1ABrian

so what are your plans for a tire size on this bad boy?

teh BOMB

I am really having troubles with that question...

(this picture is in its current condition, the build will get there..)
there it is with a buddy's 32s on it I am a little afraid of 35s rubbing i don't really want to bumpstop because it kinda defeats the idea of suspension travel so right now 285/75/16s because i can get retreads really cheap

teh BOMB

Okay so the lift was on and then the problems because of kit i chose my cross member was all out of wack. this is because the puegot trannys X-member is about 6 inches farther a head then the AX15 or the Aw 4, so i did what any good engineering student would do and let some one who knew what they were doing look at it and then take credit But in all seriousness i decided i was going to use a 2000 jeep cherokee stock X-member that i had sitting around from lifting my friends jeep; i welded it onto mine to bridge the gap.





cutting into the crossmember was a really hard but after it was done i started adding support


the welds aren't gorgeous but there is penetration and no one is ever gonna see it






as always more to come

fallenknight308

Awesome!
I'll be watching this build

cole93maxxxj

subbed! looks sick bro!

teh BOMB

Ok we are rapidly approaching where i currently am with this jeep everything up to now has been stuff I have done in the past 9 months so here we go
I noticed my shocks were limiting up travel so i fabbed up these



they are just a chunk of quarter wall rectangular that i cut up with a torch and drilled some holes through. I mounted them to the lower control arm using the factory hardware and two BEEFY tack welds

I then decided to get the bed back on; so I started by washing the frame it was so nasty. I then scuffed and wiped the section down and bed lined it




so i let it dry, I then repeated the process with the bottom of the bed




I bed lined the bottom with
and then the side and wheel wells with canned bed liner.

As always more to come

teh BOMB

well i decided to paint the back of the cab and the front of the bed so i preped it





then i primed it





then painted it i decided to paint the truck olive drap







then I put the bed back on






and it turned out looking great...
as always more to come

teh BOMB

well i decided to do a flex test and to help me choose tire size i threw on a set of 32s from my buddys jeep...











It made me decide to go with 33s which will be here in 2 weeks more to come

teh BOMB

well with the tires on order and the jeep just sitting, I decided it was time to paint it we had 75 as a high temperature two weeks back so I decided it was perfect weather to paint it wasn't going to get any nicer this year and i didn't want to wait till spring. (short of hanging poly in my shop which would have been way to much work.) So I dug out the ol' spray gun and the used the remainder of the shopline primer I had, So I taped it off,





Then I primed all the rough or unprimed stuff









Then i sanded the rough stuff, and wiped it all down and painted it olive drab


this is after the first coat,








It turned out looking great and I really like it!
That is all for now...
more to come

teh BOMB

well i got the jeep all back together, also threw on the bushwackers, i bought 6 months ago when i must have had money to burn






it isn't much of an update but it is all i have, I am still very impatiently waiting for my tires and wheels...
more to come

cherokeeaddiction23

you being 18 really gives me courage to do anything man, im 18 too! haha and that comanche is gonna look so good when your done

n_csmith

man oh man, i think you may have just convinced me to build a comanche when i get back from my 4yrs in England, that thing is sick and i am sure it is going to look even better when you get the wheels and tires.

N8-96XJ

Very nicely done so far! I want one too now!!

teh BOMB

thanks for all the comments guys the jeep is starting to look good, tonight I painted the j-e-e-p letters on the tail gate i will post pictures tomorrow when the paint drys, and I tear the tape off.

teh BOMB

well it has been a while since I posted, school has been busy but I have gotten some serious work done on the ol' jeep, well the first thing that i did was paint the jeep letters black






after 24 hours

well after the jeep was painted i decided that now would be a great time to fix the only thing that was truly wrong when i bought, the jeep it was leaking brake fluid from the slave cylinder.


shifter hole looking down

and after an hour of fighting the whole rear of the drive terrain came out;

here is the said to be bad throwout bearing/slave cylinder

this thing was absolutely gross so me and my dad took it to the quarter car-wash it was 7degrees F out side i don't think i have ever been so cold in my life when that water hit. here the drive-terrain all clean

i also took this opportunity to scrape all the gunk of the bottom of the trans tunnel so it started looking good
before

after

here is the new and old slave cylinder

it cost $130 stupid expensive puegot tranny
here it is cleaned needing a slave cylinder ready to go back in

then it all went back in (making sure to grease the shaft)

then we also rebuilt the master cylinder which was really simple it came out

ran a (hone)sp down it






then installed the rebuild kit it cost me $9

then we started to bleed the freshly built system and discovered that the line between the slave and master cylinder was leaking :headpop: the main thing i hope is that it wasn't just that line all along. a new one has been ordered and is on its way in...
And in other news these came in



still waiting on tires...
more to come