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Hello,

My name is Chris and I live in Central Texas. I just wanted to take a minute to thank whoever started this board and all the knowledgable and helpful folks in here. I bought a 1989 Comanche about a year and a half ago and this board has been an invaluable and most recently kept me from getting taken once again by a dishonest mechanic. Where I doubt I will ever achieve the level of mechanical ability that most of the mebers here seem to have in perpetude, I have been able to improve the reliability and operation of my little truck through the wisdom and help found in these pages. As of tomorrow I am driving 7 hrs to start a new career and some of my friends think I'm nuts doing it in my Comanche, but with the confidence I've gained through reading here and from what I've come to expect from my Comanche, I'm sure it will be an uneventful trip. I just wanted you all to know you're doing something good.>Chris jamminz.gifcomanche.gif :thumbsup: :cheers: :wrench:

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We all share your sentiments for this Club. Each of us learn something new almost every day. Good luck with your new career but 7 hours commute each way, 5 days a week, is 70 hours of road time every week. Don't do it man! ( ;) :D )

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Thanks guys. After 25 years as a carpenter/cabinet maker the cold hard fact is that there is no future in my trade-especially witht the cheap labor here in Texas. I've got an interview with an oil company and am going t work on oil rigs, and hopefully ultimately offshore and make a decent living and actually be able to maybe retire one day. I'm 43 and have a long time before retirement so I figure a lifelong blue collar guy might as well start thinking about how the second half of his life is gonna work> Thanks again fellas!

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Score!!!!! I am awaiting a call for where to report but my new career has begun. I'll be working on oil rigs in Ok, Ar, and Tx to start. The MJ ran from Austin, Tx to Stillwater, Ok without a hiccup. I put new/used tires on it and I swear it got better mileage with a slightly bigger tire. It throws the speedo off-didn't realize that til I turned on the gps and that was 3/4 of the way into the trip after I had already burned by many troopers apparently doing 80 hwhen I thought I was pushing the stetch I could get away with from 65. The mileage was much better coming home when I kept the RPM's right around 2000. There were alot of good ol boys up there applying for a job just like me from all over and as you can imagine it was pick up truck central. I had more guys with big ol rigs diggin the MJ than you'd believe. I ran off the road doing about 70 last month in south texas avoiding a wreck and can't believe I didn't twist up my front end, but it's been checked out and got an all clear. Now I just need to find someone to recharge my system with R12-get my rig painted-get the seats redone-because they look good but are old and compressed which sucks on long trips. Who knows if this job is as good as everyone keeps telling me it's gonna be maybe a nice 1990+ 4wd white MT is in the cards somewhere in my future. jamminz.gifjamminz.gifjamminz.gif

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Good to hear the trip went well! Comanches (MJs and Indians alike) don't quit, in battle they'd ride their horse until it died, then cut off of some horse meat, eat it raw and keep going on foot.

 

There's also slight decrease in elevation, (about 800 ft) from N Texas to Austin since Austin is South of the Balcones Escarpment. Maybe that helped on MPG.

 

Random Comanche fact to follow: The Balcones Escarpment is a general 800-1,000 ft rise in elevation that separated early settlements in Texas. The line goes from DFW, Waco, Austin, to San Antonio, generally the I35 corridor. Everything on higher ground NW of the escarpment was considered off limits in the early days due to a fierce tribe called the "Comanches".

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