Gazzo's Down-under CJ thread
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- God's Country
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- AR
Looks great! Made me think of when I painted my CJ7 back in the mid 90's. I changed the color from gold to beige, and took the hinges off and painted under them with spray cans of beige from paintscratch.com, and then the money fell through and I ended up driving around for a year with a gold Jeep with primer black front cap with tan splotches around all the door and window hinges where I'd painted under them and then reinstalled so everything would be covered and the outside would be painted after they were in place. Took a lot of grief from the friends when the jeep looked like that.
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- Fremantle
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- WA
That's going to be the story on my Overlander shortly. I need to preserve the tub and arrest as much of those spots as I can. It's just too nice to let rot and it will be back to the beach house soon for another season of sun n fun etc.
On the truck I went shopping on the line last night, $1300 worth of weather seals ( for the 7 and 10), gauges, body mounts (for the 8), Keyparts right side floor for the 8, so on. Now I sit and wait for BS to arrive. Exciting but disappointing at the same time since I know that some of these parts, although shiney and new, won't come close to the quality of the original part. Let's wait and see. Fingers crossed.
On the truck I went shopping on the line last night, $1300 worth of weather seals ( for the 7 and 10), gauges, body mounts (for the 8), Keyparts right side floor for the 8, so on. Now I sit and wait for BS to arrive. Exciting but disappointing at the same time since I know that some of these parts, although shiney and new, won't come close to the quality of the original part. Let's wait and see. Fingers crossed.
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- Fremantle
- State
- WA
- City
- Fremantle
- State
- WA
Couldn't resist hanging a guard yesterday but too busy axle swapping to do more on the truck. I have a bunch of stuff arriving next week before I can continue 
Incoming is: oil gauge, ventilation ducts, tub mounts, seals etc
Yesterday was spent swapping a axles between the 7 and 8. 4.10 in the 7 and 3.54 in the 8. Well now it's the other way around. Should be better for the sand and dunes in the OL with the shorter ratios. Better on the open road and around town in the 7 with the taller ratios.
forklift was massive help but it still took nearly all day.
Found this little surprise when I pulled the axle out of the seven
bloody thing was completely unscrewed. Two of the remaining 3 were loose too, Crikey!
Incoming is: oil gauge, ventilation ducts, tub mounts, seals etc
Yesterday was spent swapping a axles between the 7 and 8. 4.10 in the 7 and 3.54 in the 8. Well now it's the other way around. Should be better for the sand and dunes in the OL with the shorter ratios. Better on the open road and around town in the 7 with the taller ratios.
Found this little surprise when I pulled the axle out of the seven
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Cpittman428
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- City
- Fort Collins
- State
- CO
I know the feeling! Last week I was under my Scrambler and noticed I had a bolt working its way out on my drivers side motor mount... Tightened it and went to check the other 2 bolts on that mount AND THEY WERE GONE!!!
Cpittman428
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- Fort Collins
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- CO
- City
- Fremantle
- State
- WA
Ok so I'm going to look at 3 x CJ10s maybe this weekend. The guy has a running registered one, 258/T5, and two others, one pulled apart mostly and one with a little damage to the right side. It was being towed and got loose and skidded along an embankment. Hopefully there might be some parts for me but at the least I might just get a tub and bits to build the CJ8 "truck"
Oops forgot to mention today scored 4 x Cooper ST on mags 33/12.5 all very good tread. More bacon. They should help on the highway.
Oops forgot to mention today scored 4 x Cooper ST on mags 33/12.5 all very good tread. More bacon. They should help on the highway.
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- Fremantle
- State
- WA
Some China good, some China bad
Rant on:
There, I said it. As I sat here eating my leftover Chinese tucker from my family's little going away party for the guys going back to Anchorage (without me on both counts) I thought to myself "How can those Celestials (I've been watching Deadwood, not being derogatory or the R word, I like most things Chinese especially the people and food) be so good at making some things and SOOOO unbelievably bad at making others? (You'll notice I'm using my confuser to write this post rather than my telling-bone)
Exhibit A: my left over dinner, just the right balance of beef, chili, onion, vegetables and other tasty stuff
Exhibit B: my new today speedo instrument cluster (cluster F if you ask me) imposter versus ridgy-didge:
I mean, come on!! How hard can it be? The printing is a disgrace, crooked, just wrong on every count. The apertures for the two gauges are way too small, looks stupid. There is no way this is going into my CJ7 (not for the truck, thankfully those gauges work).
I picked what I thought was "both" vent ducts for under the dash. The images posted up on Morris's website look like one is the small flatish one taking air up to the demister vents and the other looks larger and rounder, presumably for taking air down from the cowl inlet to the heater box. Well NOOOOO they turn out to be both similar, for the demister duct. There is no "third" duct listed. At least we have one now for the CJ8.
Oil gauge? not sure yet
Tacho? Feels too light and the needle doesn't stop on ZERO. Can't wait to see where that sets when I'm truckin down the highway.
Just that little bit better attention to detail is all I ask.
Rant off:
On a lighter note, the wheels and tyres (tires) I pick up tomorrow are these:
not sure on the offset so if they don't work out I'll get the rubber off, polish up the rims and flip them. They certainly look like pretty fine wheels.
But the real exciting thing I alluded to earlier is that I'm going to check out 3 x 10s in one place. Two of them were advertised a coupe of years ago and then just disappeared. Well they're back. I've discussed it all with the owner and we'll see what we can do. As I see it there are at least 4 pointy doors, 2 intact CJ driver's seats (needed), original front indicators, axles, springs, door trims etc etc etc. My buddy MOTAS on here might be interested in some sort of deal, I know he's looking for a roof.
