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Got the new front perches in the mail, Barnes 4wd makes em. Application is narrow CJ springs with I think 2.5” axle tube. We’ll see how much I have to modify them. They worked prefect on the rear ebd

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Nothing lane about this at all!

I’ve used those perches too. Worked great.
 
Yeah staying spoa since it’s already there. Just redoing some of it.
 
Scored some cheapness from eBay, Auburn Gear lunchbox locker. Looks to be NOS and was less than $200. This will go in the front.

Scrounged up some more $$ for Longfield front axles/birfs. Not cheap, but hopefully unbreakable with 29” tires.


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Only other $$$ thing on my want list is a roll cage kit but since I am OUT of fun money for now, so it’ll have to wait :frown:
 
Keeps the stock side gears. I kept the 26 spline ones out of the rear diff when I put the air locker in.
 
Did some shakin' down this AM. About 10ish miles of highway driving to the local OHV area. Still very gutless on the highway, 55mph was about the best i could do on flat ground. Feels and smells like it's running lean. I was able to richen up the secondary main jet and felt a noticeable improvement on the foot to the floor uphill highway sections. all my spare jets are too small to fiddle with it anymore so off to order some more from Pierce or Pegasus.


I did modify the bowl vent on the carb with JB weld, piece of brass hobby tubing and a chunk of plastic tubing. It did die on me in a few really bouncy sections and once when pointing down a steep incline. I think some fuel bowl slosh is to blame. Never had any issue when the nose was pointed up though, like Weber's typically do.

carb vent:
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excuse all the overlander crap (Trash bag, jerry can, traction boards) Traction boards are a joke, I just keep shuffling them from vehicle to vehicle and have never used em. I was out solo and didn't do anything too dumb anyway.
 
I've decided to eventually try a used a track/kick PS pump to see if it makes a difference with how weird my steering feels. I saved all the flat/serp. pulley stuff from the 92 Swift. Luckily that had a 4 bolt crank pulley that was dual serp belt, I also saved the water pump pulley and the alternator. that way i can use the track/kick flat belt with no worries. and I can always switch back to Vbelt stuff if i decide to.

the only hangup has been that the swift water pump pulley is shorter and has a different bolt pattern. there's about a 6mm difference in height and the bolt pattern wasn't compatible with the sammy's clutch fan. Since I have an old Atlas lathe and a spare sammy water pump pulley I decided to cut the top 6mm off the sammy pulley and weld it to the serp pulley from the swift.

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turned out ok, Cat yellow was the only full spray can I had :dustin:

I turned a mandrel/jig out of some aluminum bar to try and keep it all true but still ended up with a little runout. When I cut the stock sammy pulley I noticed it had some factory runout too, so maybe this will be ok.

FWIW the tracker fan/alt belt looks like a 4 rib instead of a 3 rib like the swift so that didn't seem to be an option.
 
Playing with some tracker/metro part mashup. My homemade water pump pulley mounted on the samurai water pump, metro alternator, tracker ps pump and metro/swift crank pulley.


Be interesting to see if the tracker pump changes my steering issues….
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Have you thought of electric power steering, works great and doesn't suck any power from the engine?
 
I think doing a TBI/micro squirt hack would be awesome but I have no time or $$ for that.
 
Mega Squirt is fun stuff, have it on a few motors. Been looking into putting MS on a 22re project Ive got going. if your able to run it in auto-tune configuration life gets good quickly. Its not equal to a true dyno tune but works much better than trying to guess building a static tune.
 
carslut said:
Mega Squirt is fun stuff, have it on a few motors. Been looking into putting MS on a 22re project Ive got going. if your able to run it in auto-tune configuration life gets good quickly. Its not equal to a true dyno tune but works much better than trying to guess building a static tune.
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Mega or micro squirt?

This is one realm I've kinda shyd away from all these years, just seemed like a foreign language. Now I see all these 21 year Olds on you tube tuning their $40k engines like no big deal I feel like maybe it's not so hard. :laughing:

I'd like to do a turbo 22re and zuk motor at some point.
 
Not much for updates, pulled front axle out for a tear down and rebuild to add the locker and long fields. My homemade metro/tracker water pump pulley is too far off (even for me) and won’t let me use the gm alternator kit I got. I broke down and ordered a Trail Tough crank pulley

Only pic I’ve taken in awhile

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A 1.6 8V water pump pulley probably has the right offset to line up with the swift crank pulley.
I know when I put trackick PS on my 1.3, I used the trackick crank pulley (redrilled for the 4 bolt samurai timing cog), 1.6 8V water pump pulley and trackick alternator and everything lined up fine.
 
Yeah skyhiranger i looked at mishmashing some tracker pulleys in there, but the track-kick alternator uses a wider belt than the metro so id have to get the matching alt too and then my metro crank pulley wouldn’t work. I think a GM pulley would fit the track-kick ps pump but in the end I just figured it was easiest just to buy a trail tough pulley.
 
I tried the same thing with a metro crank pulley and ran into issues. Had to dig into my thread to remember what it was.
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It's so close, but not quite. It will bolt on, water pump and alt belt lines up, but is a 3 rib belt instead of a 4 rib and the power steering pulley is ~1/4" further out.

So I drilled the spot welds out of the Sami pulley and am welding it to the kick pulley.
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I currently have all kick pulleys including the entire kick alt.
 
Frustrating how close it all is. That’s why I figured with a GM alternator (vbelt), mechanical fan and tracker PS I would be better off just forking over $$. If it works better than the TC pump I’ll sell all that stuff off probably.
 
It's been a while since I drove Wilson's samurai with 35x12.50s and a tc pump but I'd say it didn't seem any better or worse than mine with all tracker junk and currently 36x13.50s

Tc is a better pump platform though. Just not really needed with just a regular kick box. I'd be very surprised if the swap changes anything for you unfortunately.
 
I’m not expecting it to work miracles, but I just like tinkering with stuff.
 
SKULLYOTA said:
Yeah skyhiranger i looked at mishmashing some tracker pulleys in there, but the track-kick alternator uses a wider belt than the metro so id have to get the matching alt too and then my metro crank pulley wouldn’t work. I think a GM pulley would fit the track-kick ps pump but in the end I just figured it was easiest just to buy a trail tough pulley.
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You'd should be fine running the narrow belt on the wider pulley. I am pretty sure the rib spacing is the same and if you have everything lined up it should work fine. But since you've got the TT pulley coming, it is all moot at this point.
 
Running narrower ribbed belts on wider pulley's work fine. I run my supercharger using a 4 rib belt on a 6 ribbed pulley just fine.
 
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