pizzaman09

What a fantastic looking truck. Your purchase story sounds like mine, the guy selling it was getting a ton of messages about it, but I was the only one who managed to find his small dealership website and call him about it.

You recently changed the manifold I see. Go and double check that all of your manifold bolts are tights.

The black plastic component you speak up, which should be forward of the ballast resistor on the fender, should be a vacuum valve that controls the EGR valve. So it doesn't have anything to do with the fuel system. The fuel system is fairly simple in these trucks. For what you are suggesting, I'd start by checking the ground for the fuel pump at the drivers side tail light and confirm your ballast resistor bypass still works.

Super fun! I've always like Oliver tractors.

Yes your logic is correct, though the hoses can be challenging to get off at times. You should be able to achieve the same thing by keeping the Schrader valve open on the fuel rail.

This was my experience last year. I had Safelite do it, and they did it a few days later after requesting it. I wouldn't recommend them, they did a lot of damage to the scuttle panel and trim around the window, but they did so it and it works perfectly.

So, I guess I can share how the whole story went down. In 2018, myself, twin brother, and 5 other friends from engineering school after graduation were inspired by the old Roadkill YouTube series to do an old car road trip. We planned to fly from Cleveland, OH to Los Angeles, CA with cash to buy two interesting cars on Craigslist then road trip them home across the US. Before leaving we had plans to look at a tidy 83 K5 Chevy Blazer with 30k miles and an 08 vintage Ford Crown Vic Interceptor. The K5 blazer was roached on the interior and paint due to sun but my gosh it was clean. Didn't feel it was worth it. The Crown Vic was obviously freshly painted, like that morning, one could still smell the paint, so we passed. We joined forces at lunch and stared cruising the craziness that was LA craigslist car listings. I found a mid 00s BMW 3 series to look at, another found a Lexus LS300. Then a friend handed me his phone dialing a number and told me to talk to a guy about a Comanche. I ask my friend what is that, he told me pickup truck Cherokee, just as the guy picked up the phone. We organized to check it out as well as the other two cars. The Comanche was at an off road modification shop sitting on a lift ready for us to check out. It was darn clean underneath, but not perfectly dent free up top. Though the interior was quite dirty it was in great shape. We liked it. Being mothers day the seller had to leave but we told him we'd buy it the next day. Also looked at the BMW, it was in horrendous condition, the interior must have had 200 little trees hanging from the mirror, and it smelled like it. The Lexus needed brakes, but the parts were in the trunk. We decided the Lexus was good, unfortunately when the sale was about to happen the lady selling brought out a two inch thick pile of paper work claiming it had been an impound auction car and that the paperwork could be used to get a title in CA. So we had to pass. The next day myself and a friend went back to purchase the awesome Comanche from a very friendly Iranian guy in a dark back alley of an industrial park with a Non-op title as it didn't pass CA smog. Another one friend nearly purchased a Miata that day but came to his senses that a three seat truck and a two seat Miata wouldn't get 7 people home. So the Miata was abandoned, and a GMC Yukon XL was rented for the second vehicle of the trip. Now the fun really began. Two of my friends drove first as we headed back to the rental car return, when we were entering the highway in a big looping on ramp, we found traffic stopped at the end of the ramp. I was able to stop easily in my modern Ford Fusion rental, in my rear view mirror I watched the Comanche come to a four wheel locked sliding stop as apparently the brakes were a bit touchy after not really having been driven in two years. As we headed out of town, we got the tires balanced, it had a bent rim so that didn't do much. We hit up the Patterson auto museum, which was excellent, got some great Comanche photos in their parking deck. That day we visited the Pisca Lava tubes, an old volcano in the CA desert off RT66. The Comanche climbed to the top of the old volcano. We then headed east to Grand Canyon area. No issue other than a surprising lack of power in the truck , which we eventually realized was due to high elevation. No one in the trip had driven in high elevation before, I spent 5 minutes trying to pass a Uhaul truck at 75mph pinned in 3rd gear before reaching the crest of the local mountain at 8500 feet. The next day we headed north to Utah and Colorado, hitting monument valley, which was good fun driving the truck down into, as well as our two wheel drive Yukon rental. We staid the night in Durango, CO. We drove the million dollar highway to Silverton, what an epic drive! CO is beautiful. Ended the day on the Kansas border. The next day in Kansas we had a mega headwind and the Comanche started pinging, turns out the 85 octane fuel from CO wasn't making the engine happy at 3000 ft above sea level. Some 93 octane fixed that. At lunch though at Pizza Hut in small town Kansas, we found a massive puddle of oil under the truck after it had been sitting. 7 engineers defended on it and started looking at every gasket to find the leak, however none of the gaskets were leaking. Upon tracing the oil, it was coming from the air filter!? Pulled the filter and found it drowned in oil, bad PCV. Luckily there was an auto store around the corner in this very small town. In the store I was met with the most stereotypical scenario one could expect, the older gentleman man behind the counter was talking to another older gentleman on a barstool on the customer side of the counter. After 10 minutes they finished their conversation and the guy behind the counter asked what he could do for me. I figured it was a long shot but I asked for an air filter, PCV and rubber grommet for the PCV for an 88 Comanche 4.0L. He typed away for a minute or two, then walked no more than 6 ft behind the counter, picked up all three items and gave them to me. $6 later I was ready to go! Topped off the oil and continued on. The truck had been using some oil up until that point in the trip. The next 2000 miles home, it used no oil! The goal of the trip was to sell the vehicles when we got home and not loose the $1000 it would cost to rent the one way rental car. We ended up selling it on Bring A Trailer at the end of the summer, first Comanche they had ever listed. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1988-jeep-comanche-4/ Selling it was even an adventure, we managed to sell it to an awesome guy in Wisconsin who had just retired and bought a farm. He was looking for a stick shift 4x4 vehicle that was narrow enough to fit through his fence gates. Being near Christmas time he couldn't find anyone to ship it to his place. My twin and I just so happened to find our dream 1999 BMW M3 and hour from him in Wisconsin, so we drove the truck out there three days before Christmas and drove the M3 home. The new owner loves the truck and says he can't get it stuck, it is a beast. Of course, we regretted selling it almost immediately, but what we learned is we wanted another Comanche, and this time the one with every option we wanted. The upgrades we wanted were an AX15, air conditioning, bucket seats, full gauge pack and hopefully cruise control. The 90 Eliminator fit the bill, almost exactly.

