DFW Rusty
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Picked this up yesterday- I feel it was an overall good deal.
1977, CJ7, 304 V8, T18 4 speed granny, Dana 20 T-case w/ twin stick. Brand new Holley 2 barrel carburetor. The guy I bought it from has the engine running at 100%, really did a good job maintaining the engine.
The guy wasn't 100% sure on the axles, he said the owner before him said it was scout axles. They are a 5 lug, which I dont know of any other vehicle that ran D44 w/ 5 lug and 5 on 5.5 pattern except scouts. Both axles are semi-trussed, they dont have a truss all the way accross, but over the diff for the 4-link. Previous owner installed 3 brand new calipers.
Front axle- Dretroit, 5.38 gears, stock shafts, someone put drive flanges on to delete the lock out hubs.
Rear axle- welded diff, 5.38 gears, Alloy usa chromoloy shafts, disc brake conversion.
triangulated 4 link suspension front and rear, 14" travel bilstein shocks, what appears to be 4"-6" lift TJ coils. Looks like 1/2 or 5/8" heims.
Currie antirock sway bar kit in the front. I need to build extra links, my last rock crawler pretzeled about 4 links.
Fully hydraulic steering- looks like a home made kit. Generic orbital valve, stock power steering pump, CNH ram (prolly TSC brand or just tractor ram). However, it works really good.
Trailworthy Fab H1 beadlocks. I like H1 rims, but now I am stuck with a very small selection on tires. The goodyears have to go!
On board air, using an old wagoneer a/c compressor on a toggle switch. The front and rear bumpers are the holding tanks. Builds up to 135 PSI pretty quick and then will shut off. It is on a toggle switch on the dash.
Old Pierce 12000lb winch.
Dual Optima red top batteries both are only a couple months old.
Brand new fuse box and wiring all throughout the jeep,
They guy I bought the jeep from put a set of brand new Pro-Car 1606 racing seats in it, which are very very comfortable.
The jeep has 3 built in tool boxes in the back, one is a lunchbox style, one is a chest & drawer, and the last is a flat single drawer.
The roll cage seems ok, it's smaller tube, but it's got a lot of gusseting and seems pretty well built, the front seats sit on the roll cage, and lots of places are tied to the frame.
He said the headlights are some name brand LED bulbs, pretty bright. It has Amazon ridgid knock off rock lights, has a 50" led light bar on top, 12" led light bar on the back, trailer amber for the turn signals below the head lights, and trailer brake lights for the back, All works pretty good.
1977, CJ7, 304 V8, T18 4 speed granny, Dana 20 T-case w/ twin stick. Brand new Holley 2 barrel carburetor. The guy I bought it from has the engine running at 100%, really did a good job maintaining the engine.
The guy wasn't 100% sure on the axles, he said the owner before him said it was scout axles. They are a 5 lug, which I dont know of any other vehicle that ran D44 w/ 5 lug and 5 on 5.5 pattern except scouts. Both axles are semi-trussed, they dont have a truss all the way accross, but over the diff for the 4-link. Previous owner installed 3 brand new calipers.
Front axle- Dretroit, 5.38 gears, stock shafts, someone put drive flanges on to delete the lock out hubs.
Rear axle- welded diff, 5.38 gears, Alloy usa chromoloy shafts, disc brake conversion.
triangulated 4 link suspension front and rear, 14" travel bilstein shocks, what appears to be 4"-6" lift TJ coils. Looks like 1/2 or 5/8" heims.
Currie antirock sway bar kit in the front. I need to build extra links, my last rock crawler pretzeled about 4 links.
Fully hydraulic steering- looks like a home made kit. Generic orbital valve, stock power steering pump, CNH ram (prolly TSC brand or just tractor ram). However, it works really good.
Trailworthy Fab H1 beadlocks. I like H1 rims, but now I am stuck with a very small selection on tires. The goodyears have to go!
On board air, using an old wagoneer a/c compressor on a toggle switch. The front and rear bumpers are the holding tanks. Builds up to 135 PSI pretty quick and then will shut off. It is on a toggle switch on the dash.
Old Pierce 12000lb winch.
Dual Optima red top batteries both are only a couple months old.
Brand new fuse box and wiring all throughout the jeep,
They guy I bought the jeep from put a set of brand new Pro-Car 1606 racing seats in it, which are very very comfortable.
The jeep has 3 built in tool boxes in the back, one is a lunchbox style, one is a chest & drawer, and the last is a flat single drawer.
The roll cage seems ok, it's smaller tube, but it's got a lot of gusseting and seems pretty well built, the front seats sit on the roll cage, and lots of places are tied to the frame.
He said the headlights are some name brand LED bulbs, pretty bright. It has Amazon ridgid knock off rock lights, has a 50" led light bar on top, 12" led light bar on the back, trailer amber for the turn signals below the head lights, and trailer brake lights for the back, All works pretty good.
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