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1983 Restore in Ga 4bt cummins goin in now

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The transmission is supported and I rolled it off the lift to begin hooking everything up. I am going to need to cut up the grill a bit to get the intercooler in front of the radiator.

Dose anyone have any idea how much space is inbetween fender and the grill just behind where the fenders bolt to the grill????

I have run myself ragged trying to get it running by friday but I am just not going to make it, Maybe by next friday?????????


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Yes,,, you'll find that runnning yourself ragged is what Jeeps are all about.

I have been runnning myself ragged trying to get mine running by Oct of 2009. Didn't make that deadline,

Then there was may of 2010,,,missed it.

Then there was last year when I actually thought I could make it,,,, didn't happen.

Now we are hoping to have a Jeep to drive to safety when the Zombie apocalypse hits later this year.

Might have to hike out!

Just keep picking at it, it will happen eventually.

One word of caution,,, dont' let a deadline be an excuse to compromise on your work. Really no point in rushing a build only to have something fail in the middle of the first trail. It has got to be right when you're done.

Randy
 
I could not get the bread truck intercooler to fit so I had to order a smaller intercooler and aluminum 65 mustang radiator, that will put my water outlets on the pass side.
 
I drove it today in and out of the shop. SON It has got some tourque off idel. I dont have any intercooler piping hooked up or a radiator hooked up yet so I cant wait to get it all hooked up and get the air worked out of the injectors. BBBIIIIGGGGGGGG SMILES>>>>>
 
I took a video with my cell but its kinda not clear.

I will try again with a good video camera tommorow.
 
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Okay, I call BS! No one builds that well that fast. I think what we're witnessing here is a Jeep being parted out... You started with a diesel CJ and took it apart didn't you? Then fed us the pics in reverse order.

Seriously, you're killing me! This build is just badass. And I love that everyday there's HUGE progress. Nice work!
 
No BS.

I just own my own shop and with times slow like they are I have plenty of time during the day to work on it. Plus this past week While I have been putting in the cummins I have been spending every free min and some times after 5 working on it.

The economy is not getting any better but folks have to have a car to get back and forth to work and in my county we have to pass emmisions so converters are good to keep the lights on and the bills paid. One thing is for sure its not as good as it was before THREE AND A HALF years ago.. My books will attest to that.
 
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Completely appreciate your post, but please oh please leave politics off this forum. It's one of the only places you can "be" these days without hearing about all that mess.

Can't wait to see you out driving this beast :cheers:
 
Oh!!!! that wasnt a political statement. And I will just leave it at that.



I got my exhaust ran yesterday and i am still waitin on the rad and intercooler.

I am about ready to hook up the old rad and pipe it without an intercooler just so i can strech it out and see what its gona do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Didnt come today....... I did pipe the charge air into the intake and backed it out of the shop and ran through the gears in the parking lot.

It went through three gears in about thirty yards and i ran out of room.
 
They came in today and i got the lower intercooler mounts made and welded the radiator to the intercooler. I got the rad hoses ran and intercooler piped in. workin on gettin the fan mounted in the mornin. I did drive it home and talk about pullin power, Cant wait to string it out in 5th gear.

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The transfer case is singing when i let off of it at anything above fifty so I guess its gona have to came back out.

I guess the clocking changed where the fluid rides on the gears, It made this same noise when it was in the stock position and it would get low on fluid because it leaked at the output shaft. I can knock the tcase out of gear to netrual when it dose this and it will quit making noise so I know its the tcase. It kinda sounds like syncros but there are not syncros in the tcase are there??
 
I have put the winch on the front even though I have not rounded up a side support braket. Found plenty of new ones for a hundrend bucks but I have been holding out for a cheaper used piece but had no luck yet

How are you guys mounting these winches? centered the spool like i have this one or centering the whole unit to the grill and letting the fairled set off center to thje right??


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I also got the tcase from randy and got it installed and the sticks bent up. Alls good randy.





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Saw this sweet waggy come into my shop fri

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Started on a rear bumper

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Sometime D300's will whine when they have or have had the wrong oil installed. A guy gave me one because it whined. It was filled with ATF!

Rule on gearboxes: if it has gears then gear oil, if it has a chain then ATF.

You might need to fill a little more with the horizontal clocking to get sufficient oil in the bearings.

Your winch mount looks fine,,, I would knock the corners off it, and it does need some side supports. You centered it correctly.

Randy
 
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Great news this week... A buddy of mine who owns a body shop had been watching me put this together and has ridden in it a few times. And he has decided he has to have one. A cummins that is. SO he is going to get a early bronco and all the related parts to install it and I am going to preform the install and all it intails in exchange for his guys taking my tub off doing what little body work is needed and shooting some undetermined awsome color combo.

Another buddy has a line x shop and we are gona do inside and underside as well while its apart.

So stay tuned this should turn into a real eye catcher here pretty soon.
 
reg 90 weight gear oil is what i put in this one from randy, thats what was in the old one I took out as well.


Yea the corners will come off, Its all just temp mounted so I can still remove it to to round corners and smooth it all up. I still have to find the side support before I go to much farther.
 
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