Used all my luck up today...

[Phil]

Ford is perfect to round out a Comanche? But you put a Willy's style bed on your Comanche? Did I miss something here?

 

[Vug]

You trying to stir up trouble Phil?

Ford = good parts Thats all you need to know.

I'm going to go lay under my wife's Bronco now and see what I can steal. :shhh:

 

[STRYKER]

Ford is perfect to round out a Comanche? But you put a Willy's style bed on your Comanche? Did I miss something here?

Between the ignition and fuel injection on the early models....they were almost Ford specific...
The Ford front axle was easier to install than the stock Jeep axle is...


The Willy's bed? Cause....a Ford bed would have looked funny.

The Comanche styling is ALL Jeep , as I discovered in putting that stepside on it. It looks exactly like it's older, bigger brother.
(The J-10 stepsides)

 

[Jeep Biscuit]

I am LMAO at some of the responses in this thread...This place is NEVER dull and wanting for humor.

Ford axles under a Comanche/Cherokee? ...I think I invented that one somewhere in 1977.

You're truely an amazing man DĩllHole.

 

[Flowers]

Ford axles under a Comanche/Cherokee? ...I think I invented that one somewhere in 1977.

You invented that? I didn't even know MJ/XJ's were produced in 1977

 

[STRYKER]

You invented that? I didn't even know MJ/XJ's were produced in 1977

Sorry for not clarifying, or catching my typing errors....... "that" referring more to a Jeep/Ford hybrid... I mated a set of Ford Dana/ nine inch diffs under a 1980 CJ in or about 1987 or 1988.

I hung my first set of Ford variants under the XJ format in late 1999.

 

[the bob]

Ford axles under a Comanche/Cherokee? ...I think I invented that one somewhere in 1977.

Freudian slip?

Sorry for not clarifying, or catching my typing errors....... "that" referring more to a Jeep/Ford hybrid... I mated a set of Ford Dana/ nine inch diffs under a 1980 CJ in or about 1987 or 1988.

I hung my first set of Ford variants under the XJ format in late 1999.

So... You're saying you invented the Jeep/Ford hybrid?
If so, you would have to have done it much earlier than '87-'88.
Or am I missing something?

 

[Flonder]

I am LMAO at some of the responses in this thread...This place is NEVER dull and wanting for humor.

Ford axles under a Comanche/Cherokee? ...I think I invented that one somewhere in 1977.

 

[STRYKER]

Freudian slip?



So... You're saying you invented the Jeep/Ford hybrid?
If so, you would have to have done it much earlier than '87-'88.
Or am I missing something?

I'm sure that somewhere out there, someone has mated Ford axles under a Jeep much earlier than I....

The comment was a generalization.....not an absolute. I think we're just on different wave lengths.

All that the comment was intended to mean....is that before the current "rash" of Dana 44 and 9" Ford axles being installed under a new XJ nearly everyday.... I did it back in 1999 without anyone to consort with. It was an uncommon task back then.

I do not want to exclude that farmer back in 1985 that did it because he had all the pieces.....

 

[Eagle]

She'll jack up the cost of that Jeep by a factor of three. Mine always does. If I get to spend $100, she get's to spend $300. Oh crap, that's a factor of four.

RR3

100 x 3 = 300

It's a factor of three

 

[Eagle]

Eagle.... I saved a pristine Comanche bed by totally removing it from the vehicle and cutting it, and this is the thanks I get??? My current machine could be returned to stock rather easily with a couple of fenders, a header panel, and stock running gear (which incidentally I currently have three sets of)

I know, I know.

One of the reasons my "fleet" has become a fleet is that I get too attached to them. I put one up for sale, a bunch of yahoos parade through looking at it and offering about half what it's worth (or less), and I look at them and just know that with a month of their buying it, they will either destroy it with redneck mods or just outright crash it. So I take it off the market.

Why do I care? Damned if I know. I guess I've just been a collector/restorer (or "refurbisher" might be more accurate, because I rarely do 100% restorations) for too long. I feel about MJs the way I feel about original 2-seat AMXs -- there were so few made that they should not be cut up in any way that can't be returned to original condition, and they should not be used as hard-core trail machines and bashed into oblivion just for the "fun" of it. Which is why, Amigo, I salute you for preserving the box from yours.

 

[MonsterXJ]

tell her it was free

 

[GSequoia]

Restomod man That's a word from the Mustang crowd.

Sequoia
(Who also has a '66 Mustang coupe)

 

[CheapXJ]

My MJ can't be put back to stock

I won't let that happen.

but it's better than stock (except for the bed )

 

[Fred]

MY Renix distributor says Lucas

not a mention of Ford anywhere.
Might be better with Ford than Lucas, though.
Fred
The real problem is all the GM crap in the XJ's. Damn steering column just died today.

 

[STRYKER]

Re: MY Renix distributor says Lucas

not a mention of Ford anywhere.
Might be better with Ford than Lucas, though.
Fred
The real problem is all the GM crap in the XJ's. Damn steering column just died today.

Ahhh....
Lucas Electronics....

Had a brand new Jaguar XJS some years ago. Stayed in the shop more than it was ever driven. Some date car!!

 

[the bob]

:wstupid:
Is that when you were in the NSA?
http://www.bastardarmy.com/d!llhole/index.html

 

[STRYKER]

Re: MY Renix distributor says Lucas

The real problem is all the GM crap in the XJ's. Damn steering column just died today.

The real problem is with cheap GM crap that when installed on a Jeep, suddenly fetches "Jeep" pricing.

 

[Dillinger]

Freudian slip?



So... You're saying you invented the Jeep/Ford hybrid?
If so, you would have to have done it much earlier than '87-'88.
Or am I missing something?

Basically, since the XJ platform wasn't invented till 1984, I'd have to say "Jeep" hybrid. I placed a set of Ford axles under a 1982 Scrambler back in the day.
The first XJ which I placed these axles under was in 1999. Even then, I hadn't hooked up with anyone who had done it at that time, but I'm not going to say that someone hadn't done it at that time. I was not able to consort with them on all the particulars, however.

 

[the bob]

Freudian slip?



So... You're saying you invented the Jeep/Ford hybrid?
If so, you would have to have done it much earlier than '87-'88.
Or am I missing something?

So, what was it? An '80 CJ or an '82 Scrambler?
Oh Dean, why lie?
:wierd: