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jsc7002 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:54 pm

lil black liberty wrote:

Well I like that color blue man looks good! Thought about doing the whole CJ?

yep, I think I will do a blue but not quite that light,, but first I need to find a tub :evil:

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:50 pm

Are you going to have the ole' CJ done before the GP Meet?

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:28 pm

lil black liberty wrote:

Are you going to have the ole' CJ done before the GP Meet?

....no, I just found a tub a couple days ago but its pretty rough but I tihnk Ill be able to make it work and its gonna cost me $250 and then I still need to buy a Dana 300 tcase which will probably cost me $200 and a XJ with a 4.0L and an AX15 will cost me about $450, plus probably about another $600 in misc parts and pieces, so I hoping to have it down by the end of this coming school year

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:25 pm

well I finally got around to installing the 8 lug rotors and hubs...with several calls to a friend for help, but it was a easy job I just didnt have a clue what I was doing but the front axle now rolls, first time since I bought it lol I went ahead and bolted it under the frame so now I just need to the 3/4T rotors and calipers and I will have a rolling frame. Oh and I ordered my 14B disc brakes from Ruff Stuff, and got them painted, they seem really nice, 3/8" one piece steel with the bends so no spacers and they were cheap!

bill97redtj · **Posted:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:50 am

You need to post some pics of your progress! Did you get tub and drive line yet?

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:55 am

bill97redtj wrote:

You need to post some pics of your progress! Did you get tub and drive line yet?

no Im waiting to here back from the guy with the tub, so Ill have to pick it up when Im at school which works good so Ill have a project while Im at school no drive line yet

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:21 pm

Man Ive been slow on the CJ lately I havent done much to it lately, I recently bought a new Hobart Handler 140 MIG welder so I can actually build some real stuff now and Im in the process of building a tube bender, my friend had some plans so Im building it out of 5"x3/8" strap so it should be pretty solid

BUT I did buy some new motor mounts and I am picking up an AX15 trans next weekend for $50! So hopefully here soon Ill get back to making some progress on the CJ.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:33 pm

its been a little while since I have made an update, the tub I was looking at sold and the trans turned out to be a BA10 so needless to say neither of those will work for me, I do however have the bender done but I havent bought any dies yet because they are kind of expensive.

I got the CJ rolling, so I can work on it in the driveway easier and mounted the tub and added a new mount and did a 1" BL. I trimmed the bottom of the tub .5" and then riveted on some strap to protect the sheetmetal and cover the areas that are rusted through. And I started the base of the cage and rock rails.

one of the legs and gusset for the rock rails

I bought and welded on some D-rings front and rear and a rear hitch.

Then one of my roommates talked me into doing a SBC, so....

Seat mounts.

Thinking about a rear winch mount, mainly because I have this winch plate just sitting in my garage collecting dust.

I set the OEM B pillar back on the frame to get some measurements for the B pillar Ill make.

I woke one morning to a text from a friend back home and he is doing a motor swap on his 1/2T GMC so he pulled his 350 TBI and gave it to me so I will be picking up either a 700R or a SM465. I will be starting to bend tube tomorrow morning for the cage, using some 1-5/8x.188 DOM and the only reason it is that thick is because I got it for free and that was the only size he had. The new plan for the CJ will be a buggy, like Devil Dog from PBB but with some changes.

kskj · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:26 pm

Looking good Joey.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:53 am

I'm not a fan of the 700r4....... I know the sm465 is bullet proof.....

Looks good so far :SOMBRERO:

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 3:01 am

Diggerfreek wrote:

I'm not a fan of the 700r4....... I know the sm465 is bullet proof.....

Looks good so far :SOMBRERO:

ya me either but the only reason I am thinking about it is because it has an OD, I would like an NV4500 but they go kind of crazy high around here, but I found a SM465/ NP205 for $175 that I will probably end up getting.

Ill try to remember to post pics tomorrow but I got all of the tube work done minus the A pillar and roof and Ill probably do it later when I buy some tube but I am hoping to weld in the motor mounts either this weekend or sometime Monday.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 1:19 pm

Most of the cage done

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:41 pm

Nice

kskj · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:55 pm

Looks like it's coming along nicely. On a different subject It looks like Taylor will Probably be At Pitt state Next year. So you may get a new member of the college 4x4 club.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:55 pm

kskj wrote:

Looks like it's coming along nicely. On a different subject It looks like Taylor will Probably be At Pitt state Next year. So you may get a new member of the college 4x4 club.

hey thatll be great! Ill have to look out for him then.

VoodooMann · **Posted:** Sun Jan 03, 2010 2:02 am

Lookin good Man!

I'm Itchin' to see it finished

STINGN · **Posted:** Sun Jan 03, 2010 3:52 pm

that cage looks thin.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:53 pm

STINGN wrote:

that cage looks thin.

it might but its 1-5/8" OD which isnt much less than the normal 1-3/4" OD plus its 3/16" wall instead of the normal 1/8" it shouldnt get messed up in a rollover

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:29 pm

NP205

Bell Housing

NP205/ Bell Housing

SM465

TBI 350 INSTALLED!!!!

I ended up paying $150 for the SM465/ NP205 and the bell housing but he lost the intermediate shaft for the trans/ tcase so I am on the hunt for a 10 spline one now as well as a wiring harness and computer for the motor. The plans are to clean up the 465/205 and paint them and then twin stick the 205.

jsc7002 · **Posted:** Tue May 11, 2010 12:33 am

Its been a little while since Ive made any updates, so Ill do some now, I dont have any real recent pics right now but next time I go home Ill snag some.

New Dodge flat top knuckles with Poison Spyder high steer arms and spacers, all cleaned and painted and I installed new ball joints (no pics of them with the ball joints)

rolling frame tub off while being painted:

tub installed and a little driveway flex to figure out shocks.:

Transmission, adapter and tcase bolted up and sitting on ratch straps :SOMBRERO:

Crossmember, it doesnt hang down any lower than the rear half of the tcase so I was pretty happy since it already hangs kinda low.

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