89MJComanche

Right. don't need any lift to run 30x9.50 on the street, disco the sway bar and stuff the tires and turn the wheels and it will rub like hell. What are these springs from Carquest that you speak of?? Rusty's stuff sucks period. JKS adjustable and RE-Adjustable will both work with 1" suspension, but I still have to address the egg shaped hole in the frame mounting bracket.

I need to replace all of the following on the rig that I just bought. Front D30 with 3.55 gears Coil Springs 4 Shocks Track Bar Track Bar Mounting Bracket (Frame Mount) Steering Stabilizer Tie Rod ends and Drag Link I would like to build a mild hybrid 2" lift that will fit 30x9.50's. I have been looking around for parts. OME builds 2.5" coils and HD Stabilizers and shocks. But no one else really makes any replacement HD parts for the rest of the stuff. I need a new track bar and a new track bar mounting bracket. I don't want to use SKYJACKER TYPE. Any suggestions??

You only have to fix the headliner boad with the duct tape long enough to get the coach works to re-cover it with new foam backed upholstry and to get it back up into the cab of the truck. Unless it is broken into 2 or 3 large pieces, the DUCT tape will work just fine. As for duct tape only lasting 2 or 3 weeks, the stuff that I put on my furnace in my house 3 years ago it just fine. The duct tape on the front my of girl friends old Honda Civic, that her sister now owns, has been on there for 3 years holding the lower part of the bumper together. Quit buying your duct tape at the dollar store and get a good $10 roll of 3M stuff from the hardware store.

So you are admitting to shade tree mechanic skills in going to the auto parts store to get vacume hose and fabbing your own lines. You and I just goto different places to get the replacement parts.

You could always goto the dealership and buy new parts. While handling your wallet and nearly drowning at the checkout, you better start to paddle faster if you hear banjo music. Wait... Wrong Cliche.... If you don't want to get screwed up the A$$ don't goto the dealer. They all play banjo music.

You gotta look at it this way... If they did have a truck still it would be nothing more than a RAM with a different body, probably IFS, and a whole lot of other crap that none of us really want in a JEEP

JUST FYI

Alright, It is August 11th today The 26th is like 2 weeks away, and Labor Day is 3 weeks away. The other day I got my 10 year high school reunion invatation in the mail and it is on the 26th. Thanks for the advanced notice. So here is the deal. Labor Day Weekend IS THE DATE Ohiopyle Pennsylvania Ohiopyle State Park Friday Night or Early Saturday Morning Arrival!!! I need an immediate FIRM head count to secure camping arraingements for us at 1 of 3 local camp grounds that we will use as a launch pad for the weekend. If your MJ won't run, bring the XJ or the YJ or the TJ or even your Honda. No Hummers except those given by dirty girls at the local bar. Here is the list of things that you need to bring. 1. TENT or Topper on the MJ (there will be skeeters so you must have something to sleep in) 2. SLEEPING BAG or BAGS ( plural is not for your fat @$$ but for your G/F if she is tagging along) 2a. Sleeping Pad 2b. Camp Pillow 3. Swimming Trunks (for rafting or swimming) 4. River Sandals (Chaco-Teva type, or your old Nike jogging shoes, no one goes down river with me without sandals or sneakers, goto walmart and get an $8 pair) 5. Warm Clothes for at night 6. Flip Flops or after sport clogs for showers or what ever. 7. BYOS... that is right, BRING YOUR OWN STEAK, or chicken or chops or what ever you wish to eat. I recommend freezing it solid a day or 2 before. I will supply the Coleman Road Trip Grille for cooking, along with a bag of potatoes and a half buschel of corn on the cob. We can cook the potates and corn on the camp fire. 8. BYOB... Beer or Beverages or what ever B stands for. 9. Nalgene Bottle, or watter bottle with a strap or hook to tie into raft. 10. Towell and shower supplies. State park has showers, camp grounds have showers. Here is what I can plan for everyone for the weekend. First off there have been 2 recent access closures to the wheeling area that is about 15 miles away. I have not been there since the closures. I am trying to make a run there this Saturday or Sunday to scope out the changes. I am not going to promise anything... so if we don't get to go wheeling, we can do something else on Sunday. My Itinerary would be set up as follows. Saturday River Rafting Trip on the LOWER Yough River. Rental Rafts at a cost of $50 per raft, 4, 5 or 6 per raft. We will take the total number of people divide the raft $$ total by that number. I have worked on this river for 7 years so I am your complimentary guide staff for the day. If you don't want to raft, inflatable Kayak's will be avaliable for about $20 per person. If you don't want to paddle the white water, you can divert to the Middle Yough 9 miles up stream and paddle 9 miles of flat water in a craft of your choice (great trout fishing and small mouth bass section) Each person is responsible for about $5 additional for launch permit fees and shuttle tokens at the take out. I am willing to pack standard american cold cuts for however many people are going so that we can eat lunch half way on the river. We will split the cost of this meal by the number of people on the trip. Sorry no alcohol on the river. Sunday would be the day for the wheeling trip as we can get out early, and by 1 or 2 O-Clock you have seen it all... plenty of time to head home or stay till Monday. If we can't go wheeling, there are natural water slides, lots of rocks for sunbathing and drinking from your nalgene, learn to kayak white water, canoe the middle yough, hike the short hiking loops inside the park, chill with all of the Jeeps taking up spaces in the State Park's main parking lot, or ride bicycles, or play frisby golf, or wiffle ball or something else. Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water and Kentuck Knob are within 5 miles of Ohiopyle. Monday Anyone who wants to stay till Monday could go rafting on the UPPER YOUGH RIVER, a class V dam release run in western Maryland about 30 miles away. Several companies from Ohiopyle run this river and I will negotiate a generous discount off the price of this trip (usually $120) for you. I highly recommend this trip, and hopefully I can get the cost down to about $75 per person. Format is 3 customers and a guide in a 6 man raft. Off the river around 4:00pm plenty of time to drive home. If you like this kind of stuff, this is your big chance to go big. This is the best rafting run in the east. IMHO it beat the Gauly river in West Virginia. 1 mile of this river drops over 200 feet. OK SO WHO IS IN!! I NEED A HEAD COUNT BY AUGUST 18th

