Canadian Comanche Build

[DFoley]

[gogmorgo]

Great truck! Tell me more!

 

 

Whereabouts in 'Toba are you? And welcome to the madness.

[DFoley]

Teenage son bought the truck from a buddy of mine.

87 with only 67,000 kms on it, was running pretty well but body was in fairly rough shape.

Thought it would be a good father / son ..... son / father project???

[DFoley]

Started knocking all the rust off, cutting out a few panels and patching some body work.

None of which either of us have done before, not perfect, learned lots and turned out okay I think...

[DFoley]

Bought a little welder and both him and started learning how to weld!

Son learning a lot quicker and doing a LOT better than dad!!!

Needed new rocker panels and had to modify the ones I got to fit as the taper was all wrong.

[DFoley]

My fist attempt at fabrication, it was better than my welding!

From the few pieces that were left and some great pictures from another member of CC, new tailgate handle & it works!!!

[DFoley]

Getting it ready for paint. Son liked the "flat" style of paint and ended up getting some "industrial" type flat commercial paint from a supplier

Paint was about $150 compared to $800 for automotive quality.

Son's friend painted it for him for a couple hundred bucks.

So flat paint with a bit of a rough texture will be great for his daily driver/ hunting, trapping, fishing truck!!!

[DFoley]

Put a new stereo in after PO just chopped all the existing wires :(

Thanks to CC for the wiring info!!!

Solved the lack of vent/heater controls due to missing vacuum reservoir, thanks to CC

Replaced all the rear brake lines after one blew!! Was able to finally get it bled after CC forum FSM instructions!!!

[DFoley]

Fab'd up a little drink holder for between the seat and console

[DFoley]

Painted everything flat black to compliment the flat grey body.

Front/rear bumbers, rollbar, mirrors.

So far, looking pretty good.

[DFoley]

Future upgrades....

Winch

Bench to single seats with centre console

New tires

[DirtyComanche]

Bodywork looks good from here.  You guys got a ton done. :thumbsup:

[DFoley]

Great truck! Tell me more!

 

 

Whereabouts in 'Toba are you? And welcome to the madness.

Thanks!!

 

We're in Portage la Prairie

 

Lot's of guys in town really into jeeps, so we have lot's of help if we've got questions or need some help!!

Great group of folks!!

[DirtyComanche]

Yeah, Portage, I'll never forget that place.  It's where my dad threatened to leave me while on a road trip in '98. :rotf:

[gogmorgo]

Well, you're now officially the closest member to me. I'm up near Onanole. Pretty isolated from other Jeep people.

And Portage is pretty far from the worst place you could get abandoned. Not only are you in an ideal location for hitchhiking, you've also got bus AND train out of there. Pretty good for this neck of the woods.

[DFoley]

Well, you're now officially the closest member to me. I'm up near Onanole. Pretty isolated from other Jeep people.

And Portage is pretty far from the worst place you could get abandoned. Not only are you in an ideal location for hitchhiking, you've also got bus AND train out of there. Pretty good for this neck of the woods.

 

Haha,

 

I thought there would be lots of jeeps up your way in the Manitoba "mountains"!!!

 

Do you use your truck as a daily driver or mainly offroad?

[gogmorgo]

My truck is mostly my daily, yeah. Almost completely stock still. As far as off-roading goes, she's a hell of a gravel pounder, and I'm not afraid of the lesser roads on the grid, for example the ones with trees growing between the tire tracks) but it doesn't see much actual off-road. Everything up here is either private property or protected land it seems. Maybe there's some stuff going on further north, up past the Ducks, but I don't ever get up that way, and the only other people I know with Jeeps around here don't really seem to be interested in actually using them as they were intended.