Alritey, all my ideas in one nutshell

[sinnaevd]

Here's the plan so far

89 Comanche short box

bucket seats, full ground consol

5 spd manual regular straight six

Dana 35, 3.07's

Donor truck has 4.0 HO, Dana 44 with 4.10's, misc body panels

 

Action plan:

 

body will be sandblasted, new rockers will be put in along with new doors and new hood and fenders. Inside panels will be cover with POR15 paint, as well as all frame, body panels (i was told you can still sand and repaint over the POR15 for max protection, someone please confirm if they can)

Truck will be painted that army colour green. will have similar body look as commando14's truck he has posted on here. Not trying to be a copy cat, just love the look.

 

HO will be rebuilt and placed inside the 89 as well as the DANA 44 regeared to 4.56's. Hopefully a DANA HP 35 will be placed up front from a cherokee also geared to 4.56. Not sure on trans case, someone mentioned NP291? haven't looked into that part yet, same with drive shafts, everyone has mentioned some, haven't picked one just yet. Also changing to an Auto for ma lady.

 

Will be lifting using RE 5.5 LA kit, then will be lifting rear 6 inches for just a little bit of a raised look probably using custom made leafs.

Will be making my own bed, partialy using the existing comanche bed. Also making own bumpers.

 

33 inch TrXus tires to finish it off

couple other misc. stuff as well.

 

Sound good? ANy recommendations?

[rebeljeeper01]

por 15 is really hard to sand!!

[DirtyComanche]

Different front axle :nanner: Okay we beat that to death.

 

 

 

If you're getting a SYE and a double cardon/slip shaft; measure compressed and expanded lengths! I ddin't, I just measured resting height and went on the assumption that it wasn't going to move that much (as in, more than a standard slip joint would take). Cost me a shaft. A TW shaft at that. :roll:

 

 

Anyways, Tom Woods and High Angle Driveline make good shafts. Local places can too.

[sinnaevd]

What are my options for a different front axle other then the D44? How much work is it to install?

[DirtyComanche]

There's no good options. You're looking at hacking together some strange stuff. Unless you go fullwidths. Actual work is pretty much the same, you just have to build the brackets and have a matching rear. Sorta...

 

 

It's one of those things where I think they say "If you have to ask..."

 

 

But the HPD30 will hold 33s. I was just talking :nuts: like

[Bounty Hunter]

That's a lot of POR15, and it's expensive :eek:

 

You can run a D30 up front, but consider upgrading to 297x shafts found on '95+ jeeps.

[Stumpy]

Hopefully a DANA HP 35 will be placed up front from a cherokee also geared to 4.56.

i know its just a typo but it gonna hard to steer that thing..lol

[sinnaevd]

lol everybody is a jokester...actually the jeep is inteded for straight driving only...lol

 

those were the axle shafts I mentioned above, I Couldn't remember which thread someone mentioned them to me in. Does the POR15 really work as advertised, where you have to have SOME surface rust in order for it to work like its suppose to? I was going to use in on my charger floors, but not too how good it is.