This is an area where we can introduce ourselves, what we do to support our Jeep habbit and what that habbit is.
Mudrat
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This is an area where we can introduce ourselves, what we do to support our Jeep habbit and what that habbit is.
Mudrat
Mudrat, aka: Pat. I'm a technical engineer for Life Cycle Engineering. Right now I'm writing training plans for Navy communications systems.
Current projects are a frame up refurb of an 85 CJ, 258, Tremec T-5, Dana-300, turning D-44's on an SOA with 3" lift. Stuck some 35" BFG M/T under it all.
Mudrat
Littlejohn- aka: John- Sales Manager for direct marketing retailer (don't worry-we only recieve inbound calls)
Completing frame up rebuild of CJ-7 (Just odds and ends at this point.) Nothing original except engine and tranny, everything else (including frame) off other vehicles.
This is my first jeep, and I'm loving it. Looking for new places to use it off road, as well as other active jeepers to wheel with.
Near future plans: front locker, AMC 360, 4:1 kit for the Dana 300
80 J-10,AKA. Russ, Construction Inspector.
Currently rebuilding a J-10 (if I can just find the real metal instead of rust), seriously, restoring, live to fourwheel,fourwheel to live. :?
Matt Crescenzo aka "MC" designer machinist drinker and general dink of the internet. Trying to build a AMC business and finding support form people all over the world in every single possible line of work...
Real metal instead of rust would be found on a pre 80 jeep :t:
What year CJ Littlejohn?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlejohn
Since I've been doing that on an 85, I may have some insight to share :-)
I also just got another D-300 that I was looking at installing the 4:1 kit in. what (where) have you found for prices and reliablity?
Pat
Russ...PSL??? is that Pensacola??? Don't worry about MC, if he read your handle (80J10) he would know you started with real metal :wink: And, he's really a light weight - 2 beers at 3AM and he's ready to rack out. But he did rip my rear axle out in record time :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by 80 J-10
Pat :mrgreen:
Hi MC 8)
i'm rollen dean montoya. i help build the boeing c-17 globemasterIII aft
fuselage section on 2nd shift. we have a 1983 amc eagle and we go
anywhere the beast wants to go. all over the calico mountains on trails that all but jeep owners told us we couldn't go cause the eagle is just a
car :-| funny, we go just about everywhere our friend with a 96 cherokee
4x4 goes with no problems. when we aren't abusing the eagle we both are gunfighters at pioneertown in yucca valley ca and goldfield ghost town in apache junction az.we being samantha,dakota and myself. i am a member of the mojave muleskinner member #67 and a member of
gunfighters for hire.
later, rollen :lo1l:
Yo Red Dog - you DID get that axle fixed didn't you?? Tough to hunt down the bad guys with out some horse power :-|
Is Gail back to her normal self??
Mudrat
at the moment the eagles rear is broke down and in works. just haven't
had alot of time to play with it. have been working on the next door naighbors 1946 willy's jeep. its got a 225 v-6 buick.
gail shot me with the street howitzer on saturday if that answers your question #-o
LOL hope it wasn't personal :?Quote:
Originally Posted by rollen dean montoya
mudrat
jerry I am a self employed well driller water well and pumps. I have 74 cj5 258 I have done few thing to it disk brakes ,hub and locked up all the way around. power steering. need to build a spear tire carrier and something for a gas can this weekend we are going some place next weekend.http://209.204.184.164/gallery/sendb...%5FA0160%2EJPG
That would be Port Saint Lousey.......I mean Port Saint Lucie. I know MC is a little 111!!! ,but that is OK in my book 8) ,at least it still has the factory visor on the cab. :mrgreen:
no it wasn't. she was the sherriff!!!!!!!! never get an irish red head pissed
off or give her a shotgun #-o :shock: :!:
at least i know the shooter :mrgreen:
later, rollen :lo1l:
What year CJ Littlejohn?
Since I've been doing that on an 85, I may have some insight to share :-)
I also just got another D-300 that I was looking at installing the 4:1 kit in. what (where) have you found for prices and reliablity?
Pat[/quote]
The CJ is titled as an 85, but has an 82 frame, 84 axles, 90 tub, 83 front clip. Almost done, been wheeling it (Big Dog's) just having some electrical difficulties with gauges and lights (who needs them)
Still lookinng for wrecking yards in VA
John
In the AirForce work small arms instructor. Soon will start building a garage near the house looking at 25x40 or 30x50 depends on what happens between now and then. This will be home to my 88 gw and anything else I can drag/drive home and hide from the missus. Also like using black powder weapons myself only have a few though.
