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Whats up?Been checkin the site out for awhile now like it alot!Got me a 89 comanche 4wd I have been working on for about 6 months,Has 4.0 auto and alot of rust!!Well not so much anymore since I cut it all off the bed,frame,doors, bumpers,front fenders,and floorboards.So now its more like a truggy 4 link front and rear installing a 14 bolt and looking for something for the front.Well here's some pics I`m not using the d35 in the pic anymore I did all that before I picked up the 14 bolt! and here's one the day I picked it up(for free)

Found this forum and wanted to join and share . I'm new to the 4x4 scene and included my wife with this endeavour. Thanks for having this forum...Glad to be a member

i have no idea why i bought this, but its sweet, it showed up on my social media for dirt cheap, after my friends were off work we were off to get it, later on that night we showed up and did a quick exchange, it was dark out and hadnt even seen it in the day light. currently its on 35" boggers, the rear are cut and is set up for mud racing slightly modified, has a rollerized small block chevy 350 bored .010 with arp studs. rebuilt turbo 350 with high stall torque converter b&m megashifter, twin stick 205 transfercase, radius arm links front and rear, down travel limited to zero by limit straps, locked dana 44 full width 4.88 gears , over knuckle steering, locked 14 bolt rear 4.88 gears, rear mounted radiator and a roll cage it is FAST, i don't doubt i can get the front tires off the ground my plans are to run it this winter, remove the limit straps, get longer shocks and let the suspenion get a work out. i will be putting 39.5" super swampers on it to do some snow wheeling (yes... a tracker on 39.5" tires may have to move the flares a bit but nothing major) in the summer i will change the shocks back out and reinstall the limit straps and boggers there are a few mud races held around the area here that i would like to attend more pictures to follow

I have owned and built several jeeps but for some reason they just do not compare to the Comanche. Below are a few pictures:

89 jeep Comanche, long bed, 5speed Bobbed 17" Custom build numbers 1 3/4 DOM exo cage CSI 12,000 winch Iron rock 3 link long arm kit Rustys 8 inch front coils with 2" spacers Stock rear leafs with 1" blocks Home made relocation brackets Iron man rear shackles 4.0 with 4 hole injectors and bored out throttle body, K&N Air filter Front Dana 44 that is sleeved, Has C- gussets, Detroit locker, Chromoly shafts AX-15 tranny with a Rubicon 4:1Transfer case. Rear Dana 44 with Chromoly shafts, Disc brakes and a spool. 17" DV8 aluminum beadlocks with 37" Maxxis Trepadors. 1 1/2 DOM Tie Rods and Track Bar Solid Diff Covers, 4:88 gears

I will start with a brief introduction and storyline of my Comanche. I bought it as my first car at the age of 17 to have something that could go off-road with my family. That was 5 years ago and since then, a lot of things have changed. For the first 2 years, I fought gremlins caused by whoever worked on it before me not really having much time to modify while just fixing all the issues of buying someone else's build. About two years into owning it, I cut the roll cage that the previous owner built off so that I could build a better looking and stronger roll cage. It was at that time after cutting the old cage off, I decided to go on a couple trail rides and unfortunately rolled the comanche over without a cage on a steep off camber down hill. We pushed it over and it began to rain so I drove it home with no front windshield and a smashed cab in the rain. This marked it's first major overhaul in the first couple years. At this time, I straightened the window frame as best as possible to put a windshield back in it and pushed the A pillars back where they should be. After that, it was time for a new roll cage and a couple other parts like track bar that cracked in the roll over. I drove it like that with some minor modifications here and there for the next 2 years. At this time, a friend and I decided we wanted to race King of the Hammers stock class, as well as the entire west Ultra4 series so we then took action and cut the old roll cage off and built a new race legal cage, put new seats in, installed a fuel cell and many of other upgrades as well as safety requirements. After it was all built, we took off for King of the Hammers 2018 and races our first race. After KOH, we fixed what was necessary and affordable and then took off for the Sacramento area for the Ultra4 Stampede race and raced that race. After that is when things started to go wrong prepping for the next race in Ridgecrest losing my Codriver and teammate. That brings us to now, 3 weeks until the next race, but no codriver and a team that is now busy with work and other things. With everything going on and a busy life, racing will have to begin again when I am finished with college in a few years. That is where this thread begins, another rebuild, except this time it is to make a race truck into a street legal truck again. This will involve cutting off yet another roll cage and building another new cage, putting a windshield back in the truck, building a new custom fabricated dash, patching holes from racing, a new heater/possibly air conditioning, new doors, new back window out of plexiglass, a center console, painting it, building a new rear bumper, new front suspension 3 links and I am sure a whole lot more. Until I get busy with all of that soon, I will provide some old pictures and if anybody wants to know anything from the past, feel free to ask any questions. Here is a current photo from the last race in Sacramento. I will dig up some older photos and show them as well.

Well i decided to start a build thread on this on going project. Its currently got a RE 6.5 lift, 34-9.50 tsl's, custom bumper i built, dana 44 rear, dana 30 hp non d/s front, aw4. I'm swapping in a OM617 turbo diesel mated to a ax15. Starting the tear down. Pulling it apart. Out with the old the donor car my ax15 and transfer case that i traded strait across for my aw4 :banana: the bell housing and crank adapter. new clutch mounted drivers side motor mount Passenger side motor mount Drivers side Mount Drivers side drivers side Working on the Passenger side mounts now.

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