1988 Jeep comanche AKA the penny sniffer

Here it starts:

Hey everybody I have been on this fourm since I bought my Mj in Feb of 2012. I bought it with a rough country 4.5 inch lift up front along with a SOA conversion in the back and I HATE IT!!!! it rides terrible and looks dumb haha. But I am changing all of it so it wont matter. This winter I will put a 6.5 inch long arm kit on it just haven't decided which one yet.

The truck is a 1988 4.0 Pioneer 4x4 with a automatic trans (not sure which one) and a np231. I have come to find out it was 2wd from the factory and has since been converted to 4x4 by a previous owner.

It had 99,000 miles on it when I bout it and has about 101,000 now, It was born in canada cause It has a kph speedo, Celsius temp gauge and oil in bars pressure. It also has a block warmer. It does have some rust but nothing to bad and I plan on stopping it asap/


I have done alot of work to it and keep meaning to start a build thread. Its going to take a me a few days to get this build thread up to speed on where im at to day with it but Ill go a head and start it off. Here is it the day I bought it.

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The PLANS!

Level the front
long arms
Get it running GREAT
35's
bumpers
4:10s up front with a lunch box locker and stronger shafts
8.8 swap in the rear with 4:10's and a lunch box locker
Slip yolk Eliminator and tom woods drive shaft
new windshield
exhaust
one ton steering
Rust repair
thats all I got for now..

First things first were to get some new rubbers up under it because the old ones were a death trap. For now I got the cheapest most aggressive tires I could that would fit. I know After I lift the from more and level it out im going to be in the market for some 35's.


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and then it was off to the beach for its first time to see how it would hold up.


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And then this happened ***. Silly JK, Dont you know you have to many doors.......
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:cool:then I ordered some more things.:cool:

Nates 4x4 rear bumber
and a Dirtbound offroad front bumper
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After that I order my winch
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time to update a little more. I got nates4x4.com rear bumper in and decided to do a little modification to it. Me and my buddy Robbie sunk some lights into the bumper. I love the look of it. he did all the welding and most of the work while I drank beer because I cant weld worth a S***! haha. He was a great help!

Before
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After we mocked up the light boxes and welded them up.
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Then here they are welded up and installed
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Originally Posted by zebvance

And then this happened ***. Silly JK, Dont you know you have to many doors.......
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Your jeep has a longer wheelbase than a 4 door jk

got some new Iron man 4x4 motor mounts

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And now the wallet takes even more of a beating. A 97+ Cherokee electric fan to add inline with the stock mechanical fan cause the manche didnt come with one from the factory, and It would get a little warm when I would get into the really soft sand.

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A long with a New flow cooler water pump, A high flow thermo stat, Thermostat houseing and new gaskets.
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Last but not least I won some datsun louvers for cheap on ebay!
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Well got a few more things!!!! One day I will stop buying stuff and put it all on!

Pacesetter Header
Magnaflow muffler
and High flow cat

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Got the front bumper in!

TEST FIT!!!!!!
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:eek:And next it is to install them after A fresh coat of Super silver to match the decal, since I plan on painting it back on after the paint job in the future.

BUUUTTTT First I had to do some Cutting:eek::D:beer:
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Originally Posted by Sparling

Your jeep has a longer wheelbase than a 4 door jk

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Nope mine is 113 for a short-bed and a 4 door jk is 116, but none the less yea they are basically the same length

First weekend down at the beach with the bumpers and I had to put that rough country 9500lb winch in use for my buddy with a CJ7 on 34 inch super swampers.

The winch worked great!

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I do know though that a upgraded alternator is coming soon, the truck would drop to about 8 volts under a load with the winch and the engine reved.