jage

you can put it anywhere you would put an image - right click, save to your computer and upload to imageshack or whereever and if anyone asks you paypaled me a lot of money for it.

I can use my quickair I to seat a bead. Speed has nothing to do with it.

you need to find some image software that supports animated gif format. a lot will open and animated gif as the first frame and ruin the animation. i use seriously outdated software (Imageready 1.0 and PaintShopPro 6.0) that you probably can't even find anymore, but if you dig around the shareware/freeware sites you should be able to find something that you can use. look under animated gif as the software usually lists functions. or you can ask around for some more contemporary suggestions on software.

I make 'em, mostly from scratch, and everybody else makes 'em from mine. http://www.jage.com/smilies/ oh and this is the last one for awhile, we're going to have one for every person on the board soon :)

And before anyone asks (I know it's coming) ... longbed:

This is from last weekend...

Chopping and redoing the frame, moving the rear spring mounts for XJ leaves and relocating the gas tank... not even considering the modifications to the bed, you might as well go truggy for all that work.

I use fiberglass either 4' or 2' depending mount with a spring base, I get it all from a truckstop. Never had tree problems thanks to the spring and my nephew hangs on the one on the back of my TJ and lets it go, so it's not weak. the only issue is that the spring rusts, then again everything rusts here...

ah ha, knew I'd seen this before: http://comancheclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2261&highlight=ground+frame

you should find somewhere to FTP the file, something that isn't a free image hosting site (they'll resize it) that way you can cram up a huuuuge file and he can download it. i'm curious, when you say rendering are you talking airbrush, painting or 3D computer rendering?

maybe these will help (haha):

i need to double check the rules, but i think you're allowed to be around here without actually currently owning a comanche...

I measured from the front spring hanger bolt on the MJ to the axle horizontally and then from the front spring bolt on the 8" XJ spring where the axle would sit to see how changing the spring to an XJ would affect my axle location... so I thought it might help BARILLMS to know the distance between an XJ front hanger bolt and the axle (center of tube maybe?) so that he could figure out how much stock XJ springs would move the axle forward. My measurments really aren't valid because I measured one spring loose and one spring on the MJ. I'd be curious what the measured difference in axle location actually is. Hope that makes more sense this time...

welcome! there's plenty of info on here already consider the short bed vs. long bed, but you're alredy on the right track (In my opinion) with the I6, '90, and 4wd up front. Wouldn't you know I've got a 2wd 2.5L 88 being converted to 4wd... :)

tires blah blah blah, nice and what all blah blah... I just want to say thanks for starting with photos! :brows: Those are pretty sweet looking.

From my rough measurements my 8" XJ springs will only move the axle forward about an inch on a short wheelbase MJ... anyone have an XJ they can check stock sitting flat and get some real numbers in the books? The easiest thing is probably to accept that you're wheeling a long bed and just go wheel it. However, I would think if you can build buggy springs, why not? Move the front perch and build buggy springs, where you lose in up travel from the frame hump you gain in buggy-spring droop. But I don't know anything about buggy springin, and I'm all for you just trying whatever to let us know how it went so take it with a grain of salt. :nuts:

yeah alex it was probably what you said. don't know why i thought it was gloss/flat or gloss/semigloss not gloss metallic... oh well here's that photoshop of my XJ:

what would be really awesome, but hard to do is the new U.S. Marine camo: I have a mockup somewhere of my XJ with bright orange and black tiger stripes. It would be "as easy" to do as 3 color camo. Also read, probably on CC.com, about doing gloss black over flat black (like gloss flames) gives you a ghost effect. You could do something like that with camo shape or tiger stripes (or stripes or nekkid trucker lady hood design) but you get into masking that way. I've done gray with black stripes and black with white stripes before. White Rustoleum goes well over the black and straight stripes are about the easiest thing to mask. It looks like canada's navy's color is a dark blue too, maybe a navy blue MJ with yellow letters. You could also go with the dual headlight clip and woodie side panels. If you come up with a cool idea and want a mockup I can probably give you an idea of what it will look like, or if you need painting tips... let me know. Love the ideas from everybody too, I need to come up with paint for my MJ someday...

