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ok well here is the pic :oops: take notice how it looks nothing like the NSS, todays game was brought to you by a dumbass host and a crappy memory. sorry :nuts: :oops: Jonathan

well, it seams that my game is getting more interesting :brows: its cold and snowy outside but I'm bored and intrested now, flashlight - check camera - check coat and shoes - check be back in a second. Jonathan

maybe it isnt the NSS, my backup lights still work, is there any way for them to still work and unattached? and i don't know if it makes a differance but i have a manual transmission.

if i recall i have something that looks exactly like that hanging under my dash. i was going to eventualy take a pic and ask what it is but now i have a pretty good idea its the nuetral safety switch.

DAMN YOU!!! I think you just ruined my game of "Hey, what the crap is this thing hanging under my dash?" :cheers: Jonathan

i may have missed it but does it say how thick it is?

hey, your leaf packs came in today :D

around here at least, we have a place called harding metals, they are a big metal recycling yard, kinda a junk yard for scrap metal. i don't know how common these are but there may be something like it around you, take a look in a phone book or online. http://www.hardingmetals.com/ hope this helps. Jonathan EDIT: this isnt a free thing, they charge by weight and kind of metal.

i had a local guy, throw some steal on mine, i think it came out great, he tied the rockers into the frame so its supa strong. pics are about half way down. http://comancheclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1678 Jonathan EDIT: links are not images :redX: , I'm a dumbass :oops:

do you have a wright up of how you bobbed the bed? if not do you have or would you mind taking some pics of the rear? i have a LB and would love to bob the bed to gain some departure angle i just don't realy know how to go about doing it. where did you cut it? it looks absolutly perfect like it was never cut. when you wheel do you ever sit it down on the rear springs? does it hurt anything to wack them? it just looks like they will be the first to get hit and i was wondering if that recieves any damage or do they just take it? i remember seeing the truck a while back on here and realy like it, very clean. any reply would be awsome, Jonathan

well let me see this Sunday, we did a little work, we pulled the yoke off the old truck and put it on the new one, the Haynes manual said that we should use a puller, well we don’t have on so we substituted the word "puller" with "two idiots with a couple of flat bars and soon to be smashed up hands" well it worked, for the tightening it to specs. We did the "that look good?" "Sure". It seams to be ok it didn’t snap when I tried to drive on the same rock. Then we decided to attempt to take off the rear axle off the old truck, gave up on that, we forgot we couldn’t break loose the last 2 bolts. then we took the sway bar off, were planning on putting it on the new one as the PO decided to cut it off, then just throw some welds all over the frame just to make my life a pain in the @$$. Need an angle grinder to clean it up. Ok so Tuesday we both have the day off and head to the U-pull-it, we wandered around for a little while, looked in random vehicles, said "damn!! That one must of hurt" and "oh man, i'm sure this frame if fine, why would you get rid of it?" you know the usual JY talk. well we got a set of buckets from an XJ for my bro in laws new 92, and a set of towing mirrors for his 88, then we got a bumper for me, woo hoo, got it out with some tools, a big pipe, a checker board made from the top of a Budweiser crate that said "toys for tots" on the front, well if someone associates toys for tots with beer then I can only guess the vehicle was there due to some drinking fiasco :cheers: . Oh and a cat-in-the-hat ball, I love the random stuff you can find, oh and we had obi-wan looking over us also. well we got the bumper back and started to put it on, well again the PO decided to make my life hell, the bumper that was attached oh well not so much attached as held on with bubble gum, rainbows :headpop: . anyway the pass side front bolts look like they were pulled out probably from an idiotic recovery attempt, so they decided to weld (and I use that word lightly) that side back on, it didn’t hold up, and so the other side was all mangled due to the weight of the bumper being held up by one side. The rear bolt and the unibody around it had been crushed and pushed in on both sides. So with my degree in engineering and all around smartness :roll: brought me to this idea: Tank bars give lots of leverage :D Well bumper is on, kind of I also removed the stoopid sticker on the hood and windshield and rear windows. I made room for the stickers that I plan on putting on. next I plan on seeing if there is a better way to attach the bumper, and seeing if I can clean up the random weld bubbles all over the frame and putting on the sway bar so I can kind of steer. Jonathan

X2 :cheers: (except someday I think I will meet CW.) i also agree, the main thing is that i visit this forum because its about Comanches and all the fun stuff that goes along with them, i myself don't care about politics and the like. likewise as there are forums about Comanches, I'm positive there are forums about politics, they are more then willing to debate with you there, if someone invents a www.comancheclubandpolitics.com/forums (which i don't think will happen, it doesn't roll off the tongue) then there i won't mind sifting through the political talk to get to the comanche content. but here its straight forward pretty much every thing in this forum is about comanches and i love it for that fact, i also love that everyone is nice and here to help, i would hate to see the site be divided by difference of opinion. i don't know if what i just typed even makes sense but i said what i was thinking. also, we should have a New England Jeep party fun time bash (a little later in the year so i can have my truck running well) then all of us in this area can meet. Jonathan

awsome, next JY trip i will look for some with 4 piece and steal that latch, thanks much :cheers: Jonathan

how hard is it to swap out the yoke? (i think thats what its callled :oops: ) i have another comanche that i could pull that form if its just an un bolt and swap. as for the ujoint, i think its fine, the one that fell off it lost all its needles but i just grabbed one from the other driveshaft in the cab of the other one.

