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Another 1987 Comanche saved from doom. Project TALOS


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Probably going to be replacing the brake master cylinder hopefully that clears up the last of my issues on this. I still need a rear driveshaft that’s 2” longer than the xj one I have in it for now. 
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I’m still having issues with my brakes. Pedal is soft and goes about 3/4 way to the floor before stopping when the engine is running. Only guess is still air somehow stuck in the system somewhere. It has brand new hard and soft lines, new rear wheel cylinder sand brake parts , new pads and rotors, good calipers, and a new master cylinder.

So I took a break from that headache and started fitting some rear tj flares to the truck to make it look way better. Still have to do the passenger side. 2F7D4CA5-7601-457B-94DF-617B895AE456.jpeg.e0a627110f9b70168a1f4cd056d68972.jpeg37949526-0DFB-4429-A623-31F03DD74433.jpeg.b408dca4d0dfc00770e0157ca72a11ba.jpeg5542B440-83C1-4972-B851-FA155318FB12.jpeg.15fc9930a1408162cc5e015cb30ff4b5.jpeg

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  • 2 weeks later...

Today I changed the headlights out, replaced my driver seat buckle because it was broken, and installed a license plate light. 
I drove it to work this week and found out the rear shocks are too long and the windshield isn’t properly sealed so I have to get that fixed as well as figure out why my temperature gauge isn’t working. 
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I’ve been driving it to work for a couple weeks now. Brakes still aren’t right but good enough to drive it. My other issue I have going on is my temperature gauge doesn’t read at all. It cycles when starting the Jeep and I’ve replaced both temp sensors on it and no change. Next when I have time I’ll try another gauge cluster and see if it’s the gauge that’s the problem. As far as I know all my grounds are good

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Nothing new for now. Haven’t had much free time. I do still need to figure out why my temperature gauge doesn’t work, have a new rear driveshafts made to be 2” longer, and my brakes are still soft when running but work well enough to daily drive it. 
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Been driving it still. Still issues to work out but I don’t have much free time now a days. 
I did finally install the wheels and tires I intended for this. Willys jk wheels and some ko2 315s1B61F3C4-CBDE-4134-BA3D-E15E0DF5646C.jpeg.0ed5037cadb6fe8cbc5e99820c87f93c.jpeg3ED8F931-25D5-4D18-9743-47D4578A5D51.jpeg.ac51b8ddb5eb429095c6b3ef9e054bf0.jpegCB43EFE0-9C0E-4E16-93E4-51D48100D1DE.jpeg.d4a835a8bcea502ef7aa335a44844a43.jpeg5178AD85-1D13-4201-ACA2-3B9C74E95910.jpeg.46da30a74b7ac1759b5c77962b1bae89.jpeg

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Recently had to rebuild the front end due to terrible death wobble when I tried to adjust the alignment properly and found out all my balljoints were shot. 
I ended up replacing all the balljoints, axle shafts with cv style, and v8 zj tierod upgrade. 
found out most of my hub bolts were junk, had to weld nuts to two of them, so I replaced those as well. 3F9C7B5F-D8CB-47A4-B65F-E9BC7E8C3605.jpeg.fe447d0bff707593d18aa8b67e2ada86.jpeg72E40318-C37A-4BF3-805B-4587C1CF85E0.jpeg.fcea4789c53736a595c32869be729b33.jpeg775C021C-57DD-4EDF-BC3D-1E3626AE56C4.jpeg.ce73b0a964036eb8aa753cd206620c5c.jpeg2075C5C1-DD3B-4BBD-BF3F-8114979ADF31.jpeg.71de3a7dbf31c6c350769f705d7bcde9.jpeg

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Current list of things I need to do:
Figure out my temp gauge problem
Repair the passenger side rocker and cab corner
Replace my trac bar tierod end or change the whole trac bar entirely
While I’m doing that I will add a small coil spacer to level out the truck some. 
I'm still running a xj rear driveshaft, it’s about 2” shorter than I’d like, so I need to get a proper length driveshaft built or modified.
 

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