Just A Nerd

This project just keeps on going. I’m not complaining, I just can’t wait to drive this beautiful beast. I got the front diff cover pulled off. There was some milky fluid in there but I’m pretty sure it’s from sitting in my previous garage for a year that wasn’t insulated …

Started later than I thought we would tonight but we got a lot done. Started by removing the old dummy axle from the 2wd setup: Once that came out we started working on getting the front diff in. The only real problem we had, besides the general struggle of holding …

There was a little delay in process over the weekend as I had a wedding and rehearsal to attend Friday/Saturday. However, I spent all day yesterday working on the Jeep. On Friday I picked up all 5 u-joints so that I’m all good there and shouldn’t have to worry about …

Drove an hour and a half each way to get the correct transfer case (finally). Looks pretty clean. The only thing I think I need now is whatever wires go into the transfer case besides the speed sensor. Then after a few hours we got the Jeep running perfect now. …

Well, it runs. We had a little hiccup as apparently when I torqued down the intake and exhaust bolts the intake somehow got stuck on the little stud and caused an obvious huge intake leak. So, we corrected that and got it fired up. Cooling worked perfectly. It purred like …

Good News Last night we made a ton of progress. We got the AC mounted up, got the radiator installed, got all the cooling hooked up and the shifter cable for the transmission. Now it’s here: Bad News I’m a dumb ass and when I was pulling the radiator/ac condenser …

It Begins We spend the majority of Saturday getting the engine installed into the Jeep. The morning was spent getting the engine prepped as best as we could so that we didn’t have to maneuver around the engine bay. We, last minute, decided to paint the timing chain cover so …

In case the point hasn’t been made, I very much hate rust. I also very much love my Jeep. So, in an effort to keep that nasty cancer away from my beloved Jeep, I continued my rust preventing under coating and also gave the front diff a second (or third) …

Finally got the underbody cleaned up completely and was able to paint. It’s a little hard to see from the picture but I’ve got a nice and thick coat of the Farm Paint on there. Man is that stuff sticky. I was good while painting and wore gloves but lost …