:woot: just came in from the garage with Adam, I DROVE it tonight. At first I thought I had a really bad rod knock, because after I drove it something started hammering in the lower end once it was warm, turned out to be coincidence it looks like, turned out it was the dust shield got bent somehow and it sounded just like a rod banging away. Took the dust shield off and she purrrrrrs. It is at least 2/3 quieter then my other motor, I am thinking the other one must have had a wild cam in it or something. I let it get to operating temp and it held about 20psi at Idle, 40 off idle. Changing the oil on Friday, and really banging out the body work to maybe paint before the Willy's reunion!
Hmmm... looking decent, put it to a test todayin a stop and go cruise... shooting steam like crazy out the overflow, but seems the hottest it got was 240.... I need to put a better gauge on it.
Here are pics of the new motor installed, It needs another air cleaner, coolant overflow, and I think a new radiator cap. It was running 220 according to the cheap harbor freight temp gauge. I bought factory gauges for it at a swap meet last weekend (all but volts) and need to install them.
I think installing the heater will bring it down more too.
More pics...
Been slowing on it even though the weather is better, had to work on the house a little (landscaping and such)
looking good!!! :rock:
did you want the factory air cleaner for that?? i forgot all about it when i gave ya the carb. it's sitting here if you want it as are more rocks!! let me know when ya want to come and get them.
Same thing that happened 60 years ago when they mounted them there. It may ignite, it may not. It doesn't see a heckuva lot of road time, I'm not worried about it :thumb:
Flatty pulls it great... even in THE most torrential rainstorm I have ever driven in, with no wipers no less :roll:R)
The guy ran over an hour late to meet me to pick it up, but said if we didn't do it tonight I wouldn't be able to get it for a week as he was heading out of town for a few days. I waited and the darker it got (sunny when we left) it was lightening like crazy and 2 miles from home it came in buckets... the jeep was full of water and draining out the holes guess they work R)R)
The real paint for the jeep hopefully will be painted by mid-late fall. As for now
Adam was a smartass and painted it aluminum color :tonka: It's bling.
Buying stuff I really don't need like a trailer and an engagement ring set me back a bit :tonka: :tonka:
We started a transmission swap last night... but it didn't go so well, so the T86 is going back in now instead of the t-14, though I am still changing a t-case to the twin sticked one.
On this site to now > Just saying hello and you should have gone wheelin with us in Leota/Harrison this last weekend. I want to wheel with anouther Flatty in the bunch. Its nice being the only cool jeep though :woot:
It will come soon enough, I want most of the bugs worked out before I trail ride it. I need to fix the t-case levers because they keep popping out of the shift rails, and real paint to seal up the steel first. I don't want to be the guy holding everyone else up :sonicjay:
The Fiancee had me looking at wedding/reception locations all weekend :tonka:
Adam made me get motivated to do some work again, so here is what we did on Saturday...
The loops for the trailer chains -- courtesy of an old TJ swaybar.
The towbar mount/D-ring mounts, connected to the frame, the bumper is just a cover.
Beefed up the front frame, when we got it all apart you could tell the left front frame rail was moving -- pretty certain this was the cause of the 'wandering', the Saginaw swap was causing it... the original Ross steering didn't put that stress on the frame rail.
New 1/4" angle iron crossmember, also serves as a mount for the d-ring/towbar mounts.
First "real" load for the trailer, going to go burn it all at my parents property today.
Now to figure out why it's getting 'loose' on deceleration. I think it is the spring bushings.
I can feel EVERY lug hit the pavement. They seem to wheel ok though :tonka: I drove through the trenches the sewer cleaner truck left in the sideyard (~3.5 feet deep) :tonka: :tonka:
You going to make the rose city run with it??? I will be there if get my frame welded back together. I beat the snot out of it on the concrete wall in hart. The frame isnt rotted just has been over stressed from to much wheelin.
Just par for the course though.
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