JWheeler331

I have been researching lift kits for my 88 Comanche. I am wanting to run 33'' tires with as little cutting (hopefully none) as possible. I keep seeing that I need about 5 inches of lift to do this. Not many 5-6 inch lifts out there for the Comanche that I am finding. This will be the first vehicle that I lift and so I want to make sure I get what I need. I saw this Rocky Road Outfitters link and reading over it they seem like pretty good lifts. Jeep Comanche Lift Kit: 5-6" Jeep Comanche Lift Kit, OME (rocky-road.com) Anyone have any experience with these lifts? How do you like it? Have other recommendations? I am pretty open at this point.

Okay, thanks yall.

Just read up on your build. Very nicely done. I have a couple questions...... 1) Do you like the Rocky Road Outfitters lift? I trying to decide which lift I want. I am trying to fun 33" tires with no rub. Reading over Rocky Road Outfitters lift page it seem like a nice kit. 2) What size tires are you running? One more for good luck 3) Are you using the Stetion Quick Latch Hod pin buttons or something similar?

I looked on Teamcherokee and the felt parts of the window say that they do not fit the Comanche.

I have owned the Comanche for one month. Last week was my first real rain while having the truck and know now that I need to weatherproof it. It is missing some of the felt squeegee things on the windows. I need to find those and possibly the other weather stripping also. I had water puddles in my flooring. After a few days of drying and a little warmer weather I was able to finally get my first coat of POR15 on yesterday. I initially was going to just do the flooring but them got a little carried away with the paint brush and went up the back wall, then the B pillar. I guess I will end up doing the whole cab with the stuff. It's kind of like......where do you stop once you start. Here are a couple pics from the first coat of POR15. Once this dries, I am going to remove the headliner and address any concerns in the ceiling and redo the headliner also. My upholstery guy ended up in the Hospital for some reason so my seat got delayed but he said he will start on it today so maybe that will be ready by the time I get the interior ready for a seat again. Also went ahead and ordered the new taillight lenses from KeyParts. Here are a few pics of the POR15 first coat. It covers pretty well with a paintbrush. Some places are hard to get though due to how runny it is. It is not super runny but def not as thick as some paints.

Wow. Thanks for the update.

Where is the best place to get weather stripping and new window seals for the doors? I have had my Comanche for 1 month today. I recently took out the interior carpet to prep for Por15. I have been waiting for warmer weather to finish off the job. Well, yesterday and today was the first real rain since I have had the jeep. I went out and looked in the truck and there are puddles on the floor. No wonder my carpet was damp. When driving it I did notice that there was some air coming in and that the window trim/felt interior parts and one exterior part was missing. I want to go ahead and get new inner and outter window felt parts (not sure what they are called) and new weather stripping around the door but where is the best place yall have found to order from? That needs to be a priority of mine so that my flooring don't keep getting wet. I did not see anything in the Master Index of DIY.

I gotta say..... Awesome rig. I bet that thing really wheels. How does the 4.0 do moving all that around?

Glad to be in that number.

Awesome space. Congrats on how its all coming together.

The owner claimed it on the Comanche Facebook pages. Don't remember his name but I posted the photo also and there are several post about this truck on the pages.

Truck is looking great. Lots of good progress.

Got my vinyl Floor Mat in today. It is a little darker than I was expecting but they didn’t have a photo of the gray. Once I get it opened up I’ll share a photo of it. For now, just the box as it was shipped.

Love the truck and that light bar looks great on there.

Sounds like a good idea. I am a little hesitant about pulling the entire dash. Everything works and I don't want to mess anything up but I guess eventually I will tackle it. Maybe just label the wires as I disconnect them.

yeah. I have a crack or whatever you want to call it. Right in the curve. Other than that it’s not horrible.

That’s what I was afraid of. Guess I’ll research it more.

I decided to wait. I want it to be right. I’ll either hook a heater up in it or just wait a little longer. I’m in south Louisiana. Maybe we will get warm soon. We have been having an unusually cold winter. Not freezing cold but seems to be more cold days than normal. instead of doing the cab floor I decided to go ahead and paint my interior plastic trim pieces. how hard it it to take the top part of the dash out? I have a hole and couple cracks.

Is there something out there that is not as sensitive? I’m not really able to wait very long.

Thanks for the pointers. I did read where it says that 70 degrees and up works best. It’s 65 here today. Maybe I should heat up my areas with a heat gun before applying the Por 15 coating. I have been following the metal prep instructions each step of the way though.

Saturday I got to spend a little time on the interior again. Yall know that the bottom seatbelt bolt don't give you much room for a wrench in there and someone already had the bolt head stripped out. One thing about this being my first project truck is that when something comes up (like this stripped bolt head for example) I may not have a tool or something on hand to help with the problem. I had a pair of vise grips but they were cheap made and the bolt was just flattening the teeth of the tool. I ended up going to Home Depot and getting a pair of good ones along with a pipe wrench. Once I got the bolt moving I with the vise grips I then switched to the pipe wrench to be able to move faster and not have to keep moving and locking the pliers. Was a pain in the butt but I got it removed. I will be looking for a new bottom bolt for the seatbelt and not putting that one back in. Once all of that was done I was finally ready to remove the carpet. Just as I suspected...... it is mostly surface rust (thank you Lord). On a side note, my new vinyl mat will be in on Monday. I plan to use today to wire wheel the surface rust away, remove it all, clean it up, degrease and metal prep for the POR-15. The gray mat that runs along the front of the cab must go all the way up the firewall. I removed the fasteners that I could see but it still won't come out. I ended up just cutting it as far up as I could reach that way I can go up further with the POR-15.

Yesterday evening I started to take the interior out in preparation for addressing any rust issues along with installing a new vinyl floor mat. I wasn't able to finish because I ran out of time yesterday but my plan is to take the carpet out and address any rust which I believe to be minimal and mostly surface rust. I am going to get rid of all that and then do a coat of Por15 and then going in with Noico sound deadener through out the cab. I will then replace the headliner. I am going back with new vinyl mat instead of carpet. The original bench seat is at the upholster shop getting redone in all vinyl rather than the cloth/vinyl that it came in. Here are a few pics yesterday. I was able to peek under the carpet and it don't appear to be all that bad. Just mostly surface rust. I am taking my time because I do not want to crack any of the 33 year old plastic parts. Since this is my first time doing a project like this I am having to figure out how it all attaches and where the screws and such are. Some were hidden and some were clips.

That would def. be the way to go and maybe in time I will get there.

Good start to your project. What are your long term goals for it?

Nice find. Other than the obvious it looks to be in great shape.