CC aka canadian comanche

[Sp88mj]

Hey y’all! 
Last spring i buy a 88/4L/2wd/5speed comanche that i saw on marketplace in my hometown. I knew for many years that comanche but rarely see it cause the owner always kept it in is garage.  It didnt take long to fall in love with it, its my first comanche, i use to have 2 xj and a zj back in the days! So i decide to get a litle work done on it this winter, lol! I have already done some work on it so ill post from the begining of the project! 
 

oh and i’m french canadian so sorry if I'm hard to understand ill do my best to be understood!

[Sp88mj]

So there it is 

 

First of all i want to do a 4wd swap and keep it manual, so i buy back my old 98 xj with an ax15 and a np242. It is not running anymore due to engine failure and frame is rusted out so bad. Got it for 400$ lol 

 

i took everything i need for the swap, it have a welded 8.25 on it and i decided to leave it cause i will not offroad it and don't want a welded diff on a sunday driver lol!

[Sp88mj]

Since i have 3.07 gear in the manche and a 3.55 d30, i found a 3.55 turdyfive out of a xj from a friend of mine in exchange of my welded 8.25

 

afrter a litle sand blast

[Sp88mj]

I found 4 xj’s at a junkyard near my place, and nobody have touch them for years! I even found a manual 96 with everything on it except the engine, so ill probably grab everything for a future manual swap since the owner of the jy sell me pieces for really cheap! I even found a 89 one with a full cluster that i was looking for!

 

grab all of this for 100$ (cad) lol!

[Sp88mj]

Since i have a aftermarket back glass that is not in really good shape, i start the hunt for a oem slider. Comanche part are really hard to find in canada due to winter, most of them are long gone in heaven! I then find a complete shell with good backglass, tail gate and rear light. So i jumped in my truck and drive 12hours (back an forth) to pick it up

And then when i pick it up i notice that it have a D44 with 4.10 gear! So i guess that ill need to sandblast a new set of diff!

 

when i was on my way to pick that comanche, a guy call me, from a add i put on internet that i was looking for comanche parts. He then told me that is father own a body shop for many years and he grabs some parts and store it in his garage, and now he starting to sell his dad stuff since he retired. He told me that he have a tail gate in good shape so i have to see it. And guess what?! Its the holy grail of tailgate, i grab it for 250$(cad) what a steal!!

[fiatslug87]

NICE!!! Welcome, add the VIN to the registry when you get a chance