Not really knowing too much about the Comanche, I just bought a :Canadaflag: Canadian '91 4x4 a couple weeks ago. I don't know too much about the history, since the last owner really didn't know too much. The truck's got ~474,000 km (293k miles) on the odometer, but the PO claims the motor was rebuilt about 150,000 km ago. (90k miles) Or it's a rebuilt engine from a different year that was put in, he said both a year newer than the truck and the first year after Chrysler bought out Jeep, so I don't know, and was kindof hoping you guys could help me out with that, just for my own curiosity. And as far as I can tell, it seems to have a 5-speed auto, which I think is a bit weird, looking at the factory trannies... :nuts:
For the mileage, it's in pretty decent shape, although the rockers are mostly bondo (discovered that when I tried standing on the passenger side running board and nearly tore it off). There's a bit of rust here and there, but nothing too bad, the bed's got a couple bubbles above the fenders, but everything's still magnetic there.
Everything works, except the interior lights don't always come on (and sometimes turn off without the door closing), and the radio only came on once when I was going over some washboard, but otherwise I haven't been able to use it, and the spare tire cable seems to be seized, which is why the spare rolls around in the bed. And sometimes the ignition refuses to lock all the way, so I can't get the key out.
The round orange lights on the front don't work either, or else I can't find a switch for them. the one without the cover has a burnt out bulb, but I haven't bothered to check the other bulb or replace that one.
Right now I'm operating on a starving student budget, so I don't know if anything will be done to it soon, but it's an awesome truck, got me and my stuff moved 600km to Saskatoon, and has been good to me so far, so
Door sticker's a bit useless, eh?
Yeah, it's a real :Canadaflag: model
Figured out pretty quick that I needed to add my own cupholders ;)
Oh, yeah, I tore a mudflap off driving through some trees the day after I got it (4x4 works great!) And i've taken the running boards off it, since they looked a bit funny imo and kinda got in the way, and the passenger side one was falling off anyway. They're those tube kind, and the front brackets were bolted on with those stupid torx bolts, so I had to break the (really $#!&ty) welds on the tubes since the torx were rusted solid and stripped. The back was just regular hex bolts, so I'm guessing they've come off before if they're factory. They said "westin" or something on them. I left them back home, and don't have pictures of them.
If anyone's got questions or anything, I'll do my best to answer them, just learning as much as I can about my truck!
EDIT:: I just looked up the numbers on the manifold that I assumed would have something to do with the engine... guess they're just parts numbers, and it's a pretty standard part, although not used prior to '91, so it's looking likely that it's a '92 engine if it's not original, but I don't know how to tell.
