The86manche

What is wrong with both of them? I'd try qnd save them both and get them running. Sad to see potentially good ones go to parts when they are starting to get hard to find.

Sounds like starter relay may be bad.

Sure thing. It looks like a good project. Love the color.

That aluminum radiator! I wanted one for my mj and could not find one. If you don't use it let me know I'd be interested.

I just bought a Mexican blanket style cover for mine lol my seat was fine but I wanted to protect it as its a black bench seat

I would probably get a dash harness from a 96 xj and throw it in and work with that to get your truck working properly. Plus it will give you obd2 diagnostics as well. Just my suggestion

Where is it located specifically?

The tailgate is in the background too

A seam splitter/spot welded separator is quite a handy tool to have for projects you don't want to be damaging pinch welds on. I'm using it to skin an mj bed.

Unfortunately sold long ago

I happen to have one in my spare bed. Looks like this though Scaley but not rotted.

And as you can see.. fitment.. is not going so well. I can almost fit my finger in that gap..

And that kind of puts us up to speed on where I have left off. Dry fitting panels and seeing how things look. I did weld in the seat brace but I'm not sure where the photos on that are. You can see the passenger side in the photo. The black square on the silver floor.

Filler pieces for the sides of the cowl were spot welded in And getting it to line up And the other side. with those pieces the firewall could be finished as well.

Now actually getting the firewall to fit was an interesting endeavor.. We had to use a portapower to stretch the front of the body to get everything to line up. Matching up the floor seam. And then burned in. Showing how well the welds went in from the trans tunnel.

Well due to the overall condition of the "new" subframe we ended up not going with it. It was bent and tweaked. So we ended up pulling the original one back into the garage and patching up the mounts. And back under the car. Getting things to line up was both easy and difficult. The firewall and cowl had holes for you to thread a bolt into so we used that to help line things up for welding.

"Original" subframe removed. Notice the mounting spots are all blown out. We picked up another subframe that had better mounts to use for mockup for the firewall. Firewall mockup.

I suppose I should update this since I haven't in a while. Haha Progress done long ago, getting the body off the jig. Engine hoist is good for more than just engines apparently! We put the axle under it so j clips installed for the leaf spring plates. And on the ground

No, no test drive. There was several months I didn't touch the car. Due to another project and also burnout. I couldn't bring myself to touch the car. But we are gearing up to jump back on it. I've started doing more work, fitting some smaller panels and just waiting for the warmer weather. Plan to opoxy the car before I start welding more panels on

There actually is! It just hasn't been updated in a while due to burnout.. but I'm getting back into it so will be getting updated soon

Yeah.. it's a pursuit alright. A pursuit to make these panels fit/work.

My garage is full of comanche parts, a 7ft bed, tools, and every panel you would need to build yourself a 67-69 pontiac firebird along with the skeletal structure of a 69 firebird in rebuild.

Id try cleaning up that rattle can job. Maybe mineral spirits or something similar

Just so you know what to look for. This is a factory swb sport bar

Love that color combo and interior. She's pretty!