March 2025 - Saved from Doom - Project TALOS

[89 MJ]

March 2025 - Another MJ Saved from Doom

Project TALOS

Owned by @87MJROB

 

Build Thread- 

 

 

Year/Model -

1987 Sport truck

 

Drivetrain-

1994 XJ 4.0/ax15/231 and 1998 XJ D30/8.25 3.55 gears

 

Cooling- 

all factory new

 

Electrical/Ignition- 

Stock

 

Suspension/Steering- 

3” lift of misc parts.
Front- 3” rustys coils, rustys trac bar, roughy country front shocks.
Rear- skyjacker add a leaf, XJ lift shackle and stock XJ shocks. 

 

Interior-  

Country/Laredo doors cards, bolstered seats, and dash bezel.
XJ parking brake handle.
VW beetle b pillar lights. 
Azzy design gauge faces

 

Brakes-   

Factory new everything except calipers and booster.

 

Lighting-

 led headlights off Amazon, led front turn signal bulbs, led side markers, led flasher relay.

 

Exterior-  

Diy front bumper kit with dirtbound tubing, home made rear bumper with metal I had around plus clevis mounts and hitch receiver. 
Painted dark metallic copper rustoleum. 
Cut fenders with two sets of rear TJ flares.

 

Wheel & Tires- 

For now it has some Cragar soft 8s 17x10 5x5 bolt pattern with 32s but will be getting some stock JK Willy’s wheels with 35s once I get them mounted and balanced.

 

 

Misc- 

This truck started as a stripped down blown up 2.5 ax4 2wd shell and I used everything I could from a 1994 xj donor to rebuild it as well as axles from a 1998 XJ.

 

Best MJ story-  

I don’t know maybe when I saved my third Comanche from a local junkyard where it had sat for 20+ years.

 

CC is Awesome! Why? 

Because it’s mostly Comanche content

 

 

Congrats, Rob! This truck turned out very well. Great job saving it.

[87MJROB]

Thanks 🙏 

[Pete M]

would have been an absolute tragedy losing that truck.  nice save and an excellent build!!