Comanche build - Unicorn lives on.

BRUISER

BRUISER

silent.. but deadly
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Well the time has come for the unicorn to return and live on.

I always loved the build that Matt Cutler did back in 2016 and after he ripped it apart, he and I worked out some details and I brought home the comanche. I have continued to gather parts and have finally started the process to put it back together.

This will take some time as I have a race jeep and a crawler fun jeep that I seem to always keep working on.

Here is a link to the original build:

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It started in Sept 2020 when I went and picked up the chassis.

brought it home and my son helped me power wash his new comanche (yes we are building him one also) and the chassis

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After I had it in the shop for a few months I started to sand the chassis and realized this would be a pain so I took it to a local sand blaster and had him blast it for me (which he told me yesterday when I picked it up he would never do a chassis again)

I have cut the roof off and still need to clean up some of the metal but needed to start somewhere.

Here it is after I got it home from the blaster

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I ended up using 6 cans of primer and it is still is not done but wanted to cover the clean metal best I could to stop the rust.

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Pull out the axles to start prepping them

Spider 9's front and rear.

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It needs one more coat of paint and then onto links and axles
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With all the warm weather I decided to paint some more

Fuel cell and rear axle

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How'd I miss this thread....? Anywho in for the updates. I enjoyed watching Matt come up Mason Jar in that thing.
 
Added some rims. Every step forward is a good thing

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Motor time

5.7LS
Steve and I started assembly of the motor and like always found I need to buy more parts

I am using goatbuilt accessories brackets

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Pennsylvaniaboy said:
Digging the updates. I'm excited to see it together. How well do you think the toyo's will do?
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They worked well on my buddies rig. So hopefully good enough
 
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