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ive got an '88 2wd and i just found some 33x12.5x15 that are semi local. i know that if i get them, I'm going to do 2" coil spacers up front and AAL in the rear before installing, but my question is will 12.5" be too wide for my turning radius? i know someone out there has had to have done it, and i KNOW people have done 33x10.5s. anyone got pics? I'm open to trimming my fenders and will be taking my flares off... ...and yes, i know i will be lacking much power with the 4cyl and 3.55 gears, but it won't always be that way :wrench:

ive been finding 5.9L's for $400 pulled at JYs

glad to see the 5.9L magnum fits well...I'm considering the same. though, I'm wanting to mate it to an NV3500 tranny to keep the manual shift :thumbsup:

nope...at least half of those colors don't match up. :dunno:

lmao no that IS hilarious i cracked up just reading it and imagining it i must say, seatbelts can be quite awesome. though i was gripping that handle so hard when we stopped rolling that even after unbuckling, i was still sitting in my seat....and i was on the top side

well sorry for your luck with yours and yes, were quite glad as well...same with our parents haha though even today, its still funny how many times he apologized. i couldnt help but laugh. i know i had a good time doin it

oh wow you definitely had some bad luck with yours...what year was it? his was an '03 ...and well, he was still a bit over-confident. his had semi-fresh tires up front but old ones in the back on a bone stock spec-v and we were taking a sharp 90 degree turn at 65+ :fool: :thwak: :doh: :shake: :nuts: :wall: :no: (thats my guestimated speed from the passenger seat) i had just finished a text and only had a split second to calculate and think before i decided to grab the "oh $#!&" handle and ride it out because i knew we were gonna lose it....especially when i felt the back end come loose. but when i saw that huge ditch, i knew we would be upside down at one point lol still a very fun experience and thanks to seatbelts, i managed to crawl out of the windshield with nothing but a bruise on my shoulder :thumbsup:

hey everyone I'm wondering if anybody has a wiring diagram for the radio wires on an '88. i know they changed the colors just about every year for some reason and I'm not having any luck searching online. but i included a picture so maybe thatll help. so theres 2 black wires, a red with a brown stripe, a green wire, a white wire, a black with a yellow stripe, a purple with orange stripe, a blue with a white stripe, an orange with a black stripe, a green with a white stripe, a brown, brown with white, and a white with black ...soooo...... :help: ?

got LOTS of pics for ya guys with this one. i got a lot of work done today. i would have finished the entire floor but i ran out of MIG wire and with about a dollar left in my accound, i figured id wait til tomorrow (payday) to get some more. so i hooked up all the fuel lines and got to take 'er for a spin after all the hard work first off, let me show you where I'm getting my sheet metal from :brows: ...havent spent a dime on metal yet. here's my buddys sentra se-r that we flipped a few months ago. my friend isnt quite the driver he thought he was :shake: but it was quite a fun experience anyways, i would have taken some metal from the roof or floor, but its at a storage unit and i didnt have access to an air compressor, so i took a fender that was toast. i started cutting it up and actually got more sheet metal from it than i thought i would ...sure, it may be a lot of work to cut up the fender into useable pieces and flatten it all out and get rid of the body lines, but its free metal! :banana: and since i was in that car when we rolled it, ive got a story to go along with my new floor :yes: buttttt anyways, here's before the first patch was made today of course the side of the tranny hump has all these different angles and bends, so on the right side of the frame rail, i had to make about 5 different patches. but it actually turned out pretty good in the end that big flat patch in the pics of me cutting up the fender was for this next one on the left side of the frame rail ..tacked in.. ..and i almost finished welding in this top piece under the pedals but i ran out of MIG wire. its pretty close though. thats it for today, hopefully ill make some more progress tomorrow or within the next week

just wanna add this pic....ive gotten pretty much nowhere recently, but took this pic and love it lol this is true flinstone's style!

sounds simple enough :cheers: i know the floorpan went flat across the top of the frame rail...that part was GONE when i started tearing apart. it was literally like a gum wrapper. i was mainly focused on the raised part that goes over the frame rail. it could just be that i was dealing with such weak metal all day due to the cancer so that peice only FELT like a higher strength steel. idk what to do yet...at least as far as the frame rail goes. ill need a flat piece covering everything regardless so ill start with that.

