got a little carried away

This weekend I had planned to fix the broken bell housing and remake the belly skid and add a full engine and trans skid. Long story short I got a little carried away.




I ended up doing instead
-got rid of all A/C crap
-changed belt
-got rid of all evap crap
-replaced t-stat
-repaired damaged radiator and cleaned mud out of it, hopefully takes care of overheating issue
-removed trans and t-cases, t-cases out the top
-repaired d300 shifters
-rplaced bell housing
-stripped seats and roll cage, had to drill every factory bolt on the roll cage
-re-wired battery to move into back

So things I now have to get done
-build cage
-mount seats
-rewire evap crap (have to figure out how)
-rewire some of dash
-reinstall trans and t-cases
-make a new skid and trans mount
-change fluids
-redo floor (not necessary )
-exhaust

Time to kick it into bill speed or atleast close to it

Holy shit!! Wish they went back together as fast as they come apart though!! Where did you find a new bellhousing? Was it expensive?

HOLY CRAP is right! 3rd gear Matt, we got some wheeling to do soon.

damn I guess you weren't messing around this weekend. looks like we got our work cut out for us for big dogs for getting that cage back in.

Also you should keep the ac bullshit and convert it over to OBA like I did on my heep.

I know some projects turn into more than you want sometime but HOLY SHIT
Good luck man I'm sure it will be cool when your done but I don't know about the 8-23-09 run for you now what you think?

You can do it

got the bell housing a couple weeks ago form a jeep junk yard just above york called rodney's for 50 bucks. Goal is still the aug run but it might be pushing it. It will be done for big dogs

Looks cleaner than ever!

thing that suprised me with cage work is how long it takes to weld it all together. At least a whole day. And those off angle joints can be a bitch sometimes. you can do it.

what we should do is all of us get together one weekend and blow it out with all the tools and knowledge we have.

2 people laying it out
2 people bending
1 person notching and cutting
1 person handing out beer

The following day if we put two welders at it we could finish it pretty quick.

Or better yet...wait till Bill puts a/c in his garage

sounds good to me either way. i can make the garage available and i will have AC this weekend.

That would be fun! I'd be up for that.

A/C in the garage ? Bill you will never get rid of these guys they may even move in.

SPP YJ wrote:

A/C in the garage ? Bill you will never get rid of these guys they may even move in.

this is one case where "will work for food and beer" would be ok with me. CJ would get done a LOT quicker. I've got room and a big grill so if you guys want to make this happen it is fine with me.

I will agree with Bill on the welding tme I was suprised wen Mike and I did the toyota it took 2 of us welding nonstop bout 3hrs to weld it all and its not like we cared alot. LOL

I think it took me almost 3 hrs or so to weld just the outside part of my cage. The whole garage thing works for me.

let me know when/if you want it to happen. this weekend is best since the next two weekends I'll be at the beach. then aug 22, 23 is also good. aug 29/30 is good but the 30th is the frog eye mud bog that i plan on running. pushing into sept 5/6 is fine as well if you can't do it before then.

How long did I weld on your cage Bill? I got alot done but a wrangler cage is a ton of welding but I'm ready to go so say the work and I will weld for the whole day.

Rockn93YJ wrote:

let me know when/if you want it to happen. this weekend is best since the next two weekends I'll be at the beach. then aug 22, 23 is also good. aug 29/30 is good but the 30th is the frog eye mud bog that i plan on running. pushing into sept 5/6 is fine as well if you can't do it before then.

I say aug 22/23 would work seeing this weekend that me, matt and nick will be in Harlan

Wow 2nd page already, I will be cought up to joe and bill in no time. It will be done by aug 22. Three weeks of week nights and two weekends. Should be good I have high hopes. we'll see how it pans out

Ordered some floor plates from DIY4x to save some time.

U know i have a CNC plasma cutter i can make things like that for next to nothing

This goes to everybody we wheel with all you to do call or E-mail demensions I can cleanly cut up to 1/2 inch steel & up to 1 inch but will need grinding

Speaking of which, I put your business name and phone number on marr4x4.com in the news and events section. I slapped it up there for now but also plan to add Randy Wood. Bill if you're interested in putting a link and add up for your site let me know too. I might scratch the "contact us" page and make a page for resources/sponsors type of thing. I don't want to hijack this thread, just let me know.

Thanks lugnut