Kenbob

Going to Joplin to help rebuild tomorrow. It is my 3rd trip. Keep looking for my Comanche I donated,but havent seen it yet.

but probably the kit, I guess. Looked pretty good from the road.

That's it. Glad I wasnt seeing things. I just got an email from Gladstone dodge that they will have an unveiling of the new Dodge Dart this weekend. So if this is the production model, I wonder if it is also a preview....

I was at the corner of Englwood and North Oak in KC today and at Gladstone Dodge Jeep,elevated for all to see, is a black new jeep pickup (Wrangler based). I didn't know it was in production--at least not for sale. Jeep site doesnt mention it. I am sure of what I saw. KC club members if you go by there take a look and tell me I am not crazy.

Bought the truck in Jan. As much as I liked it, I only drove it 200 mi in 6 mo. I am truthful when I said I liked to look at it almost more than I liked to drive it. I figured if I can't put more miles on it than that, someone needs it a lot worse than I do.

I said a months ago I might donate my truck to the Joplin tornado relief effort. I did the deed. I hated to see it go. Today on the news there is a clip about that relief effort. Not only is my Comanche featured, it is draped with a banner advertising it. I will try to include the link. I will miss the truck (until I get another) I left comanche club cards in the truck so the vet who gets it might be your next new member. Why wouldn't they use it as their poster child....it is a good lookin truck http://www.kctv5.com/story/15081110/car ... do-victims

Thanks for the comments. In this case I questioned the outfit and they said if it was in good enough shape to pass MO inspection it would go to a person and not be auctioned. I will ponder

I bought my first comanche in Jan. 1989 4.0 5 spd Pukgut air, tilt, cd player, full gages, 189000 mi, everything works and there is no rust. I mean no rust, I even pulled the carpet where there was just a little surface rusting which I fixed. Those folks in Joplin are hurting and am thinking of donating it to the cause down there. I think I may have overpaid for it at 1500, considering I had to replace the windshield at 350 bucks. I cannot find a value guide going back that far. Considering all the cleaning repainting, and fixing of little items, I was thinking of declaring a value of about 2000 for it for IRS purposes, which would be what I have in it after 6 mo of ownership.. I would appreciate any comments if you guys think that is reasonable.....I posted pics when I joined the club.

It is normal for renex engines to turn over 3-5 times before starting. Wheel bearing noise: I heard a weird noise coming out of mine yesterday. The best i can say is that it sounded like a horse trotting across a bridge (low speed, window down). I am certain mine is the center hubs that screw to the stock wheels. One is loose. You have to take the wheel off to fix. From the pix I don't think you have a seperate center that screws to the wheel, so it is something else.

I was kidding about the leaf blower to a point. It isnt practical for daily use, unless you happen to use your truck for lawn and garden work, then that leaf blower would be right there and handy. The hot rod article had performance test with 1 blower, 2 blowers, and 2 blowers + nitrous oxide.

Supercharge it with a leafblower. Don't laugh at this. If you don't believe me, check out the new issue of HotRod. They put two craftsman leaf blowers onto an intake...Seriously! They got lots of extra ponies...Of course would be noisy and only good until the leafblower ran out of gas! If you were doing any drag racing I guess it would work. I thought it pretty clever how they did it.

I ordered this from the above mentioned ebay site, 24.35 with shipping included. It had the amc part no tag still on it. I thought it was a heck of a buy for a fan shroud, especially since there was no shipping cost. Thanks for putting me on to it. I think they said they had 5 left so if anybody else wants one, they should jump now.

I do not have a clock in my truck. Was the digital clock to the right of the guages? If so I wonder if I could get constant power for my radio from wiring for the clock?

That is probably what is going on with mine. I hooked the constant power on the radio to the other switch power I had on the truck. Radio works! I will probably run something right off that battery to get that constant power. Not sure what the rca plugs go to...probalby more wiring for that big amp. I only have one of the door speakers working now. When in plug or unplug the rca's it makes no difference. Getting there, slowly but surely

The purple and red has power when switch is on. Red/black which is supposed to be dimmer has power with lights on. I guess that would be right...Still not finding anything with constant power