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    Good stuff. Wish I had the time and skill to do the voodoo that you do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Safari View Post
    Good stuff. Wish I had the time and skill to do the voodoo that you do.
    Skills not really required. Jeep CJs are easy to put together, like piecing together a lower. You just need special tools when it comes time to put the barrel on... (do some welding.. ect). I can do some of the light welding where it doesn't have to look pretty or be strong, everything else, I hire a pro. Come time to have the axles rebuilt, I have it done. I've never set up gears. Body work will be rattle can... Keep watching, you'll see my work isn't the quality you see coming out of Count's Customs on TV.

    Having the time is kinda easy too. Once I got my ass blowed up, and became non-deployable, I couldn't re-up, so they were done with me. Enter the world of VA disability living. No job... (other than VFW Commander)
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    Put the front springs on today. I was gonna paint the front of the frame, but got overheated. maybe later in the evening or tomorrow. A little concerned about the angle of the shackles. They are over the 90* mark with no weight on them at all. The Rubicon express YJ SOA springs are suppose to ride nice, but are a bit longer. I can't move either of the shackle mounts without a lot of custom fab work.






    The Dave's Customs Unlimited kit mounts the rear right in front of the body mount, so there's no moving it back. Wouldn't want to go back anyway. The front uses factory holes, so moving it forward would mean paying somebody to cut and weld on what I paid them to engineer. I already had to space them out for the Dodge truck axles. I'm thinking that there should be enough room for the spring to compress without having it bang on the frame. I'll have to make my own bump stops anyway, as the factory ones won't match up with the Dodge Dana 44.




    Side note: I had ordered two new sets of greasable shackles and now somehow I don't have enough bolts to mount both the front and rear springs. They give you the greasable bolts for the shackles, but regular bolts for the pivot end of the springs. Maybe I'm being OCD, but I want greasable bolts everywhere there is a bushing... so I'm ordering another kit.
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    Did a bit of wire brushing and painting on the frame today. Managed to finish the front half back to the skid plate. Shoulders on fire...

    Here's what I started with...


    Had to make a trip to the hardware store for a new brush after a while...


    Now half of the frame is black.


    I couldn't find POR 15 in any of the stores around here, but I found this stuff. The question is, will Chassis Saver save my chassis? Time will tell.


    Gotta take the skid plate off to progress rearward. That, is for another day... I need a shower, nap, the wife has plans for dinner with friends, and I have to get back to the VFW to do a Treasure Hunt drawing.
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    Had to get the skidplate off to finish the frame scraping and painting. Guess what? Yup, broke another 38 year old bolt. Is there anything more infuriating than drilling out damn broken bolts? Can I get an Amen?



    However, I finally got the rest of the frame Chassis Saver black. (well, at least the bottom and sides) I'll let her dry for a few days, then hit her with the rattle can desert sand. Soon after, I'll flip her over, get on her wheels, and do the top of the frame.

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    Hang in there, DM, and nice work so far--more than I could do, and still a bit to wrap my head around that that bolt was as old as I am. LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by daddyusmaximus View Post

    Also curious as to what this cogged wheel is on the Dana 300. Anyone know? Looks like some kind of brake to lock up the unit.




    The cogged wheel is the parking gear. When you move the gear selector shaft on the side of the case the control rod will move back and engage the park pawl you have your finger pushing against in the 2nd pic.

    I just found your project thread, imagine my surprise at finding a jeep build on a firearms forum.
    I've had a few jeeps, currently working on a couple CJ5's. My DD is a Wrangler Rubicon that is also my desert cruiser.

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    First coat of desert sand in on the frame...

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    Got the springs painted, and on, hopefully for the last time. I'm pretty sure they won't be coming off any more so I went ahead, and did a final red Locktite, and proper torque on them. PLEASE GOD... don't make me have to take them off again. The hope is to move on from here. I'll give her a few days for the paint to cure up, then I'll flip her over and test fit the axles to see if I should have waited on the Locktite or not... lol. They'll come off later for a full rebuild, all new seals, and bearings, and what not. Air lockers if I can swing it.

    Motor mounts are ordered, and on the way for the Mopar 360. I'll need to get some brake and fuel line stuff. This should be interesting. Never bent hard line before. There's shock mounts, steering box, and a few other things to get taken care of before I start in on the tub. Fun winter ahead...

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    Today I started out with one goal, but completely changed gears. My Eastwood Internal Frame Coating came in the other day. I didn’t want my frame to rust from the inside out, so I set to getting as much of the debris out of it as I could to ready it for the coating. Not fun holding the shop vac up to one hole, while blowing the air compressor into another… all the while having to quickly shut down the shop vac every time the air compressor kicked in to keep from blowing the garage circuit breaker. Yeah, everything is on one breaker. 120 year old house, 50 year old garage…

    Realizing the coating would settle as it dries, and that water and mud also settle… I figured the frame should be right side up for this process. This is where everything changed. Once I got the frame flipped, I remembered how much I was looking forward to setting her on her axles… So I figured I could coat the inside of the frame later… with her sitting on her axles.

    I used the cherrypicker to lift the frame high enough to wheel the rear axle under it.





    I had remembered that I needed to put anti-seize on all the shackle bolts, so I needed to take them off anyway, even though I had got a bit ahead of myself torqueing them down. Thankfully, I thought of this before I went to bolt the axle in, and loosened them. I was so damn pleased with myself. My short term memory is totally shot with my TBI, (Lots of long term stuff missing too) and this really saved me a lot of frustration today. The amount of cussing I would have done had I tried to line up the leaf pins with them torqued would have been great. Also, someone else had pointed out (rightly so) you torque them with the weight of the vehicle on them…

    I forgot to get a photo of the front going in, but she’s a roller.

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