Shane87

Doc any advice on supporting everything during body removal? or is it just a combo of whatever jacks and wood blocks that are available? I work on skid steers mainly but after I made some cash on a quick Cherokee flip and doing a friends Cherokee clutch I felt confident building my dads old truck. Hoping to get roommates and neighbors to help carry bodies to other drivetrain lol.

1987 swap, so since I have no garage space to use or a cherry picker. I will probably still try to pull mj bed and drive shaft first, disconnect all linkages and suspension from body, remove motor mounts, and swap uni bodies, haven't gotten very far yet between working full time and having snow on the ground with more coming lol. I don't really plan on doing much with the Cherokee body and 4cyl 2wd drive train, so I will probably just loosely bolt it up and try to sell as parts. Probably keep the fenders, front doors for half doors, they should fit right? For the budget lift, Was going to try using a combo of spring leafs from both vehicles and maybe some new shackles for the rear, and the front new springs or spacers? I prefer new springs but does anybody suggest against spacers? They are a lot cheaper. I only want maybe 3" should I use the cross member drop spacers? Any cheap fender flares out there?

Firewalls look the same, radiators are in different spots due to different engines but look built the same, are there differences to look for and mods that can be done?

Haven't fully looked at mounts, but I take it those bolts are not easy to get to or just difficult to get out? Probably just easier to pull engine and drop tranny? Or since the 4cyl does not have a t-case maybe pull engine and tranny at same time? Time to buy a cherry picker. Looks like the Cherokee has the 3.07 rear axle, haven't found numbers on the Comanche yet. Wheel base is 12" different but I would just lengthen the rear drive shaft right? Any easy mods to update fuel system?

I found two same year, super cheap jeeps, a Comanche and a Cherokee, I want to transfer entire running gear from Cherokee to mj. Mj is 4cyl, 4 speed, 2wd, Cherokee is 4x4, 4.0L, 5 speed. Is it possible to support engine and trans enough to actually swap bodies? Will the rear axles be geared the same? While the mj is all torn apart it would be nice to add a lift, maybe update fuel system. Ideas? Suggestions?