The Resurection Project

yep down to every wire, nut and bolt. Even goes into great detail on rebuilding the engines and trannys. Just the electrical section for the 93 is almost 400 pages.

nice.

md4wheelin wrote:

life is good, I just scored 93 and 95 D.C. zj manuals.

I never relized how in detail those things went, they have every nut, bolt, and wire listed in those things.

I might be intereted in the 95 manual. where can I find one. Sorry, I have been out of the loop for a spell.

so what size is that goofy star shaped bolt at the top of the bell housing?

Is it a bolt that connects engine to the bell housing? Also tico drop me a line and i'll see what I can do for you.

Rockn93YJ wrote:

so what size is that goofy star shaped bolt at the top of the bell housing?

i beileve a 10 or 12mm inverted torx, or 13 i forget.

Yeah Bill I just remembered (to late now sorry) I had to buy the inverted torx bits when I swapped my Trans. Thats those funky looking things in the bottom of my tool bag.

yes, bell housing to the engine. I cut it off and have 2 replacements that are 3/8 -16 by 2" that will fit. no more torx heads.

Torx bits suck.

they really suck when they are rusted solid to the jeep AND strip out.

If anyones interested i'll be sawzawing and torching the rolled jeep apart tomorow to get all the welded suspension parts off then scraping whats left.

a couple pics from today

it looks so sad...the last picture looks like roadkill with the guts hanging out.

Rockn93YJ wrote:

it looks so sad...the last picture looks like roadkill with the guts hanging out.

X2

That Dingo is one handy little tool. Joe, do you have any spare dana 30 parts? Are you going to cut the body up next weekend? I will come up there for that.

Ugh that is sad and I'm partly responsible I wore the tshirt with her on it in her honor today though!!

Nester...I should have spare dana30 parts...call me tomorrow and i'll see what i have in the basement i'll also ask jason about the spare tire too

Joe, when you need the plasma cutter let me know. we don't have to trade for you to borrow it. I could probably meet you part way if you need to.

Rockn93YJ wrote:

Joe, when you need the plasma cutter let me know. we don't have to trade for you to borrow it. I could probably meet you part way if you need to.

Cool I appreciate that, I'll probly drop you a line when I get ready to start to fab up the rear suspension. As for the body I'm going to put the tracks on the big New Holland and drive over it a couple of times Should be fun with some beer Also nick funny Thing was that I had my shirt on also as I was cutting it up

Joe,

Sorry I missed out.... Looks like you had a productive Saturday!

Locked_N_Loaded wrote:

Nester...I should have spare dana30 parts...call me tomorrow and i'll see what i have in the basement i'll also ask jason about the spare tire too

Me too I took a good look at it this morning and thought about how its in pieces now.

Joe I talked to Randy Wood and got some tubing prices.
wholesale for 1.75 x 120 wall is 3.05 for 5 lengths
langths are aprox 18 ft
thwe XJ will take about 150 ft which is at least 7 lengths.
He said the price might be going up by march.

Damn that sounds like a real good price. I guess i'll probly need 10 lengths or so. When were you thinking about placing the order?

I have no deadline for the cage work so when you are ready then so am I. Even at that price I couldn't imagine it going up that much. at 18' we would probably need to use a trailer to pick it up.

Rockn93YJ wrote:

I have no deadline for the cage work so when you are ready then so am I. Even at that price I couldn't imagine it going up that much. at 18' we would probably need to use a trailer to pick it up.

Sounds good why don't we figure on grabbing the tube around the end of febuary.


On another good note today marked a turning point in the project, I finished cutting up the old jeep So it looks like sat i'm going to begin to install the long arms on the new jeep My plan is to do the front first which should only take a day. Thats one good thing about doing this a second time over is that i remember the mistakes I made the first time and I now know the short cuts which speeds up the process a whole lot faster. Also I decided to install a doubler combo 231/300 for the TC, so if anyone has a spare 231 laying around let me know. I had one last year but I cant remeber what happen to it, so i'm guessing it got scrapped.

Which kit did you go with? The box for rocks kit took like 4 weeks for me to get and I have heard that it took longer for other people. Not sure if that will affect you schedule. The mad roster might be a better turn around, but you have to find your own block off plate.