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thanks robbie i looked thru your old thread and found that pic as well as a couple others.
Oh yeah i flipped the front springs around to gain 2" of ground clearance. The current and i believe final wheelbase is right around 113" that seems a little long to me but i think i have enough lift plus the added height of the boatsides it should not be to bad a problem.
No problem man. I didn't bring my laptop home and could only find that one on my photobucket.
The rear diff guard and front cover came out nice. The 8.8" looks alot better without the old shatty collapsed spring perches on there. Not sure if you've noticed the tubes on it but it looks like they are bent slightly upward in pics. It looked the same under my jeep and I never had an issue, maybe it's just deceiving.
no it isnt deceiving, they are bent pretty good but everything spins freely. I thought about straightening them, but said f-it. I think i am going to weld a small truss on there with integrated anti-wrap bar mount to keep it from bending further
pics on 4 wheels, and before/after the boatside on the driverside
boatside is made from 3.5" pipe for the upper and then, .120 wall 1 3/4 hrew for the runners
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Your not that tall-rather your jeep anyway :flipoff2:
Looks sweet!
The name "Nastypile" suites it well.
alright both boatsides are in place, but havent skinned them yet. Draglink is cut to length just waiting on a new insert. I also tied the boatsides together left to right and this will also function as the main mounting bar for the seats. I have the driver side seat brackets cut and notched they just need to be welded together and holes drilled for the seats. Im hoping to have all of the fab work done this week so that next week can be spent doing brakes/steering/wiring. Karl has started to trim down the clusterfawk of a wiring system.
cage, seats, and five points are done. Now i need a floor, steering, some sort of bastardized brake system, a rear driveshaft,exhaust, and tighten the front pinion back down, sunday is coming quickly...... hopefully post up some pics of the cage and seats tomorrow.
What, no cup holder?
alright i had some trailer tire issues and fagged out on spring creek yesterday. So i ran it around my house and within 15minutes it over heated, and burned thru the plastic line for the oil pressure gauge which got layed against the manifold. Things that need to be fixed before tcc, install some sort of electric fan either a pusher and leave the mechanical fan in place with a pusher fan in front of the radiator? or remove the mechanical fan and install a new 15 in e-fan. I also need to turn the idle screw down since it is idiling to fast.
What is everyone running on there v-8's out there to keep it cool? Will a 15inch e-fan from vatozone do the trick most likely?
flex pics
Ford windstar or taurus fan(s).
I just have a cheap vatozone 16" puller. But if it's overheating and you already have a functioning fan a bigger fan is just a band-aid fix and isn't addressing your real problem. Find the true reason it's overheating.
the real problem is it is a 32 year old truck, that doesn't have a shroud for the mechanical fan if i had to guess.
bingo...Quote:
Originally Posted by stx4wheeler
Is that a skull and cross bone on the wheel slug? :flipoff2:
I had two 12"s on the chevy and they did pretty good. Depending on the cfm, two slightly smaller may be better than the one large 15"
I have two 12" ones on the jeep. It will run a little warm with just one of them. I like that if one motor burnt out I'd still be OK. They're off an 03 malibu and fit the cj radiator very well.
I'm considering going back to a mechanical fan to have less crap to worry about. Probably a flex fan.
SPAL fan - build a shroud...
me needum waggie quadra trac t-case kasey or anyone got one? i will try jb weld first.
Only one I've got is trashed and in corpus.
Kevin, there isn't much (if anything) that will bolt in place of the Quadratrac due to it using a big ass 10 spline input shaft. I'll keep an eye out for a replacement..
Edit: You'd have to swap the tailshaft and adapter on the TH400 to go to any other tcase. They came with a D20 behind the TH400, so if you could find that setup it'd be a good swap, but they aren't exactly common.
What exactly happened to yours?
he landed on a rock and the rock won
So just the case is fawked, or did it take out the magic bits inside?
he was still able to drive it so i would assume that just the case is toast, but i am not sure
case has a pencil sized hole below where the rear output is.
do i need a full case or can i find one that is missing the low range box? kasey give me a call if you can so i can run some things by you 7 1 3 670 4 5 3 5
alright the jeep is back in the shop and time to get it ready for clayton
alright Problems that have to be fixed:
RE-wire and install chevy one wire alt. i hear i need one from an early 90's caddy without the window defroster anyone got a part #?
Make sure my trans still works after its up hill raping(uh i mean recovery)
Swap t-cases
Mount head lights
install shocks
For a CS144 for an FSJ just get an alternator for a '94 Caddy, 4.9L, w/o heated windshield.
ACDELCO Part # 3342385AQuote:
Originally Posted by TexTJ209
ACDELCO Part # 3342385 (140 amp)
REMY Part # 91406 (140 amp)
BOSCH Part # AL8619X
REMY Part # 20580
DENSO Part # 2105193
hey-o
Cool thanks guys
I'm glad there are trucks out there that make me feel better about ze Pigpen!
Got the new to me rear bumper and tire carrier mounted. I just need to weld on the bolts for the high lift and weld on some tabs for recovery points. I also picked up my new cs 144. Tomorrow I am gonna swap the the serpentine pulley for a v-belt setup and get it mounted up.
I was thinking, we should have a safety thread. Let's start that. I will suggest we start with talking about fire safety. Who has tips or a story about fire?
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Man, why am I in Kevin's Nasty Pile thread?
P.S. I am not talking about the smoking at Trees....
Kasey did they ever use fsj's as fire department vehicle's because mine really likes to catch on fire.
P.s the gas tank that sits on my bed had a pin hole in it that leaked under and around the tank(I was unaware of this leaking). When i was pitting the final touches on the rear bumper/tire carrier I noticed a flash from behind my welding hood. Turns out the whole back of the jeep was in fire. Fortunately I had my old ass fire extinguisher nearby to save the day and my new house. That dust goes everywhere when you dispense it in your garage....that and karls moms a ho.
Yes. :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by stx4wheeler
And they do like catching on fire. Especially due to the ****ty ammeter setup, I'd just bypass the damn thing if this giant pile of awesome even has gauges.
ive caught my red jeep on fire 3 times, used the same extinguisher all 3 times and it still reads full, granted they were all really small fires but none the less.
My Uncle has a pocketknife?Quote:
Originally Posted by colman
My spare tire caught on fire while I was driving down the highway. I win!
Alright alternator swap done and the jeep runs again. There is one new problem though apperantly when I punched the hole in the t-case I also broke off the foot of the adapter between the trans and the t-case that supports the whole combo.
Kasey do you have one of these laying around???
Nope.
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