KCsurfer420

Well the hime was tightended down to where the jamb nut is in the pic, I did use red lock tite on every joint and jamb nut on the entire truck. I should have also stated that every time i tightened down every thing else on the truck the jamb nut was always tight.... i just double checked it so it was never loose to begin with.... Its realy odd. The coils are the 8.5 from rustys that i am curently running I still have the skyjacker coils but when I swaped out coils the rustys, alltho there supose to be 8.5 the truck actualy droped down about an inch in the front when i installed them and i actually had to thread the hijm in a little bit more for the rustys coils.... Now I'm no fan of rustys but the coils are not a bad product and there a bit softer than the shyjacker coils..... Its just odd how It happened like I said In not realy bashing the product but it did fail and I konw that i wasent at fault here, its mostly about the $#!&ty customer service that i recived..... o and I need some one to clean the skid marks out of my seat, any takers? :rotf:

here's some pics

Well First thanks for reading my rant but i feel this needs to be said to help other people stay away from rock krawler.... Now I know some of you will probably bash this tread but thats fine with me and i am in no way trying to be rude or blast a company, and for all I know the products that you guys have may be better quality but rock krawler almost killed me..... So I have an 88 jeep comanche, here's the buld tread on Comanche club if you care to look... viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24845 But so yesterday i was driving down I-10 and all of a suden i heard a loud snap and then all hell broke loose, i shot off over in to the fast land almost coliding with a semi and then over to the emergancy lane in a super wild fit of deth wobble. Now every thing on my jeep is brand new and maticusly mantained. Two days ago I got under the jeep and greased every thing and tightended every thing back down in anticipation for a trip to bridgeport ca that I'm about to take....... After leaving skidmarks in my seat i got out of the truck to see what had broken sending me in to the worst and i mean worst deth wobble ive ever experianced.... Well as soon as i looked at the front end it came aparent what had failed. the only part that i have on my truck made by rock krawler is there bomb proof track bar, well aparently its not verry bomb proof. Now what happened is the threads in side the track bar and the treads on the shank of the hime joint failed and riped completly out of the track bar..... now I know what your thinkin, the jam nut wasent tight.... well your wrong I have personaly tightened the jam nut down on three seprate ocasions since the 4 months i have had the jeep done. including two days ago..... so after geting the jeep home i decided that i would give rock krawler a call and see if i couldent get it waranteed. After geting on the phone with a tech at rock krawler it became aparent to me that they have the rudest and most unprofessional tech staff ive ever incountered. I explained to the tech what happened and the reply i got was "well its not our fault that you dident tighten down the jam nut".... as you can probably imagine that realy offended me as i buld rock crawlers I'm no dumb a$$, I curently own 6 jeeps and saying that i dident tighten down the jam nut after i explaned that the jeep has been mticulously matained and I PERSONALY MADE SURE that the jam nut was tight 3 times in the last 4 months..... Realy now what kind of busness are they trying to run? Say what you want but I'm just trying to help other people keep on living and trying to help other fourm members stay away from there $hittY customer service....... so long story short I am fex exing them back there crap that they call bomb proof and chalking it up as a learning experiance, and buying some one elses track bar...... any sugestions?

Well First thanks for reading my rant but i feel this needs to be said to help other people stay away from rock krawler.... Now I know some of you will probably bash this tread but thats fine with me and i am in no way trying to be rude or blast a company, and for all I know the products that you guys have may be better quality but rock krawler almost killed me..... So I have an 88 jeep comanche, here's the buld tread on Comanche club if you care to look... viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24845 But so yesterday i was driving down I-10 and all of a suden i heard a loud snap and then all hell broke loose, i shot off over in to the fast land almost coliding with a semi and then over to the emergancy lane in a super wild fit of deth wobble. Now every thing on my jeep is brand new and maticusly mantained. Two days ago I got under the jeep and greased every thing and tightended every thing back down in anticipation for a trip to bridgeport ca that I'm about to take....... After leaving skidmarks in my seat i got out of the truck to see what had broken sending me in to the worst and i mean worst deth wobble ive ever experianced.... Well as soon as i looked at the front end it came aparent what had failed. the only part that i have on my truck made by rock krawler is there bomb proof track bar, well aparently its not verry bomb proof. Now what happened is the threads in side the track bar and the treads on the shank of the hime joint failed and riped completly out of the track bar..... now I know what your thinkin, the jam nut wasent tight.... well your wrong I have personaly tightened the jam nut down on three seprate ocasions since the 4 months i have had the jeep done. including two days ago..... so after geting the jeep home i decided that i would give rock krawler a call and see if i couldent get it waranteed. After geting on the phone with a tech at rock krawler it became aparent to me that they have the rudest and most unprofessional tech staff ive ever incountered. I explained to the tech what happened and the reply i got was "well its not our fault that you dident tighten down the jam nut".... as you can probably imagine that realy offended me as i buld rock crawlers I'm no dumb a$$, I curently own 6 jeeps and saying that i dident tighten down the jam nut after i explaned that the jeep has been mticulously matained and I PERSONALY MADE SURE that the jam nut was tight 3 times in the last 4 months..... Realy now what kind of busness are they trying to run? Say what you want but I'm just trying to help other people keep on living and trying to help other fourm members stay away from there $hittY customer service....... so long story short I am fex exing them back there crap that they call bomb proof and chalking it up as a learning experiance, and buying some one elses track bar...... any sugestions?

