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One Ton Waggy build

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#1 ·
Figured I might as well do a build page on it. Here goes

The what?? A 68' waggy. $150 with a deal with a buddy. (Axels for sale!) Over all good shape for the year, and done mostly right. Like the rust that started on the floor so they put down good sheet metal down on the whole floor pan back seat to firewall... but they did some as another memeber called it booty-fab on some of the other places.

The goal with this is to pull the stock axels (done), motor (350 Buick), Trans and replace them with a d60 (will get locker), 14b (is welded), and 455 Pontiac (with a mild cam). Get it up on like about 38's or so and wheel/drive this thing a bit. on with the pics and progress..


On the truck (my dad is a mechanic and wrecker service) just getting home






Hauling some scrap that we dug out to get to the motor on the back of the truck that had the heads we needed. And off goes the rest of the block (the one on the very back)



While at the yard we found some potential springs, which we had removed and picked up a couple days later.





Stock handles (most of them are gone...) and some more yard scrounging found some replacements that I like better anyway...

Stock



Yard goodies





The Dana 60 that will end up under the jeep




The 14b and d44 that were under my blazer/truggie are going under for now

Sitting side by side getting ready for axel swapping






In the prep time we got the heads back and on the motor sprayed a lil paint on there for looks and almost ready to drop in.












Well onto the first real wrenching on the jeep itself. After swapping front axels on dad’s dd/plow truck for ubolts (he had another and new bolts for it) we swapped a pair of 10bolts under the blazer so we could have the 14 and 44 for the jeep. We got to work in the heep


After the 14 was under the heep




The next session got interrupted by the need to fix some roofing. We got 5 sheets of new OSB put up.




Now back to work...


Got the front out and put it out by the rear we took out a few days before.





Then got to putting in the springs from the yard as you can see the driver’s spring was wasted and the pass didn’t look much better. The springs were taller too (made me happy)













Steering box and mount bracket look about as good as the steering linkage off the old axel did so there will be some fixing there. And the fronts are longer than the old ones so we will be moving the shackle mount a bit to unbind the springs. the rear we are going to remake the hangers altogether and move (the springs need to come together a bit. witch we guess will raise the back about 5 or so inches. and we will do what we have to make the front match.

I think we have figured out what we are going to do for fuel too. A buddy has a plastic tank in a j10 that we will mount into he back. The bottom will be higher than the frame rails and will stick trough the floor in the back, we will box it in and build a sub-floor with storage bins around the tank so that when the back seat is folded it will be flat from the back of the front seat to the tailgate. (Pics for visualizing later)

So in capping for now. Some before and after,


Before




After



Before



After


And one just after doing the front


And the same shot with a jack under the back to see about what it will be with the back done





Fenders will be trimmed to fit and tires put on later


I will update as progress is made... let me know what you guys think!
 
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#34 · (Edited)
Looks like your Style! Fred Flintstone! lol real nice from G.Piper! Yabba Dabba Dooo!
At least the only hole is the one intended for working on it.




you have a descent welder. learn how to use it. take the time to practice some fab work and welding. Those rear shackles look scary to me. Do you plan to run it down the road at all?


The welder is my dads, as are a good share of the welds. I recently ruined the power to my pole barn and am going to upgrade to 220 when I fix it and I will get the welder over to the house and get some practice in for sure. I could not before as I only had 110. and that will change in a month or two.

As far as driving it, bet your butt!! What looks so scary about them?? They are strong enough, he has built his own wreckers for several years now and they don’t fall apart they rust apart. So I trust the work and the fab skills I have helping me.
 
#39 ·
we will be working on it this weekend getting the drive train mocked up (motor mounts and such) will post pics and such after/during the weekend


as for lemans there, may be new member here but not to me. response not that off the wall

so what "rig" are you gonna wheel?? the gp?? i could hook ya up with parts for that too...

and i would believe.. there is a bitch in there for sure... but i aint skeered..
















much
 
#53 ·
well i got a minor addition for the jeep.. they are not that great of shape ( read basicly spares) but i will get to grooving them a bit and make them work for some minor wheeling and flex testing and such for clearances. they look huge sitting beside the jeep and i cant wait to see what it looks like sitting on them.. they are 38 inch swampers. the ones on the jeep are about a 31 inch rollers.. a couple pics.. and i will get more after i get them under the jeep












 
#63 ·
Nope never bought he has built them all! 5 in total I think. And when he said he was.willing to supply the 455 for the jeep I said sold. Esp as this is the motor out of his brown street car


And rick I only did that with the one that wouldn't go otherwise. With a more abel rig I wont have to be that hard on it.

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#65 ·
I will get back to working on it soon. Don't know how fast progress will be as there is a fair bit of fab that needs to be done. Motor mounts, fuel tank, wiring, d60 steering, shocks , brakes, interior, driveshafts ect. Ect.


And the money to do it. With the car I had everything but this last little bit I need to do now ( tune! So the dank thing will last.)


And for those that don't know I have been working on this. It should run high 12's this year.







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