Comanche Chief

jbain08 · Feb 25, 2014

Picked up a stock 88 Comanche Chief about a year ago and been working on it ever since..... started wheelin' in a 98 XJ on 35's but always.... always... always wanted an MJ. Here are a few mods and pics...

98 front clip
4.5 inches of lift
4.0 HO conversion
JCR 1 ton steering
Front Skid
Long Arms
Sleeved and braced dana 30
SOA rear
8.8 Rear axle with disc brakes
Smittybuilt Winch
4.88 gears
Lockers front and rear
DIY Beadlocks
36 SX's
Double sheer adjustable trackbar
Homebrew Rock sliders
Triple Brake Booster Mod
Interior Roll w/Bed Cage
WJ seats
98 Console
Doorless Mod
Street Legal
blah... blah... blah...

SkinnyRidgeMJ · Feb 26, 2014

Nice Mj. I have not seen bed rail protectors like that before. Kinda digging the idea though.

jbain08 · Feb 26, 2014

Simple.... functional..... I've leaned on them pretty hard and they seem to have held up pretty good.

87manche · Feb 26, 2014

are they just bolted through the top rail?

jbain08 · Feb 26, 2014

Yep.... always planned to mount them with better but the guy delivered them the day before a ride so I hung them with 2 bolts through the top with a flat plate on the bottom. If you look close you'll see that they are bent crooked so the guy is suppose to get me another set bent.... but you know how that goes..... on a side not I really like your avatar 87 manche.... got a 5 year old standard at home recovering from ruptured disc surgery.... If you own one it makes it that much funnier because those guys are fearless.

MoparManiac · Feb 26, 2014

Sweet ride man.

jbain08 · Feb 26, 2014

MoparManiac said:
Sweet ride man.

Just checked out your build thread and all I can say is WOW.... can't imagine how many hours you have in that thing.... really nice MJ....

MoparManiac · Feb 26, 2014

Thanks man.

Yeah I don't want to think about how many hours I have into this thing :laugh:

jbain08 · Feb 27, 2014

Was finally able to get the bump stops and Limit straps finished up.
Here is the front a full droop

The spring upseats about 2.5 inches

This is full stuff on the opposite side

This is what it looks like on the bump… before I bottomed out the shock… now I have about 1 inch

Here is the rear at full stuff

This is what it looks like on the bump

So here is something I didn’t do before…. Teeter

jbain08 · Feb 27, 2014

Here are a couple more pics that show the pucks a little better.

87manche · Feb 28, 2014

jbain08 said:
on a side not I really like your avatar 87 manche.... got a 5 year old standard at home recovering from ruptured disc surgery.... If you own one it makes it that much funnier because those guys are fearless.

I have two.

Rocky and Bullwinkle.

they're morons that are endless amusement.

jbain08 · Feb 28, 2014

Right on.... I'll have to post up pics of Fat Frank..... he's a 26 pound smooth red..

87manche · Mar 2, 2014

Rocky is weighing in about 23 lbs. He's not "fat" but hes definitely on the big side.

bullwinkle is a mini. maybe 10 lbs.

89eliminator · Mar 2, 2014

awesome MJ!

jbain08 · Mar 2, 2014

Thanks 89eliminator..... I really appreciate it..... is Rocky the Red 87manche?

chedisme · Mar 2, 2014

Is the bed bobed? Or is that black vertical strip part of the chief package? Oh yea and sweet MJ.

jbain08 · Mar 3, 2014

Thanks chedisme..... I bobbed the bed 6 inches to decrease my departure angle. I chose that number because any more than that would have been useless due to the rear spring shackle. Besides I did some photoshopping and found 6 was exact amount to make it functional but not give it that "Extreme Bob" look.

87manche · Mar 3, 2014

jbain08 said:
Thanks 89eliminator..... I really appreciate it..... is Rocky the Red 87manche?

yeah. He's a standard smooth red

Bullwinkle is mini smooth dapple.

they're backwards for the right sizes, but we already had rocky, so bullwinkle was the natural name when we got a second dog.

they keep me amused for sure.

Rocky went wheeling at my first event when he was 6 months old. He's a well traveled dog. It think he's been in about 10 states now. We took two weeks and did the east coast this summer with the dogs, jeep and a tent.

jbain08 · Mar 3, 2014

The red looks like a pretty big dog..... I took Frank wheeling once and he had a heck of a time staying in the seat. However he loves to ride in my Silverado.....

87manche · Mar 3, 2014

they've learned to lean into it.
I did bounce bullwinkle off the dash of the box truck during a panic stop once.

it was a rude way to wake him up for sure. He was not pleased.

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