Cherokee vs Comanche entire cab pan

[Noendnsight]

Does anyone know why the transmission tunnels are slightly different? Has anyone just tried swapping in an entire cherokee floor section in instead?

[Pete M]

because the MJ is a very different Jeep underneath.   it's a truck rather than a station wagon, thus they felt it necessary to design a lot of it from scratch for strength.  don't let the XJ doors and fenders fool ya.  

 

how bad is your rust?

[Noendnsight]

Bad, I basically acquired an abandoned project that is a shell or blank canvas so to speak. I can't complain since it was free. It was hacked up bad on the transmission tunnel appearing to be cut rather high. I'm wondering if it would be easier to just cut one from a cherokee and be done vs. trying to piece it all in. I think you may have miss understood me that I'm not trying to cut the unitbody center section but just the entire floor pan the same size back in a cherokee to use in a comanche. I don't see how that would make a difference structurally. I'm wondering if the two are only different around the transmission tunnels to allow more room for the bucket seats since they sit lower due to the shooter floor brackets between the two. It might be nice I'm thinking to allow an easy full console with parking brake conversion. Also easy peasy direct xj swap seats. I'm guessing tall people though might lose an inch or two of head room.

[Pete M]

what I'm aying is that they built the Jeeps different and so the floor is, well... different.   the front half is pretty close, but the back half curves up to meet the rear wall (that's why the rear seat bracket is shorter) where-as the XJ pan just continues straight back.  I'd assume that the trans tunnel is close enough to make a big patch from, it'll just deviate more and more the closer you get to the back. 

 

center consoles are the same.  I think the link in my signature has a writeup on the ebrake handle install.