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Squirrelly Dan: Coheed's 86 Custom
coheed replied to coheed's topic in Member Projects: Your Comanches
That's exactly what I thought of when I took the picture. Honestly I got super lucky finding the brush guard. Guy selling it was only a 2 hour drive and the truck it came off of was kept in a garage essentially since new. -
Squirrelly Dan: Coheed's 86 Custom
coheed replied to coheed's topic in Member Projects: Your Comanches
Most assuredly. Yesterday I swapped the headlight harness with the one I got at a JY that has the fog lights built in. At some point the main connector seems to have over heated or been pressed up against the headlight or something. Had to de-pin the connector and use a good one off a spare harness I had. Replaced the turn and marker bulbs while I was at it. The ROL lights I had on the truck where also a junkyard find so they weren't in fantastic condition. However I had a set of Hella 500s in decent nick that have been hanging out in the shed for a few years, so I swapped the ROLs for the Hellas. Didn't manage to get a daytime photo but snagged this really cool night shot. -
Squirrelly Dan: Coheed's 86 Custom
coheed replied to coheed's topic in Member Projects: Your Comanches
10/11/20: Drove to WV to pick up this high rise cap so I'll have more room. And that brings us to now. Recently my s/o of 8 years and I split, so my plans for most things have changed. My eventual plans for the truck are a 1.9 TDI with an AX15, 231, 3" lift with metric ton springs, 31's and 4.10's (which I already have). We'll see how quickly this will happen. The more immediate plans are getting ready for a road trip to Colorado in late April next year. I'm turning 30, will be single, and have always wanted to travel out West. I have a job where I get 3 weeks of paid vacay a year so I can afford to take an 11 day trip. I ordered some Core4x4 control arms last night as he needs new ones and I plan on lifting. I'd like to swap in a 24 gal tank before the trip but I'll play that by ear. Other than that it's banking on the 2.8 not grenading. -
Bored on a Sunday afternoon and figured I should finally start a thread for my truck. Some may remember I was working on my grandfathers 86 XLS a few years ago. Multiple factors led me to abandon that as project but soon that will be made into a trailer. With abandoning that truck I wanted another MJ. I found myself an 86 Custom, 4wd, 5spd, with a 2.8 and a clean title at the beginning of last October. This is how he arrived to me on 10/5/19: 10/12/19: Drove out to meet @Blaine.D and bought a camper top off him as the truck will eventually be a camping truck. 10/19-20/20: Replaced the idiot light cluster with the 3/4 cluster out of my grandfathers truck, fixed some very botched interior wiring, replaced 2 fusible links, and swapped the bench for the buckets I had. 10/23/19: Made new battery cables and grounds out of 0ga and used marine terminals on the battery. Also stripped the header panel and fenders so I could swap on the semi-straight ones I had. 10/26/19: Changed what appeared to be the original air and fuel filter, swapped oil and coolant sensors for the 3/4 cluster, installed Cadillac 4-note horns, installed my decent fenders and tow hook style bumper brackets. 11/1/20: Replaced headlights with brighter Sylvania's 11/9/19: Removed the heater vacuum valve, replaced bad rad cap, installed metal vent visors 11/16/20: Took a trip to the mountains. 12/7/19: Replaced corner light and turn signal housings with good used, swapped trim and swapped in chrome 10 slot grill 12/26/19: Swapped shocks for Gabriel Guardians I had lying around for forever. Installed headlight relay harness. 12/28/19: Cut the rot and expanding foam out of the driver floor. Temporarily used some sheet metal until I can weld in new floors. 12/20/19: Bought a Brahma topper off Facebook cause price was right and I didn't have to repair fiberglass cracks like the other topper. Between then and March I just kept driving it, straightened the back bumper as best I could, installed a tach, and bought some YJ gamblers. Also installed Belltech 6400 shackles and V8 ZJ coils with an extra isolator bringing the truck 1.5" front and 1" rear over stock. 3/7/20: Bought an OE grill guard off a guy on FB. 3/31/20: Bought a set of 235/75r15 Falken AT3W's and had them installed on the Gamblers. Replaced the belts. 4/10/20: Replaced the original radiator and hoses with new hoses and good rad from the parts truck. Also put on new heater hoses and super flushed the system. 6/9/20: Replaced all steering with new V8 ZJ Moog components. Replaced track bar with stock Moog replacement. Replaced badly leaking steering box with good used off the parts truck and a JCR brace. Did a pretty decent home alignment. 7/1/20: Replaced rear driveshaft u-joints. Removed front DS until I can rebuild it. 7/6/20: Scored headlight harness with fog light wiring, rear speakers, cab vents, window trim, and an OE slider from a JY truck. 8/26/20: Drove 45 miles one way to work and heard a snap upon entering the lot. Turns out 2 lug nuts were just completely missing and the rest had backed off. The snap was either one or two of the remaining studs just snapping off. DOH!!! 9/4/20: Replaced the studs and swapped all the lug nuts on the truck with new. Turns out the brakes are original too 9/20/20: Bought 5 more gamblers and had a good one swapped for the one I jacked up. 10/1-3/20: Built a camping platform with the help of a co-worker and the amazing woodworking shop we have. Frame is just pressure treated 2x4s, top is 3/4 OSB with about 7 coats of poly. The drawer was made with the cut off from the OSB. Simple fork mount for my mountain bike so I can lock it up. Hopefully it's less likely to be stolen if they have to get into the topper.
