TheJeepNut

Well it's been a while. Reconstruction of #24 continues at a snails pace. I swear I'm TRYING to get the site caught up. Another list member hit me by email asking for some details so I took these grille pictures today for posterity. That's all I can do today. If someone needs followup, just send an I'm or email. I don't get on the list hardly ever at the moment. 16 months from retirement so...I'm about to have more free time!! These are all annotated and I'm off to get ready for work...

So I was JUST reading my Hemmings Classic Car magazine from March and there's an article about a 1988 Dodge Ram D50. My dad had one of those. Actually he had the Plymouth Arrow version and it always a great truck. Until the deer. But in the course of reading there was an image of the dash and I was struck by the similarity. I honestly don't recall the specific layout of the interior of the Arrow. But ChryCo owned the Jeep brand in 1988 so it's not a stretch to really wonder if we might be able to use these for an MJ. Why would they create a new part with all the XJ and MJ parts already being manufactured...? Noted the reset knob is in the middle but all I care about is the speedo. How come a lowly D50 get's a 115mph speedo and all we got was 85?... not fair. Although I would suppose these are in about as short a supply as the XJ cop version. But if I can find one of these I'm going to buy it just to see if I can take that speedo out and move it over to my cluster. Thoughts?

Sigh.... Just tried to order one of the Downey covers online. #24 not home yet but it shouldn't be too much longer now. I'll need to keep that new paint protected as much as possible while the rest of the rebuild continues so I'm trying to be proactive. Unfortunately... the transaction would not complete so I called them. No orders at this time. Recommended a 3mo window to call back... The world has turned upside down... I guess I'll buy a buttload of towels and start sewing... Maybe I'll put a link on the classifieds and sell them. lol I do have a cover for the WJ... might work in a pinch in the garage, but outside... I don't think I'd do that. I haven't even ordered the engine yet. I don't really have room to store it at the moment... I wonder how long it'll take to get a Golen? maybe I'd better call them and ask...

folks I got this mail via the contact link on the old site. I didn't even know it was still working. I've been pretty unwell for a while so this message is from early July but I wanted to get it on here. Looks like it's changed hands. Different name on the mail now. I'll post it, hopefully someone can get their hands on it. I've no idea what an export only title is or what earns a truck that restriction... maybe it can never come home?... sigh.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present #37... if I read the email right I think its in Obregon, Sonora. Fantastico! Thankfully I'm still getting email from the old zoho site. And thanks Jose for the pics!

Didn't ever occur to me that there were other Comanches out there. Watched an episode of Shifting Gears w/ Aaron Kaufman and they picked up an old Scout. And darned if it didn't have a stripe kit and lettering that said Comanche across the bottom of the sides. Never had heard of a Scout Comanche.

I got this email from the website. ANOTHER one found I hope. from StreetComanche site User submitted data Name josue danie camargo duarte Email Id josuedanielcamargoduarte@gmail.com Mobile Number Message buenos días acabo de adquirir una Street comanche #37 quisiera saber mas acerca de ella I sent back a reply inviting them to join the club and of course requested some photos and details.

Thanks all. Was hoping for something fast to get the new compressor compressing but as with everything it drags on and on it seems. Having to get the new compressor has delayed work for 4 weeks now. sigh. That WOULD work I suspect but at this point I've decided to run a dedicated 30amp line in conduit. I happened to have enough lengths of 3/4 to do the runs but needed some 90's. Found all but ONE 3/4 elbow by luck as neither Menards or Lowes has squat for the grey 3/4 Corlon conduit connectors/adapters. LOTS of 1"+ or 1/2" but not 3/4... I pulled boxes and looked in the wrong ones, etc and not one single 3/4" 90 degree curve left in either store. I'm going to just get the cable through and hang what I've got and just leave one end unfinished for now. Won't be code but I don't live with a CE officer. It'll do for me for now. Thanks for all the feedback tho!

So I've got a "Member of the Shadetree Electricians Union" hat that I'm wearing this week. Just got this awesome new compressor. Much larger than my previous tire pump and needs 220-240. I've got two 240 circuits shown in the box. One is a pair of ganged 20amp breakers that goes to a socket in the diningroom as well as to a bedroom. The shape of the wall socket is the 20 amp -.- shape in both rooms. I think the PO ran them for a tanning bed for the wifey. The other is a pair of ganged 40amp breakers but I've never found that they power anything. They may just be stuck in the box and not utilized. But this compressor needs min 22amps. So I was going to set it in the garage and run a 25ft extension cord to the dryer outlet in the adjacent utility room. I'm a single guy now and I don't use a dryer much so, meh... should work fine right? I know the dryer runs ganged 30amp breakers and the door out to the garage is always open because it's heated and cooled anyway. So here's the problem: 1. I'm looking at the plug ends at the local HW stores and not one of them has just a loose plug that fits this dryer socket. 2. In the research I'm seeing that Dryer cords that are available off the shelf have the two slanted 120 lines but that return line has a L shape to it as does my dryer's wall socket. 3. RANGE cords that are off the shelf items are also 30 amps and have the two slanted 120 lines but have a ROUNDish hole for the return. 4. No matter if you buy a Dryer cord or a Range cord, they're not locally available longer than 6' and I need 25'. At least for a while. So this all tells me that I may be trying to do something ill advised. But I'm not convinced and I don't get WHY the hole for the return lug would be different for a dryer vs. a range if both operated at 30 amps. I do understand that there are 3ph vs. single phase considerations but the compressor is a single phase unit. Shouldn't a simple dryer motor also be a single phase? I think they need the 30a 220 mostly for the heat. I'm poking around online now to try and find just a plug but 25' of 10/3 rubber cable is $75 here locally. I don't want to blow $100 to build a cord that's gonna jack up the new compressor OR burn down JeepNut's Garage... Whose our electrician here?

Man I'm thrilled beyond words to see that another was found and has been resurrected! It looks great! One day there must be a Street Comanche Owners cruise in.... somewhere...

wow I like the grille treatment on this one.

I'll take an SP-105 to go please. Thanks Pete!

I guess I think that they must help if only because I'm SURE AMC (or ChryCo) would have deleted the heck out of them to save $1 per unit if it really wasn't needed to help keep electronics under the bonnet dry. After I dump all this money in this thing it had better NOT leak oil...at least not for the first 5000 miles.... yep yep I went to that other thread and read up on that and went browsing... interesting stuff. Basically just sheets of compressed rubber trash.

ok Rock doesn't have them anymore but I've learned a new term.... This stuff is called Masticated Rubber. Can buy it in sheets and cut your own. Or pay the guy on eBay. You'll spend about the same money but if you buy the material you'll have more material to make flaps for "elsewhere".