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Thanks for the info so far fellas it's greatly appreciated. To answe the question about the pick and pulls in my area, little to non exsistant, very few yards will even allow you to take a stroll through let alone take it off yourself and you get charged through the roof because of it, that's why buying a donor xj is my cheapest and easiest option. As for the plans for the truck, I want it as a daily driver/weekend warrior. But I have no intentions of beating the S@!T out of it, I have a woodser Cherokee for that, which I would use the housing and rest of the drivetrain for, except it's auto and it's been put through the ringer so hard I don't think anything on it would ever be salvageable for road use again, as well as its a limited so it has the 242 tcase which I don't really want lol lotta fun in that thing. Anyways that's a different story for a different day. So with the ba tranny(which I believe I have), will an ax-15 bolt up to my 4.0 ? And will the clutch assembly/flywheel be the same or would that have to be swapped? Then with the axles, I know the Dana 30 is a direct swap, but the rear axle (whatever it may be) out of the xj, I read somewhere that the spring perches are further apart on the mj's, is this true? Would it be better to buy new spring perches or cut and re weld the ones from the xj axle? Again thanks so much for the info.

Like to start off by saying hi, first time here, just picked up an 89 Comanche yesterday. These things are incredibly rare where I'm from (New Brunswick, Canada) and even rarer in 4wd models. Only problem is mine is 2wd, and I'd like to make it 4wd. I've done a lot of research before I even picked it up, and it looks pretty straightforward. Cherokees are dime a dozen around here (mind you 95% of them are rotten underneath, we use salt on the roads up here) so picking up a parts Cherokee shouldn't be hard. My questions for this swap are, the Comanche I bought is 5 speed, I'd like to keep it that way only problem is that the 5 speed in a Cherokee is rare here, can you make a 2wd 5 speed into a 4wd? Is there another jeep 5 speed that will bolt up to the 89 4.0 and use a tcase? Other than that I'm fairly mechanically inclined, I'm a millwright by trade, but is there anything I should look out for as far as problems or issues people have had? And what year Cherokee should I shoot for when looking for a donor . Thanks