What Did You Do To Your Jeep Today?

You forgot that you got that Dauntless ready for your Pal....Richie the Lockman ?

 

No, Richie is the one who said this 231 was a good idea!!

 

Hey, that's not fair, Man.......Your the one who said you came across the 231 in the dirt for $100 ? I believe all I did was try to support Ya ?
Wait a minute .... I do have a thank you PM here somewhere.....

 

The body colored armor looks great!

 

I pulled the Mustang 4 speed and Dana 18 out of the Jeep today.

Laying on the shop floor you can see the difference

The NP435 with the Land Rover LT230 T/C was a tight fit, but it's in there and bolted to the engine.

Tomorrow I start on the cross member mounts, Exhaust Y pipe and drive shafts.

 

So........I received a great Fed Ex delivery Today, 3 Days early . Got 5 of 'Em now.
16 " X 5 " with a 4 " backspace ...Rivets 'Just' touch my calipers
.......I'm happy as a clam . These are gonna be cherry old school. More to follow .

 

I just sat and looked at it! And then I smiled to myself thinking about all the hot weather and suntan oil that is coming

 

Pretty much finished working on the trailer, so I decided to tear into the M20 axle that I have replaced 3 driver rear axle bearings and shafts. the bearing was destroyed but the axle has survived. The surprise was when I opened the diff.





Now I question the shape of the True Trac simited slip........

 

I cleaned the rear axle housing then the man above said it was time to go inside...

 

Dug into my D30. I never changed the axle u-joint since I bought this maybe 13 years ago.

 

I'm getting close to finishing up the NP435 Granny trans and Rover LT230 T/C install. I modified the floor tunnel that I had made for the Hurst/Mustang 4 speed. I added a new hole for the NP435 shift tower.

Heated and bent the LT230 shift levers to fit the hole the Dana 18 twin stick used. I bought a Freightliner boot so I wouldn't have to build a raised box for the shift tower.

The installed the Land Rover Parking brake handle in the Husrt shifter hole and boot.

I think it looks better and more complete.

 

As a kid in the 70’s, I remember my Dad and Uncle with their flat bottom boats at the lake.
Glistening big blocks, and they both had a beer can covering the coil.
Just in honor of them…

 

Finished packing all the wheel bearings and replacing the axle u-joints. I still need to check the oil in the Diffs then ready to do some wheeling this weekend!

 

I got in the Jeep to drive to work today and when I got to the first stop sign I stepped on the brakes and rolled straight thru!! I had maybe 10% brakes. Turned around and parked her for the day.

 

.... yeah....that ain't good. Glad nothing was hurt

 

umm..
glad you are ok. what happened?

 

Stop sign is in my neighborhood and it’s all flat for miles around here. But still could have been bad if someone was expecting me to stop.
Not sure. We bled the rear. Never disconnected the front so I didn’t bleed. Tonight we bled all four and all is well again.

 

Today I took these little holes and welded them shut.
20220408_102554 by Joe with a jeep, on Flickr

Then I put er down on all 4 again.

20220408_152122 by Joe with a jeep, on Flickr

I got some dirty in process pictures on the old phone, too dirty for this thread.

 

Been doing some painting on exterior components like the hood and tailgate hinges, headlight bezel, rock guards etc. I base coated all of these with Chassis Saver, and used Rust-o-leum Enamel as a top coat. The first 2 coats of enamel went on awesome, but today not so much, sprayed to close and got wrinkles, Damn that was the last coat too
Then I moved on the the first coat of Chassis Saver to the frame