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I mounted the engine far enough forward to clear most 0of tyhe firewall, but the whole crossmember and core support will need to get moved forward. I only need to notch one section of the firewall on the drivers side to provide access to the rear most exhaust manifold bolt. I think I'll either...

Late update, then we're caught up to current status: I picked up some 12" travel Fox coilovers for the front end: I also ordered the wild horses gorilla warflares, I've been holding off on cutting the fenders until I had the flares in hand, so I finally bit the bullet. Lastly I've got the...

I threw a front fender on last night to see how much I'm looking at trimming, and it still looks better than expected. It looks like I need to lose 2-3" at the front edge of the fender, but the back clears OK. I believe the front axle is ~1" forward of the stock location, which is definitely...

As mentioned earlier, in order to mate the Dana 300 to the GM NV4500, I needed both a clocking ring and also a 5/8" spacer to keep the output shaft from bottoming in the input of the transfer case. Also, the input bearing retainer on the Dana 300 was screwed up, so I needed a new one which are...

Tonight I was able to get the front axle cycled up to what I think will be full bump + a bit. At this point the steering tie rod will be damn near getting into the frame. There seems to be pretty decent clearance in the wheel well, I’ll throw a fender on tomorrow to see how much trimming its...

I've never really liked the look of the old school gas caps that came on the Scout, they stand off of the body quite a bit. Plus mine are missing, and not trivial to find NOS. So a while ago I came across some sweet looking flush mount fuel filler caps, intended for homebuilt aircraft :)...

I picked up a Dana 300 and swapped in the 32 spline input to mate with the NV4500 output shaft. I will run the case stock for now, but can see eventually upgrading to 4:1 gears and stronger outputs if needed. I guess I didn't take any pictures of the work on the t-case. The Jeep Dana 300 and GM...

Cycling the front axle, I quickly realized my upper link would be limited to about 4”of uptravel by the motor mount. I played with CAD (cardboard aided design) and came up with these side plates, showing the additional clearance that will be gained to the upper link Some more CAD work...

Around this time I started playing around with the front suspension design. I'm doing a 3 link, using Johnny Joints all around. These things are massive. I'm an engineer by day, and focused on suspension design during college, so I had some fun modeling the frame and suspension bracketry in...

I made a simple jig to be able to measure the driveshaft angles, basically just a plate that bolts to each yoke with a sting in between. I'll run CV driveshafts so I set the front pinion angle pointing right at the transfer case output. A friend of mine loaned me his jig for measuring caster...

Front axle is out of a Blazer, narrowed to use Scout II inner axle shafts. The main downside I see is the passenger side tube ends up really short. I'm going to cut down the leaf spring pad, and see if I can make it work, otherwise I may look for another axle or retube this one. Trying to stick...

Oops, stock axle (Dana 27) fell out. I'm using a stock width Scout II rear Dana 44. Threw the wheels and tires on to see how the width looks on the narrower Scout 80 body. I like it  Am I getting this stance thing right? The rear end sat higher than I wanted with the springs over...

A buddy of mine came down for a weekend, the original plan was to shoot some sporting clays, but we got rained out. Yes, it rains sometimes in SoCal. Anyways I put him to work, and we pulled the stock 4 cylinder out of the scout with no drama. There is a decent amount of room in the engine bay...

I really debated back and forth about what to power the scout with. I am a huge fan of small turbodiesel engines, so initially I was looking for a Cummins 4BT or Isuzu 4BD engine. I didn't have much luck finding one of those either locally or at a price I could afford, so I decided to go with...

I spent a couple of years building and wheeling my daily driver Toyota T100, and while fun at first I definitely found the wear and tear on the daily driver to be a drag. Not to mention the more I modified the truck, the more it sucked for on-road duties, as I’m sure most here know. I’ve always...

Do you have any details how you do the USB expansion, and how well it works to store things like downloaded maps? I jsut got a Nexus 7, planning to try it out as a vehicle GPS. I think I can get by with pre-loading jsut the map sections for where I am planning to go, but it would be nice to...

I like this setup, depending onn what's in the truck and how far away from it you wander ... http://www.overlandhardware.com/protect.html

Check waytek wire and mouser. Will have to buy the components separately.

They arent particularly cheap, but I have had terrific results from IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops. They are built much sturdier than cheap consumer laptops are, with a pretty impressive cast magnesium internal framework and metal support for tyhe screen too. I think some of the other business...

I built these for my old T100. 2" 3/16 wall square for the main tube, 1 3/4" 1/8" wall for the kick out. They held the weight of the truck a few times without bending, so it seemed strong enough to me. Mounts were 4 places each size, welded to diamond shaped plates on the frame to spread out the...