Comanche County

Input depth is different. A Jeep NP208 would be a better fit (fixed yoke, strong enough for 401) but driveshafts will need to be made for the rear (NP208 is 5" shorter than NP229, 228, 219 or the Eagle tcases) Ah, I see. Thanks.

I hate the heat! I have no idea how yah do it! More power to yah :cheers: Thanks man, freakin cold right now though. We had frozen dew on the deck yesterday morning, walked outside and didn't notice, ended up on my back like when Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown. It hurt, I laid there doing a dead armadillo imitation for a few moments. I actually caught the truck on fire the other day....I need to put some pictures up. A guy gave me some spanking new KC lights for free and I through them in the tool box carelessly. Next thing I knew I was driving home smelling something like burnt trash. I just thought someone was burning tires somewhere nearby, then I stopped at an intersection and saw the smoke billowing in my rear view mirror. The chrome KCs just happen to land on the positive and negative posts of my spare red top Optima touching each other. They arced, melted the top of the Optima, then melted a zip loc bag that contained receipts of stuff I bought for the truck and technical papers that flamed up, caught the underside of the ABS tool box on fire. Losses were: the Optima (although still holding a charge with a hole in the top, we'll see if my RTV patch works), spare ARB wiring harness, tool bag, spare Derale temp controller, the KC lights, a few other odds and ends. I got it put out and luckily I keep all the spare oils and fluids on the other side. Had the oil, brake, PS fluid caught fire I'd have had a real problem. Now the tool box smells like burnt donkey hair, I need to get that fire extinguisher that I've been neglecting! :fs2:

I have recently seen the light of anti-seize, if it has threads, it gets it, anything metal on metal gets it, I put it on everything and anything unless it requires lock-tight or grease. Just a suggestion, but being a dezert manche you don't have to worry about rust that much. May help with the metal on metal wear though.

Thanks dude, I'm really just a fool who doesn't know when to quit.

Yes no appendages or torso damage because I used my face to cushion the impact. I like my MJ a lot better, it's bigger, heavier, wider, more stable and the hydro clutch and AX15 make it easy. It drives and shifts like a Rolls Royce compared to any CJ I've driven. Long gear throws and the road manners of a 1946 one ton truck. They're fun and cool, but for me, I get irritated driving them on the road. Loud, slow, leaky tops, awful handling, I still like em though.

Last night, raining on a muddy road going a little too fast. Hit the ditch and had a slow speed flop over on the driver's side. Busted bell housing, radiator, battery, clutch linkage, busted front left spring bracket, probably more. Luckily I only got a scrap on the left eye and a badly bruised ego. First accident in 21 years. Not sure when the spring hanger broke, before or after.

I like that look, add lockers and a winch and 31s ought to take you anywhere.

Had the cables on wrong.... :dunce: Negative goes to the object, pos to the electrodes....much better results but the heat riser still won't move so its going back in. Its wet in the picture but almost all the rust is gone.

Congrats, my little brother is an electrician journeyman, its not easy to get in any trade.

Awesome Rob!

I guess that would work if the drum was isolated from the ground.

I dislike mud - a lot. My disdain for the stuff probably comes from the numerous times getting stuck in it while deer hunting in Louisiana as a teenager. My friend Brian thought his CJ6 could go through anything and more often than not we spent the day digging his jeep out in the drizzling rain. Anyhow, despite my hate for the stuff, I played in it some the other day, ended up bashing the right rear bed panel on a small tree, got stuck on said tree, then just winched the jeep through the pit. Here's a grainy cell phone video, can't figure out how to embed it. I'm actually driving over a late 40s Buick that's been upside down in that hole for a long long time. Can't see it, its underwater. http://www.flickr.com/photos/37014918@N07/6442689443/ Apparently, due to the thumbs up I'm giving, I guess I do like mud.

Don't have a good before picture but you can see by the results this morning what it looked like before. There's a heat riser valve in the manifold which I'm hoping to get freed up. We had some rain last night so I unhooked the charger and let it go on the battery which was drained from 12V to 4V overnight and that slowed the process a lot. It may also need more electrodes (I incorrectly called them anodes earlier). I've read to get 360 degrees of coverage some guys line the bottom and the sides with thin sheet metal as an electrode since the electrons flow in a straight line. When its done, it should be covered in that black sludge which wipes right off. I've got it cooking again now and I'll let it go all day and check again.

Just wanted to share my electrolysis experiment. This is so ridiculously easy and cheap it should be illegal. I've got the exhaust manifold off my CJ3A in it now and it should be done by morning. This is something I should have done a long time ago and it would have saved about $75 bucks worth of wire wheels and a lot of time. I built it with scrap metal and it didn' cost me anything except a few bucks for the "Washing Soda". The sacrificial anodes are the leaf spring u-bolts I cut off my CJ3A and welded to other scrap pieces. I see no downside to electrolysis at all and I'm thinking of digging a hole, lining it with plastic and doing the entire tub. There's a lot of info on this technique out there on the web, but after doing it myself I am really happy with it. After an hour, the rust is bubbling off nicely. We'll see what it looks like in the morning.

Oh yeah, I just pulled this from the way back machine....one banana, two banana, three banana, FOUR! Hated the Bugaloos from some reason though. UjS1nrsJhTQ and don't forget!!! The lovely and talented Penelope... RRRzWTRvR5k

In that case it may get the spare 242 I've got laying around.

So you're saying my 86' with a three speed auto 904 has a 23 spine output?

That hurts, sorry about the loss Jim, RIP.

Lots of good info on these on the Willys Tech yahoo group. I'm a lurker there for my old CJs. Dr. Vern from JP magazine and many other bona fide old Jeep experts are on it.

This is why Jim is in the same league as Sir Richard Burton and Edmond Hillary, Steve McQueen, John Wayne and Ernest Shackleton. Look at all that Jeep glory!

Brandon, get your priorities straight sir....less workin, more Jeepin'! :banana:

Good, but did it also have an external slaved AX15. I found one once in a JY already pulled and sitting on the ground. I didn't have the money at the time so I hid it in the trunk of a car on a nearby row. Came back a couple of days later to get it and they had crushed the whole row of cars,,,,,there went my low mileage AX-15 with an external slave dang it!

I don't have to worry about it, I'm the only person on the planet that knows the trick to actually open my tailgate.

One more thing, probably a good idea to take the winch apart and slap some RTV/silicone on the mating surfaces to waterproof it as best possible.

I'd rather eat eat New York sewer rats basted with linseed oil and snuffleupagus snot roasted over railroad ties..... Sorry touched a nerve, ate too many goats and geese and drank too much milk straight from the cow growing up. Though I'm actually in the goat market to keep our 5 acres down, just can't afford the fencing for em.....and milk from the cow ain't that bad really. :smart: