MiNi Beast

I/m liking the route taking with up front, been pondering taking the inner fender all out when drop in 350, but was worried about keeping it from twisting before I could stiffen it up and with your approach I could easily stiffen it all up with adding all my extras and not worry about twisting of the frame, even though I had made a solid frame front with the leaf spring conversion. yeah look forward to the engine bay pic. keep up the good work man, I like. :yes:

grinded calipers in order to fit 15" wheel so that I could make Dog Party, 1/2 ton brake setup not be here on time, so once on took it for a test drive, found my turning radius was less then before, :nuts: had to stop bro notice my diff squirting lube, :eek: not as bad as was thinking, just a ring gear bolt backed out and sheared the head off it, even had locktite on them but whatever... so went through all bolts and added more locktite and re-torque. installed new O2 sensor, keep up the good gas mileage :fish: replaced left side brake line with 36" one, and got ChopperGar a Dog Party gift, a fire extinguisher. :rotfl2: before cut the front section of bed side and after they were cut for clearance. Now my bro has to play catch up so wanted a before pic next to mine, as he be ordering a 6.5" LA system from RC and putting it up on 35's. So here's that, this same bro that I wheeled with in AL and he had the Toyota truck. He has a 68 FJ-40 he is restoring so needed something to play with that he can scratch. :yes: buddy Dune Coon teaser shot of his XJ work. :thumbsup:

well good sir kinda is. Hauling logs out the back 40 for this winters firewood, tailgate down, not off, thought to pull it but no it be ok, lol, well even loaded full and logs sticking passed tailgate, I still managed to back up into a damn tree and the tree slid between all the logs on the truck and still take out the tailgate, I knew I should of taken it off, what I get for not listening to myself the first time. lesson learned. :doh:

40x17x15 ground hawgs so it running now and I going to pull it come spring for a sbc, @#$% it been talking to much so going to just do it now. :D bigger tires now... rear is on but swapping to 1/2 ton brakes up front to rid of the big 3/4 ton brake set up so I can run my 15" rims. way more tire options with 15's so H2 had to go. brake brackets from here ordered.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ford-Dana-60-Front-Axle-3-4-Ton-Disc-Brake-Conversion-/140631853338?hash=item20be4fc91a&item=140631853338&pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&fb_source=message thanks to bigblockford79 for getting me the link :thumbsup: Going to trim the rest of bed quarters and bumpstop it for 2" uptravel then go from there..

swapped out shims of pinion for front 44. looking to finally install the 5.13's tomorrow and then tackle the driveshaft length, hope to be not bad. snow is coming..... :wrench:

$3.32 a gallon i paid yesterday.

the skulls, I had bought a rocker sticker kit for $25 from auto zone. Turn out better then I expected I must say. wish i had bought a brand new electric wagner paint sprayer for the job then wouldn't of had the runs as i used a freebie one. But for $50 to have a new gun, $30 for a gallon of oil based paint, and $10 for tape, and just a nice day, can have a paint job on the rig for under $100 that is decent enough to spend $5 now and then at the car wash and not give a $#!& out on the trail about scratching it, as wal-mart stocks big cans of touch up paint. :D

was able to get a couple pics of the Jeep as it sits now. It is not the same without 37" tires on it. :( Just did a 10 min Rusto' paint job on it for the winter. looks good going down the highway, and all the runs give me an extra 10 hp. :yes:

Still looks good, and I must say that green plate really brings out the beauty of the MJ. :yes:

well steering fixed now, come to find out the death wobble symptoms was cause by the fact that my hy-steer arms were drilled wrong, to much taken out, so the nut would bottom out on the end not allowing it to fully tighten, 1/4" worth :( but fixed it and all is tight again.

pulled shafts out, though found the right set of shafts i needed but ended up being half ton shafts, so still looking for 3/4 ton shafts, but then beat the $#!& out of it and the damn things runs great with 6 pistons again.

part reason, maybe but a pea size hole in my valve was mostly the issue. I used sea foam when it first started slagging, but knew it was to be worse and internal problem.

the problem in the old engine, :yes: hole in valve on head to with the bad rings.

pulled a all nighter yesterday and swapped out engines, finished small bs today, i can drive in reverse now i have power and 6 cly again. :D

started pulling my doner engine last night about 6pm then swapped it in the mj, so no more gutless smokey 4.0. as of 8am this morning i have a new engine in the rig. now to get some damn sleep.

well been a while for updates. But quick review, wife and I split up 2 months before our 1 yr wedding anniversary, so we split and to handle a few debts and survive, I sold off my winch and seats thus far, put a bench seat in as I planned before bought the last seats, so far I like it , not like my last seats, but like it for my 2 kids sake. So living out of my truck now so importance is the engine, I go through about 2 gallons of oil every tank of gas, and get roughly 10 miles a gallon. So finally got me a engine to swap in and thus be working on it this week and hope to be done with it by sunday. THen I'll be looking to hit the road and head south or west to find work and start over. So yeah that is my update.

:ack: x2 on the D44 upgrade :yes: broken shaft, very stumped by that myself. perhaps just was a bat situation and it just was kinda a freak thing, i put a another plain jane shock on it and run it and see how it holds up and keep a eye on it and see how it works then go from there and upgrade the shock. and here's that pic as well tires turned to right a bit but can get a good idea...

Fixed it for ya. Rob :waving: Everything is for sale for the right price, you should know that. but now that you mention it about to put it up as i would like to get a side byside! :brows:

yeah I know, almost went that way, but for the ease and simplity of install just went to the front. It still drives pretty good with good road manners, the seats help for sure, :yes: but I can deal with it for the next year or so until I link the front.

yeah my bed has a couple dents in same spot, darn trees just jump out at you. :yes: Good to here no major damage. Look forward to the few pic you have. :thumbsup:

sadly thats my buddies little truck. :yes:

It's sad but my jeep still looks so small. :(

mere inspiration! :drool:

picked this up today very happy with it! goning to come in handy for sure. :yes:

wired up the heated seats. very pleased! :D