Catatonic Comanche

Meet me face-to-face and you will come to know a MAN who wrote the word "soulmate" without the knife of a spouse at my neck. I will admit to showing her what I wrote on her behalf afterwards, but she had NOTHING to do with what I wrote and will vouch for that. I do know that the term "soulmate" is a word that makes most guys hurl to hear, but it is true. I wrote it and meant it! Eight years I have been married. My Comanche is a 1992. If anyone ever placed the tip of a gun to my temple and said "your Comanche or your wife", the Comanche would be HISTORY! After all, there are ALWAYS boatloads of other Comanches on e-Bay! We went tOObing this day! The Shenandoah River was epoch!

feerocknok, Amen brother! My "wifey" is my soulmate and such attention will never be compromised by any Jeep! A "non-issue" really becomes an issue when one implies that his MJ 'outranks' his own "wifey"...whatever... :nuts: People dig their own graves and will soon rot in them in their misery...that will not conflict with my happiness... Trade yer' "wifey" for an MJ...it makes no difference to me! Party on for you with that "wackey weed" that I have never smoked ever in my lifetime! A few beers on a Saturday night with the wife I love is about as exciting as it gets for me. :banana:

That is logical. There are a LOT more XJers lifting XJs then MJers lifting MJs. I have no idea how this happened and cannot figure out why, but I know this MJ owner in Colorado who claimed that he lost his emergency brake by swapping his factory 35-C with a DANA-44 from an XJ. :dunno: :cheers:

LOL! In the world of 4x4s it is always unavoidable to witness those few and proud who make up for their lack of testosterone with big suspensions and big tires! :nuts: Go ahead and dump your "wifey" for your Chryslerian inanimate object for all I care! :rotf:

The damage has been done and nothing can roll back the clock so ya' might as well make a new friend! :banana: It is a crude way to meet losing your Comanche and all, but what the hay! Women are one of the few catagories that even outrank Comanches! Beer is up there as well! :cheers:

From afar, it sort of looks like my 1992 "Colorado Red" factory paint-job... Chrysler Spray Paint Color Code HE4, Part Number 82-200-514. Comes in 5 oz. cans... Cans...beer....beer cans...mmm... :cheers:

That's a damn good price even for an XJ DANA 44, Cooter and I did not get my factory MJ DANA 44 from eBay, either! Believe it or not, I have seen XJ DANA 44s sell for as high as $900.00+ :cheers:

I paid $475.00 for a DANA 44 that came off of a salvaged MJ that came from the factory with the Metric Ton Package...drums included. Rather than having the new driveshaft fabricated, I opted just to order the correct part number (5209-8169) for a SWB/4x4/AT/DANA 44 MJ from the Jeep dealer. The part had been discontinued, but the warehouse in Milwaukee still had eight of them in storage at the time... :cheers:

8) It is a cool brochure...too cool for me to not share! :cheers:

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Two years ago, I was here: http://forums.vmag.com/jjmj0301 One hot summer day, I had set out to haul a load of garbage to the dump. I loaded up the bed and proceeded to open the door of my Eliminator when the putrid stench of urine engulfed the interior of my cab! I had not driven it in about a month and also noticed a plethora of those little Pez Candy-shaped ebony pellets peppered about the dampened and mildued carpet. The culprit was a combination of mice and interior leakage. I was livid at those little rodent b@st@rds, but I also knew that the interior leakage was also a problem and needed to be dealt with accordingly. After taking the trash to the dump (all windows rolled down), I ripped the entire interior out of the cab all the way down to the bare metal floorboard. I never logged onto the old forum again... That same summer, I treated all od the rust and replaced the missing plug in the firewall hole where the mice were entering. A few rainy days passed and I noticed water puddling in both the front and rear floorboards, but I could not figure out where the leak/s originated for some time. Why the interior was stripped out of the cab, I eventually drilled a few extra drain-holes in the floor and coated the entire floorboard with line-a-bed paint. The lawn-coma began... I recently awakened from my dream and decided replacing the cracked windshield was something I could accomplish. Suddenly, the source of my leak was solved! Once again, I find myself planning and scheming on how I will sculpt my MJ! Needless to state, I needed to get back in touch with the MJ crowd! I logged onto my old dinosaur MJ messageboard and noticed that it had been defunct for over two years. Either all the Comanche owners had perished or the website had. It took me a while to find a decent MJ forum...even using Google. But alas...the past is not changable. The important item is that I found my way back home! The Land of Comanches & Beer... :cheers:

