New guy here, hello everyone.
I have Had 87 Chief for 10 years and the drive shaft fell off. I have a 89 pioneer that I want to use for parts. After the motor and drive train from the pioneer are in the chief, I want to rebuild everything from the chief. (build me a beast) as far as I can tell both are the same. 4.0, automatic. etc. Can anyone tell me If this will work. Are they the same?

Thanks
Gitz

 

you can use parts from either one..

 

Welcome.

We would like to see pics of both.

 

Yeah we love pics here. And Welcome to CF.

 

Cool, Thanks Guys.
I posted 3 pics of the Chief on my album. I couldnt get a profile pic to post yet.
I need to take some of the pioneer. but it aint much to look at. But the guy I bought it from rebuilt and replaced alot of parts. It was a good find.
Between the 2 I should be able to build a pretty cool ride.
I will post some more pics later.

Thanks again
Gitz.

 

"It" looks pretty good.

 

I am spending the weekend working on my garage so both jeeps will fit in with room to spare I hope. after that I can get started.

 

your 87 chief should have a rear dana 44.
the pioneer will have a dana 35.
whichever you build, use the d44 but you'll have to keep the driveshaft with the 44.

 

Thanks Caged
I know nothing at all about that, and many other other things I have read here. I can learn a lot from this site. I would like talk to all of you more as I go along here. I am not a mechanic. I am a pretty fair parts changer though. I have a good garage and a growing collection of tools. I am sure this will end well someday.


Gitz

 

Hello! You picked a great vehicle to start building on. (XJ in general). You'll find that there are a lot of parts that can be used on your Jeep as "budget parts", I won't go into that now so you won't get confused.... I hope you have a junkyard close because you'll learn to love 'em!

 

My wife and I bought a 4 car Heated garage last October. After a while we noticed it also came with a 3 bedroom house. We was like "cool" we can sleep and eat in the house when we aren't in the garage doing important stuff.
It is two, 2 car garages built end to end. There is a one car drive Through that someone framed in with only a door to walk through. I am opening it back up. I will put one jeep in each garage for the duration. there is also a 12 by 22 carport on the side for daily driver storage and emergency repairs. I am going to spend a couple more days getting ready to move Red and Blue in.(as I will now refer to them) We have only been here a short time. I am still getting organized in the garage. Soon we will start with swapping motor and drive train.

I posted some more pics. I will post some of the garage too.

 

Both Jeeps are in the garage. I am ready to see what kind of trouble I can get into now. More pics soon.

 

I don't see any pics, so how can there be more?? LOL!!

 

They are in my album my brutha. The next ones I will post on the thread, I just figured out how to do that.

For now....off to work!

 

I have been looking at A lot of threads.
There is more you can do to a Jeep than I ever thought of.
When I got my Jeep years ago it was so I could get through the Denver snow storms. It has taken everything mother nature could throw at me and kept on going. That is why I am going to restore it instead of getting a new truck. I like going to the hills and finding a good dirt road, but I never felt the need turn suddenly turn left and drive up the canyon wall. As long as I can get to my camp spot and maybe some fishing holes I am good.
This will be more stock Restoration than rock crawler.

The first thing I did to it back in Summer of 91 was to use a eraser wheel to take all the black lettering and stripes off of it. I also took off the ugly factory Purple window tint. The next pics are from 91