DirtyComanche

Valid point.

"Shaved" tailgates are all the rage with some groups, although I agree, the Jeep stamping on it is what makes it cool.

Red flag, restored by an aircraft mechanic. :rotf: It's easy to get that much money into something, if you actually stop and add up the bills. I wouldn't have done the build that way, but to each his own..

Apparently it's still out there, and is seen maybe once a year. Or so I've been told, I haven't seen a recent photo or video of it.

A few years as in oh, 2001? Yes, it's been that long. :laughin:

Chainlink buggy. Posting it requires me to reply to you by saying "Welcome to the internet."

Wow, that sucks. It could be repaired but it wouldn't be the easiest job.

Turned out it was failed ubolts. On one side they had stretched out at some point, and began working in the spring plate. Due to the nuts being rust seized I didn't catch it the last time I retorqued them, or it started since then. Anyways, the ubolts wore down until one or more of them failed, which allowed the factory spacer block to come loose and the rear axle to steer me around. They had a very clear wear taper on them that was corroded, and then a clean break where the remaining material (not much at all, 5/16" maybe) failed. Not really something that you can drive out of at highway speed. The Dodge setup with a large lift block from the factory didn't help.

Not really worth it in his case.

There is gold honeycomb and snowflake style wheels. They're terrible.

Yup. And with the older demand regulated propane setups you need very little wiring. The only wires I needed were to power the ignition, and for the starter and alternator, since I used a vacuum lockoff and you only really need the primer when the engine is quite cold. Don't get me wrong, I was happy with my setup, but it was a wheeler only at that point. Swapping bottles is a pain in the @$$ if you're driving on the street, and most permanent tanks that will fit a Comanche are bed mount and take up a ton of space.

It's not the power cut that's the issue, it's that it takes you that much more fuel to get somewhere; a gallon of propane will only get you at best 80% as far as a gallon of gasoline. There also tends to be other losses as MPFI (even the Renix setup) is quite efficient when it comes to controlling the A/F ratio, whereas the older demand regulated propane setups are just not that good. When I did my conversion I used an Offenhauser (sp?) intake meant to put a 4 barrel carb on a 258 (I just modded it a bit) and an Impco 425 mixer, Model E regulator, and a VFF30 lockoff. I don't feel there was any appreciable power loss compared to running the Renix setup with the restrictive intake manifold and throttle body. I did spend some time trying to get the timing dialed in as well as possible too, which is a big thing, you will need a good dial back timing light to do this as you're going to be running a lot of advance.

Be careful with propane appearing cheap. It has only 80% of the BTUs as the same amount of gasoline. To use a GM HEI, IIRC, you need to get an inline 6 version and you need the drive gear off an AMC 360 distributor. I don't know if other models will work or not, it was years ago when I did mine, but the info is out there as it was a common swap into carbed CJs and YJs.

That was an actual dual fuel setup. I'm not a fan of them. But if you just want to run it as a propane only setup I would pull all of the Renix EFI stuff, just leave the injectors and rail to plug the holes in the intake manifold, and drop a GM HEI distributor in it. That would be basically the best setup in regards to power and reliability. Why do you want to run propane?

I need more details to tell you anything useful. Pictures of what you have and info on how it was installed on the Cherokee.

:thumbsup: Yup, it's just mangled metal now. It didn't owe me anything anyways. Thanks for all the kind words guys. I survived the weekend road trip too, actually had a really good time and was just as happy to be out doing stuff.

I'm just riding as a passenger, which is good. I already told my friend that we're going to have to stop at every pullout/lookout/rest stop/gas station so I can stretch. :crossfingers:

Good advice that. I'm definitely an offender, especially when just running errands around town. This will change now. Were you fairly close to home when this happened Dirty? I think the statistic is that 75% of all fatal accidents happen within 25 miles of home. Like 5 minutes down the road. I think I left at 7:20am and the text I sent to my shop supervisor to say I wouldn't make it was at 7:28am. You get complacent on roads you know well and drive every day.

Thanks man. :cheers:

Yeah, I'm hoping my head is okay, I didn't really hit it on anything that I know of. My neck is sore now, along with a bit of my torso, but otherwise I'm feeling fairly decent. Just drained though, it was a long fawking day. I managed to get the truck towed to my buddy's, unfortunately the towing company would not touch it without a flag team to direct traffic. The traffic control team charged $360 for the two of them to put some signs out, then wave at each other, they didn't even have radios... The tow was free though, so whatever. Hopefully the stitches are all still good, haven't pulled the gauze yet to look. Of course they tell you to take it easy and I don't even thinking about it and use the stitched up arm to yank the ebrake on my JK, and to try to turn the wheel on the dead truck so it would track straight. :doh: I have to go to Edmonton tomorrow, which is bad timing, but hopefully I survive. Anyways, wear your seatbelts, I'd be dead if I hadn't.

It's a 99. I'm there now and it is turning free, but it took a hell of a hit. So who knows.

Thanks guys. Still waiting to get stitched up. One of my friends wants the engine to trans adapter off the truck, so I'm going to try to get it towed to his place when I get out of here. We might be able to figure out what happened then. Ya never know, I could just be a terrible driver.

But could have been way worse. Driving to work this morning and I rolled my Dodge. I think the brakes locked up or something let go or seized in the rear axle. Just touched the brakes and it suddenly went completely nuts, uncontrollable skid, damp pavement but not anything crazy and I wasn't going that fast. Went in sideways and flipped onto the roof and crushed it down into me pretty hard. I managed to wiggle out the side, remembered to get my keys too. And now I'm waiting for stitches for my arm. Hopefully they get to me soon.... Been waiting an hour so far. So anyways, guess I have to actually get my MJ together because I need a truck.

Close. Closer than a lot of things.

Fill it through the shift tower if you have to... But yeah, it's always good advice to make sure you can put fluid in before draining fluid out.