:rotf: A Laredo monster Comanche! LOL! :rotf:

In VIN coding, all Comanches are labeled as "Cherokee" with a Comanche truck body. No-one chopped-up a Cherokee to make your Comanche... :cheers:

Yer' bro' was almost correct. This also happened in the glovebox of my Comanche...mice! You must declare all-out global thermonuclear war to exterminate those bastards or they will make hash of your Jeepish lawn ornament! Poison in blocks on the ground...it works!

xjcrawlr, ...any leads yet?

Those little scavengers love to use air-filter fiber and hood insulation for building their nests...argh! O:mad: Anyway, it rained steadily all night and only the rear window leak remains! :banana: :cheers:

Okay...the very first rain since I had the winshield replaced and the source of the frontal leaks have ceased!!! There is only one leak left showing its ugly face and it is streaming down from the driver's side of the rear sliding-glass window as jeepmj_tj mentioned. The only problem is that there is welded metal over the source of the rear-window leak that does not allow me to see exactly where the water is entering. Any ideas out there in Comancheland? This is so exciting! Two of the three leak sources have been solved by the new windshield! :banana: Thanks guys! :bowdown: :cheers:

Roadless, I heard that, man! This was the ultimate leak from hell and yes, it was getting under the carpet. On top of that, mice started camping out in my engine compartment...those little bastards! I started sprinkling poison pellets underneath my Comanche and those little bastards gathered up the pellets and stored them in the drainage holes in the hood of the truck! I then issued a fatwa and declared jihad on the mice by using an empty Clorox jug with a couple of mouse-sized holes and lacing it with peanut-butter flavored poison blocks that were too heavy for the mice to carry away to store...they eat their fill and then go off and die. Anyway, the mouse problem is over... Pingpong, LOL!

Too many beers would make me sleepy long before any type of poisoning would set in! Its just great to come in from a hard day's work, work on the truck and have a beer! :cheers: Actually, I just had the cracked winshield replaced and believe that the old winshield had a leak at the bottom. Believe it or not, I never could get a hose to recreate that leak! Only during a long and slow steady rain would the very slow leak emerge... "Beer Good!"... :cheers:

During my painful waiting stage of trying to find the source of that damned interior leak and saving my spare change for replacement carpet, etc., I find it comforting to wax my Comanche, dream of the masterpiece I plan to create and have a beer on the side! Is there nothing that beer cannot cure? :cheers:

I was always partial to th look of the ARB Bull Bar: http://www.arb.com.au/arb_bull_bars.htm

I must admit, that is one big @$$ spare tire ya' got there, Pete! :cheers:

...so the license plate is supposed to transfer to any trailor that attaches to your bumper's trailor hitch...got it... :cheers:

DC, Do you plan on reinstalling a body on your Comanche project or are you going for the dune-buggy effect?

Dude, I have no idea what "attitude" I am supposed to "explain" to you. Yes, I asked for an opinion and was simply overwhelmed with advice. As for your allegations of my not 'looking for the answers received' and that I got "upset", that is YOUR opinion. I actually have had my eyes on the Rubicon Express kit for some time... I was a happy guy sitting down with my first beer of the eve when I wrote that and I even posted a joke to DC about getting a bed for his Comanche although it is my "opinion" that he would have one if he wanted one! Whatever... :cheers: = works for me!