And where preciesly did you find an M203??? I have the civilian version of the others, but something about 40MM grenade launcher would upset the local Garndarmes :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by FSJnovice
Miudrat
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m203.htm :shock: :shock: :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mudrat
Oohhhhhh, pretty!! :lo1l: So Mud, you know anyone that would let a dumbarse civilian that likes to see things go boom play with one??!?!?
Jack
Don't have a 203, got lots of other stuff though...
Seriously? Want to go shootin' one day? I went shooting with a friend back in college out on his farm. What a blast, we shot all kinds of crap that he and his step father had collected over the years. He also taught me a lot about gun safety as well. The best was this BIG ARSE rifle (bullets were about 3.5" to 4" long) that had a ~70 round barrell clip on it and a spring on the back of the trigger. He also had some other ones that I questioned the legality of, but of course those were the REALLY fun ones. Needless to say my sholder was sore that night. :lo1l: Of course we easily blew over a hundred bucks in ammo, also!
Jack
It'll cost you some wrench time since I can't seem to get you hre anyother way :smile: I have 'enough stuff' to keep us occupied.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lifted79CJ7
Mudrat
went to a very small town in nevada and for the 4th of july i made
a concoction that was passed on to me from a great uncle who blew up
bunkers or anything else patton needed blown up. no traces of the victim
or the bunker but when i made it we buried it 30 ft under a dry lake
and after shooting lots of illegal fireworks i set off the stump remover!
big mushroom cloud and a 30ft deep by 100 ft wide hole was left :mrgreen: we also unloaded around 4000 rounds of 7.62x39 thru
a mac-90, sks, and a real ak-47 that my uncle gave me for my 10th
b-day :mrgreen: gotta love an automatic!
later,rollen :lo1l:
that is one of the perks of being an instructor you get to use all the weapons and you have profiency ammo for them all and it is legal and all within regs. those are my assigned weapons not personall, you want M203 buy the 37mm in shotgun news take a peek and see what I mean. besides light machineguns get boring that is why i enjoy black powder weapons myself. it is also fun building and repairing all these weapons also.
My friends, I believe that this is the reason god created women, to keep guys from blowing themselves up. Damn I wish I had been there for that nice mushroom cloud. A friend and I made a stick of stuff back in early high school called (I could be wrong) HMTD. That stuff blew a nice little crater in the ground and sent out a nice little shock wave through the neighborhood. Maybe we shouldn't have set it off RIGHT behind our neighborhood.... 8)
Jack
maybe you should have went alittle farther down the block :mrgreen:
i only used enough to level about 1/4 of a block 111!!! :shock:
gotta make it on the spot in the hole and don't screw it up or there
won't be enough of ya for ants to find :!: :shock:
later,rollen :lo1l:
Hi guys, I'm P700 aka Chris from Northwest Ohio. I'm currently building a 79 CJ5 from the gound up. I bought a custom frame from Matkins and painted it with three coats of POR-15.a deluxe fiberglass body,4 inch lift,polished alloy Eagle wheels (15X10)mounted with Mickey Thompson 33" Baja radials. It will be powered by a professionally built AMC 360 that will be pushing 300 HP with a T-176 4 speed and Dana 300 t-case. I'm thinking about putting Dana 44 axles under it and could use some guidance in that area. I used to do alot of mudding,but now there isn't anywhere close to go so this will be a show Jeep. The cool thing is I hope to build it pretty,but also able to kick ass if need be.
Hello P700!! Welcome to the delinquents ... er ... ah D-links :-)
Sounds like your doing the right things - but a T-176 behind that much HP may prove to be your weak link if you rod it at all. D44's will have a different bolt pattern than your stock axles - just did that swap myself. Stock is 5x5.5 and my 44's are 6x5.5. (mid-80s cheby).
The D-300 will hold up though :t:
Show truck :shock: Bummer :smile:
Mudrat
I knew I would catch grief for the show Jeep,but I have nowhere to play and it will be a nice eye catcher to cruise around with my wife in.
What tranny would you recommend? I know the T18 is the best,but that is like finding a 401,and the gearing in the T-150 isnt the best for highway use.
I'm going to try and use the D-44's out of an 89 Cherokee will this work,and I was wondering if you could get 5 on 5.5 axles for the D-44's.
