iimafa

Next I was onto the rock sliders! My buddy hooked me up with some $#!& steel pipe from a handrail and before anyone could blink I had some sliders!

Next I was onto the front! I started by making leaf spring frame mounts, then tossed in a cheap craigslist locker into the Dana 30 and finally got the brakes on it and man was it a tight fit, a little grinding on the calipers and called it good. Then I went and Made some plates for the front unibody for a little extra stiffness and slapped it together for a little test fit.

Next it was onto the axles! I scored a Chrysler 8.25 and a hp Dana 30 from my buddy for a good deal, so I tossed some junkyard disk brakes from a grand Cherokee and moved the spring perches and the rear end was set, for the front I started cleaning the axle, order ruff stuff specialties steering setup, and leaf springs perches, then tosses some angle on the front of the unibody to keep er stiff and give me something to mount some leaf springs.

Next I was onto the transfer case, I saw a fella on pirate that had a 231/231 so I thought “I can do that” so I went and found a 231c from and s10 and a basic 231j from a 4 cylinder Jeep and I was off! But didn’t finish it until a year later..... but it was a good start!!

So the details. What did I buy? I got a 1992 2wd short bed 2.5/ax5 comanche that had a hp Dana 30 swapped into it with a set of control arms that were less that well made and not the same length, it had a nice set of rear leafs, 2 Not so decent 33s, rusty rockers, a Rusted drivers floor, a long bed half chopped to fit, no gas tank, an engine that Didn’t look terrible and I talked the guy into giving me a 200lbs ugly front bumper. so I got it home and my dad wasn’t the happiest person in the world, which looking back I can’t blame him, it definitely didn’t look the best. I talked the old man into letting me toss it in his garage and I was off! I found a guy with a Dana 30 for sale and managed to get a set of WJ knuckles with it for cheap then I was onto the rust! I cut out the rockers and drivers floor and slapped in some new China steel, Bed lined the floor and it was done, I then found a guy with a ax15 (was hoping to use that instead of a ax-4/5 but that didn’t pan out) welded the bed together and got that bolted on, toss a stock grand Cherokee has tank into the bed and finally started the ole girl and Boy did she run good. At that point it was July of 2015 and the old man was getting upset with it taking up his garage so it was time to move the old junker.

This story started on February 9th, 2015, I was in my junior year of high school And looking through craigslist I found a beautiful mildly clapped comanche for the perfect price of $450. 6 days later It was all mine...... now being a much simpler person back then I though it was the best deal that had ever been put on Craigslist, from the pictures you can see that it was a death trap that should have went to the scrapyard, but not on my watch, I was going to pull that hunk of metal from grips of the shredder and dump $#!& loads of money into it so I could drink beer and run it into trees. And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing ever since.