Herada12 Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 Today I picked up my first Jeep. Its an 89 pioneer comanche. 4x4. 4.0 with a 5 speed. Homemade lift kit and 33" tires. Body is super solid. Couple dents and so on. Definetly needs some work. Its missing the rear driveshaft. No seat. Previous owner was in the middle of replacong clutch and now I've got that to finish. I have a few questions. #1 being. Are there any other models of jeeps that I can steal the rear driveshaft from? #2 does anybody have a picture of the 4wd shift linkage. Looks like I'm missing a few parts. Any help would be awesome.
relyt120 Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 Welcome! :waving: Unfortunately I don't think any other rear DS is compatible unless you just measure the length and go trolling the JY with a tape measure. You will probably have to get one made or get one from another MJ and if it is a 2wd model have it shortened to the correct length. Thread about drive shaft lengths: http://comancheclub.com/topic/18925-looking-for-driveshaft-lengths-of-stock-trucks/ I think most people here would recommend replacing the shift linkage with an aftermarket kit or I believe there is a good write up on a custom set up on here somewhere, someone else will chime in with more details I'm sure. EDIT: found the link http://www.boostwerksengineering.com/231-HD-Shift-Linkage-Auto-Trans-_p_25.html That one is for the 231, you'll have to check yours to make sure its right. Also! :needpics: Click the above img/smiley for a thread about how to upload pics. Long story short you need the IMG tag from a photo hosting site like Photobucket.
Herada12 Posted January 20, 2015 Author Posted January 20, 2015 Ok so i think these links might go to my pictures! Here goes nothin' http://imgur.com/l1JWpIt http://imgur.com/UO3bsne
relyt120 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Close, but you have to click "get embed links" then copy and paste the BBCode (img tag) here Like this The tag looks like this: [img]http://i.imgur.com/l1JWpIt.jpg[/img]
Herada12 Posted January 20, 2015 Author Posted January 20, 2015 Well I'm not real sure what your doing? Haha I turn wrenches pretty good and poind te keys on my Iphone about half a**'ed haha but thanks for puttin the picture on there! Not bad for $300 if I do say so myself :D
relyt120 Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Yeah man that's the steal of the century! . :MJ 1: .
BlackBeast Posted January 20, 2015 Posted January 20, 2015 Scrap price..dang good deal 300! Congrats and welcome!
Herada12 Posted January 25, 2015 Author Posted January 25, 2015 Just a little updated photos. I left the shackle on the back. Which I think is 2.5 inches and did the SOA swap. The spring perches I got are slightly taller than stock, I'd say a half inch. So with that said In going to say the back end has about 8.5 inches of lift now.
relyt120 Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 careful lifting it in the garage, you may not be able to get it back out if u go too high!
Herada12 Posted January 25, 2015 Author Posted January 25, 2015 Haha thanks. I'm good though. Did that once before at a buddies lifting his dodge. Let some air out of the tires and wiggled it through! So does anyone have some shock part numbers that might fit my truck? I'm looking at 13 compressed and 20 extended to be safe.
Herada12 Posted January 25, 2015 Author Posted January 25, 2015 So today after jacking the one rear tire up on my manche, I'm thinkin I should have left the big bottom leaf out of my spring pack. It really dosn't have the flex that I was expectin it to have. Whats everyones thoughts on losing my bottom leaf? I'm gonna lose like 3/4 of an inch but thats worth it to me if I can add some travel/flex!
Comanche County Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 I'd leave the overload leaf in the spring pack to help with axle wrap. To bring it down some you could replace a some of your middle leafs with XJ leafs which are flatter.
Herada12 Posted January 28, 2015 Author Posted January 28, 2015 Ok. Yeah i don't wanna lower it any just want it to flex a little better.
Herada12 Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 Well guys. Ive been working on lifting my jeep up! I'm in the middle of building my own longarm setup. Figured id share a few pictures. Not super sure how you all do it but this is my attempt. If it dosnt work out, I'll start over.
Herada12 Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 After cutting the stock mounts off, or what I called " the point of no return! "
Herada12 Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 here's a picture of the bracket I made. 1/4" steel. Maybe a little light but most aftermarket stuff for these is 1/4" steel. Oh and no comments on the welding❌ I'm no pro but I make due.
Herada12 Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 After getting the rest of the arms welded up. And getting the top link fabbed up and tacked on. I'm going to add some triangular braces on each side of the arms to brace it better.
Herada12 Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 YES!!! Those are spacers under the springs. This is a budget build so I'm cheating a little. Those are 3 inch springs with 3 inch spacers welded up top and 4 below. Eventually I will end up swapping in heavier axles and I can do a better setup then. This is just a quickey so I can hit the trails long enough to tear these axles up.
Herada12 Posted March 1, 2015 Author Posted March 1, 2015 And lastly a picture of the tires on it and actual ride height. Those are 17 wide 40 tall gumbo monster mudders. Picked them up cheap with decent tread. The truck leans towards the drivers side some. The drivers coil spring is weaker then the passenger side. About 1.5" to be exact. Thinking about cuttig the stronger one down a little to even it out. Whys everyones thought on that? Also, has anyone made there own tracbar setup? I'm thinking about building my own frame mount bracket and welding a mount on top of the axle tube and making a tracbar from heim joints off of three point arms. It will be a straight tracbar, does that matter?
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