DirtyComanche

Not exactly! Certain years had a TTB Dana50 instead, I do believe. And newer ones don't have Dana axles anymore, I think... But you don't want them anyways, as said, the bolt pattern is weird. The best* is the 77-79 HPD60's with kingpins; the pumpkin is also in an ideal place to not screw things up (pinion winds up where it would be with a HPD30).

Ford explorer. Nobody's tried it, but they are darn near the same length, same width, and same rate, but don't have as much static arch. You might have to combine the packs to get the desired results, though.

It'll wag the dog. Trust me. Comanches are so light that they get thrown all over the place by a heavy load. They're great little trucks, don't get me wrong, but they aren't ment for towing heavy things. And I'm not going to tell you they are just because I like to know that they're all in hands of people who will take care of them.

No, it's just about right. Hangs a little low, but you can shave it a bit with just an angle grinder. Or let the rocks do it for you. I know a guy who runs one in his ZJ with 38s. Part of the reason he went with it is that it came stock with 4.56 gears.

Probably not too bad, they fit in CJs and those things are small... Worst case you'll have to cut a bit of flooring or 'massage' it. I think.

The 4.0 will haul crap no problem, just you can't stop worth $#!&, and the 'tail wags the dog' all the time. I put a couple thousand pounds of rock in my bed (yeah, the springs loved me) and drove about 200Km. It was kinda like "Hmm, that light off in the distance, it's green now, but it might be red before I get there, I'll start braking...." and 10 minutes later I stop just in time for the light. But if you ain't going far, like 10-15K and nobody's around, what the heck.

It doesn't without adapters.

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Oh, now that's a can of worms! Any of (or possibly multiples of) the D20, D300, NP203, NP205, NP229 (easy swap), dual toyotas. And maybe a klune V. Or that madrooster setup to run the NP231 planetaries and a D300 (or a D20, I think) behind it. I don't like the Terralow kit for the NP231 because it wasn't ever ment to be a HD tcase, so you'll just run into more trouble with the extra torque. Money Money Money!

Or just weld the bugger. It's not hard to do, once you get it out. It's not like it's a cast steel/iron manifold.

If you want a measurement that does not depend on the height of the tire, measure from the hub centre to the bottom of the fender flare.

No 4wd version of the 700R4 would have come behind that motor. A 4wd version of it would have the wrong bellhousing pattern. So, you're looking at a rebuild to make it work. Now, the T18/D20 combo I talked about is cheap and readily avaliable. Any CJ guy probably has three or four of each behind their garage. Any junkyard will have a couple too.

Leaving them.... For now. I might brace them in a triangular fashion, but it would have made a lot more sense to do that before welding them to the truck. However, I think they're strong enough. Maybe I'll box the front of them. We'll have to see where the springs end up before I do anything else though.

Try this: You'll realize that I only post relevent pics. Unless you're really interested in the 86 LWB I gave away.

Well, if I was to do it over, I'd just get rid of the NP231 and deal with it that way.

Tell me more about the weakness of the stock mainshaft? Ever see one break? Yup. About 5. It happens. The shaft is just too itty bitty and it goes pop. But the guys who I saw break them weren't being easy on them...

There's plenty, I'd look them up for you, but yeah, lazy. Anyways, you can weld the old one no-problemo. Just gotta clean it good first.

It has an annoying bolt pattern on the bellhousing. BUT: I'm pretty sure you can bolt it to anything that had the buick 231 in it, IE, older CJs. So, you can easily get a T18 tranny and D20 transfer case. That is, if you're 4wd.

No pics tonight, but I got the front xmember welded onto the truck. And then I hung the leafs from the front just to make sure on where I should put the hangers in the back. Then I started messing with my temporary tranny xmember, and seeing if I can make my other tranny mount work with a peugeot. It's probably an AW4 mount. The short answer is that some things are gonna be changed. It's annoying I couldn't just find another puker mount and use that.

Yeah, but it takes all day to get there... My buddy with a samuri got his 1.3 hampsters of fury up to 138km/h, but he had to do it in saskatchewan...

In an XJ with an auto tranny, you can run the RE hack'n'tap and a stock length auto tranny front shaft in the rear.

It's ford TTB axle. That's why I said "Bloody Fords" earlier. They aren't worth anything, other than you can steal the hubs for other D44s and you can easily remove the centre section with the gears in it to extract them later.

In an XJ maybe... For a MJ you'd have to get it retubed to be long enough.

Chrysler is inept. They really blotched the HO computer.

If only I had that much amperage to play with.