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Oh and skid plates on both lol
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1. 86 XLS Metric ton turbo diesel, charcoal metallic paint, non-towing mirrors, chrome trim, A/C, smokers windows, RX135 radio, Honey interior with the sorta plaid buckets. 4x4 5spd, 24 gallon tank, brush guard, hidden winch, fog lights, slider window, and a camper top. So essentially my build plan... 2. 90 Red Chief, swb, 4x4, 4.0, 5spd, tan buckets, winch, slider, smokers windows, tow mirrors.
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Pictures of Comanches with Toppers.
coheed replied to knever3's topic in MJ Tech: Modification and Repairs
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1997 Jeep Wrangler# - $4,200
coheed replied to Manche757's topic in Craigslist/Marketplace/eBay... i.e. Not Your Stuff
It's also listed in San Francisco https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/for/d/san-francisco-jeep-wrangler/7192283094.html -
4WD AX-15 parts donor, WNC
coheed replied to 1987Comanche's topic in Craigslist/Marketplace/eBay... i.e. Not Your Stuff
Of course a deal like this shows up on a thin wallet month... -
If you're taking orders I would love those seat covers if they aren't too torn up, and eagle doesn't want them first. Mine are the same color and ripped to shreds.
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Love me a good garage eagle
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I've got 235/75 Wildpeak AT3W's on my 5speed 2.8 and it's not horrible. It's also 1.5" in the front and 1" in the rear. The total lift cost was like $80 I think.
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One of my co-workers had all her free tows with AAA that she let me use one of, which was awesome. Glad it didn't let go at 55-60.
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Drove the Comanche to work today, which rarely happens cause it's a 50 mile drive and the Comanche doesn't like the highway. Anyway, I make the turn into the parking lot and it starts making an awful noise. I thought the D35 or the t-case finally bit the bullet. I pull in a spot and check the truck and apparently I had lost 2 lug nuts long ago as the studs were rusted, and 2 of the remaining studs had snapped. I think the studs snapped on the turn into the parking lot. The last was only 2 full turns on. I think I'm gonna have to replace the wheel as well as the holes got rounded out a bit. Luckily I've been just sitting and waiting on throwing in the 4.10 axles I have from the parts truck. This gives me a reason to. Anyways go check your lug nuts if you can't recall exactly the last time you did.
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Hope someone snapped up the topper.
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Mini consol cup holder CAD design
coheed replied to The86manche's topic in MJ Tech: Modification and Repairs
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Check your sink trap before tearing cabinets down. The trap in our bathroom starts smelling bad when it needs cleaning.
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Comanche Tow Mirrors on CL
coheed replied to eaglescout526's topic in Craigslist/Marketplace/eBay... i.e. Not Your Stuff
Yeah, that's the tree in my front yard haha. -
Comanche Tow Mirrors on CL
coheed replied to eaglescout526's topic in Craigslist/Marketplace/eBay... i.e. Not Your Stuff
Those are the tow mirrors I sold to Piratestaz off of my truck lol -
RX-135 Radio on ebay
coheed replied to eaglescout526's topic in Craigslist/Marketplace/eBay... i.e. Not Your Stuff
They declined my offer of $20 for some reason.
