SNJ's Rig (full build progress thread)

[SuRrEaLNJ]

alright, i had planed on doing and cataloging this a bit more coherently then what had happened, but hey what can you do... i know im restating some of my rambles from last ngiht, but yall should be used to that by now...

one last salute to mr i shift when i damn well please...

i got the cases swaped real quick but i made a booboo when i went to put in the shifter, and thats where last night took a bad turn

here you can see where i broke a peice of the tailshaft housing.

it was basically just a lack of being careful. i shoulda run just the bolt in by hand to clean up the threads atleast, or preferably taped or thread chased em, but i couldnt see in the hole so i didnt know how bad it was. an easy fix with a littel bit of patients once the tailshaft housing was out of the truck, but there wasnt anything i could do with it in there. got it down, re chased the threads, bolted up the shifter and got it back in the truck. really wouldnt have been all that bid of a deal if it wasnt like 10pm on a work night with the truck apart on a lift at work, but hey stuff hapens.

today stuff went much smother. got the truck back in, wentover everything i did, because i was starting to get stupid, and yes, it did show when i rechecked my work today.

one of my big things with this swap is i wanted to do it cleanly and "right", "right" meaning making everything work like factory including the dopey little dash lights. I hate things that dont work for no reason other then not to work so the push buttons needed to go as well. thankfully one of the cases i picked up was a complete swap in one shot. the guy gave me everything, harness and all, so that cut down on my wiring. I cut out what i didnt need of the electric shift floor harnes and replaced from the dash connector to the manual case with the harness from the donor truck.

what my dash now looks like (when in 4 low)

ya know, ive never been in a 2wd or factory manual equipped first gen before, so i didnt know that little fake vent existed, but i think its ****

i had to move the cb and the power outlet strip over towards the pass side to clear the handle, wich took a little finesing to get the cb to sit the way i wanted. im missing part of some plastic flange thing now, and the dash undercover that i refuse to get rid of as it holds some wires up under the dash got reshaped a little bit.

my old man made a bezel for me up at his place tonight that will mount the stock shifter boot to the floor plate. his finish work is way better then mine, so i asked him if he could fab somethin for me. i havent gotten to see it yet, but thats all thats left to button this up

 

[explorerguy89]

lookin good so far jay

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

Got the bezel dad made today and put it in tonight. quite pleased with it, and the edges are way nicer then i generally have the patients to do.

and since its changed around a bit since the last one, heres a currrent ****pit shot

 

[explorerguy89]

lookin gooder

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

great, now i need to add somethin to get a goodest...

 

[explorerguy89]

i still want one of those dam jeep tilt gauges lol

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

i found it online... i wanna say i paid like 10-15 bucks for it or somethin... its technically called a clinometer. i think mine was made by Rugged Ridge

 

[Turdle]

http://www.cabelas.com/link-12/prod...-958E-DF11-A0C8-002219318F67&mr:referralID=NA

with light

http://www.sourcingmap.com/mini-car...gle&utm_medium=froogle&utm_campaign=usfroogle

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

yea, im not gonna lie, i was to lazy to google it myself and provide the links...

 

[explorerguy89]

=o'' awesomeeee hehe

 

[explorerguy89]

omg i want it i want it
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JDM-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

 

[explorerguy89]

or it
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JDM-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

that 2nd one is really cool actually

 

[bstarz65]

Hey Need your opion i have some extra bucks and want to put a locker in my rear , the delema is which one. i can go the expensive route or the cheap route . my problem is if i get a detroit how hard is it to do myself? I know the aussie lunchbox is fairly simple to install. so what do you think?

 

[Turdle]

Hey Need your opion i have some extra bucks and want to put a locker in my rear , the delema is which one. i can go the expensive route or the cheap route . my problem is if i get a detroit how hard is it to do myself? I know the aussie lunchbox is fairly simple to install. so what do you think?

Aussie
the detroit will require a full ring and pinion setup.

 

[bstarz65]

I thought so, well here goes the pay pal again. assusie here I come

 

[explorerguy89]

=o nice choice i need an aussie but i just got linds' t-case and started cleanin it up =]

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

Im running an Aussie in the rear. so far its been good to me. they have good customer support too. (i droped a spring when i installed it and they sent me a new one) I know theres some talk about problems with them but ive yet to see it first hand.
the way i see it is if i got the thing in there and to work it cant be all that hard. dont let that whole ASE thing fool you, most of the time i have no idea what im doing.

 

[bats]

Late to the party as always, those incliomonomomonomitors would go nice next to the after market gauges I'm getting for the new explorer.

 

[bstarz65]

Hey I seen the pic,s of u guys at rausch wish, I could have made it. but thats the way It goes when your not rich and have to work. If you s ever plan another trip let me know I will make sure I can get there, thats the kind of wheeling I want to get into, wharton is ok ,not to far but shurly dont look like rausch