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Wow. Hell of a truck for the price. Nice find!

Almost finished today. It's done enough to put it down the road and back though and the vibes are all but gone. Everything got hit with some zinc enriched primer. Sealer and paint to follow tomorrow.

Forget what I said about two tone being maximum '80s... that's painfully '80s. Think you could do something similar on Don's truck? You know... just for fun. :D Same stripes only dark gray. Curious minds need to know.

D. Mega '80s swoosh stripes in the same dark gray as option C. :drool: Hmm... that'll make it easier to sleep tonight... :drool:

Ugh... I'll put just about anything carpentry related on my list of "couldn't pay me enough to do it professionally" type jobs. Carpentry, bodywork, automotive painting, really really good lawn care... nope... it'd have to be able to get away with charging a completely out of line figure to do any of those for someone else. :shake:

Oh, how lowering my crossmember can get out of hand much like most of my projects. :shake: What were those sliders protecting, anyhow? Hopefully finish tomorrow.

Noted. The selector valve goes from shower to straight up when not in use. I found that with the valve at a half way point, the tube up to the shower head opens allowing everything to drain out through the bottom faucet. Honestly, I'm really hoping to not be in this house in the next three to five years anyhow. :peek:

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Yup! Still playing around with dialing in the new rear leafs and angles. I've got a bit of vibrations when I let off the gas though. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I need to drop my trans crossmember to easily make all my angles happy. Fortunately, I'm using this as an excuse to make up some frame stiffeners to create the drop instead of just throwing a spacers between the frame and the crossmember. The frame looks pretty sad so the stiffeners are a step in the right direction anyhow. Then to add to the snowball and being I need to remove the current sliders to plate the frame, I'll be cutting out what's left of the factory rockers to replace with 2"x6" tube. Should be able to get things done... probably. :laughin:

Very cool to see another example of this kind of project being done. Looks great so far! Good idea with plating and reinforcing while things are apart now. :thumbsup:

... but this has been the type of project that one just can't dilly-dally about with. Got it down to the bare studs Friday morning after one last shower, and then it was an all out marathon to get it done. My parents gave me a hand over last weekend to get the drywall up and mudded. They stayed in a hotel in town so everybody could still get a shower while they were in town. After Sunday though... there were a couple days where things got late and desperate for getting everything at least operational again. Plumbing was done enough to take a bath (which was very awkward for someone 6' tall in a 4'6" tub) late Tuesday evening while everything was totally water related was completely done Wednesday afternoon. Since then it's been fussy little details and finishing touches. By no means do I consider myself a carpenter much less a finish carpenter. It all photographs well enough but there were a lot of reluctant trips back and forth to the garage for fine tuning wood work. Why is it that I have zero issues spending as much time as needed to fit a piece of tubing to another to end up with a few thousandths of play while I have no patience for wood? Anyhow... all in all, it's nice to not rely on a shower curtain stapled to the wall anymore to keep the moisture out of the poorly applied tiles from 1964.

I don't know, Don. You planning on tearing the whole thing apart for a repaint? This just doesn't seem up to your standards.

Very nice with everything, Wade! I like the simplicity of everything. Did you plate the frame any before putting the new mounts on?

I see you got your rear springs figured? Looks real good, Wade. :thumbsup:

