88 2wd daily driver

[Jacobp77]

Wanted to finally create my own build thread to keep track of the build and give me a base to ask questions when I have them so here we go.

Back in June of 2025 I purchased a Comanche with intentions of using it as a daily for work to keep miles off my wrangler. Here it is the day I got it:

 

After replacing the harmonic balancer and most vacuum lines, I drove it occasionally to work and the rare weekend drives around town on the 20 year old tires it came with.

Spent some time around the junk yard and replaced the whole grill assembly with one from a 96 and got the turn signals working(most of the time) as well as the side markers. From the same Cherokee the grill was snagged from I also scored an entire front bumper, deflector, and end caps.

 

After that I did some small fixes as fall and winter hit, including valve covers, several cruiser mods, and fixing the radio. Radio was just an open hole when I purchased it and there were no speakers so using a multimeter to identify speaker wires wasn’t too fun lol. Only have the door speakers for now.

Received some brand new tires for Christmas and after getting those put on I started putting a lot more miles on her. Starting around February I was putting almost 70 miles a day 4-5 days a week with little trouble.

Eventually the inevitable happened and the rear u joint gave out on the high way during rush hour. Had her towed home and replaced it the next day

Skipping forward a few weeks I chose to give her the old rattlecan paint job in my dad’s drive way. Went way better than expected but it’s a 20 footer for sure lol

And that brings it all up to speed

[fiatslug87]

Welcome, when you get a chance add it to the registry.

https://comancheclub.com/forum/31-1988/

[Jacobp77]

33 minutes ago, fiatslug87 said:

Welcome, when you get a chance add it to the registry.

https://comancheclub.com/forum/31-1988/

Copy that, will do that tomorrow

[JZLAJeep]

Looks like it grew fender flares when you painted it.  Good looking Comanche!

[Jacobp77]

37 minutes ago, JZLAJeep said:

Looks like it grew fender flares when you painted it.  Good looking Comanche!

Thank you! Very thankful the PO left pretty much every part he took off in the bed when I got it. Had all the flares and a lot of interior pieces including the lower dash and mini center console