Jeep Driving Maggots

[warthog]

Update-
I am on it.
Going to pick it up Sat.

Got some more info too:

Dana 44 rear
Full roll cage
Factory Back seat
New Tires
New Top

I am so freakin stoked.
I have been looking for this Jeep for years now.

[mntlion]

enjoy: I loved my jeep (money pit)

[Viva]

Nice! Enjoy the ride.

On the weak engine theme, I had a 78 Bronco with a stock 400 V8 and the C6 auto tranny. Incredibly weak. You pop the hood and there were emissions hoses and canisters everywhere. I saved up for an Edelbrock Performer intake manifold and a Carter 625 cfm carburator (I also got headers and a dual-point distributor, but those didn't do shit). I ripped out all of the emissions stuff when I installed the new hardwear. Big fuckin' difference. Gas mileage was probably unaffected, although I'm inclined to believe it improved just a little.

I'll bet that a simple manifold and carburator upgrade to an otherwise stock 304 will deliver a marked improvement. Now, if you go with a cam as well, that jeep will be insane.

Have fun!

[Littlejerry]

Sweet you will love it. Looks very clean. However, I hope you enjoy wrenching. I am always working on my 88XJ, 5' lift, 32s, and rear locker. The wife has recently termed it the bucket. She just does not understand though that if I don't keep the XJ going then I am just going to have to start beating on the 03WJ and she does not really want that.

If it does not already have one throw a lunch box locker in that dana 44 and go hit some trails.

[warthog]

and go hit some trails.

Notice the Florida address. Locker not needed.

[rightcoast]

you need 38x15.50x15 Boggers to fit in down there.

[Littlejerry]

I still say lock it. I have seen picts of some decent wheeling in Florida. Plus isn't there lots of mud.

[warthog]

Will be a trailer queen.

Well, not quite, but close.
I will just use it to pull my boat around and have fun. I won't be doing a whole lot of 4 wheelin with it. I don't like breaking stuff.

[Blatant]

the old adage:
Jeeps Empty Every Pocket.....







Well I'm jealous anyway...warthog your a dick....don't buy it!

[warthog]

Blatant- YOU"RE a JONG, and I'm buying it anyway.

[rightcoast]

post up some pics when you get it home!!

[Art Shirk]

Heeps are for women, buy an EB and wheel for real.

[Captn Ron]

Congrats on your new toy, it looks good. I have had 5 jeeps, and the last 2 have had 304's. The only common issue both of them shared was a slight, but annoying leak at the rear main seal.

The one I brought down from Montana only had 27K on it (snowplow use only) and it leaked the exact same (amount and place) as the one with 113K on it. On the upside, the 304 has the motorcraft 2100 carb which is very easy to rebuild.

Another issue to maybe think about is the new carpet thing. I recently put in new carpet in my current cj (1984) and when I took out the old carpet there was quite a bit of rust. It seems the carpet traps water and then oxidation does its thing on your floors. The window seal on cj's is well known for drying out and allowing rain to leak onto your floor. Not a good thing in Fl in the summer as you well know.

The MT cj that I took to Key west, had no carpet but instead had Rhino lined floors.That worked very well, I was a flyfishing guide and towed my skiff with it, so it saw a lot of saltwater type abuse.

I'm not trying to rain on your parade, just give you some things I've learned along the way.Besides, if you have had cj's before, you know what to expect. I see you're picking it up tomorrow, sorry I didn't post this info sooner, I don't look at the boards everyday,only when I'm hate-n on Florida and thinking about the ski stoke.

Been fishing in Fl a long time, have thick skin from the sun, jong away...