guardrail Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Hey all, My name's Ken, I'm new here and relatively new to MJ's and Jeeps. I have a mechanical background, I attended Vocational high school for auto repair, and went to technical college for the same. Worked in a Subaru dealership for a few years, then spent some time in Army doing Army stuff in the Engineer Corps. After that I got into electronics manufacturing and now am a Technical Specialist for a large abrasives company. A couple weeks ago a friend of mine on this forum asked me "hey do you want a Comanche?". well, duh. Growing up as a kid aged 7 or 8 my neighbors had a whole fleet of XJs, on MJ and a Grand Wagoneer and I remember just being totally enamored with the XJs and MJ. So fast forward almost 30 years now I finally have one. It's not the 4x4 5 speed 4.0 that I dreamt of, but I have my foot in the door now. I've been racing in the 24 Hours of Lemons for about 6 years now and the myth of the 500 dollar car is one that I am all too familiar with, but this time it was true. From what I understand this truck was parked in 2006, thought to have a bad engine, and having been smacked in the pass front. There it sat for almost 20 years before another member of this forum found it, and put someone onto it to save it from rotting back into the earth. So I currently know that it did run as I just saw a video of it. The water pump was removed when I got it as were a lot of the vacuum hoses and things. The floors left the chat a long time ago but the drivers side is a lot worse than the pass side. The rockers, front control arm pockets, and rear leaf mounts are solid though. Missing the whole nose of the thing, header panel, grille, headlight buckets, headlights, etc. Needs a fuel pump/sender/fuel tank. Drivers side rear leaf shackle is connected to the frame via bluetooth now. And a whole bunch of small bits and bobs that need replacing. So this is the dumping grounds for all that which will hopefully soon get worked on. I don't have a bunch of photos of it for now just the ones from when I towed it home but it'll give you an idea of what I'm working with. The VIN was already posted in the registry and that's how I know a bunch of the unobtanium parts it was optioned with were scav'd from it, but hey at least it wasn't turned into a tuna can, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvagedcircuit Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Nice. Excellent save! Certainly won't become a tuna can now, but will one day haul a metric ton of tuna cans.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WranglerMangler Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Welcome to the addiction! Well worth the $500! Good save. Looking forward to progress on the old girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drahcir495 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Welcome to the Comanche Club. Excellent! Great price you got it for. Do you have plans for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardrail Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 5 hours ago, Drahcir495 said: Welcome to the Comanche Club. Excellent! Great price you got it for. Do you have plans for it? Currently my only goal is to get it running, driving and weld in new floors. I kinda like the mini truck vibe, probably just going to leave it as configured. Would be nice to have a small truck for running out for tools/parts locally or hauling kayaks to the river, that kinda stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonzoTheGreat Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I’m excited to see how this one plays out. Whether it gets lifted, lowered, or stays stock, I have full confidence in your attention to detail. I know everything will be either done well, or well hidden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guardrail Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 41 minutes ago, GonzoTheGreat said: I’m excited to see how this one plays out. Whether it gets lifted, lowered, or stays stock, I have full confidence in your attention to detail. I know everything will be either done well, or well hidden. haha Shhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglescout526 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 1 hour ago, guardrail said: hauling kayaks to the river When my grandfather owned mine, he used to load up a small boat in the back and take it to go fishin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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