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Went and checked out a new yard today with 3 comanches and quite a few xjs including a briarwood. I got seat brackets for my truck and a few other things but I’m sure I’ll end up going back sometime soon to get more. I’m going when it’s colder out though next time because it was way to hot today

I sent him a list of mj specific stuff to pull and he said everything on the list was gone. The bucket brackets were still there but they were very rusty and he couldn’t get the bolts out. It’s not worth a 4 hour round trip when there’s closer non stripped comanches😂🤫

1986 Jeep comanche at lkq Charlotte. I sent a friend to look at it for me and he said that it was pretty much stripped already.

Yes I’m still making them. I have one more almost finished and am waiting on more parts still. Hopefully I’ll be able to get them next week and get another big batch made

I think I got the vin correct but the tag was hard to read and I forgot to look for the other vin tags. I think it is an 1988 but it could be an 87. A guy cut the roof off and hacked up the body while trying to turn a 4x4 xj into a comanche. It was originally a 4.0 2wd column shift with a blue interior and blue exterior that has been painted black. It’s a pretty basic truck with idiot lights and a bench seat. Still has some good parts left and I’m sure I’ll be back to grab more off of it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184355969863 I know the chrome handles are uncommon but I didn’t think they were $350 uncommon

I found an intact factory slider a few days ago in the junkyard. I plan to go back in the next week and pull that along with some other parts

It had a 4.0 in it and it looked pretty original. I may have typed the vin in wrong

I can look next time I go back but I’m pretty sure they are all either gone or falling apart. No ten spoke turbines that I saw

Nope it’s in SC

It’s in SC. I’ve grabbed a few things from the Comanche and the xjs but I’m planning to go back soon to grab more

Sorry about the pictures being crooked😂 I couldn’t figure out how to get them straight

I found a cool new yard the other day that had a row of about 20 xjs which is the most ive seen in one spot in quite a while. Most were ho ones but there were a few Renix and pre Renix ones mixed in. They also had a hacked up comanche and a cool full size Wagoneer. Lots of older stuff as well and the owner said he had been in that spot since the 80s

Most of the older ones have the serial number stamped onto the housing near the clutch lever. I have a steel cable on mine and it’s served me well but I plan to swap over to synthetic in the future. The older warns use a 3 or 5 pin controller. You can look into the plus on your solenoid box and see how many pins it has and that will tell you which one you need. You have solenoids verses the newer contactor so you don’t need the newest 4 pin remote

It looks like the x8000 or the m8000. Ive rebuilt a couple of older warns and they are pretty easy to work on. They also hold up on the trails pretty well. I have an older x8000i on my tj that I rebuilt and have used a pretty decent amount over the past few years. So if it were me I’d fix that warm before buying a new one

I have a set if you still need some

I honestly see them pretty often between Charleston and Clemson. I know of a few on the road in both places and a few sitting around. I’ve also pulled parts from almost 20 of them in the past two years. They are getting harder to find though and even xjs are starting to pop up In the yards less often

So a few years ago one of my friends rolled his 99 4 door Cherokee. A guy who had a 2wd comanche bought it for $800 to use it for a 4wd swap. Instead of 97+ swapping the Comanche or just swapping axles he decided to make the thing pictured below. He cut the bed off the Comanche and cut the xj behind the back doors. Then he sheet metal screwed it all together but never really finished it as far as I knew. Today I was checking out a new yard and sure enough I found the remains of his project rusting away. It looks like he swapped out the damaged parts for ones from a white xj and took the axles out of it before it ended up in the yard

I got my new fan and shroud on today as well as the front bumper. Hopefully that will solve my minimal air flow across the radiator problem for good. The bumper also looks much better than my beat up original

https://www.rubitrux.com/pre-owned-1991-jeep-comanche-pioneer-colorado-red.html

https://www.ebay.com/itm/383586176388

Yep that’s mine. I think it’s posted for cheaper in the for sale sub forum

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184321305192 Very pricy but they do look pretty nice

I shouldn’t have bought it but it was a pretty good deal and had a few ac things that I needed 😂

I’ll try and get more ready next week! I got distracted this week by my new jeep