Yeah, I always have to do things the hard way. That is why I'm in this room. :t:
Well, you have a concept "show Jeep",Quote:
Originally Posted by P700
Have you done a plan yet? (list what you want it to have)
Evaluate what you want with what works - sounds like you've started eng/tranny/t-case/axles - don't forget the wiring harnes and the added goodies to make it <gasp>LOOK good <sigh> R U sure you want a gear box over a slush box tranny? Lot'sa automatics out there that fit the AMC bolt pattern . . .
Check the "for sale" board here and other Jeep Boards for parts. If you can help a fellow Jeeper off-load some inventory that's better than buying from corporate America in my opinion.
MC or Fuzz will have the answer to the Cherokee axel and somebody has a T-18 they aren't using I'm sure...
Pat
Hello all. I am iqsr2 aka Stan I am from Texas. I am a fire fighter and I have started house painting again on the side (due to the waggy addiction). I have a 83 waggy bone stock i have not done anything to it yet. yet being the magic word. I plan to drive it on the street with some weekend wheeling, so there will be some repairing upgraiding and modification going on. :t:
Where away IQSR? Originated in Bay City and raised in SE Houston (Friendswood)!!! I've got friends and family all over the state!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by iqsr2
Been in a couple shipboard (2 C and 1 class B-fuel) and one trailer fire (A) (NEVER AGAIN!!)
Welcome to the board!
Mudrat
Well I thought I had it all planned out,but then I keep running acrossed better parts and better ideas. I have kicked around the idea of an automatic, and actually have a couple, but to me it ain't a Jeep if you ain't shiftin' it. :?
I have a pallet rack in my barn and one whole shelf is dang near a whole Jeep in pieces(all new except for a scavenged grill). I still need a few things like a wiring harness,seats,and alot of time.
I have alot of used parts I will be getting rid of and I will be parting out the 89 Grand Cherokee. I'm also going to pick up a J10 this weekend that I will be parting out. So if you need anything let me know.
Meanwhile, I will look for a T-18 if you think the T-176 won't hold up.
Thanks for all your help.
If your going to rod it at all the 176 won't hold up long. Long enough to find an 18 but don't wait to put it together. and Yeah, I know just how finding "something better" make the program last longer ;-)
Mudrat
Everyone knows more about bullets than me :smile:
well, if ya come out her myself and cheapjeep can educate ya on the
fine art of large calibre weponry :mrgreen: but mudrat is alittle closer
so go see him :t: :mrgreen:
later, rollen :lo1l:
Been doing it a long time - but you know more about machining than I do so we'll call it square.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepsr4ever
Mud
:mrgreen:
WaZZZZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUPPPPPP!
Electrician by trade; inside & outside & high line; Currently I work @ a maxium security prision 111!!! ; Jeep nut by birth. :shock: :t: :mrgreen:
See sig line.
Right now I'm in the middle of restoring my CJ8, ground up, the frame along w/the 3 1/2" lift was finished yesterday & this week I'm gonna finish the install of the "360"; TF-999; D-300 & runn 33's for now. :mrgreen: .
Gonna have one piece AMC-20 axles for now.
Gonna add a 1" BL. when I install the body.
Gonna Herc or bedline (roll) the interior.
Has a soft top, looking for a 1/2 hard top, I'm gonna steel my wife's hard doors off her 86'-7. :mrgreen:
Still can't figure out what color to paint it?
I guess that's enough for now,
RollBar
P.S. What's a D-link anyway. lol :?
Welcome Goose! (10/7/04) Your turn to tell us how you like to get in trouble :shock:
Mudrat
Ok here Goes, I'm Ken and I'm a Jeep-aholic :smile: also a chronic wise guy, I'm one of those corporate burnouts from colorado, System programmer for the aerospace and casino industries.One day hit bottom took my retirement and bought an over the road truck spent five years on the road seeing the country as a paid tourist with my wife. now living as a mild mannered Tube mill Tech In rural nebraska (You have seen Valley center pivot irrigation systems out in the field? I make the pipe from sheet steel)
I have wasted a signifigant part of my life rebuilding old Jeeps about 2 dozen at this point.. currently I have a 77 CJ-5 w/304 an 84 J-10 w 360 and a 72 CJ w/258.
as well as having a small street rod addiction and old motorcycle restoration problem.
I also do a bit of high power rifle shooting and Cowboy action shooting.
And I owe it all to a VERY understanding wife.