Comanche Summit (1987 To 1997)

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Thanks to all the great posts, you guys have inspired me to fix one up as well.  I'm just getting started here.  I got both, the donor and my comanche, mostly stripped down.

 

 

 

 

[Zachariah]

This is exactly what is going on in my garage ha. Whats your plan for it?

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This will be my new daily driver so I plan to do her up real nice.  I'll put a stroker motor in it (the engine is currently down at the machine shop), spiff up the interior a little more, and give her a real mild lift.

 

I got the front clip moved over.  I still need to weld a bit up around the stryker but I'll get back to that.  I hung the old doors on the donor so no critters would find their way in there.

 

 

 

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The firewall is more work than I thought:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I got  some of the interior done.  When I was doing the steering bracket, I welded bolts to the kick panel area but in retrospect, riv-nuts would have been much easier.  I used those other places.

 

 

For the top of the dash, I used tape and temporarily put the dash up to mark the holes.  It turns out, that the 2 outer holes on both sides have holes that line up on the comanche.  I did use them for the two center bolts though.

 

 

 

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For the bottom dash bracket, the holes lined up on the bead of the sheet metal.  I put them both inward a little so I could be on the flat part and notched the bracket.

 

 

 

By the way, you don't need a riv-nut installer to use these.  Just put a serrated nut facing the rivnut to hold it from moving and zip a bolt in with you air gun.  Don't go crazy or you'll strip the riv-nut.  You will hear your impact slow when it gets crushed.

 

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Parking brake was fairly easy.  Cut the bottom off (as the cable doesn't come from underneath anymore) and use the cut off piece and welded it up top, a little further back ( the comanche cable is a little bit longer).

 

 

Finally, an automatic.

 

[Comanche County]

Nice work!

[knever3]

Sweet! Great job.

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Slowly making progress:

 

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You won't believe what I got these out of:

 

 

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No guesses on what the recliner assemblies were out of?

 

I'll give you a hint, they weren't off a 2 door cherokee, they're a direct bolt on, and they're plentiful in wrecking yards. 

[89MJMILSPEC]

Do tell please. I would love buckets in my comanche so I can run a center console of sorts. 

[Tom Tom]

A direct mj bolt in ? Come on please share

[87manche1]

S10 blazer?

[shelbyluvv]

http://comancheclub.com/topic/15375-making-zj-or-wj-seats-tilt-forward/

 

Here is a write up for ZJ seats. Same deal though.

 

Good work on the conversion man!

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Okay, I searched for months on ebay and looking in local wrecking yards for those stupid 2 door cherokees so I had to make you guys work for it a little :banana:

 

These are for the 97+ XJ seats and with the above link, it sounds like they will work on ZJ and WJ seats as well.  Are you ready?

 

 

 

Can you believe the 97-02 TJ uses the exact same recliner assembly as the 2 door cherokee?!!?  Well, it does have a little nub on the release lever for a cable to hook up to also but other than that, same same.  To think of all the wranglers I walked past looking for these stupid recliners.

[Rymanrph]

I guess its a regional thing.  Maybe the regular wrecking yards have Wranglers, but none of the you pull yards around here ever have them.  I think I've seen one YJ, but never a TJ, but good find.

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Lots of scrubbing and painting.  I'm hoping this stuff holds up as well as the factory interior paint.

 

 

 

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Relocated the airbag controller back to its original location.  It's sitting about an inch off the ground so I don't think I should have any corrossion issues.  That left me some room to locate the ABS acceleration switch where the airbag module was.  Also, got some wiring done and dynamatted.

 

 

[Comanche County]

Nice job!

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Finally got my engine back from the machine shop.  It's a balanced, blueprinted,and ported 4.7 liter. 

 

 

 

Not the ideal situation with having a downhill slope gravel driveway.

 

[jbain]

Really nice.... where did you get the header?  My brother has a 4.6 with a 505 head and crank.... he's looking for a header like that.