89 MJ

I’ve got a Renix one on my Comanche. His website says this: This was not my experience at all. Mine came back looking like a brand new throttle body. Cannot recommend it enough! I held off on buying one for over a year because I was worried about the finish. Old TB: New bored TB:

I go through this same thing. And going to school on the other side of the country doesn’t help

I am curious about a felt product on the grille guard. Or the softer part of velcro. It is very similar to the hockey tape, but its possibly less reflective.

That is really cool!

I follow him on Instagram

Where are you located? I’ve been looking for an LJ

Let's hear how the first day went when you're done!

I believe with the ARB and the Warrior products no modifications to the front fenders/flares/valence need to be made. Any others that I've found require you to cut the fenders.

I'm a little jealous of that ARB bumper.

Congratulations!

If I were to put another aftermarket bumper on my truck, it would be the warrior products. Or an ARB, but those ARBs are expensive.

I’ve always liked them too! It’s super cool having the first tractor I ever rode on.

That makes enough sense to me!

I'm familiar with Hayward. Been a while since I've been there. I'm from over near La Crosse. Right about where I-90 crosses the Mississippi River.

97-01 hoods will work. Why do you need a hood?

Seeing that reminds me that going south for school was one of my best decisions ever. I do not miss the cold one bit.

Have you verified that you are getting spark? Are you sure the CPS is in spec?

October 2023 - The Twins' 2nd Comanche In spring 2022 my twin brother and I purchased a farm with the goal of cleaning it up and building a house on the property. We knew immediately we would need a truck and very much didn't own one. We had previously owned an 88 SporTruck that we had purchased in an epic Roadkill style adventure with friends, purchased randomly on Craigslist in Los Angeles and then driven 3,500 miles home to Erie, Pennsylvania. It was an awesome truck but we sold it at the end of that year. We instantly regretted it and three years later stumbled upon the need and the right truck at the same time. A perfect 90 Eliminator with almost every option we wanted popped up in Redding, PA just 5 hours from home. We sorted out a plan to purchase it and brought it home! It needed a lot of tune up, but Cruiser54's list got everything sorted out. We use our Comanche as it should be, as a truck. 1600 lbs of concrete in the bed and a 48" trenching machine in tow. Estimated 5000lbs of trailer and contents plus 1000lbs of material in the bed. A corn crib folded up and placed in the trailer, only weighed 2300lbs , the lightest load we took to the scrap yard last year. Another view of the crushed corn crib. Build Thread- Year/Model - 1990 Eliminator with 265k miles. Drivetrain Engine: 4.0L, never been opened up, has upgraded injectors Transmission: AX15 with advanced adapters external slave conversion kit Transfer Case: NP231 Rear Axle: Dana 44 with LSD, ordered from the factory Front Axle: What ever is stock, it has a working CAD system. Cooling- Stock Renix closed system, new Dorman expansion tank with the original cap. Works great now that it holds pressure. Electrical/Ignition- Stock Renix, original French coil, with new cap, rotor, plugs, and clocked distributor. Electrical system in the truck is again stock with grounds sorted out for reliability. Suspension/Steering- Suspension Shocks: Rancho RS5000 fronts, KYB in the rear. Springs: original, regular payload with no upgrades. Steering is unmodified Interior- Standard Eliminator interior in grey. Updated interior B pillar lights. Head unit: JVC KD-T730BT rocking some random mix CDs. REM II 4.3 Clock Panel. Recovered headliner and sun visors with repaired and working vanity lights Tilt wheel Looking to upgrade the seats with new foam, new upholstery and heated seats pads wired to two OEM rocker switches to the right of the steering wheel. Brakes- Front are stock rotors and calipers with Hawk HPS pads. Rear, the big drums that came on the Dana 44 Original brake booster, works enough for boost, the pedal is the best feeling pedal in any vehicle I've owned. Still has the load sensing valve, appears to work. Lighting- No mods, new replacement Sylvania sealed beams. Missing the factory fog lights. Planning to do some under bed rail lighting, likely hooked to the fog light switch. Exterior- Been repainted by a decent amateur by the last owner. New Graphics were applied. Just had the bed done in Line-X to replace the slide in liner and gain access to the tie down points. Fey rear bumper, I love how sturdy and nice it is to tow with a bumper mount ball. Wheel & Tires- Refinished Eliminator wheels with BF Goodrich KO2s with the white letters facing out. Misc- This Comanche had dealer installed AC. Additionally I added factory cruise control with the clutch kill switch. The original owner drive the truck 239k miles, then sold it back to the original selling dealership after 16 years of ownership. The dealership turned it into their parts running truck and used it for another 15 years putting just 11k miles on it. They sold it to a previous employee of the dealership in the same town it had always been in who used it to tow his boat for a year. I bought it off him and have already put another 15k miles on it in 1.5 years. Best MJ story- Its too long for this post, involves buying my first Comanche in Los Angeles and driving across the country. Before seeing it in Craigslist the day I looked at it, I didn't even know that they existed. CC is Awesome! Why? It's your one stop shop for all your Comanche questions! I've spent a lot of time on Internet car forums, several quite excellent but this one ranks number one for professionalism, depth of knowledge, and general willingness of members to help. Plus, you all are willing to share and sell parts! As you all know by this point, I like to see MJs that are family projects. I also really enjoy seeing these trucks getting put to work, but still get cared for. @pizzaman09 does a great job with both of these. Congrats!

I also found a picture that my family took when I first got the tractor and was driving it home. Of course, I needed the SMV triangle and I got a license plate off of a semi trailer belonging to the person I inherited the tractor from. I taught a friend from college how to drive it. Me putting it to work moving cars at the estate sale for the person I inherited the tractor from.

It looks like I forgot to update that I changed the charging system. Either the generator or the voltage regulator went bad and we had a GM one wire alternator laying around, so we figured that we might as well upgrade. I included some pictures featuring a customer car in my dad's shop. 58 Corvette factory fuel injected car.

I've got one. I think it was pretty common on white trucks. Seems to have been common on the dark blue trucks too. My truck was originally white. Now blue bucket seat trucks seem to be rare. I'm trying (not super hard) to find a set of very nice blue buckets for my truck.

Should have the top graphics. The ones on the silver truck (which I believe is @acfortier's truck) were the Pioneer stripes starting in 1991. The other style was used from 87-90.

Yes! Love to see its getting three pedals!

Looks good in there. I wasn’t sure about it before, but I really like it now.

2 door XJs have different window regulators. Regulators from any 84-96 4 door XJ would work though.