Will my Comanche break in half?

[Eagle]

That will take some major fab work and effort to repair...  And by repair, I mean rebuild in a way that's not factory at all.

 

There are ways it could be done -- but very labor-intensive.

 

Several years ago, a friend needed a driver's floor pan for his Comanche. I had an '89 XJ junker. He bought a body shop tool for drilling out spot rivets and went along the entire length of both sides of the frame rail, drilling out the spot welds that attach the floor to the "frame." Then he cut out the section he needed and welded it back into his MJ.

 

The same thing could be done sort of in reverse -- drill out all the spot welds, remove the floor pans, and then cut out the XJ "frame" rails and weld them back in under the MJ floor.

[DirtyComanche]

 

That will take some major fab work and effort to repair...  And by repair, I mean rebuild in a way that's not factory at all.

 

There are ways it could be done -- but very labor-intensive.

 

Several years ago, a friend needed a driver's floor pan for his Comanche. I had an '89 XJ junker. He bought a body shop tool for drilling out spot rivets and went along the entire length of both sides of the frame rail, drilling out the spot welds that attach the floor to the "frame." Then he cut out the section he needed and welded it back into his MJ.

 

The same thing could be done sort of in reverse -- drill out all the spot welds, remove the floor pans, and then cut out the XJ "frame" rails and weld them back in under the MJ floor.

 

 

They're the wrong shape though; he needs all the way back to the leaf hangers.  You would need another MJ as a donor.  So short of finding one that went on its lid or had a tree fall on it, it's not likely to happen.

 

Anything is possible.  IMHO it would probably be easier/better to start over with some 3x4x.188 HSS, or something like that...  I mostly did it with an XJ, but stopped working on it due to life reasons.

 

How the XJ was going:

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The plan was still to stuff a cage into it, but tie it to the roof/pillars/etc.

 

I have no idea how many hours I had into it before I moved (and moved on... :( )