My company has an open Rubicon Express account that does not get much use because they gouge me at the price point I am at. However I have recently open some communication with them on group buys that would total close to $5000 and they like the idea. So here is the deal. THE MSRP on the MJ 5.5 w/SOA Kit RE 6500 is $1279. Almost no one stocks the kit so the only way to get it is to order from RE direct. If I could save you guys over $300 off that price could we get 4 to 5 people to order kits?? If we can hit the $5000 mark the shipping is free on a pallet to 15301 or I can take the freight shipping amount as a direct discount to the drop ship prices directly to you, that is why I am suggesting this number. Otherwise regular shipping rates, approx $100 per kit would apply. PM me if seriosuly interested. I would need a conditional refundable deposit to cover 10% plus the shipping costs what ever they work out to be. Anyone??

I think that some times I try to be the simple one here... Take your fat @$$ off your computer chair and go down to each of your favaroite fast food joints and or bar and get different size straws. Then cut a section of drinking straw that is closets to size of the hose that will slip over the outside of each piece. Then wrap it with vynl tape and whalla problem solved.

Honestly, I did 1 head job. For $189 at my local machine shop, I'd just pull that thing off, take it, the valve cover, the oil pan, and the little flutes that go inside the valve cover all down to the shop and them to hot tank all that $#!& off and re-do the head for you real quick. If you engine is that bad throughout you should consider using a semi synthetic like Valvoline Max Life. I'd change the oil at 1000 mile intervals the first 2 or 3000 miles that you drive it after the work and the detergent should clean some of that out.

You guys are making this way to hard. If you have a broken headliner just fix it with duct tape. The headliner is supposed to be plyable not rigid like fiberglass resin is going to make it. If you need to reinforce it just cut out some pieces of an XJ headliner and lay them over the MJ headliner where it is broken and use plyable spray adhesives or still use duct tape. The headliner must be plyable to put it back in. I have the old headliner from my 1989 MJ. I took it out years ago. I am going to clean up the fiberglass and then I am going to coat the inside of it with the spray on truck bedliner product that I am a dealer for and then put it back into the 1987 that I just bought that is missing the fabric off of it's liner. I'll let you guys know how this turns out. Aaron

OK, I am about to pick a date, either the 26th of August, or the Labor Day weekend. As for distance from Paragon, it is about 3.5 hours from Paragon. It is close to Uniontown Pennsylvania for those of you who need a real town to Google. Opinions on Labor Day Weekend?? My plan would be for the group of us to go White Water Rafting on Saturday or Sunday (labor day weekend) at a cost of $50 per six man raft plus $2.50 launch permit and $2.50 shuttle token. So divide $50 by either 4 5 or 6 and add $5 and that will give you the cost. Helmet's and Life Jackets will be provided for the $50 cost. No Alcohol allowed inside state park, there are pubs and private places to drink after the trip. Depending on the number of people who will attend I would be willing to provide a packed lunch (cold cut smorgasboard and drinks) to take down the river with us for probably an additional $4 per person. I'll provide the coolers and the dry bags to pack the lunches in. As for a wheeling trip, we can wheel in the Indian Creek Mouth area that I spoke of earlier in this post. It is really a quick trip, only a few miles long, a few small water crossings, 1 rickety old railroad bridge to cross, and a few small rock gardens. I am not real concearned about wheeling personally as my own stock rig probably won't have front axle repairs before that weekend so I would be forced to have her drive one of the other rigs. I was much more interested in just getting together with those of us that have this obsession with these trucks for a little camping and fun for the weekend.

wow. lots of bad info in this post. 2 Door XJ flares are the same as MJ flares. 4 door XJ flares have a slightly smaller rear flare to fit around the rear door. The will not work by bolting up directly. However if you chop up anything will work

PS Johnstown PA has got to be one the worst local places in PA other than say Somerset or Donegal for road Salt. I bet the floor boards in the truck are shot!!

