New Crawler
 

Did some serious trading and wound up with a new crawler.

Here are the specs.

1991 tub with a 1960's postal jeep front end with the coveted round headlights. Plated and gusseted frame with por15 paint. Full cage with 6 tie ins directly to frame on rubber mounts. Front suspension seats and rear seat with 5 point harnesses all around. 1/4" body armor wrap from BTF. Stinger bar front hoop. BTF front and rear bumpers. Tube flat fenders front and tubed rolled fenders rear. Brand new heater core and fan. Most hardware upgraded to stainless steel and grade 8 bolts with nylock nuts all over.

Axles:

Front kingpin Dana 60 with 35 spline USA Alloy outer chromoly axle shafts , Yukon inner shafts, welded 4.56 ratio, light shave with diff armor. Single piston calipers.

Rear 14 bolt with dutchman axles, detroit, 4.56 ratio, light shave with diff armor and monster antiwrap bar. Rear disc brakes single piston calipers.

Motor, trans. and case:

2006 496 big block MPI with roller rockers, cam, headers and tune. High volume oil pump with oil cooler, aluminum oil pan and a Ron Davis radiator to keep it cool. Aluminum reservoir. 3" exhaust with flowmaster muffler tucked out of harms way.
Dual selectable battery setup.
Turbo 400 with kevlar clutches and manual valve body setup. Trans. temp guage
Stak 3 speed t-case with 1.1, 3.0, 5.44. Parking brake, speed sensor and oil sight guage.

Suspension:

Swayaway racerunner coilovers front 16" travel, 4 link with track bar for good street manners. Ballistic fab rebuildable joints. Military wrap bastard pack leaf sprung rear with amazingly
good travel.

Steering:

PSC pump, reservoir and filter. Redneck ram hydro assist ram and steering box. Stainless steel braided lines. Oil cooler. Flaming rivers steering shaft.

High steer kit with tierod assy. and ram behind front axle.

Rolling mass:

39.5 pitbull rockers on recentered hummer 8 bolt rims and rock rings

Dash is custom wired from a fella on pirate 4x4 with all kinds of switches and buttons. Matching Autometer guages for tach, speedo, volt, oil pressure, fuel, trans. temp.

Aluminum fuel cell with BTF skid plate. Rock lights, led turn signals back up and brake lights. Aeromotive fuel system with fuel pressure guage.

High angle driveline driveshafts with 1410 u-joints.

220 amp monster alternator for a welding setup that used to be on jeep.

Corvette old style master cylinder with stainless steel lines and braided hoses.

Currently building a lockable aluminum center console for gear, cb and stereo system. Also pondering coilover setup on rear axle.

Pushing the skinny pedal down makes me smile but will be hard on parts! Currently fixing both valve cover leaks and took pics of the anodized blue roller rockers and took note on how clean the top of the valvetrain looked! Theres some big parts in there! 1st chevy and big block I have owned so I am new to these. Driving it to work on sunny days so far as the air filter is exposed for now.

Looking for ideas on the welded front. May go ox locker.

Pics coming so be patient please :o

Riiiiighht.....

you'll probably have to promise to not work on the jeep for 2 nights to get her to post them

sounds really sweet, can't wait to get a look at it,
:beers:

That is what I have been thinking the price will be. Ever work on your jeep while they were out and make sure you are done and gone before they come home? :rolleyes:

My 2 year old daughter calls it a beater and a piece of crap :eek: since it is not shinny like the one traded for it. Aske her and she will tell ya!

I have pics on my computer but resizing them scares me.

if that makes your rig a beater then my past trail rigs were just big
hunks of metal with tires... lol :D

pics? :D

I've seen it in person and it is one hell of a rig. Everything on it and in it is done right.

Well... I gotta say that
this thread really sucks without pics.

send me what you got truggy
I will get them posted..

Pics please please....

Nick

I am assuming this is it. If it is looks pretty bad ass. :beers:

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/1427763926.html

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Thanks hardluck for the pics. Someone has been shopping on craigslist!

Fabbing up some aluminum panels in the front wheel wells to keep the elements out of the engine bay that can be removed quickly for maintenance.

Fixed the valve cover leaks last night and took some pics of the upper head and valvetrain to document how clean the motor is.

Have more pics to show the console and motor work.

Congrads man that thing looks sick!:beers:

Did that come from Scott Amburgy?

Yup. Have changed it up a bit and touched it up.

AND...

And... you don't get to seeeee em!

nya-na-nya na-nya, nya!

Robert

and if we are waiting on truggy...niether will anyone else.

Looks like a mean machine.. :beers:

Nick

that postal grill is different, that's for sure.

I agree! Truggys old body lines were more eye candy than this setup. :p

Took me a while to get my OX adjusted just right and working well. I also caught the line on something once and beat it up pretty bad. I just went with a lockrite when I upgraded to the D60. Personally, I would go with something simple and reliable, no cables, lines, or wiring.