M.T.Hands

NICE you may have mentioned it in this thread and I've overlooked it but who did you get the rear bumper through???, I like it and would like to replace the aftermarket bumper the previous owner had installed on my 88

Good write-up, and you have come a long way in your transformation of "filling the windshield washer fluid" to a mechanic, I have always seen that, experience is the best teacher (and I'm living proof), good work

the biggest "favor" you can do for yourself is the familiarization you have with whatever your driving, the later model vehicles I own are not that much more reliable than anything else, and when they die (and they do) fixing them is considerably more challenging with 40 million sensors and hundreds of susceptible grounding points the big advantage of some of the older stuff is you can work on it, my 16 truck is electrical nightmare

^^^^ I agree, have seen other installations in different applications that have done similar, some only being exposed to enviromental elements (no engine heat) somebody the other day on the (is a Comanche reliable enough to DD thread) mentioned buying a later model vehicle as their DD, what is sad is none of the stuff being produced today will be around and the electronics are going to make them junk, you can find an old 80 year old tractor that is and will still be running, can you imagine doing any of that with the newer junk, Plastic and rubber just naturally degrade over time, although IMO you sensor should have held up longer, But I read of and have experienced more electrical failures with later model junk, not to mention rodents liking to feast on wiring on equipment

Looking good

Looking good

Very Nice

Nice work

Someone Great looking Pups, well trained too

That looks great, fitment is fantastic

Have a safe and adventurous trip

Good looking vehicle

The story of my life I make my "living" by working on machinery, you would not believe the number of times I have been told something along the lines of "that's not gonna work" and It may or may not be something I have done before, one of the best ones, we had a new, fresh out of school engineer and very cocky, he walks up and says "you know that's not gonna work right???", I never gave him the satisfaction of knowing he was behind me and proceeded to finish the job at hand, turned around and asked "won't work huh???" and he answered "well it's not supposed to" I just told him I didn't think the machine knew that we got to be good friends after that and still are to this day Unorthodox ??? maybe, But my Dad always told me "if you want to find the easiest way to do a difficult job give it to the laziest guy in the crew and they'll figure it out" some things I have learned through the years; A dishwasher will do a fabulous job as a parts cleaner Your Mom/wife will kill you if you do this twice Bearings in the oven and axels in the freezer works pretty good but you Mom/wife will freak out when she finds car parts in the oven Fooling with vehicles you'd better be "industrious" like making specialty tools for specific and maybe even a one-time job

My heart aches for the people in that area, Have visited and vacationed all through the area, I cannot imagine what some of the Families have and are going through🙏🙏🙏

I don't currently own a bike at all, I have really been thinking about an African Twin or a Kawi KLR, I am out on the street bikes, I love(d) them but just too much traffic in the area it would be used most, love the Idea of a dual sport and the area I live in is about 25 miles from a major town and offers plenty of back road and off-road adventures, the biggest concern where it would be used is wildlife (deer) I have a friend I used to run with that brought his African Twin by it's 1100cc's of pure adrenalin rush

Very nice work, and I sure like that jack

^^^good deal, I have never had a Brono II but have owned a few rangers, I had really good luck with them, In fact before I "found" the Comanche I ended up with, It was located during a search for a 4 X 4 ranger to do a TDI swap on, I like the Comanche and it's the 4th Jeep I've owned, I'm just a perpetual car, truck, motorcycle and equipment Junkie

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I just did my door latches, I can relate to the 35-40 year old grease

Man, off idle like that sounds like something "dirty" with the Idle circuit, I'm very new to this vehicle, but my 04 wrangler had a messed up TPS and it would not idle but definitely could be vacuum or fuel pressure related

^^^be sure and post up a review, Lights are definitely something I have got to address

from what little I have seen, that looks like it would be "interesting" to say the least

I've used sawhorses with a board across, and I've used barrels, I always like the idea of a rotisserie for a complete body, but have always walked around doors, the thought to hang them has entered my mind, I like what you did, and your doors turned out great

Nice work

I had a simple excel spreadsheet like you mentioned and kept my ebay junk fairly well cataloged, and used a bunch of rubbermaid like totes for storage, at the time I had built racks in the 40 X 60 shop I had and it was not a problem, we have since sold our little farm and bought a different property and currently very limited space (couple of barns and a few out buildings) so very little storage at the moment, planning on a 30 X40 building soon, but no where near the amount of junk I had been fooling with, the totes and the catologging that stuff really helped, going forward i'm not going to be as ambitious in my selling and trying to keep what I need for myself, some car/truck parts, tractor junk, and a little bit of hunting and fishing stuff, but I will say, in the peak of my activity the totes, and the racks (the vertical storage is the best way to go), as well as cataloging items help tremendously Yeah, I figure I have plenty of spares, Hope the back is better soon