1988 Jeep comanche AKA the penny sniffer

[zebvance]

This is how the pile of parts was looking like before I put the bumpers on. It Felt like X-Mas!!!!!!!

[jasonjuch]

do the light boxes on the bumper get in the way of D-rings?

edit: nevermind i see they don't stick out as far as the d-ring holes

[zebvance]

do the light boxes on the bumper get in the way of D-rings?

edit: nevermind i see they don't stick out as far as the d-ring holes

Actually yest they do. The D-rings that I mocked up the boxes with fit fine but the ones I have now are bigger so they don't fit. So no Im trying to get a small pair that do fit.

[zebvance]

Ok this is going to be pic heavy. I started tearing a part the 4.0 to install new Iron man motor mounts, a pacesetter header and a new trans mount. Up untill now it has been mostly just buying parts, then I started to get a abundance of parts.

the start of the tear down, labeled everything.

[zebvance]

At the end of the night and a few beers, sweat and blood. I had the imprint of a pair of pliers in me FUN TIMES!

[zebvance]

Alright here is how the mounts looked




and then I pulled them out.......in many pieces!

[zebvance]

Alright here is how it looked with the old engine mounts and me, my brother, and my buddy cortney trying to pull the engine forward where it "needed" to be.

[zebvance]

[zebvance]

After installing the Driver mount I will tell you on the renix engine it is not a direct bolt on you will have to modify the driver bracket. you will need a 5 inch cut off disk or grinding disk on a cut off wheel, to remove the access metal that keeps the Iron man mounts from sliding in. It is quite a task but I promise you once it is done it is time and money well spent!

[zebvance]

Here is the new motor mounts in place.

[zebvance]

Test fit for the header!

[zebvance]

So here were my problems withe the pace setter header hardware...... It sucks all of the "step washers were off set and did not fit right, so I had to special order a new set of the and then had to hand grind them to fit.....

[zebvance]

So with the pacesetter Header I had to plug the EGR and I did it by making a plate for it on the intake, also the is a tube that runs from the bottom of the intake to the old manifold I made a plug for that bud did not get pictures.

[zebvance]

Actually I just noticed in that last picture you can see the plug I made....

[zebvance]

Next was the 703 4 port injectors injectors I got from Precision auto performance.com. and then the new fuel pressure regulator.....