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I've gone the Cibie H4 route before on a 7" round on another classic car I have. I run amazon LED H4 bulbs and absolutely love the result. Please remember to correctly align your lights once you install what ever you choose. As a person that daily drives mostly low sports cars, I can tell you that many people with modified headlights, don't have them adjusted correctly.

This past summer, I got $330 for a long bed single cab ford F150 that we had pulled the transmission and transfer case out of. This is up in Pennsylvania.

I've luckily always had good encounters with people I've purchased cars with online, which is good as I've usually fly to the destination and drive home. A lot of your stories sound like the way companies would interview and never get back saying they weren't interested when I was applying for internships. The concept of ghosting is quite frustrating.

It's been too long since I did mine to remember the details so I can't answer your pin question. But I absolutely agree with the reduction of drive train flutter. It was a masive improvement in reduced vibration while moving off in first gear or just getting on and off throttle.

Personally I think the 33s look a little to large on your Comanche. I'd swap down to the 31s, you won't regret it from the performance gains.

Congratulations! Glad you got it fixed.

Is the harmonic balancer slipping on its internal rubber ring?

On the drive from southern California to Northwest Pennsylvania my Comanche averaged 21mpg. Average speed was high and including the high elevation drive through Colorado and then the following day with engine pinging in Kansas due to the low 85 octane Colorado fuel. 1988 4.0L, BA10/5 trans, 4x4 short bed. 205/75R15 tires, and 3.08 axle. It had a Banks header and a brand new catalytic converter.

@Far McKon I'm not sure why on the double carpet. The previous owner said he had done it along with dynamat to make it quieter. It was a very quiet truck. It also had a new catalytic converter which may have also quieted things down a bit and was riding on Mastercraft white wall passenger car tires. Short of needing some door and window seals, it was a great quiet ride, much quieter than the 2013 Mini I used to daily.

I absolutely love the graphics packages with the hockey stick SporTruck graphics being my favorite. There are a surprising number of awesome graphics that came on Comanches.

Mine had dynamat and two layers of carpet, it was very quiet. It was also running on Mastercraft passenger car tires, made for a pleasant drive from southern California to Northwest Pennsylvania. When I find a replacement Comanche I plan to do a similar interior quieting setup.

Prove if it's a fueling problem by trying to start it and keep it running on some starter fluid or a spray bottle of fuel into the intake.

I'm looking for basicly the same truck. I'd be good with any seat arrangement, 5 speed, 4.0, 4x4 is a must. Good luck!

Not particularly pertinent information to a Comanche, but I recently helped diagnose a very similar issue on a 87 Toyota MR2. After rebuilding the distributor and replacing the coil, the dying while driving after a short time persisted. The issue turned out to be the throttle position sensor was worn out at the closed position. Turning in the throttle plate stop screw 1/16th of a turn allowed the sensor to sit in a fresh position and fixed the problem!

This is a topic that has conflicted me for a while. The 88 Comanche I had, had a very nice condition bench. I loved the versatility with things being easy to store behind it and the ability to put three people in it. However, I didn't find it the most comfortable, I have long legs for being 5' 11" and I always felt like I could have used an extra inch or two. Also the seat, though in great shape was kind of crowned and it always felt like I was tipping towards the drivers door. I am thinking it may have needed some new foam. I am intrigued to get a Comanche with buckets but could honestly deal with either. The bench wasn't that uncomfortable, I did drive it 3,500 miles home when I bought the MJ.

I'm getting my second shot this week! Quite excited. First Pfizer shot left me with an achey arm for a day, was playing volleyball the following evening so it didn't hit me too hard. My twin brother made the mistake of getting it in his right arm and he said shifting into 5th gear on his drive to work the next day was a struggle.

Not in Comanche but on another car I have I did a very custom engine head setup. I made a handy notebook were I labeled every wire and hose I disconnected on both ends with a number and made a corresponding entry as to what they were in the notebook. This also was done for bolts and hardware where I put them in numbered zip lock bags with a description written on them. That high level of organization made my life much easier when I installed the unique custom engine head a year later.

My project is a bit different. My twin brother and I have been working on a rotary valve engine head for a 99 BMW 328is. To put it simply, we replaced the stock engine head with a custom built design that utilizes rotating valves to time the intake and exhaust instead of poppet valves. It runs alright. We are presently modifying the timing to reduce the aggressiveness as we over did it in the initial go around with timing that would be at home in a NASCAR engine.

We get some great sunsets in NW Pennsylvania.

Usually I'm listening to Depeche Mode or pop from the 60s to 2010. Lately though I've been on a jazz or ragtime kick, Glenn Miller, Scott Joplin...

I am shopping for another Comanche, I should not have sold the one I had. I have a twin brother, we share our cars. This summer my daily was the 62 Austin Healey Sprite. My brother dailied the 99 BMW M3 coupe. The M3 is autocrossed anytime we can. Now that winter is closing in, the 99 Oldsmoblie Eighty Eight will come out and perform winter duty along with the M3.

I have searched high and low, and wish I could find glass 7 inch rectangular housings with interchangeable bulbs, say an H4 style. I've done this upgrade with 7 inch round lights on my Austin Healey, with some excellent LED h4 bulbs and couldn't be happier. Way lower power draw and still very classy looking. It seems all the rectangular led upgrades look like some alien eyeball.

Bad Obsession Motorsports is the best channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/c/BadObsessionMotorsport I also appreciate Regular Car Reviews due to just how Pennsylvanian it is, and the car reviews are just plain strange. https://www.youtube.com/user/RegularCars

Thanks! I had one and completely regret selling it. I'll find the perfect one and am able to weight to find it. Looking for the dream 4.0L, 5 speed, 4x4, short bed, sport truck with AC, preferably in white with hockey stick graphics.

I'm mostly commenting as this was a very interesting read from an off roader point if view. I've done a lot of autocross racing with various LSDs. I've run stock 25% lock up plate style LSDs in a BMW M5 and M3. I went with a Quaife torsen LSD in my Mini. Between the two different types on the race track, they both feel the same. The Mini originally had an open diff and the torsen diff made a world of difference. Being 2wd vehicles, the LSDs were worth their weight in gold in the snow. When I do pick up my next Comanche someday, I will likely be going the torsen style diff route for it.