We all have those dirty little secrets, eh? I think it's a common thought in all of our heads to own a lowered, street bound Comanche. I mean, think about it... so many of us enjoy our MJs on the trail on occasion, why not enjoy a sweet little road racer on occasion instead? This month, I really love this one. This month is all for... YEAR/MODEL ● 1992 Comanche Eliminator – 348,000 miles on the odometer ENGINE/PERFORMANCE ● 4.0L H.O. out of a ’98 with a ’99 intake manifold, Dynomax exhaust DRIVETRAIN ● AX-15, front beam, rear Dana 35 – I have a 44 with 3.73’s, a trac-loc and Explorer disc brakes waiting to be swapped in COOLING ● Factory plus a late model e-fan swap ELECTRICAL/IGNITION ● Factory SUSPENSION/STEERING ● ZJ rear springs for the front giving 2”s of drop, 2” lowering blocks plus XJ shackles to even out the rear. Upgraded swaybar in the front and would like to do the Chevy Blazer swaybar mod in the rear INTERIOR ● Factory, I added a cup holder at one point but it broke. It’s hard to drink coffee with a 5 speed. LED bulbs in the kick panels and B pillars and an Ebay shift knob BRAKES ● ’96 brake booster/master cylinder swap, rear discs coming LIGHTING ● Hella E Code lenses and bulbs and a 12ga wiring harness, factory fogs. EXTERIOR ● Original Colorado Red paint, eventually would like to repaint it and add back the factory Eliminator body stickers. Bed has some sort of DIY bed liner that is slowly disappearing WHEELS/TIRES ● TJ Rubicon wheels wrapped in Yokohama 235’s MISCELLANEOUS ● Still rocking the factory cassette deck, the heads need cleaning FULL BUILD THREAD HERE Remember That One Time?... Tell Us Your Best MJ Story ● I started getting interested in cars when there were still a fair amount of Comanche’s on the road and always thought they were a cool truck. I was an XJ owner for a long time and love the platform. Eventually decided to pull the trigger and after about a year of searching and envying my buddies MJ’s I landed this one and have loved owning and driving it. Every so often people comment on it in a parking lot which is always nice or say I didn't know Jeep made a pickup. CC is Awesome!... Why Do You Think So? ● Comanche Club is a great community with a wealth of technical knowledge. I never cease to be amazed at the quality of work that individuals are putting into building and restoring these trucks. I thought I knew a lot about the XJ/MJ coming into CC, but I have learned a lot since joining and gotten a lot of inspiration for my own build. ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Way to go, Scott! Perfect year... perfect color... perfect stance... dare I say it?... perfect truck! I can speak the same words as many of us here by saying that someday I'll have a hot rod Comanche of my own. Until then, it's trucks like yours that keep that interest going. Real good lookin' MJ, Scott. Real nice! -Ben This post has been promoted to an article

I like writing even though I usually don't use proper sentences. Fragments and sometimes not even words but the noises that I'm thinking in my head. (Yup... that's not a full sentence either.) Think of writing something like vows like how you would speak them out loud... because that's what's going to happen. When I wrote mine, I just started writing down fun little memories that Robyn and I have shared over the years and then started connecting the dots to form a complete thought that includes past, present, and future reminders. What are some things that she does different from everyone else? Be specific... it'll let her know that it's the details in life that you're paying attention to even if it's day-to-day examples. Here's mine... still remember word-for-word from eight years ago. I still remember the first time I said "I love you". There was no moon that night, but the stars would just glitter in your eyes. ... and I remember the starts being the brightest I've ever seen. But it wasn't the sky that would make the world shine that night. It was the girl that was sitting next to me. It was the girl that would give me a total loss of words. It was the girl that was holding my hand. And now I hold your hand today, and I look into your eyes again... but it's not the stars I see. Today I see tomorrow, and the next day, and... and surprising you with french toast in the morning, and going to the park, and feeding the ducks... even though the signs say not to, and... and kissing you every night just before you fall asleep. And every time I say those three little words it means more than the last. So today... I love you, Robyn, more than ever. But not more than I will tomorrow. The wedding was in my parent's back yard. Little bit of a breeze that day too. Still, not a dry eye in the crowd. Mission accomplished. As far as the "Jeep, dirt, mud, rock, wrenching, and all around gear head related stuff", there's no reason you can't work any of that into the wedding itself. Our unity candle was my rose-bud torch (fueled with propane for a nice, big, sooty flame and lit with his and hers flint strikers!), and the get away car was my Beetle... but that's only because my Eliminator was in a few thousand pieces at that point. Weddings are awesome ESPECIALLY when they're your own! Make it awesome. :thumbsup:

