[wessker96]

Got a wagoneer myself and got to say love what ya did, I am not a fan of the Tj flares either but they work for you thats ok by me! Nice job and way to spend time with your son, I will be draggin my daughter out in about 10 yrs lol By they way got any pics of what it looked like before you put the tj flares on (oh nm i see it)? I wondered what mine would look like cut. Think I may

Congrats would love to see some day pics of that bad boy!

[amsoilman]

its nice that you get to teach your son all this, im the one teaching my dad right now.

[ausi02]

It must be nice setting up the gears yourself and not having to pay someone. How did you learn? Any secrets? I am still debating on whether I should do it my self or just pay someone.

[Jason, aka: Jeepin.com]

Great build! Nice scores on all the parts too! I like how you guys are fabbing a lot of the parts yourself. Hopefully when my son's old enough he'll take an interested in stuff like this and I can do similar projects with him. He's not quite 16 months old right now though, so in the meantime I may be looking into mods for Powerwheels Jeeps.

[Jason, aka: Jeepin.com]

Originally Posted by ausi02

It must be nice setting up the gears yourself and not having to pay someone. How did you learn? Any secrets? I am still debating on whether I should do it my self or just pay someone.

If you've got the tools and the time to do it, it's not super technical, just tedious.

Read this: http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/Gear_Setup/

It's by far the best article on setting up gears that I've read. I really wish I'd found it before I did my gears. Not that I had trouble doing it, just that that article would've made things a bit quicker and easier.

You can find set up specs here: http://www.differentials.com/specsi.html

[XJNUTTIER]

That is Awesome, I am glad to see you are so involved with your son, and you just made him an addict for life..LOL The nice thing is I had the same great experience builing up a 79 fullsize with a blown engine, and I have been builing jeeps ever since, over half my life.. You are a great dad, and the Jeep is looking awesome, wish I had that nice long arm set up I am jealous.. Keep it up dad of the year...

[FrankZ]

Thanks for comments everyone! This has been a great project and I'm looking forward to seeing him drive it in Moab in March. The nextproject will be a rig for my daughter when she gets closer to getting her license in about 3 years.

I'll post up more pics this evening.

[nootay]

nice build!! did you write up any plans for the long arms or just wing it? im impressed. theres no way i could do that myself. if you do have plans, would you want to share them? id love to give it a try.

[broncofire75]

Awesome man!

Youre boy at aint ever going to get rid of it. The sentemental(sp?) value is everything regardless of how it looks.

[xyimmyx]

Wow you guys really did a great job with that and I hope you have a ton of fun with it. What lincoln welder is that? I think its the same as mine and if you used it to weld all that stuff that it reassures me that I don't need a bigger unit when i lift my jeep haha.

[Teal96XJ]

Looks good man!!!!!

[FrankZ]

I build the LA's as a little side biz for walkin' around money.
The Welder is 175 (220v) that I bought from Lowes.

[mortalenema]

His jeep's got yours beat in one department....

that awesome jackball!

I just might have to dig mine out again.

[FrankZ]

Found a few on Daniels camera.
Builing the LA's and cross member...






Thought I'd add a few pics from the initial engine tear down.






See the crack? There were actually 3 cracks.


You can tell the head warped pretty good from the rust in the cylinders.

[aleydic]

my god that is a beautiful steering system. any measurments for that??? how much did it run you?