Vakarian

Appreciate the information.

Amazing work! For painting, has the truck been in the garage and you just put plastic around the truck or did you roll it outside? Both of mine MJs and the wife's XJ need a paint job but not sure how to go about it but following your build gives me hope to attempt it. Try on the XJ first of course . Keep up the great work.

Thank you flatslug87. It has been a busy time since moving in. Still trying to get the little attach garage cleaned / organized to try and start working on stuff again. Hoping to get back to updating this tread more. Appreciate that compliment. I love the long bed, it has been real handy.

So it has been a good amount of time since I last updated this thread so going to be long one. So where did we leave off.....oh right the rebuilt transmission popped and lost all power. So not sure what the issue was, I just removed the transmission and put the original back in to save for another day. From there been trying to looking at houses and working on the other projects. Well on October of 2021 the wife and I moved into our new to us dream home, that needed a lot of work. The previous owners trashed the place but the potential was there within the 27 acres. From there the projects really slowed down as the place took work priority. However, the Comanche was put to use moving stuff out in the fields. Was handy as I could load tools and crap found in the fields without having to take the big dually. Well one morning on my way to work the driver tire came loose and fell off. Not sure how it happened but a few studs sheared. So it currently sits to have those replace and get the exhaust fixed as it has a few holes that have begun to melt the speedometer wires. Talking with a buddy has sparked some dumb ideas for the truck to help out on the property. Thus leading to the idea of making it a small dually for increased stance width to not flip on the hills with a little service body for tools and the goose neck to park the trailers easier. So many ideas just first one is get the tire to stay on. So that is a quick and brief update on the truck and hope to get back to working / updating the thread more now that the property is started to get moving in the correct direction.

I have not changed the cluster out. Thank you for the info on the grounded out wire to look for. derf, thank you for the insight and a path to start at. I appreciate the help from you both and thanks for all the information.

Okay so reading through this I am still a bit confused with solving my fuel gauge issue. The fuel gauge on my Renix JM doesn't move no matter the level of fuel and sits as shown in the picture below. What does it mean? The fuel pump works but could there be a loose wire or did the previous owner put an incorrect sending unit? Thanks for the help.

This has been a wild and interesting ride for you. Has been fun assisting with the work and I'm immensely excited for it to pull into the driveway at my place to continue our work shenanigans. Keep up the great motivation, you are so close!

Thank you for the information Minuit. Yesterday morning after starting the Comanche up and backing out of the garage I walked out and saw this. Looking of the radiator it turns out the hose clamp had shifted and was not seated correctly. So after that readjustment it stopped leaking and I moved onto the burping of cooling system. I jack the back end up and started her up pouring coolant into the reservoir. Took about 20 minus to stop bubbling and was staying around 190 degrees. Tires all have air and she will be taken out for a little test drive later today so see how she handles. Now to just finish the cosmetic look of her then figure out how to repaint her per the wife's statement. Per her word "It doesn't look as good when you first got it until you paint it but it runs."

Well last night was a busy and successful night! She is not pretty looking and still has a little cosmetic work but she is able to be driven again! Ran a little rough at first from sitting i guess but its nice to have her back on the road. Plus I missed driving a standard transmission.

I was able to get some work done this weekend before having to stop to catch up on homework. The front clip and headlights have been installed after noticing the highlight buckets changed on the later XJ. The second support / adjustment screw changed sides as you can see in the second picture. You have to swap the driver and passenger light bucket to work as they moved the screw from the outside on the Comanche to the inside for the later model XJ. After completing this I took my volt meter to the fuse box under the steering wheel to find a ignition only power source. Not wanting to just plug a spade connector into the front of the fuse box I have been trying to determine what type of connector end are within the fuse box. I would like to install one in the blank slot next to the ignition source to have a fuse there to keep it nice and clean. This would finish up the electric fan upgrade leaving only the power steering pump and coolant. The truck is close to being back on the road and I'm excited. Also what is the process for getting air out of the closed cooling system? Thanks for the visit and have great evening.

Not trying to blame anyone just wanted to make sure I was not being dumb. As with the current situation going on I can understand the delay but just wanted to bring it up as I was curious to browse the different options.

I am curious and interested in buy some apparel but this numbers are not pulling anything up for me on Amazon. Any insight on the problem or how to find them?

That is true Pete M, I didn't think of it that way. Just love all the insight, feedback and support that CC has to offer each other on our awesome trucks!

I keep trying but after my first attempt to teach on a Wrangler where she couldn't reach the pedals it has been hard to get her out. I appreciate the compliment regarding my build threads. They are nothing special but glad to hear that they have been useful / helpful. Hoping to have the truck up and running by the end of this weekend. Stay tuned!

Thanks buxmj! I was going to do what I could to keep it. Nothing major wrong and besides the body damage and it is a fun little truck to drive. My wife said she would enjoy driving it if it was not a manual. (she doesn't know how to drive it and it has been a struggle trying to get her to accept to learn)