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Post by onecooldude on Aug 20, 2008 6:56:25 GMT -5
gerald picked up his new project last nigth and dropped it over to my place for the build, he picked up a 1984 cj-7 in need of tlc for an undisclosed price, the project has been named cheap jeep
stay tuned for the plan and pictures.....
tire sie should be betwen 35 and 38 at the end
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 20, 2008 16:00:37 GMT -5
here are the pics i present you cheap jeep it has all the feature like award winning u bolt and award winning stearing started stripping it today the floor is in bad shape we took a lot of garbage out of it there where some good parts i found wath the last owner must have been using as a brake for it lol ;D tea down seam easy it is falling appart
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Post by josh on Aug 20, 2008 20:05:37 GMT -5
1 word: Fugly
But hey, great idea for a project.....lets see what you guys can do to this "bibite"
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 20, 2008 20:11:14 GMT -5
lol you have no idea.....
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Post by lostkj on Aug 21, 2008 14:30:32 GMT -5
Im scared of how its going to look like when they are done with it ...
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 21, 2008 15:47:03 GMT -5
just watch and learn fellow's
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Post by baratus on Aug 21, 2008 22:18:34 GMT -5
OMG IS IT ALIVE
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 23, 2008 7:20:38 GMT -5
got a truck load of steel yesterday including 16 gauge sheet metal, tubing of various size and some 1/4 inch plate for 2$!!!!, so all the stell required for fab is in the shop now, should be going down cambelton to get a 1 ton donor rig today or tomorow...
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Post by josh on Aug 24, 2008 15:40:32 GMT -5
2 $ wow thats a steal
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 24, 2008 16:09:12 GMT -5
2 $ wow thats a steal no connection lol
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 24, 2008 20:36:13 GMT -5
just got back from a little place past cambelton and a 1 to 4wd truck has been acquired, it has a dana 60 front with king pin , a 14 bolt rear end , a np 205 tcase and an unknow tranny, body is in good shape and will be sold with the frame, only draw back is it was a dually and will need to be converted a bit
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 25, 2008 15:37:00 GMT -5
pics of the donor rig the ring gear from the 14 bolt , anyone can decifer those number, i wat to be sure they are 4.10 as the front is, not very familiar with gm number 14 bolt rear, talk about beef dana 60 front low pinion king pin 4.10 gears the donor next to the receiver lol cab and frame is for sale and good tear down of the truck tomorow
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 25, 2008 22:37:42 GMT -5
started tear dow tonigth and finished it , need some fellow over tomorow to take the cab ,front clip frame and axle out side, my buddy louis gave a really good help tonigth front axle ready to come off and cab removed rear axle ready to come off some migth be usefull part front clip waiting to get out off my way the sm 465 and the 205 waiting for the 350 and the cj total build time 6 hrs so far stay tunned for more!!!
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 26, 2008 21:34:50 GMT -5
well tonigth we got the truck out of the garage hank to a bunch of friend... thanks guys.... got the jeep in the shop and gerald stripped the rear seat out, i took some parts off, and it now look like this oh and we did clean up the shop and stash the future power train in the corner off the garage
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Post by onecooldude on Aug 27, 2008 21:27:02 GMT -5
more work done tonigth, got most of the tub stripped, and half the body mount off ,they all broke, both fender are gone and all the wirring the pile sure is growing in the corner took longuer for a few stuborn things total build time so far 10 hrs
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