IT LIVES!!!

Mudrat

After FINALLY getting a chance to spend some time with MY Jeep for a change, the Heart of the Beast kicked over today - several times :wink:

Damn I love it when a plan finally comes together!!! Straight pipes, no muffler, the Heart throbbed and I vibrated :t: Had a woody and damn near had a religious experiance :!:

When I can finally drive it out of the shop, I may have a cardiac!! =D>

jeepsr4ever

Ok, Pat you did install the plunger then spring then nut on your adaptor right? I hope they didnt leave out a block plug.

Mudrat

Yupper - got a plunger a red spring and after looking around for 10 minutes, I found the nut and washer that came flying off :oops: Didn't think there was going to be THAT much pressure on it :roll:

I've got wire continuity from the sensor to the gauge, so I'll swing by and pick up a mechanical gauge tomorrow. :smile:

Mudrat

Bump for Dusty :? OBTW plummed in a mechanical guage and I get 60 psi at cold idle :t:

jeepsr4ever

:!:

donwag

Speaking of the spring, plunger and cap. My engine builder told me to safety wire the cap. I said "what, no way, major overkill." Seems most of the racers around here do safety wire the cap and the dyno guy said one has come off on a dyno pull and what a mess that was.

Mudrat

Well I do have teh tools and jig for that, but not the wire so I guess I'll wait until I need to :mrgreen:

donwag

May be a good product idea for MC. Kit with drilled cap and safety wire.

Dusty

youd think you would have kept me a little better informed :idea: Geesh. Awesome so you commuting it back and forth to work yet. 8)

Mudrat

Dusty wrote
youd think you would have kept me a little better informed :idea: Geesh.

Awesome so you commuting it back and forth to work yet. 8)

Not yet - no exhaust so it won't pass VA inspection :smile: But DAMN that thing sounds GOOD!!!

Got caught up in getting the Man-Child his first set of wheels. We looked at XJ's and ZJ's, but all of them had more problems than the 99 Blazer 4x4 we wound up with (V-6). Just fix the PS pump and windshield wiper fluid tank and he's good to go. When I get feeling better I'll sort out the 2:1 catylitic converter and get the rest of the exhaust in get it inpected then there will be hell to pay on the roads - until that T-5 gives up :shock: then it'll be a tranny swap.

Of course Lifted79 says he has a 727 that needs some repair and I've been waiting 6 months for his pics and answer ... 🙁:

If anybody out there has one ready to go give me a PM!!! :t:

a440plus6

:lo1l: :razz: :lo1l:

Mudrat

OK, here we go ...

How it started ... 1985 CJ-7,
White with an anemic 258 that got rebuilt .030 over, cast pistons, decked and trued the block and head. Ported and polished the head , installed new valves, stuck on a Clifford intake and headers with a Webber 38DGES carb. It ran but never left the shop. Still hasn't - it's sitting on the engine stand #-o

I sandblasted the chassis inside and out, POR-15'd it, all rust was cut out of the body (as was the figberglassed cardboard holding the driver in the Jeep :shock: ) and replaced with 16ga Galvalume. Sandblasted the under body before I fixed all the floorboards,

Bed During

Bed Afterand after hurculiner (which SUCKS)

Welded up all the soft top holes, replaced the windshield frame, rocker panels, etc ... junked the seats and bought some APC racing jobbies and installed some RCI 4-Point street belts and am working on the roll cage ... :t:

OH yeah ... While I had the body off I sent it down to the paint shop, now the White CJ is Victory red.

Rebuilt the stock axles (30/20) installed Superior one-piece axle shafts and disc brakes in back. Still got'm never used, 3.73 gears.

Got a pair of D-44's that I rebuilt, went spring over with 2.5" spring lift, spring reverse up front (and had to outboard them as well) installed a Hi-Steer, and for shits-n-grins stuck in disc brakes, Detroit lockers and 4.56's :t:

Large Jeep pic

OK, the engine ....(big pics so click if you want to see what sad shape this thing started as, click the links ... :oops:

UGLY-1
UGLY-2

After ...
Cleaning, boiling, drilling the mains,
boring .030, (cast pistons)
Truing the deck .002
Truing the heads .005
new seals, springs ... new valves Lapped with 3 angles
minor port cleaning (flashing mainly)
cross drilled and turned the crank .010 with a mirror polish
Summit K8600 Cam
Edlebrock Performer intake
Edlebrock 1407 Carb with off road needle set
Carter fuel pump
Bulltear nickle timing cover and oil pump
Bulltear underdrive pullies
Regular gas :-|
2-5/8 guages, 3"tach (65# oil pressure @1000 RPM, warm)
AGR Super II pump and gear box to help with the 35x12.5 MT/R's

The angle of the views should be oblivious :wink:

SHORT MOVIE about 1000 RPM thru the cat, no muffler ... yet

To monitor what's happening ...

And if the engine and wheels get me in - this will get me out - 12,000# with a 19,000# synthetic line :t: The fairlead just makes it go faster :wink:

What I've been working on today is having the Man-Child help with his new ride - 1999 Blazer FI 6-cyl.

HELP!!! I need a for REAL shop manual (Haynes and Chiltons are shit!!)
Oh, and this is what the Green Jeep started out as ... :!:

fuzz401

thats a very smooth idle :-|

jeepsr4ever

Pat now that is how you save a AMC V8!!!

Mudrat

Thanks, it's literaly taken YEARS to get here between deployments and 'other projects' like the Green Jeep, the house, retiring and finding a job, changing my mind on what I wanted (engine, axles, engine, tranny, ENGINE etc...) :oops:

And Fuzz, I still haven't timed it yet!!! That's the initial GUESS I put in there :shock: And not sure I like where the vacuum port comes out right over the PS belt :-| Any better Ideas where I can get arc to time the beast??

And about that shop manual ... I really do need help, I haven't found a place yet that has one :smile: 1999 Chevy Blazer. Thanks

Dusty

:t: Whoo hoo now shes hummin

ROBERT11

That is quite a project you got there, but with all that stuff in front of the shop how are you going to get the Jeep out? :-|

ROBERT11

What is the problem with the Blazer? Did it shrink in the wash?

fuzz401

just cap that port and set it to total timing :?

Mudrat

ROBERT11 wrote
That is quite a project you got there, but with all that stuff in front of the shop how are you going to get the Jeep out? :-|

Have you come over HERE for a change :lo1l:

The small stuff is easy and the two vehicels work, I'll just move'm :wink:
The 4.2 on the stand will go in front of the side door by the compressor, stick the ramps up there and drive that puppy out :wink: The cooler??? We'll need to empty it first :razz: