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i have a very unhealthy obsession with star wars... mostly thanks to my dad... but just about anything i find i try and get... love all of it

so haven't posted in forever... finally getting my comanche back at the end of the week.. whole problem with the electrical system was the computer got fried... got a new one and it fired right up. my buddy is finishing up a few things. next up will be some floor fixing, radio, then a complete fluid change

Awesome!!!!!

thats nice... looks great and can tell you really took your time on it

sounds like mine... exempt my oil leak are my rings going out buy every bit of my harness and van lines are hacked up... it makes it more entertaining when driving

Our local club has the same type of site cc uses. U might check with the site admin there. His user name is dotsun. We have chat, polls, and recently just became tappatalk enabled. www.knoxoffroad.com/forums Just my 2 cents.

ive just about come to the end of it... thinking about just selling it the way it sits for a project... but the shop teacher here where i work is really good and loves electrical systems so I'm hoping he can fix it. if not then ill start looking at a new harness... did pull up a corner of the carpet so ive got a little rust to deal with too.. but gonna tackle the electical first

so no luck.. now when i turn on my headlight switch lights don't come on, temp gauge starts spinning and the shift, park brake, and seat belt light kick... i think i might have a short somewhere...lol. gonna take it and have an electrical guy trace and let him look at it

replaced my fuel pump this weekend and had a heck of a time getting it back on it... endend up getting it tight buy then coated the outside in silicone just to be safe.... po had a problem to cause it was covered in RTV and we had to scrape all that off to get it out :wrench:

ok... so i was talking to one of the teachers i work with and he just redid an 89 cherokee... he said his fuel pump quit when he tore his carpet out because he cut the wire that powers the fuel pump. the po of mine had run sub lines for an amp along the door and i jerked those out when i was working on the radio and may have inadverntley damaged the wire... gonna pull the carpet this afternoon and check that and put the fuse block back together... hopefully that will fix the problem :thwak:

so just thought i would give an update after spending all weekend working on it and still nothing. event tried hooking the fuel pump directly to the battery through the ballast and still nothing. .... gonna try cruisers stuff on cleaning connectors and grounds this afternoon if it doesnt pour the rain here. also got the fuse block pulled apart and all it was full of looked like old dielectric grease. so thinking the cylinder isnt leaking but connectors are pretty corroded. gonna look at doing a swap but have to get it running to get it home first so well see. thanks again guys for all the help.

Thanks for the help guys. I'll pull the fuse block this afternoon. Truck is an 88 4x4 5spd. Rust free but po replaced the engine and I'm finding he did a pretty cruddy job.

thanks... ill check out his site

Hey guys... got an issue and I'm afraid I already know the answer buy am going to ask anyway. Had the Comanche for a week and love it. Been slowly working and replacing little stuff on it. Wired in the radio this morning... previous owner had pulled his radio out and half-assed wired in a cheap cassette player that didnt fit the hole, hooked to one speaker, and fell out when i accelerated hard. Got the new radio hard wired in and it didnt work. So went to my father-in-laws and parked it... I checked all the connections with a test light and have power figured out it was the radio. So my wife and father-in-law swapped the headlights and while they did that I was checking fuses and replacing what he had done... has some 20 amps in where 10s went and so on. Anyway box is loose and I also felt some fluid so know i have to change the clutch cylinder. Well went to start it and it would crank but I noticed the fuel pump didnt kick on. Checked all the fuses, then again, then tested everything we could. Got to looking under the hood and there are wires ziptied everywhere and cut. So started fixing what we could. Then noticed fuel pump resistor was cracked and ziptied back together so i cut that off and wired the two together with 25 amp fuse between them. Anyway thought it might be the pump. So dropped the tank and found where the guy had taken it offroad and not cleaned the mud and it was packed between the tank and skid so cleaned that up. Got the pump changed and everything back in and still nothing pump won't kick on. While checking the little stuff noticed that my headlights quit working and when I turn them on my interior lights and my cigar lighter quit working. Me and my father-in-law are pretty savvy but not much up on electrical. So sorry for all writing but wanted to cover everything. Anyone who can offer some suggestions please let me know... thanks guys I appreciate it.

ill get them up tonight... itll be in the build section... got it home last night runs great... no rust but still has the carpet so itll get pulled this weekend... problem is it started riding rough about half way home and couldnt figure out why til me and a teacher i work with were looking at it and realized one of the front shocks had come loose... shop teacher here at school is gonna fix it and should be good as new...

got to say i stick with the the extreme everstart from wal-mart... had one in my old jeep and never let me down in 5 years... will probably step up to an optima if theyve fixed there issues though...

Agreed with the others... iPhone app would be awesome... but know it is difficult

I'm in jamestown.... kinda right in the inbetween... were on central time but are considered east tn :dunno: .... kinda meet up wherever

up in tennessee... live in jamestown, about 20 miles from the ky border

Hey guys my name is Phillip and i am new to the Comanche world but not to jeeps... have owned (in order) a 95 jeep grand Cherokee, 1989 YJ, and most currently (and just sold) a 2000 TJ. Been looking for a Comanche for about a 6 mos and finally found one. Going tomorrow to pick it up and will post pics once i do. Lots of good info on here and can't wait to start on my addiction.