Since my last posting the engine and transmission has been installed. There was allot of headache with trying to remember where all of the plugs on the wire harness belong and it took Brian and I quite a few nights to get all the wire harness put back together and cleaned up.. At this point the engine is almost ready to fire up once the cooling system is hooked back up, but before I finish that we need to finish designing and fabricating the steering and track bar. This will be allot easier to accomplish without the sheet metal of the front fenders and grill in the way. I went to the junk yard this weekend and picked up a front drive line from a late 80's Cherokee to use as a rear drive line.. The front drive line already has a double cardan joint at one end and a slip yoke at the other... The drive line right now is about 3 inches too long and I plan on grinding out the weld of the slip fit on the cardan side and shortening up the tube length of the drive line and re welding it.. I know that the diameter of the tubing is smaller than what a normal rear drive line is but at this point i doubt that it will be an issue.. If I do end up breaking the drive line due to it's smaller diameter then we will change it out at that point... But so far it has only cost me 30 bucks for the new rear drive line as apposed to 300-400 bucks to have one built... I will get into more detail on the steps we took on making this once it is complete...
There are just a bunch of odds and end things that need to be done before I can drive the Jeep and some of them are easy 15-20 minute jobs and others like changing out the ring and pinion and rebuilding the axles are more of a weekend project. Here are a few pictures of the progress we have made of the last few weeks..
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