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Brown santa dropping off more fun. Got the axle shafts from dutchman, 35 spline 4130, also found out Currie has explorer brake rotors drilled to 6x5.5 from blanks. Perfect fit! Old vs new

Cleaned up the axles some more and test fitted the rear truss.

Starting to make moves on this thing. Spending waaaayyyy too much money and one thing lead to another. At the point now I'm about ready to throw in on jack stands on let the mayhem begin very soon. Started cleaning up axles chopping old stuff on to test fit trusses and rotate the inner cs. Prayed to the jeep gods in a multitude of swear words and was rewarded. Got a brand new atlas albeit set up for a XJ, I know I'll need to swap out the input shaft, shifters and yokes but couldn't pass it up for the price. Really wanted to keep the 242HD but with tom woods no longer making a SYE for only option was a built 242j and cost was more than than the atlas was. Never done a build of this magnitude. Done basic stuff but this is a whole new world.

Diesel https://www.facebook.com/groups/ColoradoJeepPartsTrader/permalink/3948469272061253/?sale_post_id=3948469272061253&mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v 1986 Jeep Comanche Turbo Diesel $13K OBO Manual Transmission 4 Wheel Drive Insured with Hagerty via appraisal for $15K. (See Pics in comments). I am the 4th owner of this vehicle (Carfax in pics in comments) It was a municipality vehicle out east and never got used much. Sold in 2001 from state at auction, Mileage 80K in 2000, Sold in 2006 to the old man I bought it from, who put 2K on it and parked it. ODO is NOT accurate and shows under 1000 miles. Knowing that the years 2000-2006 are really unknown, I believe this truck has “approx.” 120k-140K on the clock. Sold to me in 2022, and been working on it ever since. CLEANEST ROCKERS/BED/ I’VE EVER SEEN!!!!! They had several, and the “better” doors and bed from this one were swapped to another truck. Brand new BFG AT/KO’s (all 5). JEEP OE Bed Liner Rubber Mat. Slider Works WITH LATCH. Still has front plastic under the bumper! Bed undamaged! Has factory tow wire kit never installed Great Bench Seat/slides well/ Vinyl visors are perfect/ Headliner is damn good. Eventually it was auctioned, and sold locally once, then an old mountain man in Colorado bought it, drove it back to CO, and the engine locked up/seized 50 miles from home on the 2000 mi journey. It sat in his barn for 20 years until I drove by and saw it sitting there while it was open and rolled out for spring cleaning and stopped by. My wife let me buy it ! 2.1 Turbo Diesel. Rebuilt Engine, Injection Pump, and Turbocharger. No Leaks. New fuel filter heater (big deal/ LAST NEW ONE from France! Not cheap!) Finding the engine was difficult. The Winnebago Lesharo RV’s used this engine (with a K04) as well and eastern Canada is popular with them (French… go figure). I found someone who had the engine/injection pump/ turbo on theirs rebuilt. Spend $13K. And then.. They wrecked it. It still ran and drove fine, but the RV body was damaged. I purchased the entire drivetrain. (Drove 44 hours each way to go get it (great wife) I own Saul’s Autotek in Denver (22 bay shop 365 service), and had my ASE master techs do the engine R&R in house. Uses K04 instead of factory K03. I had China custom make me a boost hose specifically to do this. The truck comes with all 10 of them I had made (minimum order/ $1000). TOOK A YEAR! (And a spare starter, radiator, and 2 timing belts, oil filter, fuel filter. (hard to find stateside)) Mechanically sound. New Clutch and Hydraulics. Rebuilt OE Metal Radiator. Transmission and Transfercase seals. Pinion and Wheel/Axle Seals front and rear. The interior needs a few pieces. Have a detailed list for those curious. NO chassis rust. Colorado High Alpine Desert for most of its life. Some surface rust from time/exposure. See pictures. Has new aftermarket tail lamps. Runs/ Drives/ Starts/ Steers/ Stops/ Etc. Perfect. I tried to get the best pictures possible. If you have any questions please reach out. The wife spent lots of time detailing inside! It’s nice! Originally planned to do body work/ interior details/ as I was prepping it for a friend who’s a collector. Unfortunately he recently found out he is ill, and he isn’t taking on more vehicles (he has 800! Seriously!). I have my own (2) comanches, and (1) XJ, and I can’t afford to keep this one in the stable. I have more pics! The BAD The alternator is binding right now/ needs replaced or overhauled. Runs/ drives great just not charging. But it's a mechanical diesel! So you can drive it anyway! Gauges currently not working ^see above line ^ No radio, No rear bumper., Passenger door has needs door pins Some small damages (see pics) (Fender/pass door contact, dash crunchy spot, column small broken spot, etc) Like any vehicle if this ago would have.

I did do a bunch of research after your first comment and you're right. A lot of it is just my perception along with parts availability. These axles are going in my WJ as an family adventure build. So trying to build it as something that is overbuilt (in some regards) but also able to drop in to to a parts store when on the road and grab what I need if needed. I didn't know these would be redrilled when I got them should have done more research. Thought they had a OEM option that supported a 6x5.5. Found this article that provided some good info. https://honda-tech.com/forums/suspension-brakes-54/safety-redrilled-lug-pattern-brake-rotors-3044626/ Really my biggest worry is the wheel falling off or losing brakes on a downhill. Which probably less than a 0% chance of ever happening because of two rear rotors, but always the inherent rish Appreciate the input.