So I thought Id update this thread :wrench: I did get the bed lined and a new tool box in the bed of the truck, I don't have any pictures at the molment but I'm gonna be taking a @$$ load tomorow as i am bulding an on boars air system so ill definatly show youguys what i did. My main goal with the oba is of corse to air up my tires but ive had a secondary plan in the back of my head for a while and after i finish the oba i am going to be bulding a in cab misting system for the truck since i have never had ac in the truck.... I am thinking of running 2 to 4 nossles in the cab with a 2 1/2 gallon presure tank that is presurised by a line that comes off of my oba tank to a regulator that will be set at 90 psi..... for the presure tank i found something super cool and that will work perfect.... youll just have to stay tuned to see my new little side project....

o yeah buy some adjustable upper and lower arms and an ajustable track bar so that we can get the truck a little closer to sitting level and help thoes control arm angles!!!!!!!!!! Here check this guy out. http://www.ironman4x4fab.com/index.html or here http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Adjustab ... ccessories

Hey a$$ hole.... Trucks looking good.... Now If we could source a front bearing retaner for your ax 15 external slave swap we would be great :headpop: Check this out.... this is what it looks like this is the cheepest i could find it, I'm hoping that hank over at the jeep barn has one on that junk ax 15 that he has..... call me when you get this.... http://www.4wd.com/Front-Bearing-Retain ... CRO4636382

So I'm in the prosess of aquiring some 99 doors for my friends "slick rick project" I have some questions concerning the wiring..... I know that ill be modifying the door latches so that they will work, but my question is that we are going from maunal windows to the 99 power windows and locks.... Is there any write ups on this or can any one give me any information on how i neeed to aply power to the locks and window regulators....... Thanks in advance.....

so mr slick rick........ :dunno: but you might need this.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/97-01-00 ... ccessories

updates?????

hey a$$ ho!e check this out... viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19695 your gonna need it.... :wall: :shake:

epic failer,,,,,,

So its been a little while since i poasted any thing so i thought id update this to where my mj now sits. I realy havent done to much wrenching on the mj, just wheeling it and having fun with it. I did get around to installing the 1/4 guards and i finaly threw the front bumper back on the truck. I still need to have a windsheild installed and finish the paint job, and bed line the bed. so last weekend a few friends brought there crawlers and we went wheeling just outside las cruses nm in the robleto mtns. i decided to follow them up the tabasco twister ans on our way up to one of the main obsticales i fell off a bolder and nailed the passanger cab corner and bed side :mad: :wall: :doh: after geting to the first waterfall i ended up jumping in a friends buggie to finish all of the HUGE waterfalls. Ive also been working on my cj and a friends MJ project "slick rick" so time wrenching on my comanche has been a little thin. Ill be fabing up some sliders in the near future to kee that from hapening agian... o well...

I ran in to the same problem when i installed my stroker with the 99 intake and belt routing hiting the 88 timing cover, I just got a dremel in there and cut 1/2" off of the hole..... for what its wort :hmm: h