Wow... imagine them both sitting in your garage! :laughin: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/5145919339.html

I just... uh... well?... :hmm: http://rmn.craigslist.org/cto/5143888223.html

Love to but can't. Starting Thursday whenever my dumpster shows up, I'll be gutting a bathroom. It'll be a marathon to get as far as I can this weekend. :(

Pros: Excellent traction as you know that power is going to both rear tires all the time and it sounds like you're in an episode of CHiPS. Cons: You will hate every corner you will ever have to make on dry pavement, rear tires will wear faster, and everybody will look at you because it'll sound like you're in an episode of CHiPS.

THE AIR CONDITIONING WORKS!!!! :banana: ... not that it makes a huge difference when the tube doors are on. :shake: Still, nice having one more thing that didn't work working again. The factory air box got removed too. Tons of space for... something. One thing that found a home there was the PA speaker from my Eliminator. Did it need it? Nope. It was sitting unused though. The rear window got more sticker power too to make sure that proper representation has been made. :D

For everyone that has ever said that getting rid of their C101 was the best thing they've ever done to their MJ, they were 100% right. I did that today... took a little while... very nerve wracking to make the first few cuts... but I did that today. Other stuff on my list of getting done today was installing the Putco harness I got for Christmas, an EGR delete (not there was anything wrong with it, I'm just tired of all the vacuum lines going every which way), and swapped in a copper three core radiator. Runs better than it did and I wasn't complaining before by any means! Engine operating temp is still the same, but I noticed that the trans temps are lower. The idle smoothed out a little too. I'm debating swapping the ECM with an '89 ECM that I have per Cruiser's list of Renix upgrades. We'll see. All that's left of my list of other stuff to do... Redo the exhaust so it routes around the spare tire under the bed instead of just hacked off before it Do away with the load sensing valve

Love this truck. Just an honest driver. :thumbsup:

'98. Not sure what was up with the elbow, but mine has is like it's keyed to only go in one way. I don't mind the 90* loopty-loo. My cruise does work. As do I. :D

I'm off from my job at the school for the next four weeks. My shims came in to get my pinion angle where it belongs and there's a few little odd jobs I'd like to get done before the next rip up to Gilbert. Besides the Ape, I've got some things I need to do on the Eliminator along with a bathroom to gut and a garage sale up at the in-law's. That'll make for a few days on the Eliminator, probably at least a week and a half by myself for the bathroom, a few days away from home... time is going to slip by quickly just like any other "summer" I've had while working in education. As for today, bathroom materials took priority, but I managed to sneak in a couple hours on this. The rear needed to get pulled apart... again. Not a huge deal since I don't have any u-bolts anymore. The springs settled some more since I last looked at it making the stance just about level from front to rear. Now with the shims in place, it's raised things slightly again. While things were apart, I cut apart the bump stop mounts and lowered everything by a couple inches. The new leaf springs are stiffer than the old ones and they don't flex as much. Still, I wanted to allow for flex should they decide to do so in the future. Not crazy about the bright silver, but after one trip up to Gilbert no one will ever know. For this thing, I just grab whatever color I have on the shelf that needs finishing. Just wait until I don't have a choice but paint something purple! Anyhow, I put it through a couple ditches and the front suspension is doing all the work. I'm hoping the rear will loosen up some after a good exercise. Next on the list is the AC. No... I really don't need it, but it's just another one of those things that doesn't work and it bugs me. Besides that, I need to figure out why the CB radio is kind of wonky. I've got another one that I pulled from my Eliminator along with the external speaker. Need to figure out what to do when I get around to pulling the factory air box out too. The cowl intake has been done for a while now... just haven't really wanted to pull the cover to take a picture of the completed setup. I guess ambition got the best of me today.