Pete M

This one looks a little weird. :teehee:

I won't say that just yet. They may just be taunting me. :(

Check out this post in the Problems forum: http://comancheclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11077 And feel free to try and try again in the Test forum. Posting pics can be tricky at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy. :thumbsup: Trust me. :cheers:

Check for dripping. Check under the truck under the bellhousing, along the clutch line running up to the master, and then in the engine compartment below the clutch master cylinder. If you find any nasty fluid, let us know. :thumbsup:

So I made a quick phone call to the Giant's sideline and asked them to let the Bengals tie the game. So far so good. Burriss has 4 fantasy points so far in overtime. :D

So today my undroppable star wide receiver, Plaxico Burriss, has gotten me precisely 0 points. Yay. :roll:

The planets have aligned several times so far. In fact, every time I've been wheeling. I haven't had fulltime employment since before my drive out to Moab. :roll: But right now I've got problems in both categories. :(

We "don't mind" so much that we made it a rule that you're not allowed to apologize for asking said questions. :D And welcome! :waving:

Had a plumbing emergency at a friends house today so the truck still stills as-is. I doubt the electric choke works. I doubt it's ever worked since I've owned the truck. Truck ran fine before. Now it doesn't. :( I appreciate the offer for the Camaro stuff, but I'm inclined to just do some regular maintenance and if I fail, just push it back to its parking spot and leave it be for now. Too many projects. :(

It's strapped to the drivers side of the column, down by your feet. Follow the silver bar running down from the turn signal stalk.

It'll put a smile on your face so big it might never go away. :D Seriously though, if you want to get better gears, I recommend looking for junkyard axles with them in it already. In the long run it's cheaper. Plus I never ever condone sinking any money into a dana 35 (which is likely the rear axle you have now) beyond brake pads and gear oil. They're weak and I hate them. :mad: Also, the auto trans in your truck is an AW-4. :cheers:

When the stars and planets align and I have both a working truck and enough money to drive it further than down the block. :(

The turn signal stalk pushes on a bar that runs down the steering column to a switch near the bottom. I never had brights on my 88 until one day I found out about that switch. Turns out it was just misaligned. A bit of screwing around with it got me my brights back. :D

And yes, the Dakota line works with the Comanche too.

You mean the kind that screw to the side of the door?

No thanks. Last time I tried that I got shocked. Big time. :eek:

If it was, it's not anymore. :D It has been the way it is now since the original owner had a wire harness fire under the dash, gutted it, and eventually gave up on fixing it. He wired it enough to drive it around the farm in Oklahoma (originally a California truck). When I bought it 8 years ago it ran great. Heck, it ran ok even just a couple years ago. Since then it's been going down hill. Probably due to a lack of use. I've shot starter fluid down the carb and it doesn't seem to make any difference. So tomorrow I'll: -change spark plugs (I bought replacements a couple years ago. They should be around somewhere) -buy one of those inline spark-checkers that lights up (because I've always wanted one) -check fuel bowl and carb guts On a side note, before it got really dark I was able to wash the ol' girl. That was one dirty truck. Before I re-park her I need to wash again, this time with a scrub brush. :roll:

I have thought about that. At one time I even got close to swapping in a complete 2wd 4.3L drivetrain. But the days of needing to drive this much have past and now it merely needs to putter around under its own power. Maybe someday, when I have a place of my own (and don't need the cavernous bed topper to store a lot of my Jeep junk) I'll put more effort into it. For now I just need the dang thing to idle on its own. It did it yesterday. Now very well mind you, but it did idle. And now it won't. :(

The only carbed engine to come in an MJ of course. :D Sorry, I don't mention the 86 much so I should probably give some details shouldn't I. :roll: -2.8L -No factory wire harness (yeah, you read that right). -Ran fine when last parked many many moons ago. -gas has plenty of sta-bil in it It's probably just something stupid that I'm overlooking. :(

...come here and fix my truck. :mad: ...stupid pile o' crap... can't move a lousy 200 yards... but can move 100 of those yards and strand itself in the middle of the stupid intersection... forcing me push it back into the parking lot... by myself... now it blows up my muffler... :rant: But seriously, it sounds like it's only firing one cylinder, maybe 2. It won't idle without practically flooring the gas pedal. Won't rev up any faster than idle speed. I cleaned up the inside of the distributor, swapped out a couple spark plug wires with known good ones to no effect, lubed up the carb linkage and nothing has changed. I'm sick of dealing with it in the parking lot. Tonight I'll be dragging it over to the garage. I'm not sure what I want to do next (I don't plan on sinking much money into what amounts to a giant storage locker for me), but I'm positive whatever happens is going to happen 200 yards closer to my tools and electricity. I'm tired of all the walking. :( sigh...

You want performance from a Renix system? Gears. Gears, gears, gears, gears, gears. Also keep up on the regular maintenance. And at the ages of our trucks, that includes sensors too.

Little do you guys know that I'm only here because of a selfish desire to find somebody, anybody to talk with about my trucks. Lord knows my friends and family don't want to hear about them anymore. :rotfl2: But seriously, it's all for the love of the trucks. :cheers:

Pm me and I'll be happy to send out more. :cheers:

So I'm the only one that saw the pic and said, "Hey, that's not a Jeep manifold!" :roll:

It's held in to the duct housing with a small screw. Takes a 7 or 8 mm wrench. And yes, if they are the older coil resisters, they get really really hot. Like burn paper hot. Mine burned out due to corrosion.