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Nice. :laughin:

http://saskatoon.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-trucks-jeep-comanche-W0QQAdIdZ432988073 Looks like a pretty recent build. 6" lift and front and rear lockers. $2500

There's one of those planes up here on Kijiji that I keep seeing on Comanche searches. Had me confused for a little bit when it came up, never seen a plane on Kijiji. It's a twin engine with a few more gismos and they want three times as much for it. http://saskatoon.kij...QAdIdZ388252795

1989 swb, 4L manual. It's not mint by any means, and there is rust, but it doesn't look to be in too bad shape. It's pretty darn clean inside, at any rate. No reserve, and opening at $950 but those wheels are a little, er... well, to each his own.

:yeah that: That really sucks. Some people just have no respect. Maybe the parking lot has a security camera?

It's so... clean... :drool: Great looking truck. Hope you can get the niggles out.

I usually only wash vehicles a few times a winter to get the salt off, but I'm not as paranoid about rust and obsessive about preventing it as maybe I should be. There's a guy I follow on YouTube who swears by Fluid Film. He sprays the regular stuff onto the undercarriage, and then uses the heavy-duty marine grade brush-on stuff for high wash areas like wheel wells. From the sounds of it, it's just like a regular oil coating, except it's lanolin based, not a petroleum oil. I think he uses it once a year or so. The way I see it, the only way to prevent rust is to get something else onto the metal to keep it away from oxygen. If you use a solid coating like a paint or a rubbery undercoating, you've got to make sure you're starting with a completely clean and rust-free base, or else you cause more problems than you solve. Rust-converter paints are likely a good way to go, but I didn't even know they existed until I started using this forum. I don't think if you use an oil-based undercoating you need to make sure it's perfectly clean and rust-free, but the disadvantage to them is that you turn the entire underside of your vehicle into a gooey greasy mess, and it needs redone at least once a year. At any rate, no method is going to be 100% successful. Some may be really close, but if you've got rust, the only way to get rid of it is to get rid of it. Sand, wire brush, or even just cut it out, whatever it takes. Another thing I've noticed is that vehicles which get used occasionally seem to rust less than vehicles that are just sitting around.

:doh: Ah, yeah, cargo light... I knew that... thanks.

:hijack: Was the brake light on the cab only used in '92? My '91 doesn't have one is why I'm asking. Or was it just an option?

My experience with GM engines is that they were exclusively using Rochester carbs, but in/around 86 I'm pretty sure they'd switched the 2.8 to injection. I don't know what they'd be selling to AMC or what AMC would do to them after, but I'd expect a 2.8 from the '80's to have some version of the Varajet, if it had a carb at all. I'd say with about 95% confidence that the Weber is not the stock carburetor. I increase that to 99% if you've got vacuum lines or anything else going to it with no place to connect. If I have to guess at a stock carb, I'd say Varajet E2SE. I think was used on US cars after '81, but afaik we never got it in Canada. It's a computer controlled carb, but that's about all I can tell you.

Living on my school's campus limits what I can have, but I'm armed with basic camping supplies, enough to keep me warm at -50. I don't have too much food on hand, though. I'm not really in the line of major weather, with the exception of a freak blizzard or a tornado, so I think I've got enough. Important too is knowing how to use what you've got.

Hey, whereabouts in NB are you? I spent almost a month in Tracadie about eight years ago on a school exchange.

Yeah, I was thinking it looked pretty rough. There's a guy advertising a parts truck here, but it sounds pretty rough. Waiting to hear back from him, since I'm looking for a receiver hitch. I asked about the bumper, too. Very few of the MJ's around here seem to still have the factory bumpers on them.

:agree: It's a myth that hair grows back thicker when shaved. Hairs generally get a tapered end, but when you slice them, they grow out with a much more defined tip, so it feels bristlier. If that's a word. Personally I find it hard to part with any hair this time of year. I need all the insulation I can get!

My teenaged sister gave mine a name the day I drove it home, but I don't remember what it was. Anthony, maybe...? I mostly remember being ticked at her for taking the liberty. I've never really thought that cars should get names... the people who build them already did that. That being said, I've called mine Blurple a few times, because, well, it is...

Afaik it's an open diff, but I don't really know. The only thing I'm going on there is that the PO didn't mention anything. I have been wondering though. Only way to check without pulling the cover is to pick up the back end and give her a spin, right?

I don't know how stringent things are with car seats in the states, but the new Canadian standards are enough that seats from a couple years ago don't meet them. I don't know how well you could rig something up in that space that would meet them. That being said, I also really like my crappy torn buckets. Could you get a commercial rear-facing infant seat and then build up some kind of secure mounting system into the eight inches?

