Guinelle1

wow great list... what do you use to search CL?

apparently i was not looking hard enough. thanks for the links!

have plenty of extra tubing. use your mess up peices and take a small chunk and make a "sample bend" for literally almost every bend youre gunna make. once you get good youll have a couple of them laying around or you just start to know. mark the sample bend up with where your start and stop marks are for the bender. hold it up to the truck where you want the bend and measure. its probably not the most "accurate way. but its how i do it.

been looking into the same thing. I'm going to need new leafs but you can't really buy factory replacements. let us know how it goes.

Would love to see those pics I'd apprciate it. The reason I bought this jeep even though it needs work is I know I can't loose money on it. I know that I can save it. Comanches are not too easy to find in my area. They are either mint and people are asking a lot for them (which I don't want) I wanted a cheap project. I would love to find a better frame and swap my parts over if I could find a 2wd or something blown up for the right price. Rust is very previlant where I am I know I'm not going to find one that does have it unless I drive far.

yeah i plan to remove the bed and sandblast the whole frame from the firewall back. its going to be a big project. i don't have much time for it now I'm actually trying to finish my cherokee and this is my next project. just lurking and looking at what my options are. looks like a good community on here.

bought an mj thats gunna need some serious work. this is my first mj, I'm mostly an XJ guy, its rusty and the spring hanger pushed through the frame is going to need repair. looking for some advice on people that have done this. the "frame" does not look much different to an XJ. the rust is very similar. ive done frame repair on multiple cherokees, but not actual damage to the spring mounts. the spring hanger is barely dangling in, should i just lower the hanger back down and weld it up? I'm going to have to cut out the cab mounts on both sides and plate both sides.. or do i cut all the damaged section completely out? I'm a little worried about getting the hanger back in the correct position on the frame... i know measuring and measuring etc. I'm also thinking its going to need new leafs, one side sagged more then the other and the PO just made one shackle longer to make up the difference, I'm sure its not too big of a deal but i would rather have it right. I'm thinking about stiffening the whole frame. if it is as thin as i think its going to need it. most people say otherwise... after deep searching i found a company T&M metal fab makes stiffeners for the MJ. sorry if my post is long I'm new here and I'm really excited to work on this comanche!!