i have the stock tranny, the pukegoat and the shifter doesnt center its self anymore, has anyone had this problem? it just flops from side to side. also as i posted before i snaped the bolts holding on the drive shaft :oops: now i got one of the bolts out, it had a little sticking out so i was able to grab it with some locking plyers, but the other on was below the surface, i tried a screw out bit we had but that didnt work, i ended up drilling a hole all the way through it and how i just have a hole with the threads of the bolt still in there, anyone know of a way to clean out the hole? or would a nut and bolt be sufficiant to hold it? any ideas would be great. here are some more pics of the truck: no bumper and a flat tire :D my vehicles

Pics: (sorry for all the stickers, the P.O liked them i guess :roll: ) outside inside latch left side of latch (sorry about my hand, camera phone likes to auto focus on the background :redX: ) right side of latch (missing piece) i looks like it could be easy to make something that will work with it cause of the 2 screw holes, just a smaller piece of metal land screw it on, but if anyone has any idea where they can be found like if they were also used on rangers or yotas or something that would be awsome.

i will definatly take some pics tomorrow when i go out to fix the drive shaft. thanks for the help. Jonathan

does anyone know if the clip is an easy to find item? well mine has the clip, just nothing to clip to. if anyone doesnt mind would you be able to snap a shot of the clip? thanks, Jonathan

its an 87 but it could be replaced with a later year, i will take more pics of it tomorrow and post them up.

ok so we went and got my truck a few days ago and my brother in law drove it home from the mechanic, it was an ok drive, he said it was slow cause of the stock gears, and the lack of a sway bar wasnt very fun and the fender kept floping in the wind. well we got it home and he parked it off the driveway and up a little in the woods, so i want to drive it and park it on a little dirt mound we have, that is fun wet and squishy. so then he says "park on the rock" so i go for it and inch up and bump the rock, well the truck rolled back a little and i didnt realy feel it so when i went to get up on the rock it climbed a little and then i heard a thud, well turns out i snapped the bolts that hold on the front drive shaft :oops: well i got the extras we had from my old comanche and I'm planning on putting it back on tomorrow, i will take pics cause I'm bored. later. Jonathan

i havent seen many with 4 piece back glass, was this a factory option? you can kind of see it in the pic below, it splits in the middle and the two pieces both slide to to their side, if this is something that a lot of people have? is this off a different vehical? if so what, I'm in need of the inside clip so it will lock. thanks for any help. Jonathan

what about a graphic or logo for each section so that you could put it in your sig? like "Comanche Club, New England Division" with the Comanche Club logo. just a thought. Jonathan

WOO HOO UPDATES FINALY!!! oh well a lot of time has passed since the initial post but here is what happend me a close friend and my brother in law spent way too long trying to get this beast into an enclosed trailer, all i have to say to that is that you should never plan on pulling a tuck into a trailer with ratchet straps, wow what a learning experience. ok after we got it on the trailer we got it down to the local jeep specialists and droped it off (that was a PITA also.), i told them i was in no real hurry and that they could take their time with it, a little later in the week me and my bro in law went down to the junk yard and got a new used tranny and transfer case, and droped it off with the truck, about a month or maybe two passed an i finaly got a call, they said that they took a look at it and that the frame was cracked where the tranny was going to be bolted on and that there was spray foam in the rails of the frame (that was my bad it seamed like a good idea at the time :oops: ) well anyway they refered me to another guy they use when they need stuff welded, i contacted him and he went down and took a look at the truck and said sure he could do it. so i had it towed down to his shop and sat for a while, once again i said no rush i just wanted to have it sometime this summer and i asked him while he is doing that if he wouldnt mind welding the floors in place and also fabing up something for the rockers and cab corners, also the exhaust. so a few weeks ago he gets started working on it and makes some progress, discovers that the old tranny worked fine it just needed some convincing to get unstuck form 4th and then the clutch kit with the slave cylinder, so he starts on beefing up the fram and the rockers and thats where he was last he said it would probably be about a week or two cause he has to pull in other cars and do stuff on them, I'm like thats fine no prob :cheers: . so today me and my brother in law have the day off work so we decide we should stop in and see how everything is going, on the way we get a call and its the guy, he says its all don't. and I'm all "sweet!!" so the big problems are taken care of all i need to do is fix the little things, like mangled fender flairs and put on some mud flaps and get some sort of bumber on it and it will be able to pass inspection. so now here are some pics: this you can see the rockers, the put on 4x4 and tied it into the frame, its looks sexy here is the beefed up frame and how he tied them into the frame and then here are pics of the floors and just so you remember here is a before shot showing the floor... or lack there of, and the rockers a little. in my eyes this guy is a god :bowdown: and i didnt cost as much as i though it was going to. i will get more pics as soon as i get it home, should be bringing it tuesday, and the pics arnt that great camera phone and lots of light. Jonathan

oh sweet an audio question I would say good brands(no order): Eclipse (high quality) JVC Panasonic Pioneer Sony (very simple controls) brands I wouldn't touch: Jensen and phase linear (believe it or not phase linear is bottom of the line jensen in other words the crap of the crap) dual anything that you can pick up at walmart or like stores I'm iffy on Alpine, their old stuff is awesome i have an alpine screen in my car and love it, their new stuff is poop, they lowered their standards a lot this time around I personally have an eclipse head unit that is chillin in my room waiting for my Manche to be all fixed up as for a CD player that will Handel dust, dirt and vibration, well the field is narrowed down, none. those will kill even the best of CD players. looking for one that plays CD-R and mp3 disks, pretty much every CD player now a day will do that, i would say your best bet (i know that some don't like it) would be an Ipod or similar device, not really susceptible to dust and bumps (especially if you get a flash based player, no moving parts to skip) and most head units will be able to control Ipods with an adaptor giving you basic control and information right on the head unit hope this will help out, I like audio questions :popcorn: Jonathan

he he that made me giggle