problem is I'm gonna need like four hundred bucks for new tags. i figure ill finish the floor, reconnect the fuel lines and do a good brake job, then get it registered and drive it to work and such as I'm getting other stuff done on it. as far as the floor goes, i wasnt expecting the top part of the frame rail to be as rotted out as it was. its gone now as you can see from the pics. the frame rail itself is clean enough to eat off of and definitely has its structural integrity, but that top peice that goes over the floorpan is gone. only in the front, though. i honestly don't think this truck is going to spend much time on the road. maybe for a year or two if that. that top peice has to be a high-strength steel rather than mild but does anyone think it would be suicidal (safety-wise as far as the vehicles structural integrity) for me to just weld in some mild steel to make an actual 'floor' and maybe a double layer or something over the frame rail? i know it will look odd, but I'm going to do the floor in herculiner and someday convert to 4x4 (probably) obviously it will not hold up to factory specs, but i don't think that one-foot section will make that much of a difference. itll be a sturdy floor and quite honestly, i think i would be f****d either way if I were to get T-boned in this thing

Alright so i finally dropped my fuel lines and started cutting out some cancer on the driver side. not much to say about it...just some pics that speak for themselves actually i didnt even cut anything out yet. just a lil bit of grinding then prying and breaking off the bigger pieces of rotted out metal. i must say, I'm anxious to finish the floor just so i can hook up the fuel lines again just to hear it run. its killin me to have it sittin there and i can't even crank 'er up ..as always, more to come

ill just say that if you go with it, there were A LOT of GM cars and trucks that used that motor in the 80s. just to name a few, it was offered in 1st gen s10 blazers/s15 jimmys, camaros, firebirds, chevy celebrity, buick century, chevy cavalier, etc. etc.

damn that really sucks :fs1: i meant not registered as in no tags...and saying that about all the alcohol in the post lol but you prove a good point and even though i have the title, its not in my name yet...

...good thing its not registered or road worthy...

did a lil somethin today to the jeep i didnt think i would end up doing. i got rid of the "KTOC" sticker on the back window. (those were initials) oh and an edit to any post where i mentioned i got this MJ from my girlfriends dad, make it ex-girldriends dad :( ...so any concern about the 4 banger, 4spd, 4x2 not making it through the snow doesnt matter anymore. i will not be moving to ohio.. (not that i was worried at all about getting stuck)

...talk about :hijack: this could be argued as my fault...sorryyy

hey i was just in orange city today hah. thats where my girlfriends dad lives...he gave me my mj. towed it to titusville

:agree: i never in my life thought i would ever even SIT in a comanche let alone own one but ill never forget the night i was at work and my girlfriend texted me saying her dad was gonna scrap his and told her she could beat it up in the woods. it was like fate...that jeep needed someone to save its life and i came to the rescue. just seeing a picture for the first time i fell in love with it. before then, never even cared for them

just because i forgot i took this pic the other day and found it on my phone, here the 'manche sits...with a delicious 5 buck box from taco bell sitting on the hood :banana:

sounds good as long as you're not in a hurry to get back lol even taking the backroads through town, I'm still tempted to run some people over ...you ought to see one on a clear NIGHT from here...

yeah, its a shame though i won't miss the traffic. itll take you 3 hours to get 2 miles after a launch here in titusville. how well can you see it from where you are? I'm probably 4 miles from the river and the river is 8 miles across. i live right off of highway 50 so if you take 50 straight to the river and look directly across, youll see the VAB and the launch pads...

ohh hah I'm pretty sure it was replaced not too long before the jeep came into my posession

thanks! and yeah, it is just the floor. all I'm worried about is getting it all sealed up really. and the fact that i can support all of my weight on one of any of the patches is a good sign. i no longer have my carpet...I'm still thinking herculiner. probably gray to cut down on heat and to match the interior. but whether i do that or get a new carpet, the floor and my bad welds will be covered up :cheers: ..i don't see how my engine bay is too clean though... :dunno: theres still some areas with about a centimeter thick of grease, grime, and oil still on it that i didnt want to hose down