JeepcoMJ

I was looking at making a tranny crossmember and longarm lower mount all in one piece. i'm talkin heavy duty. then removing the stock LCA mounts and reinforcing that spot of the frame. actually, can a longarm kit run just lowers and use stock uppers? i know, not at 6.5" of lift, but would that be OK at least temporarily?

2 uppers, 2 lowers. uppers mounted to the lowers. one question, how the heck does the axle stay in with the uppers mounted to the lowers? i know, shocks and trackbar.. and steering, but is that it? i mean, that can't be that strong...

how do-able is this? I have all the right tools to do it, or access to them, i just have never tried to tackle the system and don't know the designs. can anyone help? what should I be looking for when/if I do this?

put my spare chrome 10-slot grille on it tentatively to see what i thought (only took a few minutes). i guess it looks good, but i'm definitely stuck on going with the waggy grille pilot racing steering wheel rescued from a 1984 camaro with gm column :D 228,184 :D MINT headliner :D this thing has heavy duty front coils in it...it rides pretty hard, but they're great for a snowplow. too bad i'll never use them...so they'll be for sale once i lift it.

wow colton, wow. steph, i know you'll read this too...nice job, colton's got a good catch ;) pardon the pun...

yep, waggy WITH the wagoneer door panel trim and probably the same for the dash trim. it may or may not get wood-paneling, it will if I switch it to the green color on my grandpa's 03 duramax. but then i'd want a tan interior.... anyways, this project is not about looks, ironically enough. it's about performance while maintaining street-ability. if it gets painted, i'll be doing it myself for the simple fact that it will get plenty scratched on august 10th, and it's my winter truck/DD now too when it's finished...the 3800 will officially be on collector's plates (they think it's a 2wd so they'll insure it hehehe) and thus my "show/beat-around truck". the 3800's getting a fresh paintjob in the spring...this paint job will involve a complete paint stripping and por15 to smooth it. 2000 on paint-job and it's lookin shabby after only 2 years :( anywho, i'm gonna probably put the waggy header on it tomorra or the following day, i just have to get the paint for it, somehardener, and finish sanding it. after that it's chrome front bumper (for now), and get the side-steps off and clean up rust holes on the rockers. yay

joe, send it when ya'd like, we'll set the date to repair sometime tonight or tomorrow for a few weeks from now if that sounds good. ya should be able to come here, we can bolt it in, and you should be good to go...about 5 hours of work :D so you could be down here, and leaving all in one day if ya'd want. of course, we're gonna take longer what with shootin the breeze :D

yea, with saltwater the best thing to do to fix things is to do water changes. was the "killing something" a pistol or mantis shrimp? those are flat nasty...they have the punch of a .22 cal bullet and can shadder glass as thick as 3/8 inch with no problem. i had a mantis once...found where it was, yanked the rock it was in, and let it dry out until the sucker squirmed out of it....dropped it in the flusher and byebye bastard. it ate some of my fish :(

good, then hellcreek, welcome to the club. your suspensions are good so I must be kind :D

you don't necessarily need it, but if you do away with it you will have to make a set of risers for the left side seat brackets, or they won't sit level.

it's straight as hell though. basically, we thought i could get it cheaper...i could have if I pulled it but i didn't have the time. so they pulled it and LEFT IT INTACT :nuts: i can't believe they managed to do that, it looks good!

hellcreek, is that the lift with the OME front shocks and the bolt-on SOA rear lift system? Not to insult, but I certainly hope not, that lift is one of the most chintzy lift's I've ever seen and puts OME to shame.

tjbilly, hope your wife doesn't read that.... i'm single but my exes have been generally above average. aaand the new girl is def. one i'm gonna have to worry about my shirts with. thank god it's not anything in the waist.

shore duz loke purdy. ;)

cole, they look great. and all you need to tap them and save time is a small lathe ;) and some machinist oil. don't wanna burn it up... how did you set them up for the retainer clip? the only way I can think of it is a lathe...but my mind is set on a machinsts shop that I have access to.