Anyway that's your lot for now, going to sit with "er indoors" for a bit and have another beer.
Getting excted about bacon weaving some meat this weekend. Maybe a big beef fillet I have or some of that sausage meat as seen in the OT: bacon thread. NOT the chicken though, wow that has caused quite a stir around these parts.
Oh yeah, got some of these too from the beer gettin' place for obvious reasons:
Rant on:
There, I said it. As I sat here eating my leftover Chinese tucker from my family's little going away party for the guys going back to Anchorage (without me on both counts) I thought to myself "How can those Celestials (I've been watching Deadwood, not being derogatory or the R word, I like most things Chinese especially the people and food) be so good at making some things and SOOOO unbelievably bad at making others? (You'll notice I'm using my confuser to write this post rather than my telling-bone)
Exhibit A: my left over dinner, just the right balance of beef, chili, onion, vegetables and other tasty stuff
Exhibit B: my new today speedo instrument cluster (cluster F if you ask me) imposter versus ridgy-didge:
I mean, come on!! How hard can it be? The printing is a disgrace, crooked, just wrong on every count. The apertures for the two gauges are way too small, looks stupid. There is no way this is going into my CJ7 (not for the truck, thankfully those gauges work).
I picked what I thought was "both" vent ducts for under the dash. The images posted up on Morris's website look like one is the small flatish one taking air up to the demister vents and the other looks larger and rounder, presumably for taking air down from the cowl inlet to the heater box. Well NOOOOO they turn out to be both similar, for the demister duct. There is no "third" duct listed. At least we have one now for the CJ8.
Oil gauge? not sure yet
Tacho? Feels too light and the needle doesn't stop on ZERO. Can't wait to see where that sets when I'm truckin down the highway.
Just that little bit better attention to detail is all I ask.
Rant off:
On a lighter note, the wheels and tyres (tires) I pick up tomorrow are these:
not sure on the offset so if they don't work out I'll get the rubber off, polish up the rims and flip them. They certainly look like pretty fine wheels.But the real exciting thing I alluded to earlier is that I'm going to check out 3 x 10s in one place. Two of them were advertised a coupe of years ago and then just disappeared. Well they're back. I've discussed it all with the owner and we'll see what we can do. As I see it there are at least 4 pointy doors, 2 intact CJ driver's seats (needed), original front indicators, axles, springs, door trims etc etc etc. My buddy MOTAS on here might be interested in some sort of deal, I know he's looking for a roof.
Anyway that's your lot for now, going to sit with "er indoors" for a bit and have another beer.
Getting excted about bacon weaving some meat this weekend. Maybe a big beef fillet I have or some of that sausage meat as seen in the OT: bacon thread. NOT the chicken though, wow that has caused quite a stir around these parts.
Oh yeah, got some of these too from the beer gettin' place for obvious reasons:
- City
- Landing
- State
- NJ
Nice set for a 6 lug FSJ ?? 
Don't touch any aftermarket of any Kind. Not only they look bad but the gauges will stop working in under 500 miles or so. That's been my experience on two I installed anyway. In 2014.
Don't touch any aftermarket of any Kind. Not only they look bad but the gauges will stop working in under 500 miles or so. That's been my experience on two I installed anyway. In 2014.
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- Dillsboro
- State
- IN
What other room "Could " they give you. 
Yep. Had been on a Nissan, put my googles on and saw the FSJ, CJ10 with its j10 hardware and lots of others share the same pattern
Hey you'll love this, at the mine I was just at they assigned me this donga (camp room)
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- Fremantle
- State
- WA
Got the truck back from the exhaust guy today. He called me over to ask about suspension travel etc. good thing too cause it would have been as big a cluster as my speedo. Ended up with a real nice 2 1/2" system which I'll hear tomorrow all going well. I particularly like how they dealt with the section from the left bank across to the right where they connect. 
I might take some more pics tomorrow. It's really well done and deserves to be shared for future reference. When I goggled images of "wagoneer exhaust routing" I wasn't impressed with most of what I saw there.
Also picked up the footwear. Wow they's big compared with 31s
Set up for a visual they look pretty good for size
THEY WILL BE BLACK
Beer time
I might take some more pics tomorrow. It's really well done and deserves to be shared for future reference. When I goggled images of "wagoneer exhaust routing" I wasn't impressed with most of what I saw there.Also picked up the footwear. Wow they's big compared with 31s
Set up for a visual they look pretty good for size
THEY WILL BE BLACK
Beer time
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- Fremantle
- State
- WA
My estimates yesterday on how high the fender will be off the tyre couldn't have been more wrong. Today I went ahead and offered the tub to the chassis and got a bit carried away
Man do I have clearance!! This is gunna be one tall SOB. The springs that came out of the Wagoneer are Ranchos and are curvier than that Bouncy Knowles chick. The truck's probably going to bounce all over the place like she does too
The top of the front clip is about level with my pits. Gotta climb on the front bar to fiddle with the engine. Ho hum.
Anyways the big problem I found I have now with these tyres is how am I going to find flares to cover them? See we can't drive around with anything protruding past the flares like some of you guys can.
It will be a mission to find or adapt an existing 5" flare to do the job. Any ideas welcome at this point.
Man do I have clearance!! This is gunna be one tall SOB. The springs that came out of the Wagoneer are Ranchos and are curvier than that Bouncy Knowles chick. The truck's probably going to bounce all over the place like she does too
The top of the front clip is about level with my pits. Gotta climb on the front bar to fiddle with the engine. Ho hum.
Anyways the big problem I found I have now with these tyres is how am I going to find flares to cover them? See we can't drive around with anything protruding past the flares like some of you guys can.
It will be a mission to find or adapt an existing 5" flare to do the job. Any ideas welcome at this point.