Try changing this: fadeimages[0]=["mjclub_01.jpg", "images/mjclub_01.jpg", "_new"] fadeimages[1]=["mjclub_02.jpg", "images/mjclub_02.jpg", "_new"] To this: fadeimages[0]=["images/mjclub_01.jpg", "images/mjclub_01.jpg", "_new"] fadeimages[1]=["images/mjclub_02.jpg", "images/mjclub_02.jpg", "_new"]

if you do it you have to email me about it, i'll keep the stories confidential but I'd like to collect some good ones :)

What the guys from top gear didn't figure was how much mud had to be strategically flung on the whole truck to convincingly cover the plate...

There was a local woman on the news who got rear ended because as soon as the light turned yellow she slammed on her brakes because she knew there was a camera and was so afraid to get a ticket she stopped without considering the guy on her tail. They said that T bone accidents are down at intersections with a camera, but rear-endings are up just as much. Those cameras piss me off- it's too freaking big brother, and you can't even discuss it. There's just that pic and no info about what happened immediately before it. Have some fun, rent the same color car someone you hate drives and steal their license plate in the middle of the night. Go cruise a camera light or two, bolt the plate back on when you're done and turn in the rental. They won't have a leg to stand on.

Thread Jack! Nice looking avatar Jeepthing07 ... you got other pics of that truck? (I'm too lazy to look :)

You're speaking Autozoneze http://jage.com/?p=39 I have three other stories: 1. I have an F250 and 3 jeeps. I buy all the oil and filters I need at Pep Boys and then change out all the oil at once. I go to take back the used oil and the guy is like "we can only take 10 quarts" or something. he was being hard @$$ about it, even though I had my reciept. they lost my business for a year for that. 2. I was driving to Pep Boys and saw some of their service tech "working" on a car in the parking lot. I stopped to watch as they repeatedly jammed a big flat blade screwdriver between the window and weatherstrip DOWN INTO THE DOOR ITSELF because they'd locked the keys in the car and didn't want to admit that to the owner. I swore I'd never take any vehicle to Pep Boys. 3. The Ford dealership I had my F250 Superduty worked on at last week pulled a "by the way your rear brake pads are shot. Don't take any long trips before fixing them". Everything else looked great they said, they even gave me a sheet. I contemplated doing them myself, just slapping some pads on instead of doing dealership prices. Unfortunately, I'm trying to sell my house. All the tools are packed up except one small toolbox, the aircompressor is drained and parked, the jack is buried. So I called Pep Boys. I don't know I was in an idiot mood. It's almost akin to calling Rusty's for something, but I figured I'd ask. The guy on the phone says, "Sure, we'll put rear pads on only." And I clarified several times, because I wanted to be sure *all* they would do is the rear pads. I was impressed so I made an appointment for today at 10 am. I roll in and go up to the service desk. I tell the guy I have an appointment to get rear pads put on, and he says something about inspecting "all four corners" and I'm like, "I just had this at the dealership, only the rear pads are bad" and he insists that they're going to inspect the front too. I explained again why they didn't need to inspect it. He said they had to inspect "all four corners". I said, "Look I don't want you doing anything to the front, I just want the rears done" And he repeats and I say, no, you're not doing anything to the front and he says, we're going to look at "all four corners". I feel like we're playing "I know you are but what am I"? I can't, as the customer, tell the service guy NOT TO TAKE APART MY FRONT END? I suppose they think I can't tell them not to work on it once they find dire problems with the front end either. What a total a-hole. I said, "Alright, have a nice day then." And I walked away and took it back to the dealership. And kicked myself. And swore once again not to go to Pep Boys for anything.