivers, I saw a lot of restored old trucks, when suvs were big, I noticed a bunch of restored old toyota FJ's and things like that. When the big three all started pushing their modern muscle cars, it seemed the number of classics at car shows doubled. Currently, hatch's and crossovers (fancy word for a station wagon that doesn't drag roadkill underneath it) are selling well, so I wouldn't be surprised. I wonder if it's from people who see the new ones, and start to think about the classics, and figure that if they are going to spend tens of thousands on something, it may as well be unique?

back when I was living in a shed, I woke up with a black widow on my belly. Even without my glass on it was pretty distinctive and utterly terrifying. Now, I have a few dozen brown recluses in my half unfinished garage I have to clear out every spring. I no longer keep any gloves in there, and thankfully they are uninterested in my house.

Yea, I figured there would be cheaper ways. I just need farm truck capability, so I'm sure anything above manual would do (and manual would still probably be fine). When I was doing my list of Comanche (86 with 2.8l and ax5) needs, I did two, one based on make it run and stop, one on doing it right and taking care of as many known issues and upgrades from the start. The second list was crossing into the expensive territory, so I decided to compare it to doing over the top upgrades (engine/tranny swap/ev conversion) to get a better idea of what I could do with that budget. But going the ev route requires a quite a bit of research still, and I'm not very knowledgeable on the workings of ev's to begin with.

I didn't look into how accessories operate, but evwest has this very expensive option for power steering http://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=363

Yea, my dd is a ranger, and it is my motivation to try to get my comanche up and going haha.

I have been, but not with any seriousness. There's been quite a few S10's converted to electric, and there really isn't a terribly big difference between an S10 and a Comanche in regards to the logistics of it. Across the street from my work is a dealer that carries the motors and controllers needed, and down in cape girardeau is a business with a lot of resources on the subject of home made conversions, http://evtv.me/ The reason for the lack of seriousness is strictly due to cost of installation vs effectiveness of the swap. It's still very expensive even using used battery packs and such. EVwest (from the video above) is another excellent resource, especially for speccing motors.

al-assad was raised an alawite (shi'a) muslim, his wife is (was? not sure how marriage affects their personal faith, ie did she have to convert) sunni. Historically speaking, his father was the one who installed a predominantly alawite governing body, even though the majority of syria is sunni. I have no opinions on the rest of this topic, just wanted to offer some corrections.

If you are interested in recovering some or all of these files, all you need is an external hard drive enclosure (i got mine from bestbuy), and I use the free software Recuva to pull the data. A bit time consuming but not difficult. No guarantee it will get all the files, but I've used it to recover extended family photos and videos to good result.

http://comancheclub.com/topic/27744-project-croc-hunter-92-mj/ http://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/83649-MJ-Auxiliary-fuel-tank Same guy, on expedition portal he goes into a bit more detail on the setup.

Samuel, High ridge MO, South of St. Louis, 86 4x4 longbed with the 2.8l. Be a minute before she's road or trail worthy though. Also, lotta 86's here...

I don't have to rebuild the motor, but I see oil everywhere haha, so I was thinking that redoing at least the gaskets and getting the head boiled (lots of varnish problems, thanks to the intermediate owner between me and the original owner) would be a good idea, while at the same time swapping in my external slave ax-5 that I have laying around. And as for the tbi, it's something that I'll need to decide on before I get either a new gas tank or have this one lined (probably get a new one), so I can get all the right parts before putting it back in. I've heard good things about the weber, but it's all gonna come down to the almighty dollar. And you can still get floorpans for the comanche through rock auto, even the full lengths, though I'm unsure of how well they actually fit.

Passenger side: driver side rear: passenger side rear: driver side front: what the seat mounting posts look like: Yes that is carpet that I had to cut around cause the nuts are completely gone Another pic of the passenger side. Not sure what those 3 rails are, but they're gonna need replaced... So, yea... those are gonna be fun repairs...

Thanks! And yea, I'm currently running a sheet on costs to switch to the weber vs hijacking a tbi system from the salvage yard. Along with rewiring likely the whole truck (mice have done a doozy to it while it's been on the farm...). My dad rebuilt the rochester, and it's still not right.

Note an 86 will require a small amount of modifications to fit the 4.0. They changed the firewall/front clip/some other stuff in 87 (I have an 86 with the v6). BUT, tons of people have swapped bigger engines into an 86, so I wouldn't be concerned about that, and all you really have to do is find an 87+ cherokee donor with a 4.0 and you're pretty well set from what I've read. As for the 2.5l's performance, I have one in my tj, and I've hauled lawn care equipment with it, had it dash high in the Mississippi, and done light trailwork with it. Only time I was disappointed in it was on the highway at 70+ speeds, but that just gave me an excuse to take the back roads. However, the advice to buy a 4.0 2wd and swap in 4wd is solid and likely far easier to do.

