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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: rickstershemi]
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01/11/12 12:06 PM
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scratchnfotraction
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YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS JEEP WILL NOT BE SUBJECTED TO THE RIGGORS OF OFF-ROAD USE
Rickster 
Wow, Rick. Did somebody have a half price sale on oversized emoticons???
I haven't talked about how I plan to use my Jeep, but lots of other people have. 
Just kidd'n.....I know you plan to take it off-road.....most car shows I have been to are mostly on grass....lol
Rickster
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: rickstershemi]
#1061214
01/11/12 09:56 PM
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YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS JEEP WILL NOT BE SUBJECTED TO THE RIGGORS OF OFF-ROAD USE
Rickster
Wow, Rick. Did somebody have a half price sale on oversized emoticons???
I haven't talked about how I plan to use my Jeep, but lots of other people have.
Just kidd'n.....I know you plan to take it off-road.....most car shows I have been to are mostly on grass....lol
Rickster
Well Rick, its clear that you have experience with taking your Jeep off-road.... and there it is, PARKED ON GRASS!!! At least you parked it on the tall grass, for more visual effect!!! 
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: DusterDave]
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01/11/12 10:52 PM
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rickstershemi
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YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS JEEP WILL NOT BE SUBJECTED TO THE RIGGORS OF OFF-ROAD USE
Rickster
Wow, Rick. Did somebody have a half price sale on oversized emoticons???
I haven't talked about how I plan to use my Jeep, but lots of other people have.
Just kidd'n.....I know you plan to take it off-road.....most car shows I have been to are mostly on grass....lol
Rickster
Well Rick, its clear that you have experience with taking your Jeep off-road.... and there it is, PARKED ON GRASS!!! At least you parked it on the tall grass, for more visual effect!!!
Never even got the tires dirty....lol Actually just sold it $10K bought it in 01 new for $10.3K not bad 
Rickster
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: DusterDave]
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01/12/12 12:08 AM
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Yeah, I noticed the tire treads looked totally clean! It's as if you had it air lifted to that spot via helicopter!
You bought it at a great price. New Jeeps today go for more than double that amount.
It was the cheapest model you could buy at the time.....Sport 4-banger 5-speed w/zero options 
Had only 37k on the clock when I let it go 
Rickster
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: rickstershemi]
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01/16/12 12:50 AM
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Got some work done this weekend on the Jeep. The 727 4x4 trans has a tall and quite beefy cast-in mount on the shorty tailstock. The tallness of it was positioning the transfer case higher than I liked. So, I did some modifications to the skid plate, in an effort to lower the t-case, which in turn, improves both the front and rear driveshaft angles. I also made a pair of 1" thick skid plate spacers. The total result is a 2.25" drop at the trans mount.   Saturday, I visited Moparts member "scratchinfotraction". He sold me a smallblock power steering setup that I was needing for the 318. Actually, he was kind enough to offer it to me for free. It was a very nice gesture, especially since we had never met before, but I had to do the right thing. Mike's a nice guy, and a cool cat. He's got a lot of great stories, especially about his buddy named Ace! The PS setup was complete, except for a triangular bracket. It was a simple piece, so I made one out of 3/16" steel plate. I made some cardboard templates of the engine mount brackets. I've transferred them to a piece of 3/16" thick steel plate. Tomorrow night, I'll cut them out with the plasma cutter. My front shock hoops are on the way, should be here by mid week. I need to cut out the old shock mounts that you see in the pic. 
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: rickstershemi]
#1061219
01/16/12 11:04 PM
01/16/12 11:04 PM
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mopar346
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Dude you got skills, it is coming out nicely.
Careful, your character's showing!
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: mopar346]
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01/17/12 12:20 AM
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DusterDave
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Dude you got skills, it is coming out nicely.
Thanks. Just enough skills to be dangerous. I'm a little embarrassed at the nasty, long weld on that skid plate drop section. My welder wasn't feeding wire in a consistent manner, and was basically creating a sputtering weld bead. I opened the side of the welding machine, and saw that it was just about out of wire. Threw a new roll on, and I was back in business.
Once I get the engine mount brackets welded on, I need to turn my attention to building an anti-wrap ladder bar setup.
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: dusturbd340W5]
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01/20/12 10:38 PM
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they look good but I would have at least tacked them while they where bolted to the motor with it in the correct place.
You mean, something like this?
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: DusterDave]
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01/21/12 06:43 PM
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mopar346
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Looks like crap, don't know why you wasted your time. I will be down tomorrow to get that eye sore out of your way, wont even charge you to haul it off cause that's the kinda guy I am.  AND since you will know have no use for all that stroker stuff I can put it in the back of my truck to save you the trouble of hauling it off, you'll have to load it though, I cant be expected to do everything! OK, so I'm on crack. It looks great and I assume slide in and out of the mounts perfectly.
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: DusterDave]
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02/02/12 12:06 AM
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mopar346
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Is the ladder crossmember gonna hang any lower than the factory crossmember? Your welding blows me away.
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: scratchnfotraction]
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02/02/12 07:50 PM
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Thanks guys, but I'm really just a hack welder. I need to work on making consistently nice welds. I recently switched to .025 wire, and that has made a big improvement in the quality of my welds. Lots of practice has helped, too. scratchnfotraction, no, I bought the ladder bar brackets. I was going to make my own, but when I saw that Applied Racing (ART), which is close to where I work, sells them for less than $10.00 a piece, I didn't see any benefit to making them. And, just in case someone got the wrong idea, I bought the shock hoops, too. If I had access to a bender, I would have made them. I picked up the final bits of hardware to make my anti-axle-windup ladder bar. The round thing is a flex joint, also known as a Johnny Joint. It will be welded to the front of the ladder bar. 
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Re: MY JEEP BUILD THREAD
[Re: DusterDave]
#1061231
02/02/12 09:04 PM
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dusturbd340W5
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Thanks guys, but I'm really just a hack welder. I need to work on making consistently nice welds. I recently switched to .025 wire, and that has made a big improvement in the quality of my welds. Lots of practice has helped, too.
scratchnfotraction, no, I bought the ladder bar brackets. I was going to make my own, but when I saw that Applied Racing (ART), which is close to where I work, sells them for less than $10.00 a piece, I didn't see any benefit to making them.
And, just in case someone got the wrong idea, I bought the shock hoops, too. If I had access to a bender, I would have made them.
I picked up the final bits of hardware to make my anti-axle-windup ladder bar. The round thing is a flex joint, also known as a Johnny Joint. It will be welded to the front of the ladder bar.
JMO but .025 is to small for frame work and such I was told by a cert. welder when I started my cage not to use any thing smaller than .030 and he would have preferred .035.
70 duster full chassis super pro 416 CNC Indybrock heads 727 w/brake
best so far 1.212 60 6.219 in 1/8 at 110.88 9.768 at 137.81 1/4
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