Nice ‘73 CJ5. That thing has a crazy long wheelbase !!!
(Well, compared to my ‘71 anyway….)
Nice fleet you have going there. You need a pic with the ‘73 and you will have 5 decades of Jeeps. Very cool.
02' TJ - Capable daily driver
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Nice ‘73 CJ5. That thing has a crazy long wheelbase !!!
(Well, compared to my ‘71 anyway….)
Nice fleet you have going there. You need a pic with the ‘73 and you will have 5 decades of Jeeps. Very cool.
Thanks man, a cj5 has been my dream for a while, just hoping i can get it going before seattle rain season.
Got any pics of your 71’?
Man that’s good looking. I’m hoping to lightly restore this one but it’s got bedliner everywhere so not sure what to do about that
DropTopDon
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I wonder if the pics of my LJ are gonna look this cool in 40 years
My ex had a 1980 CJ5 but it only had the 258 6 cyl in it. But her dad had owned it for 20+ years before he gave it to her for Xmas one year. She had driven it to high school. Had a Dana 30 front and Model 20 rear axle & a T176 4speed. ARB's & 4.56 gears but IMO it needed lower gears.
I did a hyd clutch swap on it after the linkage for the clutch went out on this trail. Was NOT fun trying to drive this thing back to camp without a clutch.
I did a hyd clutch swap on it after the linkage for the clutch went out on this trail. Was NOT fun trying to drive this thing back to camp without a clutch.
And a physical photo. All the pics of my old rig are actual pictures, a few of which I have scanned.
So i’m currently trying to finish up the axle swap and lift on my dads TJ. I guess i should’ve figured this out sooner but it looks like the PO drilled out the steering mounts on the axle to fit that steering that he gave me for free. Meaning the stock steering won’t fit back on it tightly. I was hoping to get this thing up and running today so would it be OK to put that cross over steering on it? This is just a farm truck, not gonna go rock crawling anytime soon.
Or is there any way to temp fix the stock steering on it?
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The castle nut just kept tightening it on, never got close to the torque spec
Disregard. The crossover steering doesn’t have all the components necessary. Plus some more research shows how terrible it is haha
You may need to buy a new tire rod end. Are you sure it was drilled? Sometimes they can be a bugger. If you think there is still a taper, try holding pressure on the TRE, pushing it into the knuckle
It was definitely drilled. I was talking with my dad about what we could do and mentioned that we could always just go to a junkyard and pull a knuckle. Then he reminded me that we have a spare dana 30 sitting 10 feet away from where i was working on the jeep.. Duh!
Pulled and swapped the knuckles
Stock on left, drilled on right
And with that the jeep was off jack stands! Still got some work on it but all pretty minor
Hoping to also find some stock flares for it
The new TJ also came with some pretty new 31" MTR's, which i swapped onto my jeep for my 10 year old BFG's. The BFG's are a bit bigger as you can tell in the photo, and the MTR's are quite a bit louder, but i feel a bit safer on the newer tires. Also MPG went up to about 16 on the highway and 13 in town, and it was pretty consistently 12 on the BFG's
His TJ is a 1997, so the 4.0 is slightly different than my 02', and i noticed this bracket on top of the alternator. The only use for brackets that intercept the alternator that i've heard of is for mounting a York compressor, but this doesn't seem to have a spot to mount a pulley. Anybody know what this could be for?
That is where the A/C compressor would reside, if the Jeep has A/C
Picked up this WW2 trailer for a steal (100$!)
Needs some work but hoping to make a cool over landing trailer out of it
Needs some work but hoping to make a cool over landing trailer out of it
It's officially cold here, so i finally did something i've been wanting for a while
Measure twice, cut once
Install was pretty simple. Tapped into some ignition on fuses. And just put the pads under my bartacts
The highest level gets HOT! Probably would be better under the stock covers and the bartacts, but works for me
One of my favorite comfort mods so far
Measure twice, cut once
Install was pretty simple. Tapped into some ignition on fuses. And just put the pads under my bartacts
The highest level gets HOT! Probably would be better under the stock covers and the bartacts, but works for me
One of my favorite comfort mods so far
It would be pretty easy to make a bracket for a York and then add the pully to your alternator to run a V-belt off it. If you're wanting to do this I've got a York sitting here I'd bought years ago that I'm not using.
https://www.cuoffroad.com/product-lines/onboardair-com-components/
CU Off-Road does make a bracket kit if you want but it isn't cheap. And adding onboard air isn't cheap either if you do it correctly.
It would look something like mine where the York is driven off the alternator pulley. Would just have to make a tensioner.
That is on my list of things I want to do also. Be nice to have heated seats.
So build a bracket onto that AC compressor bracket?
Would that interfere with the stock intake?
I've been wanting a York OBA for a while but haven't coughed up the price for the bracket yet. ORO was the one i was looking at, but CU off-road is cheaper
Yes, a L shaped bracket drilled for the 4 holes on the A/C bracket and then drill 4 holes on the vertical side to match the York and bolt it down. Then just have to figure out a tensioner bracket for a pulley to keep the belt tight.
I built a hinged one on my old CJ where the York itself moved to get the tension. I don't have any pictures of it unfortunately. Then the alternator pulley is all you have to buy. Well and then all the parts for the air system.