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Got some goodies today. Local jeep salvage yard got in a new comanche. Body is complete rust but interior and drive line are great. Got three big items on my wishlist. A working clock, relay cover clips!!, and tail lights. Steering wheel in much better shape than my current one. Bought the window vents for the felt guides in the tracks. Mine are gone. May install them for the vents as well. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

A.c. Delco was always my first choice on my old Suburban. They made most GM original parts. I'm not sure just when or what as I'm new to the Jeep game, but it's my understanding Jeep bought a lot of stuff from GM. And pieced them together on the Jeeps. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

80% of the parts i bought to rebuild my Suburban came from there. Buy the name brand product. My other go to online store is 1AAuto.com. they carry a lot of routine parts and free shipping. Best thing about them is the How to videos if they've done your vehicle. Lots of Chevy 1500 videos. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

I've gotten home and apparently I'm relocating a dryer vent because our new dryer won't fit in the same old location. And installing a new toilet. I've only been going to do that for 15 years since we bought this house. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

I suspect in the next month or so you can get a deal. My wife has been Thinking about new SUV. I got 3 weeks off starting today (normal downtime for me) just might get her one. Apparently I'm essential according the feds. Got a letter and everything. As long as ships cross the ocean, I got a job. And as long as the post office and GM are open my wife has a job supplying them with parts. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

Yeah I've had two non stop flights to Atlanta and Charlotte cancelled. No I'm flying into Dallas and hopefully my small town home airport. If not I'm gonna get as close as I can and rent a car. I actually can't get into my normal airport so I'm flying in two hours away where my son lives and borrowing his car to go home. That's Plan C now. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

I've been working in LA for last 2 weeks. I'm trying to get home to the east coast tomorrow. Already had 3 flights cancelled. Just hope I don't get stuck halfway across the country. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

I must be the only one. I got three yesterday and my work phone has gotten about 5 in the last week. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

That's a problem I can solve with money." I like that one. Got to remember it. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

I learned as a teenager I didn't like splitting wood. As an adult I decided as long as I can pay Duke Energy, I ain't splitting anymore wood. And I haven't in the last 30 years. More power to ya. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

I'm at work in LA/Long Beach Harbor. The world may stop but the Merchant Marine doesn't. Fueling a ship today that just came in from China. Tomorrow I'll be fueling one that just came thru the Panama Canal. I wonder if they have any toilet paper onboard? 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

Just chiming in cause I am in the exact same position. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

Why would somebody do that?? I thought you were just talking lining the bed. That being said I know two people that did their wranglers like that for serious offroading. Just hose out the mud, rocks, etc with a garden hose. Makes cleanup easier. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

Why would lining a bed decrease value? I'm planning on doing that to mine. It has a factory comanche bedliner in it and I hate those. They rub and scratch the underlying paint. Trap water and rust out beds. Everything is subjective but in my area rhino or linex coatings are a plus and selling points. But I agree I'll never get my money back. But I never treat vehicles as investments. I use them, get what can for them and buy another. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

My co-workers are all jealous. None of them remotely want a Gladiator.One guy been looking for a good Comanche for years. He's ticked, I'm not even a "Jeep guy" and I fell across one and bought it 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

The goal with mine is to return to the exact model it was on the showroom floor. With minor mechanicals. As such mine is an Eliminator. I have found out on this forum, the eliminator wheels are those ten hole versions you have. Except.....only the Eliminator has the fake rivets around the edge of the rim. The ones you have came off of a Cherokee. I did not know this til after I bought my rims. I got very lucky. All four had rivets. I also have a 30 year old memory backed up by a few pictures as my Dad had one new. You're is so close to original I have to second the opinion above, don't do any type of mod that requires a torch. Replace floor pans if needed, a good paint job, freshen up lenses, etc. is good but no crazy lifts. Don't make that one a rock crawler. These trucks arent $30,000 collectors, but they are getting rare and originals even rarer. Prices are going up slowly. Something to be said for a 30 year old original survivor.

I'm basically taking a really good 89 Eliminator back to showroom look. No mods what so ever. 2500 paint job and about 1500 more in various small stuff. I've done a 99 Suburban. You can blow thru your 6k budget real fast and still not get much. With that one I have close to 5 grand just in the engine and exhaust. Never did paint it but that was another 3k. I bought that for 3k and sold it for 3k. In the end it's a 30 year old truck not a 68 GTO or 57 Belair. Market is small. Yours does look like a solid 4k as she sits. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

Well I just paid 150 bucks for a set of those rims. You can probably part it out and get your money back depending interior and driveline condition. Maybe a little bit more??? 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

If you haven't obtained them already contact Watson and Sons Jeep Salvage in Pinetown, NC. Look them up on Facebook as that's his only web presence. He had a drawer full of them last week for all year models as well as the JEEP and 4X4 badging. Prices are good and he ships everywhere. 89 Comanche Eliminator 2wd 4.0L 5 speed PukeGoat Factory Original

Mine is an 89 model. If you zoom in you can see the wire connector is a single wire. It's grounded to the hood thru a mounting bolt. It's just a connector. Any type of connector would work. Or you can Straight wire it. You can ground to any bolt on the vehicle. Getting either version to work is easy. Find a power source, even the battery if you wish. Ground it anywhere to the chassis. I'm a new owner myself. I'm finding out that the 89 year model made a lot of changes as Chrysler brought the Jeep lineup into their supply and logistics chain. 89 Comanche Eliminator

How the word rivet get auto corrected to driver? 89 Comanche Eliminator

My Comanche. Just a set of screws hold it on. Not sure if it's a driver or just a hole that was threaded...pugs into an existing connection that increased up behind the coolant resevoir. If not there it's just 2 wires. I'm sure it would be easy give it a power source up and plug in it as needed. The original owner if mine kept it unplugged as the wire got hung up on stuff. I rerouted it. 89 Comanche Eliminator

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I'm going to qualify this by saying I'm only seeing the pictures on a cellphone and not very well at that. But it looks like all you have to do is cut the welds. I wouldn't use a grinding wheel. Use a cutting wheel on either a 4 inch angle grinder or an air grinder. You'll get a cleaner thinner cut as opposed to grinding it off and should take less time. Down side is the amount of cutting wheels you'll need. But you'll save more metal if needed. And you can generally control the cutting action better than a grinder. But either way if that frame is good cut that bed off and put another on there. I know where there a text short beds and one long bed in eastern NC right now. Save that truck, don't trash it. These things are getting harder and harder to find. 89 Comanche Eliminator

There is one other one in my area. A black and yellow one. I've seen it twice since I bought mine 2 months ago, but have no idea who owns it. I was told there was a green one recently but the owner passed away a little over a year ago and it disappeared shortly after. 89 Comanche Eliminator