Tires mounted on the wheels usually lower the value.

My brother saw this one headed east on I86 just into New York after leaving Pennsylvania.

This is real looker with those later Pioneer offset line graphics. I really have to hand it to Chrysler, the one great thing they did for the Comanches after the AMC buyout was some excellent graphics packages.

This is a really impressive build. Your front fender cut looks way better than any I've seen before.

I have that size on my 4x4 truck, I find when turning hard left that the inside of the tire will hit the lower control arm.

I just threw my cps in a vice to support it and started tapping it with a hammer consecutively harder until it moved. Didn't take too much. You can see in my picture below that there are three over molded plastic pins you have to break off at the holes in the plate. The picture is a bit disorienting, it's mounted to the bell housing at absolutely maximum advanced position.

I wasn't aware that the Renix ecu had any memory to learn over time. I was under the impression all the memory was erased every time the engine is shut down. However I am also not an expert in this topic.

I love McMaster. I'm particularly jealous of my friend who lives in the town where they have their warehouse in Ohio, and just stops by McMaster at lunch time to pick stuff up at will call.

My friend has a Shiba as well, his name is Pancake. I can confirm, he acts like a cat. Very anti social, doesn't like to be pet, but wants attention at the same time. Sits on the top edge of the sofa sideways.

More work today, just 16 bags of concrete but a fairly hefty 48 inch trencher.

Trailer just had 250ft of schedule 40 3" electrical conduit.

Got the bed lined with Line-x. It's a nice upgrade from the slide in liner. I then promptly put it to work with 1600lbs of cement.

Check the intake and exhaust manifold bolts to make sure they are tight to the head.

Yeah, I'm patiently awaiting their next Binky video, as it's always been ridiculously random when they put out a video. I also quite enjoyed the escargo series when they were running that. Some of their other videos are a bit less interesting, particularly the racing videos.

My top two favorite YouTube channels: Bad Obsession Motorsports with their Project Binky build. It's the most impressive car build in history with lots of great British humor. Mark Felton for great history videos.

I went through this earlier this year. Things I did to get the temp back in spec. 1 Replaced the original mechanical fan clutch 2 Replace the e fan switch, actually I didn't replace it but installed a second in the radiator location as the switch was hacked into the lower Radiator hose from a dealer installed AC job. 3 Fixed my leaking expansion tank/pressure bottle. My original one was leaking. The combo of a new Dorman tank and factory original cap works perfectly. It now stays cool on even the hottest day. I know my water pump is just a couple years old so it likely works well. My coolant looks crusty and should be flushed, however Erie, PA isn't exactly a sweltering desert.

I added a zip tie at some point to fix mine, over a year in and it works perfectly still.

I'm very glad I have a 4x4, even though I never plan to drive it in the winter. On my property I have a big hill to climb and I can bearly get it up in 2wd after several run up attempts. In 4x4 I can crawl up it in low range at idle. I've had it stuck in the mud a number of times due to the front CAD not actually connecting the front axle.