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little update... haven't found the time to upload all my photos until now... I had quite the productive long change this week. after I got the rear floor/tub section squared away I decided to tackle the cowl sectioning... it turned out pretty well: I found that these jeeps weren't made...

Yeah I bought that 3B and I've been cutting it all up. It's actually the body from the frame that I'm using. The guy who had it had made a rat rod (I hate that term) out of it, cut the load floor out of it to fit a Jaguar IRS setup, along with cutting the center of the front floors to clear...

Yeah there will be a bunch of sheet metal surgery involved, along with the body stretch I will be raising the front fenders and rear wheel wells. I found a decent CJ3B tub, does anyone know if the tubs (aside from the cowl and firewall) are similar enough to mix and match panels with the 2A and...

little update... i got the rest of the frame welded up, cleaned, primed, and painted... glad to be done with that for now. i left much of the inner portion unpainted for now, because i think i want to build one more set of plates to tie the rectangular tube, the patch in front of it, and the...

Today I got the rest of the frame boxed in and (almost) cleaned up/ready for paint. I also tracked down a set of wide trac axles for the cj7, so I can use the narrow D30! I'm trading some free xj axles and a free 14 bolt for them on Friday! :-) hope to have some progress pics up tomorrow.

Thanks, joe. Sounds like you have a bunch of good information to share. Somebody mentioned the smaller 4 bbl holley truck avenger (490 cfm?) Works really well on these motors as well. I referenced the BOM number on the axle, and it's a 69 or 70 model with a 4.89 gear ratio. The shafts are...

guys, I haven't been able to find out for sure, but for some reason I thought that the turbo motors had beefier connecting rods, and forged cranks. I would like to use the offenhauser 4 bbl intake, any opinions on which carb would be best for this? i'll have to check that carb on the ford...

Thanks, inkpen. I've seen some listings for a narrow track axle in salt lake, which is about 2.5 hours... FCs are awesome! Unfortunately, those would also be closed knuckle/drum brake like I have already.

I guess the next step is to finish the frame, then start saving my money for the bellhousing/clutch, and the adapter for the sm420/dana 18 adapter! i'm still trying to find a narrow-track dana 30... oh, and I also found a 1970-1971 dana 44 rear with the flanged, one-piece shafts. i'll be...

well this weekend went really well... spent most of Saturday boxing the frame and finish welding joints, while my brother stripped the tub that I think we'll use. we have 1/2 of the frame boxed in, for the most part. I put up an ISO post on facebook about trying to find a motor, and came...

Wow, sounds like it was a good one! Didn't the LHD mail jeep frames already have saginaw steering? that's another hurdle to figure out... the M38 has a Saginaw conversion (poorly) done. I'd like to figure out what box it has on it, I hear that a mid 70s GM car box is a good one to use. I've...

today was an awesome day... we picked up both jeeps, in fact drove one of them up onto the trailer, and drug them both home. my brother and i tooled around in the grey one for a while, and i took my dad for a drive as well. wow, i can see why people are so in love with these little things! as...

Thanks, Jack... yeah I have thought about a 4.3... the nostalgia of a buick would be awesome, but perhaps something else might be more feasible. This M38 I'm picking up on Monday has what appears to be a small block Ford in it...

Yeah I'm in the process of boxing the rest of the original frame. That is a great idea, I'd like to be able to protect the inside of the frame after it's all welded... I wonder if somebody in the Salt Lake City area might be able to do that?

The main thing I'm looking for right now is a buick V6. I know they're out there somewhere!

well I did a bunch of tacking this evening... turns out I only have a 15 amp breaker in my garage, so the welding was an exercise in frustration... especially since my brother came over and we had two lights, an air compressor, grinder, stereo, and a power strip charging batteries. oh well...

once I got the frame cut in two, I tried putting the box tube inside the frame and it wouldn't go. at all. I checked the measurements with caliper, and found that I was lacking about .050" on the right-hand side, and nearly .170" on the left! I'm not sure why there was a discrepancy between...

After owning a few different jeeps over the past several years, i decided to try something a little different; albeit a shameless ripoff of some of the other great builds documented here and elsewhere (metcalf's "Rango", namely. There will be a several things I will be doing differently , but...

I've got an old Dodge I've been messing around with for a couple of years... started with a "free" '86 W250 that didn't run. Sat in the back yard for a year before I got the title for it, and fixed it up. Put a fresh(er) 360 from a '78 truck with 56,000 miles, did a bunch of un-hacking to the...