June 2025 - Squirrelly Dan the Adventure Truck

[89 MJ]

June 2025 - Squirrelly Dan

Owned by @coheed

 

Build Thread-

 

https://comancheclub.com/topic/63980-squirrelly-dan-coheeds-86-custom/

 

Year/Model - 86 custom'

 

 

Drivetrain- 2.8, AX5, NP207 but will be swapping in a 3.4, 4l60e, and NP242 when I get back from my current road trip. 4.10 D35 and HP early non-cad D30 swapped in from my grandads MJ

 

Cooling- all stock

 

Electrical/Ignition- upgraded 2/0 battery cables, generic headlight harness, otherwise stock

 

Suspension/Steering- 3.5" RE front springs, General spring metric ton leafs, Core4x4 control arms, Rock krawler trackbar, StinkyFab track bar bracket, Zone offroad lift shackle, Bilstein 5100s front and rear, Moog replacement ZJ steering, JKS disconnects

 

Interior- honey tan interior with the highland check buckets from my grandads MJ, mid 80s S10 steering wheel, an RX-135 radio restored by Jeremy when he was still doing them out of the same truck, a cheap Rockford Fosgate Bluetooth adapter, and a new SMS headliner

 

 

Brakes- YJ front rubber lines and Dakota rear line otherwise stock

 

Lighting- sealed beam halogen Wagner headlight bulbs, Auxbeam fog lights, Oracle led taillights, S10 blazer cargo lights in place of the factory B-pillar lights

 

Exterior- stock AB beige paint on most panels but the fenders and header panel are mismatched (the eventual plan is to paint it Forest Service green) , FEY rear bumper, krustyballer hitch, 98+ windshield and trim, slider window swapped in from a junkyard truck, early AMC style grill guard

 

Wheel & Tires- 16x7 XJ Icon wheels and 235/85r16 Sumitomo encounters

 

Misc- The obvious thing not listed above is the Ovrlnd pop top camper I just got installed on the truck. I've gone through multiple different camping setups and none of them were ever exactly what I wanted, so I had one built 

 

Best MJ story- My favorite experience in a Comanche has to be when I was a young kid my grandad and I had gone up to the mountains to check on some of his land and we had been going up a single-track road in the middle of nowhere. The truck started overheating so we just got out and sat on the tailgate and talked to each other for a few hours 

 

CC is Awesome! Why?

 

Having a community that has been around so long and is so full of knowledge is invaluable. Also, as a person that has been in car forums since the early 00's this has consistently been the nicest, most helpful, and most welcome one I've ever been a part of.

 

[fiatslug87]

Congrats! Can’t wait to see what you do with the camper.

[Pete M]

adventure!! doing what a Jeep should! 

[GonzoTheGreat]

Well deserved. I love that you're still rocking the 2.8. and that camper shell is gonna be sick!

[coheed]

14 hours ago, fiatslug87 said:

Congrats! Can’t wait to see what you do with the camper.

I've got some grand ideas for it, but I have no idea how long it'll take me to get to them. 

13 hours ago, Pete M said:

adventure!! doing what a Jeep should! 

It's what it does best 

3 hours ago, GonzoTheGreat said:

Well deserved. I love that you're still rocking the 2.8. and that camper shell is gonna be sick!

Part of it is really seeing how much I can get out of the 2.8 till it pops. I'm amazed it's done as well as it has considering what I found under the valve covers 2 years ago. 

 

Yeah I'm very stoked about all the room I have for activities in there.