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Hello, my name is Alex and I have a Jeep addiction..........

No, I don't want to kick the habit but after lurking here for awhile I think that I can come here for help on part of it. It started with this:







2005 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. 4" lift, 33's, moly axle shafts, ORO steering, full armor to include tummy tuck and full corners from the doors back, snorkel, dual batteries, winch, line X'd tub, Alpine stereo, Tuffy rear cargo drawer, PowerTank onboard air, dual tops and more. Great Jeep and I wheel it but its just too hard on gas to keep using it as a daily driver. I had been looking for a nice stock Cherokee for awhile and I found this instead:





1990 Base model Comanche longbed with 4.0 six, 5 speed, 4x4, A/C, and radio delete option (Hole in the dash with wires hanging out of it) Its missing the headliner too. It was a former PA truck but was well taken care of. It only has rust in the doors and on a few other small spots.

So far I've scrubbed the grungy grey interior with simple green, changed all the fluids, replaced the battery, both the battery cables, the front brake pads and rotors, windshield wiper blades, front grille and headlight surrounds, and all the fuzes in the fuze box. First real mods have been 30" BFG's on Jeep Canyon wheels and a Sony Ipod ready stereo.



Future plans include repairing the small rust spots on the doors, tailgate and left rear tail light. Replacing the headliner, sunvisors, carpet, torn bench seat, shock absorbers, and repairing the nonfunctional A/C and center axle disconnect for the 4x4.

The first round of mods will be to replace that small stock flag mirror with black factory manual remote mirrors on both sides, and to swap the stock instrument cluster w/idiot lights for one with a tach and full gauges. Id like to find a stock Comanche or Cherokee factory digital clock as well.

Second round of mods will problably be a small lift, 31's, Bushwacker flares, Line X the bed, tool box, rear Dana 44 swap w/disc brakes, Hanson winch bumper, Warn M8000, and a trailer hitch. Ill take pix as I go along but it won't be as in deph a resto as some I have seen here......

welcome to another addict with multiple infections.

Wow! That body looks super clean. I love how you can throw a set of Canyons on and "poof", it looks 10 times better than it already did. Welcome, and keep us posted.

I like it. But you won't need bushwackers for 31's. Bushwackers are for marks anyway.

Thanks for the info. I was looking at Bushwackers because a friend has them on his Cherokee with 32's and I liked the look. If the Comanche looks fine with stock flares and 31's Ill leave the stock flares alone. Whats a mark??

Thanks for the welcome and other replies as well. After having to get a second job to support the other Jeep for awhile, I'm going to go slow on this one and do it in small projects as inexpensively as possible. I just got a line on some parts from somebody who is parting out two Comanches. He says that he has excellent condition: Headliner/backer board, Sunvisors, Bench seat, Shifter boot, instrument cluster w/tach, tire winch, and driver side mirror. We will see next weekend after payday.

I did a little project today satisfy my need to fix up the truck a little. While driving the truck around, the rear suspension sounded like an old bed on a honeymoon night. Crawled underneath and found the rear shocks in bad shape and the metal sheath on the e brake lines rubbing against the brackets.

Broke out Powertank and the impact



Check out these rusted beauties.



Replaced them with theese.



Shocks were $21 each at Napa and made in the USA.

No more annoying squeeking and the truck dosent feel so bouncy and light in the rear end any more.

Also learned the joy of working on a truck with even a little rust when I tried to remove the rusted solid tire winch. I had soaked the bolts with PB blaster for 4 days, but all of them still broke off in the frame. Looks like Ill be drilling em out and retapping them.

that won't last for long.

Yeah, the parts that I'm looking at next weekend will be a couple hundred dollars, and that Hanson winch bumper is $700.

I only paid $900 for the truck LOL.

In the world of Jeeps, the initial buy-in price should not be considered indicative of future spending levels.

True....... Just Empty Evrey Pocket.

The belly up skid for the LJ was $350. But to install it you needed:

Body lift $150

CV driveshaft $300

Adjustable rear upper control arms $300

Total for the mod: $1100.

Fixing up the MJ will actually be a bargian until it comes to the body, paint, and offroad mods............

OK, after reading through the forums here I decided that I wanted to pull my bench seat and do the XJ bucket seat/console mod. I have been scouring Craigslist and the local Jeep club forums.

Saturday I picked up this:



I like the old school look on the blue background - but will it work in my 90 MJ?

Today I picked up theese:





Front buckets and console from a 95 XJ that a fellow Jeeper here on FT Belvoir is parting out.

Guess I gotta get sending units for the cluster and 2 door cherokee seat pedastels now......... I have read the thread on Cherokee seats in an MJ. I know you can just bolt the buckets to the bench mounts, but is it hard to modify the seat mounts from the 95 to work?

Ill prob do the bucket seat swap after I get the new carpet in. I also got the sunvisors from the Cherokee and just those were a great change. The thrashed originals looked pretty bad. they caught your attention right there in your field of view.

its A LOT easier just to mount the cherokee seats on the bench pedistals....it took me about 25 min start to finish instead of messing with the cherokee mounts which are next to impossible to get in b/c the floors are completley different

You might want to put your tech questions in the tech forum so more people will see them.

Thanks! Willdo.

You will be very happy this mod. Nice looking Jeep(s) . - Rich

Thanks for the compliment Rich!

Like I stated before, things are going slow becouse I'm trying to do this as cheap as possible as we are buying a house.

Changed the transmission oil with the synthetic recommended in the oil thread in tech (Shifts great now, even when cold! ) Changed the engine oil to Rotella 15-40. Cleaned up the gauge cluster I posted a pic of earlier by disassembling the clear plastic lens, carefully cleaning all the dirt out of it, and polishing most of the scratches out of the lens with Novous scratch remover plastic polish. Also rolled the odometer forward per the instructions here and on the NAXJA site. Alot of good info!

Scored a Cherokee digital clock off of e bay to install while I had the dash apart: