I got this funny lookin thing in my driveway.....

[88manche]

And I'm not quite sure what to do with it. I kinda wanna put 4'' springs(stock rears) on the rear and lift the front 3'', but I dunno. Its sitting at 5'' over stock right now, with stock rear springs.

Also, Its kinda odd. It looks like an XJ, but its not. It has a bed. Chop/bob, flatbed, or tube?

What do you guys think?

[Timmy2XJS]

pics......?

[wim hoppenbrouwers]

It's nothing, every time that I am looking outside my window. I have the same feeling. Also my wife.:laugh:

[88manche]

pics......?

It looks like an XJ, but its not. It has a bed.


You should know what it is from that.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a231/darkprince142/IMGP2729-1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a231/darkprince142/IMGP2735.jpg

[88manche]

IMO 33's look small under there but 34's or 35's I'm either going to have to cut ALOT or lift. I'm thinkin a little of both. It needs to be higher anyways.

This would look kinda cool on it.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a231/darkprince142/CircleD.jpg

Without the hang-y down part/step the license plate is on.

[wim hoppenbrouwers]

Looks cool. It is a very rare cherokee. In Europe never seen.:eyes:

[wolfpackjeeper]

I do not really like the flat bed on comanches. 35's look good though. I also prefer the short bed version. You can always bob it and dovetail it. DO it to the width of the jeep lettering.

I vote dovetailed, bobbed, 4link quarter elliptical rear with a nice coil over front.

[90Blue_XJ]

Looks cool. It is a very rare cherokee. In Europe never seen.:eyes:

Are you serious hoppen? They have no Comanches in europe!!!

[wim hoppenbrouwers]

Hallo 90BlueXJ Jeeper,
We do have our own special MJ forum on our Dutch Jeepforum already for 5 years now. A MJ is a Comanche? But the cars we have running are without the flat and they are shorter.
Greetings from Hoppen

[wim hoppenbrouwers]

Hallo 90BlueXJ Jeeper,
We do have our own special MJ forum on our Dutch Jeepforum already for 5 years now. A MJ is a Comanche? But the cars we have running are without the flat and they are shorter.
Greetings from Hoppen:shhh:

[RichP]

I hear loud screaming coming from the general direction of Connecticut when the words 'chop' or 'bob' were typed..:laugh3: :laugh3:

[wolfpackjeeper]

It is a longbed, what else are you gonna do with it, besides, with the quarter ellipticals under it who will notice the bob job?

[FlexdXJ]

Leave the bed on it don't bob it, or dovetail it, or put a damn flatbed on it. Its like a Harley thats stock. RARE!!!! I don't like longbeds either but i would drive the hell out of that truck:D

[wolfpackjeeper]

The longbeds are fine, but if it will be wheeled I would do something about the overhang

[WB9YZU]

I am leaning hard towards the direction of "Leave it alone".

The stock MJ springs with a SOA rides pretty nice, and the truck looks wonderful as sits.

If you want something to cut up, or chop, get an MJ fron the rust belt and have fun with that!

[DansGreyMj]

That thing is way too clean to cut.

[5-90]

Long bed? Hand it here - I could use a pickup, and the longbed should be able to lay down eight-foot lumber and plywood without any trouble!

And, with the MJ, I already know what colour the wires are, so I don't have to learn a whole new vehicle (the Verona we got my wife is nice enough, but I've been adapting to OBD-II, late Japanese systems, and twenty years of "feature creep" all at once...)

[88manche]

Haha, Well from what i heard, the box is only 7 feet long and narrows down from like 62'' to almost 60'' towards the tailgate.


Thanks for the compliments guys. Goin to get a trans and T case today, then it will be 4x4.

[5-90]

Haha, Well from what i heard, the box is only 7 feet long and narrows down from like 62'' to almost 60'' towards the tailgate.


Thanks for the compliments guys. Goin to get a trans and T case today, then it will be 4x4.

OK - but 84"x60" will still work for me! So I have to lean the plywood and 2x4's in a bit after all...

[WrenchMonkey]

Yeah, I agree that yours is too clean to cut up, but one day I'm going to build one like this:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb201/rmhull/MJcrewcab.jpg

...but then I guess it'll have too much body work into it to ever wheel it...

Robert

[CanMan]

You bought dudes truck that lives in the town where the Goonies was filmed?

[88manche]

Robert... That looks bad ass as hell.

Canman.... I suppose. It was in Hillsburrito.

[GSequoia]

Long bed? Hand it here - I could use a pickup, and the longbed should be able to lay down eight-foot lumber and plywood without any trouble!

You know that you can fit full sheets of plywood in an XJ as well? Just remove the back seat bottom and they'll fit.

The XJ is just old enough to remember that a sheet of plywood was the old standard for wagons and trucks.

[tbburg]

I just spent 11 hours in one of those on Friday(8/22) trying to get to Reno from Vegas. 'Would have made it except for the silt.

I say leave the bed alone and leave it 2wd. Add about 3" of lift and the most expensive shocks you can afford(like $800-$1000 worth) then go beat the crap out of every Ford Ranger you can find with it. :D

[Darky]

Yeah, I agree that yours is too clean to cut up, but one day I'm going to build one like this:

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb201/rmhull/MJcrewcab.jpg

...but then I guess it'll have too much body work into it to ever wheel it...

Robert
That's one of the myriad ideas in my head too. Crew cab Comanche...:drool:

[5-90]

You know that you can fit full sheets of plywood in an XJ as well? Just remove the back seat bottom and they'll fit.

The XJ is just old enough to remember that a sheet of plywood was the old standard for wagons and trucks.

Yeah, I know - but sometimes I haul loads where the roofline gets in the way. The pickup box would eliminate that (no, I do not want to do a chop job on my 88! Then it would look like one of those half-assed Explorer Sport Tracs, or Chevvy Avalanches... Either pickup truck do "Yes" or pickup truck do "No". If do pickup truck "Maybe so" - the damn thing borders on useless...)

[WrenchMonkey]

You know that you can fit full sheets of plywood in an XJ as well? Just remove the back seat bottom and they'll fit.

The XJ is just old enough to remember that a sheet of plywood was the old standard for wagons and trucks.

:bs:

45" between the fenders, 47" 'tween the taillights...

Robert

[GSequoia]

:bs:

45" between the fenders, 47" 'tween the taillights...

Robert

:bs: back to you.

My rough use deck to keep from killing more carpet.

http://events.sequoia4x4.com/d/12296-2/Deck.jpg

The only cuts are the four cutouts for the tie downs and the cutout to follow the latch line. It'll actually fit straight without that notch but I wanted form fitted protection back there (this is mostly for hauling junkyard axles adn the like).


Neener neener neener :moon:

:cheers:

[WrenchMonkey]

That's one of the myriad ideas in my head too. Crew cab Comanche...:drool:

Yeah, I used to have a '78 PowerWagon collecting dust in my garage.

I figured the wheelbase on it would have been perfect for the crewcab and a standard 'manche shortbed.

But just sitting the unibody atop the Dodge frame woulda been cheesy, and sat way too high.

So now I wanna use a longbed MJ like in my sketch, to keep it "real."

One day...

Robert

[WrenchMonkey]

:bs: back to you.

Neener neener neener :moon:

:cheers:


No way!

I'm gonna remeasure tomorrow...

(Apology pending!)

Robert

[DansGreyMj]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c8/danielnoda/6752.jpg

[Kittrell]

That's one of the myriad ideas in my head too. Crew cab Comanche...:drool:

I like my version better. Don't cut corners on that rear door!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/Jeep1991/MJ%20Chops/BlueGerbil2.jpg

[Darky]

Blue or red, I like em both. My plan would be to do a Beijing front end and a 97+ interior then paint the whole thing light silver.

[WrenchMonkey]

I like my version better. Don't cut corners on that rear door!


But then you've got a fabbed-from-scratch door, doorjamb, window frame, and even the window glass.

To say nothing about the wheelbase stretch...

I like that mine should use a lot of factory pieces...

Robert

[WrenchMonkey]

You know that you can fit full sheets of plywood in an XJ as well? Just remove the back seat bottom and they'll fit...
No way! I'm gonna remeasure tomorrow... (Apology pending!)

Okay, no apology for you, and I'm restaking my flag... :bs:

Just remeasured, 'cause I couldn't believe I was that far off.

I wasn't: 45" between the fenderwells, which I guess is close to "sheet size."

But it's only 66" from the back of the center console to the rear hatch...

So unless you get pygmy sheets out there in cally-forny, you ain't gettin' em in an XJ.

Robert

[GSequoia]

What year, what trim level?

The picture is an '88 Chief, so pretty base model, possibly less carpet padding over the wheelwells. Not sure if I've put the deck in my '89 Laredo, never tried in my '96 Country either.

As for length what you see in the photo is what I'vegot, no rear seat bottom full sheet, I only owned a jigsaw at the time so there was no big cuts!

[WrenchMonkey]

'89 Sport, with the carpet removed, still only 45".

And still, you've only got 5'6" in length.

4x8 ain't gonna go. Try n measure...

Robert

[GSequoia]

Won't be able to measure for awhile.. The red Jeep is the only one here and it's full of crap, the Chief, Country, and the deck are all at the house and I won't have time to measure them (or for that matter find my tape measure) until I've moved in and settled down some.

So this gets filed under the WTF file for now.