That is one bad a$$ truck! Gotta love those FSJ's!
That is one bad a$$ truck! Gotta love those FSJ's!
~Darric
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We had a discussion about this rig on www.IFSJA.org a while back. We believe the frame was lengthened, but we don't know how much. The guy that built it is Tim Melton, but we never could get a hold of him, so the details of the build up are a mystery.
tim also built a hardtop convertible J truck
Jake
84 Grand Wag
Performer intake w/ Holley 600
D300 tcase
soon to be SOA w/ Chebby axles
'65 J200 401
Sweet! We were waitin' for something like that!Originally Posted by Elliott
~Darric
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Thanks Elliott!!! You da man! =D>
One of those in a Dualie configuration is my thoughts. Then again I thought I would have the first ever, but I've already been beaten to it it seems.
Very nice indeed =D>
Looking closely at the rear wheel wells it looks to be a longbed with the frame lengthened "behind" the rear wheels. The front of the bed sure is short as well as behind them looks longer than normal to me. I'de be willing to bet the wheel base is a long bed length.
The link I posted earlier, IIRC, has a pic of the frame lengthening and it was done under the cab. The cab actually has six mounting points.
http://www.froadin.com/tim_melton.html
"Tim started with a 1964 J 300 and a 1985 Grand Wagoneer. The J 300 box is shortened 24", and the frame is lengthened and boxed in 8" behind the rear spring mount..16" of the rear cab is all that remains of the J300 cab"
I've got a pic of the frame and will post it when I find it.
*** Actually the frame stretch pic I have is from another project supercab:
I think you could use a narrower cab and chassis rear D70 that would fit inside the wheel wells and then cut the fender flare off and replace it with a modified Thriftside fender and it would be one sharp dually. You might have to move the inside of the wheel well in an inch or two depending on what tires are fit, but it looked to me like you could get by with out doing that. The springs would have to be inboarded, but using the narrower axle would allow you to minimize the width of the thriftside flare actually needed. The following pic is of a custom flare fit to bed using the wider dually axle and I think you could get by with only 1/2 that much extension using the CC axle.
Inboard spring hanger and CC wheel to frame clearance:
http://www.fullsizejeeps.com/jeeps/f...ringHanger.jpg
http://www.fullsizejeeps.com/jeeps/f...eClearance.jpg
'65 J200 401
I must find those pics taken at our 1994 Jeep Jamboree. You may scoff at the "above" picture but rest assured, these things HAVE been built.
Crew cab units were built in Australia for the various Electricity Commissions and I think about 200 of these were built and sold. A fairly rare bird now as most were junked after 200k of hard work.
I will find a picture soon as to prove the statement...
Are you talking crew cab trucks? Or crew cab wagon/truck conversions?
Here's a few pics I've collected:
'65 J200 401
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