New rotors came in with the correct size but still have the one overlap. I called quickperformance and they are stating they run these rotors on 2000hp Mud trucks with no issues. Of the places I've worked with so far, they've been the least helpful, cheap but kind of useless. I'm still not convinced this is the best solution. I did reach out to moser and they can do a fill and drill for about 100 for both rotors but they need their machinist to confirm they could. I was also looking at Curries website and they say they have explorer rotors that can be drilled to 6x5.5 but they are closed so can't confirm if it's a blank that's drilled or a redrill like above. Did some snooping around stock parts to see if anything would work and closest I came was a rear rotor from a 90-95 pathfinder. Everything is super close with the biggest discrepancy being the parking brake shows are about 10mm difference. So would have to grind down brake show to make it fit which I'm not a fan of. So will see if moser or currie can work otherwise just take the L and go with a weld on kit and chevy calipers and rotors.

Stock refresh and a regear. More umph and reliable.

I'd keep it stock.

I'll take a look and see. Appreciate the info.

Appreciate the info. Tricky part is these are the explorer rotors with an internal parking brake so the hat is the issue. After looking at them more they have to go back regardless because the new lug size is wrong. Ordered 1/2 and got 5/8. Played around with a wheel spacer I randomly had and there is going to be one that overlaps. So may just go with Eldorado calipers and 6x5.5 rotors.

Cool, appreciate the info. Yes it's for a 5x5.5 and 6x5.5.

Gatheting parts for my axle build and got a rear explorer disc conversion for the 9". I'm running 6x5.5 so ordered the kit that way and these are the rotors I got? My concern is the double drilled hole. Are these fine or do I need to send them back?

Bought a rear truss for the 9 the other day. Went from $350 to $385 overnight and now backordered.

I agree about the big companies. Churning out over priced garbage and when there's a issues no one cares. Sucks. Even some of the smaller shops I use can feel the push. I got a email yesterday from a place I bought my air lockers from. Basically saying if you're looking to buy something do it now because June 1st prices increase are coming and they will have decreased inventory. Now what happens then who knows but GD annoying AF.

So been watching parts closey lately as I'm slowing gathering things for my WJ and decided to pull the trigger on a good chunk not what I wanted to do but my crystal ball sucks. Reason is I'm seeing more about a price increases coming in the next few weeks or parts that are "back ordered" while a new price gets figured out. Wondering what anyone else is seeing or thinking?

I put this in https://www.crutchfield.com/S-o9xHt0Tu4Fn/p_113KMX705/Kenwood-Excelon-KMM-X705.html?XVINQ=GZ0&XVVer=1F4I&awcr=628152981731&awdv=c&awnw=g&awug=9057205&awkw=pla-1737773631060&awmt=&awat=pla&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8cHABhC-ARIsAJnY12zuzFKTTLVhRb3o68K1HbuLDjSxvC8OfztWR-CAc4-ugYgRxV1fJkkaAphaEALw_wcB Drops right in with nothing special. I went with only a BT received to save space and all my music is on my phone so need for a CD player.

Piece of art! Great work all around. Only hope to aspire to this level of a MJ someday.

I'm currently tinkering with something like this just way more advanced but basic premise is the same. I just picked up some used jabra 450s and then building the rest based on PI. From there will need try to figure some basic programming and use a voip provider. Tricky part with my set up is using DECT phone with a usb and not wanting tonuse a ATA. I'll let you know what I figure out. Just a side bar thought about the needing a phone number to complete a form type thing. I use my old companys fax number. Works like a charm.

Saw a woody panel comanche with a waggy header not too long along. Looked good, especially with white.

I have ring central for my business VOIP, but don't think VOIP is what you're looking for unless you want to only make calls from your computer. I just looked to see what the OOma is seems like a waste of money for a basic phone. If you like to tinker could do this for cheap to start and free to continue. https://www.littlebytesofpi.com/raspberrypihomephone/

Entirely side bar but on the same wave length. Went to micro center to poke around and also picked up a raspberry pi 500. Got admit thing is super cool, but also I have no idea what I'm doing. Figured for the 120 not a bad thing to scoop up. Worst case one of the kids uses it as a computer and learns a few things. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/500-desktop-kit/?variant=500-kit-us

Thanks! The lenevo was very high on my list but for the price of this can't really complain.

Appreciate that info. Forgot about Microcenter and just drove buy them the other day! Ended up doing a complete pivot and got another HP elite book 860. It's the same as what I use just newer bits. Got it for under $300 as refurb with windows 11 pro, keeps me from having to get a new docking station and some other things. Figure this has done everything I've needed and more and cheap enough.

My current computer is a HP laptop and it's been fine for 5 years, keyboard crapped out hence looking for a replacement. Most days it just get's plugged into the docking station but occasionally need something for field work. As for applications I use, the main one is a medical software that is webased, along with ring central, all Microsoft products (word, excel, teams, etc), accounting/payroll. Most are all webased and through AWS it bypasses most MAC things and be windows but with the VDI setup I run just easiest to keep Microsoft rather hackjob of different OS. I also don't have a mac phone and want to be able to RDP into my laptop which I can do with a android, I know I can do it with a mac, but more switching and work I'm willing to consider.

Can't do a mac, it doesn't work with several of my applications. Has to be windows.