So i have a 88 jeep comanche. I bought the truck for 600.00 not running and have spent around 8000.oo on it to date. I installed a hisco 4.7 stroker and replaced every thing having to do with the cooling system ( I.E. water pump, both hoses, thermostat, CFS 3 cor copper radiator, hi flow thermostat housing and coolant sensor and guage coolant sensor.) now my problem is when i drive the truck it begins to get warm. I can get the truck to stay at about 230if i turn on the heater and it doesent get hot enughf to boil over but it definatly gets hot. If i don't turn on the heater it runs right at that last marc before the red. I just ordered a new zj HD fan clutch to see if that helps but i dout it will. Its weird because when its running hot if i turn the truck off i can touch the radiator and its hot on the top of it but at the bottom of the radiator it stays realy cool. I'm thinking that i have a colgged radiator som how. The electric fan is wired to a switch and i runn it all the time at this point to try and help the temp issue. The only thing that i don't have on the system is the heater bypass valve ( i got rid of it when i converted to the newer style rediator but i don't think that has any thing to do with my problem but hey it might) so should the radiator be warm from top to bottom or is it normal for the rradiator to have a variance of 30* or more from top to botom? I'm at witts end here and I'm looking for some good advice. I installed the radiator before installing the new motor and ran the old motor a few times with this radiator. when installing the new motor i flushed the heater cor and all kinds of nasty brown fluid came out wich leads me to belive that i may have clogged the new radiator since every thing else is new. I have checked and the thermostat is opening and closing like it should.... WTF do i do I want to wheel this thing but it doesent want me to........

moving right along..... SON

thats exzactly what i needed thanks :thumbsup:

Could i possibly get a copy from you so that i can trace that wire down? pm me and let me know....

So today i aquired a 98 xj sport that was in a front end colision . I bought it to convert the rest of my comanche to the 98 dash wiring and doors :clapping: . I picked it up for 800 dollars and it allready has a 4 1/2 lift and 33 the truck is a little bit dirty but i can clean it all up for the swap. Apon picking the xj up i was told by the kid that a drunk driver hit him (but i think that the drunk was behind the wheel and the rock wall was a victom in this case) but the front driverside is smashed, not bad as in i could replace the header pannel, and drivers fender and youd never tell it was wrecked its realy not that bad, however the airbags did deploy. he also told me that since the wreck the jeep won't start. I put it on the trailor and off i went. When i got home i put a new battery in it and tried to turn the key but all i got was a wire that decided to ground out coming from the ignition switch and burn up the wire. It dident eaven try to turn over or anything nither did the miles want to pop up on the gage cluster. I investigated the burnt wire and it seems to be a ground of some sort (black wire) it only burned for a few inches and luckily it dident butn any of the other wires. now i know that i am going to have to replace the wire and find out where it is shorting out before i go any further but i need a 98 xj FSM mainly for the wiring schematics, can any one help me out? now my next question is if the airbags deploy will that cut power to the rest of the truck or mainly how does the airbag system relate to the rest of the wiring? I'm going to go out there tomorow and pull the air bags out and find the sensor that set of the bags and see if i can get the system disconected to see if that helps my situation any, and try and breake down the wiring harness and sodet a new wire back in place of the burnt up one..... any help is greatly apreciated as allways.

na the beds not at an angle it just looks like that in the picture :dunno: Can I just say we kicked @$$ on striping this thing down today???? And You have to hate thoes things that previous owners do..... I realy need to get slick ricks number so i can give him a good ole :thwak: It was kind of crazy how bad the fuse box had become after all of the brake fluid had leaked all over it. We should be making some prity good progress on it but were limited to the weekends working on this one.... DAM THAT SLICKEST RICKEST..... :doh: So did you get any thing cool at the junk yard after leaving my house? Just a little insite the Robert for got to mention is that its geting a full ho conversion and the 99 front end and doors. I have yet to see the cherokee thats geting parted for this one but were going wheeling tomorow so we shal see, O Robert, Tell slickest rick torefrain from doing any " custom wiring on the XJ before we strip it down :shake:

I don't have any pic of what i did but i liquid nailed a peice of plywood to the top before i put my head liner in and as well as weging the speaker pod in the sides like the factory i also screwed in through the light to the ply wood to secure the center if that makes any sence :dunno:

Has any ne bult a gas tank skid for there mj? If you have please post a pic or 2 here so i can get some ideas on how I'm going to aproach that.... I am also going on a road trip in this truck as soon as its done and i will be going from here (el paso TX) to Las vegas nevada, then straight to seattle and then back down to moab ut and then back home so if your anywhere near where I'm going to be and have time to show a fello mj owner som off the beaten trail trails I AM SO IN pm me and let me know Ill be leaving here next month around the 16th and I'm going to take a month trip out of it.