Pretty much clear in this context meant snow blowing across the road, but nothing really sticking to it. This wasn't the wet heavy snow, it's the dry arctic-like snow that's pretty much just ice crystals. Doesn't stick together or to anything, except where it packs into drifts. And it really doesn't stick to an elevated road at 10F in that kind of wind. I feel I should add I've been driving in snow since I learned to drive, which was in the winter, just for personal validation. I've been a crazy teenager in the snow (maybe still am a bit) but this was unlike anything else I've ever experienced. I've hit drifts up to three feet deep with one/both front wheels (er, the whole front end), slewed around in loose/wet/mushy snow, basically been a hoonigan. Admittedly never in this particular truck, but this was not like anything I've ever experienced. The only way it makes sense as a loss of traction is if right before the transmission kicked down I was on some slipperier bit, and then hit clear, dry pavement with the spinning rear right tire suddenly hooking up with the torque from the downshift, pretty much launching the truck over. It really did feel like something slammed into the rear right corner, just without the whiplash. The change of direction was so violent, it's what made me think of what I'd heard of death wobble. But still, there's no way that happened because of loose snow between the lanes or even ruts. I hadn't even moved towards the other lane yet, since there was still a car going past at that point. I was accelerating so I could slot in behind it. But I know better than to try that again, for the safety of myself and others on the road, and I thank God that nothing happened that time. This actually sounds very plausible too. The u-joints were redone last fall when the PO had the truck inspected (i've got the receipts), but I've been getting a clunk from the front right corner when I hit some bumps. I'd just attributed it to the unsecured battery bouncing around, since the PO said he took it to a mechanic who couldn't reproduce it, and I'm pretty sure they should last longer than 8k miles. I was actually driving back from picking up a strap for the battery to eliminate that possibility.

The road was pretty much clear, and I didn't really punch it, at least I don't think I was trying to. Usually I try to do the raw egg thing, but I get impatient sometimes... But definitely not doing that again. Really don't need to scrub sh*t out of my seat. If I did hit something, the guy in front of me didn't. Especially after what Eagle said, I'm thinking it was a loss of traction. And now I'm embarrassed for bringing it up. It didn't really feel like when you swing the rear end out going around a corner, it felt more like the entire truck had been grabbed and dragged to the left, that's why I was worried. But thanks everyone.

I've looked it up and as far as I can tell it's essentially a side-to-side vibration/oscillation? Mostly when I search I get discussions about the cause, but not much about what it actually is. But that's not what I think happened if I understand it correctly. It snowed a bit today, so traffic was of course retarded, but I was still having trouble getting off the line, even with the new tires, so I got about 200 lbs of softener salt and threw it in the bed, now it's much better, but I digress. Then on my way home, I merged onto an elevated freeway, of course into the traffic crawling at 40mph in a 60, with the left lane's traffic moving at a normal speed. I went to accelerate into a gap, and when the tranny kicked down, it almost felt like I got rear ended on the passenger side, except I didn't... it felt almost like the front passenger side lifted, sort of the way it does when I accelerate, except much more violently and the driver side didn't feel like it lifted at all. It was a bit like really serious diagonal ditch-twisting, tbh. The result was the whole truck rotating, and then fishtailing as I corrected, and I got it under control after about three direction changes, foot off the throttle, and then it was as if nothing had happened. I lost maybe 5mph, everything seems normal, and I couldn't reproduce it. But I didn't try that hard. I looked underneath, and didn't find anything broken or loose front or rear Any thoughts? I was in 2wd at the time, although had been using 4H to get moving a few times prior. possible causes that I can think of are: Mechanical failure of some kind, even though I couldn't find anything and everything seems normal. But I didn't get the wheels off the ground. Uneven traction, but I'm not sure that I could have hooked up as hard as I did, and my experience is that I just would've spun the other wheel. AFAIK I don't have any kind of lsd or locker. Freak gust of wind. (It was still blowing pretty hard) I actually did get rear-ended and didn't notice and there's no damage to the truck and everyone else on the road completely ignored it. (they gave me serious space but didn't actually stop) I don't think it's death wobble, since it started with the kick-in-the-pants, and as far as I can tell death wobble is just a wobble. Correct me if I'm wrong?

My apologies. With no NHL my following of sports has essentially dissipated... And my following of the viral never really existed. There was originally something else at the end of the post, but then I thought better of it, eh?

That story was playing on the TV in the lobby of my building this afternoon. It's international stuff, man.

I picked up a full set of horns off a '73 cadillac for my dad's van at a jy a few years ago with a few other things for $15, and just wired them in parallel off the power wire to the old single horn. Any horn will work, but some horns ground through the mount and some have a separate ground wire. In Ontario a doorbell can count as a horn to pass an inspection, or at least I know a guy who got away with it. I can't speak for Texas though.

Yeah, before my US passport expired, crossing into the states was a hell of a lot easier. But since then I've found that the tiny crossings that don't get much traffic are less painful to get through. No line ups, and the border agents sometimes almost seem happy to be doing something. The last few times I've been down there I've crossed at Westhope ND, although that's pretty far out of your way... like 3000 miles...

There's something to be said about colossal engines turning slowly. No one expects them to get the fuel economy they do. Got pics? Did you keep the rear engine location? That's something I'd love to see.