Damn, I always change my oil at around 3k (a bit longer if it falls due in the winter months), but my TJ always liked to eat oil (before and after engine swap). The additives they put in don't stick around much past 5k from what I've read, so I don't think spending a lot of money on oil while delaying changes is worth it. I buy my oil at walmart, prices are all pretty close there. Used Pennzoil 10w30 in the TJ, Mobil 1 in the Ranger. On long road trips in the TJ I'd occasionally use SAE30 in the summer, but that's just because it was cheaper and I knew I'd need more by the time I got where I was going. Killed two engines in the wrangler, neither because of oil used, just typical early twenties stupidity. Youth will kill a good engine faster than cheap oil ever will. On a side note, I had never heard of the FRAM failures. That's interesting.

And here are the seat brackets from the passenger side... yes, they look like they were literally ripped from the vehicle... because they were. When I was grinding on the driver side, I needed to get behind from the passenger side. So I slid the seat forward, leaned against it, and that's all she wrote for these brackets. (The springs were removed to get them black oxided to save them from rust)

I build pneumatic tools (die grinders, ratchets, drills, hammers, buffers, etc) for a living. Though two years ago I was promoted to shift lead/supervisor, then bought a house, and then they laid off my team. So now I build tools, handle the shipping, inventory, ordering, order closing, repairs, and some light machining, along with being the back up tech maintenance when our server guy is out. And occasionally I take the trash out. But I do not answer phones. On the side, I do sanding prep and polishing for metal, but I'm getting away from that, and also do computer work, mostly data extraction on failed devices, though I'm also getting away from that. Too much time working, not enough time Jeeping :D

Well, that somewhat explains the fusebox's condition haha. I'm still working to get my dad to come to terms with the fact that it may just be easier (though possibly more time consuming) to pull the truck apart, and slowly piece it back together. Especially if we pull the engine and tranny out, then I could take them home (trucks on the family farm) and strip them down, clean them up, and put them back together in my spare time (and switch the tranny out for my extra ax-5 with external slave, also see about replacing the damn carb), while working on the chassis on the weekends. And the salvage yard I'll be getting parts from is on the way to the farm (filled with ZJ's and WJ's).

I know. Also, my windows, windshield and rear window seals are all good, no leaks over the last year sitting outside. Heater core failure maybe? But that doesn't explain why my seat brackets had rotted into oblivion on both sides, and the engine bay is practically rust free around all the major leaks (such as master cylinder). Maybe they left the windows down during a rain once and never let it dry out before parking it? Even my brake lines are 90% rust free. Really weird.

Carpets out, I don't have a smartphone so no picks today. I'll try to take some tomorrow. Driver side needs a couple patches, passenger side has literally no floor left, top of frame rails gone, rot beginning in the inside of frame rails.

7 hours non stop (save the time spent for some unsavory words), and the damn seats, brackets, and middle console are removed. Brackets are toast, but I got measurements to fab them up. Nothing done otherwise. All my other vehicles blew up and I had to get a truck on a loan (sad day), so comanche is continuing it's decade ish long rest.

Huh, I figure if a Jeep pickup comes to market it will run about $40k. I certainly wouldn't be in line to buy a new FCA vehicle. Then again, the newest vehicle I ever bought was already 8 months old at the time. I was assuming they'd be looking to compete with the Colorado with the Comanche concept, so around 20-30k. $40k puts them in full size territory, and I don't think Ram would be ok with that. Newest vehicle I've ever owned is an 01 neon, bought in 2012. Even though I used to be a programmer, I don't like a lot of computer control in my vehicle. Though with home scanners and diagnostic tools becoming affordable, that could change. The ability to read vacuum and other specs on the fly would make me more interested, but the closed wall and difficulty in doing so since their debut has burned me on them.

This. The reason I bought a comanche is because I wanted a small truck that I could maneuver easily while still being able to haul things like lumber. I have a ram 1500 ext cab that is a royal pain to drive around. I had two friends come up to help with a couple trees I had dropped, one with a ranger and one with an S10, and both of them were driving circles around mine, fully loaded. The ram was great when I was hauling a trailer, but now that I'm not, I always feel that it's the wrong tool for the job. Sadly, I can't justify spending 20,000 + on a truck. So even if jeep came out with a new one, I wouldn't be looking to buy it til it hit the used market.

Are they actually going to cease production of all old bearings, or just not pursue contracts with OEMs in those sectors? If they cease production on old P/Ns of bearings, it will be ugly. My apologies, but I'm not sure. I hope not.