I still have yet to show you guys what i have done with the interior so here it is... I ripped the bench seat out and installed some buckets out of a 99 xj and the center consoul out of a 95 xj country I also robbed the wood grain dash bezel and door trim for my truck. While i was at the junk yard i came across a rear speaker pod out of a 95 xj and it got me thinking on how i could mould it in to the head liner of the mj to get the spakers over head instead of behind the seats I have in stalled a 12" Kicker comp behind the passanger seat with a rockford fosgate 800W amp on the backer board. I installed my 12volt guy dual battery and winch pannel in the cab on the consoul where the parking brake in the xj would be. I also installed switches for the upcoming acessories in the front tray of the comsoul, I found the switch pannel in a conversion van that was in the junk yars and it has carlisle rockers in it and with with the heading at the top of the swich pannel i thought it would be a perfect fit. I will be installing a set of KC on the front bumper and front and rear rock lights, a york 210 air coperssor, under bed rail led lights the first switch on the pannel is a double throw switch so on position will control the kc lights and the other position will controll all of the rock lights. I also liquid nailed a peice of 1/2" ply wood to the roof and after i installed the head liner thats what i used to secure the CB. here's some pictures :clapping: I did get the truck partialy back together so i pulled it out of under the car port and took some pictures with it semi together, I still need to install the winch bumper back on to the truck. Before all of that i am going to have the paint finished, Its going to stay jet black on top and a dark gun metal metalic on the botom witha burgandy metalic center deviding stripe. I got the truck on to a trailor and over to the exzhaust shop to get a new wxzhaust backed up to the borella header. I have yet to get pics of that but i will soon i promase. after the exzhaust i decided that i was going to drive it home ( i still have no insurance papres on it or any kind of reg but i i don't mind riding dirty 2 miles home). I do have a problem with the ignition system or something. If I'm driving i can get the motor to wrap up to about 2000 rpms but then it stimbles and backfires prity bad. I'm a little dissapointed once agian but whats new, its allways something with this truck so it doesent suprise me. I tested all fo the sensors except the knock sensor and the 02 sensor and every thing test with in range so?????? :grrrr: I bought a new o2 sensor and knock sensor that I'm going to install but i suspect that the distributor may be at fault as i used the origonal one that was in the truck so it may have a bad pick up coil or may be out of spec on the play so :wall: I droped it off at a friends shop that has a DRBII scan tool so hes going to check it out and see if he can find the problem. I should note that it sits about 2" higher in the front than the back and lind of looks like a pre runner but i kind of like the look of it. I did order 2" AAL for the rear so if i decide to get it sitting leavle atleast i have the leafes around but I'm going to wait on that till after ive driven it for a bit. Here some pics of the truck as it sits right at the molment I'm loving it but i know ill love it more once i have a bit of time in the drivers seat.....

So ill start off with the axle since thats where i left off. I finaly got the unit bearings, ball joints and drilled brake rotors in so i slaped it all together an finaly finished. the ball joints were a little bit of a beotch but there now happy in there new home After completing the axle i dove head first in to geting the stroker buttoned up so that i could get it in to the mj I piched up a 99 intake from a friend of mine on a traid for a freshly rebult renix head and i allso got the newer style valve cover that has the better intenal baffeling system :brows: no cash needed I ordered the hisco tps adapter but i forgot to get a picture of it but i have to say that i feel a little raped as for under a 5$ peice of aluminum and a little machining..... 158 dollars later and my tps is where it needs to be I got the head installed on the short block and after torquing the head bolts down it seemed likt the motor came together quite quicly here's the old cranky motor coming out of the truck here's the beauty about to go in to place the last pic is right before i stuffed it in the truck I power washed the engine bay and cleaned the heater core before i put her home here's the the naked engine bay. I got the motor back in the engine bay and put the front end back together After geting the the front end back together i tried to start the truck but after two atemps i quickly realised that i had no fuel presure to the furl rail and after investigating it a little deeper i relised that i had adapeded the puel lines on the truck backwards. once that was complete i started the truck and followed the procedures in breaking in the cam 1800k rpm to 2000 rpms for about 20 miniutes. shuting the motor back down i continued to finish the long arm install and get the truck back on its own its own wheels and get that axel that i have been working on where it belongs... a few hours worth of work and here's some pics SO here's a parts list of the front suspenttion parts... NEW: roughf country xj long arm upgrade, Roughf country sway bar disconects, crown steel braded extended brake lines and roughf country shocks, Roughf country sway bar drop bracket Slightly used: rugged ridge HD cross over stering, RK bomb proof 6.5" to 8.0" track bar and bracket, M.O.R.E stering box brace and skyjacker 8" coils, ZJ stering box and zj pitman arm I also installed a ford power stering cooler to heep the pump happy when I'm dowing some slow 4 wheeling with the 33 that are curently on there... Theres also a ford trans cooler that i installed to keep the trans happy in the same situations.

So I'm uploading some pics on photobucket and ill be bringing you up to speed on whats been done and where the jeep curently stands... grab some pop corn :popcorn: and sit back.....