Anyone here keep aquariums? my other hobby besides jeeps is marine fish. it takes a back seat but is easily as expensive as lifting a comanche ($1500 invested in the past 2 years) right now i'm looking at getting a snowflake moray eel to put in a 70 gallon tank. at the moment I have a 40 gallon with 2 clownfish, a blue chromis, black yellow-tailed chromis, mandarin goby, 2 pajama cardinals, a sixline wrasse, a skunk cleaner shrimp, pincushion urhcin, a brittle star and serpent star, long-spne urchin, 3 turbo snails, a bunch of hermit crabs, and my very first coral, a "sea tongue". I tried anemones but they're touchy, and I don't have the time to devote to maintaining 100% stable calcium levels. filtration is a 20 gallon refugium powered by two small penguin powerheads and a prizm protien skimmer. then on the back of the tank is an emperor 400 biowheel filter that is used simply for recirculation (no filter pads) anyways, just wondering if anyone was into the hobby?

i think you're right on the ar-767's. I have both the running boards (I am trying to take them off nicely) and a longbed cap which is fiberglass and in great shape. The running boards are for a shortbed BUT if you chopped them to just the length of the cab, or got some aluminum to lengthen them, they'd work great. they're actually very nice and bolt on very strongly, i just don't want them, they'll take up ground clearance and get wrecked. I put chrome trim on this babey today, just the window and over-door trim. next is to swap the 87 waggy header onto it and wire that up (in the AM i'm gonna do it), put chrome mirrors on it, and then also chrome front bumper, brushguard, and fog lights. the brushguard was just sitting on there..i got that for $20 from a car show. pm me on when you'd like to come up, i am always up to meet a fellow manche fan!

That sounds like my tatersalad was...only better :D i'm intrigued, welcome and keep posting up!

yessir, that it be. came off a 4 door 1986 cherokee with power everything except windows. everything from that truck was saved for me...i pulled it all. if you want just power locks, go to the junkyard and find a 4 door xj with power windows, take the rear door handles and switch (the rear only has the one switch for the windows) and the connector for the switch with enough pigtails to use it, and get the power door actuator (requires drill), wiring connector, and metal connector. then it's a simple matter of running about 8 wires that are COLOR-CODED together. there's no way you can mess it up, put a relay for power, ground it, crossovers so the switches control both doors, and wires to actuator. I've spent waaaay too much time doing them kinda things...any more odd ideas people have had? chances are I've tried it or theorized enough about it to make it work.

it's the green and white (or yellow?) wire coming from the coil. that wire runs all the way to the back of your gauge cluster...so you can tap the wire back there and avoid having to run new wires.

Pete, can ya move this to the projects thread? here's pics as it sits right now... the PO gets the reciever hitch and nice rear bumper back, which is OK since I got a nice longbed reciever hitch to adapt to it...

when ya get back, note that I got your 2wd front end for the 88 today. complete with sway bar, control arms, shocks, tierods, trackbar, trackbar mount, brakes, calipers, and ball joints. we'll just need to clean it, paint it, and install it...looks like the CA bushings are good too, but I'd replace them just in case. truck it's off of is a 91 or 92 2.5 shortbed with 88,000 original miles on it. price was sadly $90 i tried to keep it low but the guy wasn't there today so i had to deal with his jerk hispanic dude named alex. srry. I'm me for more details, i'll post a pic and take more upon request

Finally picked it up, fist thing to go was the bug deflector, then the truck cap went to the barn. I put a racing steering wheel in it...but will be removing that in favor of the stock steering wheel, at least until I put my black tilt column in it. also picked up my 33x12.50 Dayton Timberline A/T's too...$200 for a set of 4 with 90% tread left. any thoughts on these? I'm running them in 31x10.50 on the 3800 and like them... to do list (for now) remove running boards wash fix driver's side vent wing window (broken pivot and latch) fix the 4 rust-holes (each 2" long) on the rocker panels...with a patch rocker from my parts 91. undercoat the truck Repair CAD then I'll need to save up the $$$ for the lift kit. til then it'll be DD. if you guys can help with lift components, let me know. I'm doing a 5.5" to 6.5" lift (leaning to 6.5 with the tire size) probably SOA rear, control arm front. so i'll need control arms, front springs, adjustable track bar, and shocks.. I already have necessary brake lines. total investment so far is only 2.5 weeks worth of paychecks...not bad in my opinion. pics in a bit.

lol, these are now "production" models and are all government approved.