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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Good luck to yall on the 29th of November.

Good looking out regardless. There’s 1 million junkyards in San Antonio, there’s gotta be at least one black bumper for me there

This is the vin in the owners manual that came in my truck. Definitely not the original for mine. PO must’ve bought a used one on eBay to have a manual. At least he got the correct year and drivetrain. Not sure if this is allowed since I didn’t see the truck in person but I am curious about the Comanche this manual came from.

It’s pretty crazy how often I hear about people not knowing that J series trucks existed nor Comanches

Any CCers that are into CFB?

Yep knowing my luck, the second I put a pressure washer to the engine bay, there goes all my vac lines. One of these days I’ll have to spend a morning getting everything by hand sometime

Hello! And welcome.

Best sources for a good quality OEM-style front bumper? I've read awful things from the OMIX and Crown bumpers. Is getting a half-decent one from the junkyard and re-painting it the best way? Same with the bumper caps.

Thank you again for the help

@eaglescout526 Found it! This would just plug directly to the connector to the lamp and that’s all I need to do?

That’s horrible that this happened. I frequently have nightmares about mine getting stolen. Please keep us updated and we all pray for the speedy locating of your Comanche.

Amazing! Thank you.

Borrowed from fiatslug

Makes one wonder why they would want to do that instead of keeping it in the harness. Seems more trouble than it's worth.

I really used my peepers and couldn't find the wiring that would be for the work lamp. I assume it's under a different name that I'm just missing. That's an awesome diagram, though. I'm going to put that in the informative pic thread.

1. That wire just gets routed directly from the light to the coil? How does it hook up to the coil itself? (Or does it just wrap around the end that the dizzy wire goes to?) 2. Can you link the post? I browsed through your account and the classifieds and didn't have any luck.

Also, is it possible to put in the XJ facelift/TJ under hood lamp without too much trouble? I know a lot of the 84-90 work lights are either in very rough shape or wicked expensive, so if I can't find a decent one I may try to go down that avenue.

I see in my build sheet that my Comanche came with an under hood lamp, but is long gone. It would be nice to have it for nostalgia purposes and for the occasional late-night fix. Where would I go about looking for the wiring for it? I imagine it's a pretty simple thing and would just need to find a new lamp assembly and hook it up to the cut wires.

After doing some research it’s *almost* definitely the brake booster like you suspected. It’s got a leak somewhere. How does the brake booster vacuum line look? I would get a can of carb cleaner and have somebody depress the brake pedal and spray all around the booster, the vacuum line, and the vacuum ports on the intake and the booster to see if you can find out where the leak is. With any luck it just needs a new vacuum hose but I imagine other than that you may just need to replace the thing.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to throw you off. I mentioned it because eaglescout and Ωhm helped SoCalManche a few years ago with a no start that ended up taking 25 pages of thread for him to figure it out. Hopefully yours doesn’t go for that long lol. IIRC (one of) his problem was something about a bad injector that tested good but didn’t actually work.

Any CC funk enjoyers?

Look to the right and down from the coolant bottle. There should be a black rubber oblong piece with 2 vertically aligned vac lines. One line goes to the vacuum canister ball and the other goes to the heater control valve. A bad vacuum line will make the air always come out at defrost. The vac leak at my heater control valve made my air blow hotter and not nearly as hard as it does now, so it’s worth a look just in case.

I also see your vacuum ball is on the intake side of the motor. Is it hooked up to the HVAC at all? It’s on the other side of the engine

Woah what the heck. One of your PO switched the PCV and the CCV locations on the VC. I guess if it works. And since you have a CAI I’d be willing to bet you can get rid of that unsightly vacuum tree with a bit of rerouting or modification. I’m assuming your CCV hose just gets routed directly to the ground? Or into a catch can? That’s how I have mine since it kept putting oil in the air filter