OK guys... I am trying to nail down a date to do this!! Dates are filling up quick on everyone's calenders. August 12th, 19th, or 26th are the choices. I am voting for the 19th or 26th, and it looks like alot of folks can't make it on the 19th so... August 26th?? Yea or Na??

Post the business name and the phone number for your boss... or PM me.

I am going to get 4 retread mudders for on my MJ and I have this set of Rubicon Moab Wheels that I paid $200 for back in March sitting around here that were supposed to get Retread 265 MTR's on them and the retread place could not get the MTR Casing into there 265 mold. So I decided to just go buy a cheap set of 33x12.50x15 and put them on black steel wheels to share between the Rubicon and my Big XJ. Now that you have the background info. I want to know what 16" tire size will run well with the MOABS on a stock MJ. I have a choice between 225x75xR16 and 235x85xR16. I would like to the the 235's but I am concearned that the 85 aspect in the profile is going to be to tall and I am going to get alot of rubbing. Anyone run that 235x16 size?? Thanks

Off Exit 90 something on the PA TPK. It is about 3.5 hrs from Erie. Are you on Erie Jeep People .com??

Just get rid of the escort and pick up a cheap XJ. They get nearly the same gas mileage and the XJ is more reliable and way cooler

I was thinking, as I have done before, it would be fun to get together and meet everyone that could make it to a weekend camping outing. There is some very minor wheeling in the area where I am thinking about. Lets make a date at the middle or end of August for a weekend to get together at Ohiopyle State Park in Pennsylvania and camp out at either a local camp ground or the State Park camp ground with all of the MJ Owners. We could take a white water trip together on Saturday or Sunday and we could go wheel along the Yough River at the wheeling area's that are close to Indian Creek and the Connellsville Rock Quary? This would also give Peter Monte a chance to come down to PA and get these short bed MJ bedliners out of my sight. Anyone?? What weekend??

OK The last few XJ D44's that I have picked up at the local U-Pull it have been without brake hardware, drums, etc. I checked into the price for new stuff to equip an XJ D44 with new brake parts and the cost is near $500 to rebuild both sides. I am wondering, if I switch the back plate, can I run XJ brake parts from the D35 or the 8.25?? and what is with the CROWN VIC brake swap thing that I keep hearing about? does that equip the D44 with rear discs?? I am going to rebuild an XJ D44 to put in my new MJ when the RE SOA gets here. Will probably opt for keep the 3.55's for now as the budget won allow for 4.56 gears and lockers yet, but this MJ is going to be my DD work truck. I will be swapping the front D30 at the same time because it has a torn off shock mount on the drivers side. Wierd that this MJ is so rust free but the sock mounts and even the track bar mount are rusted away on the axle. I will probably opt for a newer XJ front axle, hopefully a 1999, the newest HP that I can get. Thanks a bunch guys. Pete Monte, thanks for putting this forum up. Reminds me of the good old days when we had 29 web sites in the Jeep Comanche Webring that I used to run. Lets have a Comanche Club Meet and Green Adventure Weekend this summer... lets just throw it together quickly... Ohiopyle State Park in PA would be great, we can camp out Friday night and Saturday night, we can go white water rafting on the lower Yough with yours truley as the honerable complimentary guide staff and we can hit the local river Pub for some evening entertainment.

First things first is a good detail and cleaning job to be completed today. Then it is gonna get prepped and sprayed with a vortex spray on liner since I am the owner of 2 mobile operations that apply that brand of liner for local truck dealerships. I hope to have my moabs and Gumbo Mudder GYMTR Retreads back by next week and RE should have my lift here soon. What tire size is everyone running with th RE 'manche lift?? I want to run retreads and the local place only makes the mud tread up to 245 16 and 31 15" The make 265x16 in an AP tread that is kinda like the old goodyear wrangler tire, not such a great tread in my opinion, but for $40 per tire I can beat it. Will an MJ look ok with the RE SOA and 31" tires?

I have been looking for some time, and today I kind found the right, not so right MJ and bought it. 1987 LWB. Not sure of the trim level, but it has rubber floor mats, vynl seat, AW4, and no exterior decals or cladding. It has had some minor body work done on the cab doors and fenders but over all it is in relativly good shape. The only rust spot is the typical spot above the rear fender flare but it is only on 1 side. After I detail it up, add a mild lift, some Rubicon MOAB's and GY MTR Gumbo Mudder Re-treads in the 245 flavor, a new front axle, because the shock mount is rusted and torn completly off on the drivers side, I will be ready to roll. I'll post a pic later.... right now it is already getting put to use hauling branches and pine needles and scrap lumber from my current house flip project. Do I need to change my username now?? Or since I still have the 1989 in a basket case right now can I keep it??