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I don't think so....

thank you!

Oh, I still have it, but priorities are priorities lol. I'll get to this one in due time...but not until I'm ready to do it right. I won't be restoring this truck a 3rd time in my lifetime, so it's going to have to be perfect.

cordovan is straight up maroon. not even close enough to those colors to matter. I think it was introduced in 87 tho

same color

that it is. doesn't change the fact that the boarder is open wider than paris hilton's legs. Which is unfortunate, for everyone involved.

damn straight.

Well, not much of an update, but today on the blue one we; Installed the front skid, tcase skid, gas tank skid, put coolant in it, did the trans fluid, and took it for a test drive. Once that was done, we dropped it off to have the windshield done. I got about halfway through pulling the windshield from the tboned renegade when it decided to let loose all the stress from having been tboned, and royally destroy itself. Oh well. Picking it up tomorrow p.m., washing and detailing it, inspecting it, marking all of the fluid changes and intervals in the owner's manual, and re-checking all of the bolts for proper torque. Have a prospective buyer coming to look at it on saturday.

Pic fuzzed out, but the front end is all back together, tow hook brackets and non-liberty NOS stainless hooks and clips installed. Image Not Found all back together. Doing the windshield tomorrow, then letting that cure, and it's time to wash and detail her out.

Didn't do much the past couple days. Just about finished it today. Rotors and pads up front on one of the KJ's were just about new, but flash rusted from sitting. So I popped them in the bead blast cabinet and blasted the rotors, blasted the braking surface of the pads quick to scuff them, and the sliding surfaces of them. Also blasted the caliper brackets, all of the slides, and relubed and installed them after paint. After blasting the rotors, I just used my fine pad on my gasket remover to polish them back up. Took the rear brakes apart, cleaned up in there, they were almost new but whoever installed them didn't put any anti-seize on them (presumably because this sucker is from texas), so I got that done. aligned the K-member and installed the bolts for that, cleaned and painted the sway bar, lower a-arms, coilover bases, calipers, and k-member after we did the oil change. Then picked up the two new tires for it, as I had a set of 2 new tires and one 70%, so now I've got a set of 4 new and one very good Nokian Vativa 235/70R16's on this beast. Then reinstalled the engine wiring harness, hoses, cruise motor, computers, air box, battery box, throttle cable, radiator, trans crossmember and rear driveshaft, and header panel. That's where we called it a day. Pics tires on front suspension done, tires on Scuffed the bottom of the A arm with the jack stand, will repaint tomorrow.

On the bright side, they didn't make a comanche that looks like that. Actually, now I think of it, I'm just not sure If I want jeep to ever make a pickup truck again. It's obvious they're out of touch in the design room.

the later ujoints are beefy. unfortunately, the axle shafts are NOT. I've never broken a 297 joint in and of itself, I have broken the shafts right around them, I'll stick with my non greasable 260's...when they let loose, I still have a shaft to put back together as far as rear axles, I had 35's on my MJ with d30 and mj d44 rear. never an issue with the rear, but anyone who tells you 35's are OK on a dana 30 is either the luckiest SOB on the planet, or doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.

More work done today. Had errands in the A.M. then had to get a few more Meyer snowplow pumps ready, but got back at it. Removal out cleared out door off so we can walk around it easier. Hell of it is, both d/s door glass and regulators were still straight. just having some fun...

I'd prefer if they got around to holding a mass suicide.

sounds like the CPS wire is laying on the exhaust manifold. I've had similar experiences with that exact issue.

looks like a @#$%ing pile of $#!&. And that was with blatant swear words that the forum has substituted. you let your mind figure out what they were, but that thing is a pile of garbage. What the Hell is Chrysler thinking?!

It's been better than 2.5 years since I've even had one that I DD'd....and 4.5 years since the one I currently own has even been able to drive. Bought back the last one I had, but it's more than 5 months away from completion summer projects...

Scrapped, goodbye. towed like a dream, as always.

I'm not really sure.

junk body loaded and heading out. Here is how we loaded it. Before strapping it down. Limited #2 moved into it's place to be fixed. finishing up interior work (swapping in new pass. rear window motor, etc.) then on to the 4x4 conversion, new motor, new trans, etc. And shop reorganized. Getting a start on this blue one tomorrow while the silver one is at the dealership getting keys programmed and one more keyless entry remote added, then dropped off at a friend's shop to have A/C recharged and alignment checked and perfected.

yeah. found another one, cannot be titled (suicide inside), runs great for $4000 OBO. too high, but good parts left on it, even if it's creepy.

So, more digging. Jeep still runs, just runs funny. they told him it was a fuel issue, replaced fuel filter and housing with updated one??? didn't fix it. compression check shows low compression cylinder 2, but a scope shows that the cylinder looks OK and piston head looks OK. Never done a timing belt on it. 140k miles. sounds like bad rollers on the rockers causing compression issues, or bad lifters, bad rockers, or timing belt just loose enough to cause compression issues, but tight enough to keep from breaking the afor-mentioned. he'll take considerably less than asking price. Do I jump on this?

Realistically, that's still not a bad deal. a 140k KJ diesel with NEW motor? mint interior nice exterior...It would still be worth 10k-14k, so I wouldn't lose my @$$ on it if I sold it. But, if I invested that kind of money into it...I'd HAVE to sell it. I could afford $4500 investment for DD as my xj is worth $3k, and I'll make $1800 just profit plus my $1000 back off of the blue one...and that's just my half of the investment. My brother still doubles his money, too. It's iffy...I'll go look later this week if it's still there.

Stripped the rest of the first rolled renegade out today. pics before I pulled bumpstops and rear side glass. ready for scrap. This is the complete wiring harness, front to back, 100% of it with the ends cut off. filled a 5 gal bucket. Stripping that down took about 2 hours. the rest of the jeep, 20 min./door to strip them down and remove them, about 2 hours into stripping the parts off the body etc. Loading and scrapping it tomorrow.