Reviving a flatty...

My newest Jeep isn't really ECJ5 material as its a '90 YJ. No where near as cool as your 2A but heres a couple of pics. First one is as I got it as a present for Valentines Day. The second is after some parts changed and my 10 year old step son helped me rattle canned it with the Krylon.

 

Those are the same Jeep? Very cool...

 

OK so more tuning got done and more parts showed up today. Finished painting the rear rack and got it installed as well.

I can't seem to figure out what's up with the Jeep and the way it's running... I can get it to idle fine, drive fine on easy ground/downhills, etc... but as soon as I get on the gas in 3rd gear the Jeep seems to hesitate and lose all power... For a while it acted like it wanted to backfire out the carb so I richened things. Still hesitates... can't figure it out.

I also hooked up the vacuum gauge to see if that shed any light... vacuum seems good. I posted up a video of the startup/idle/vacuum if anyone can help me out on how it looks...



Oh and check the new seats... they'll be getting installed in the next couple of days...



Getting there...

 

Shouldn't you have more like 20 inches of vacuum instead of 15?

 

My house is right around 6,000ft... so I think the vacuum's ok.

 

Forgot about that, I'm at about 1500 above sea level. My dad's car with a mean cam can still pull 15hg around here.

 

Well I finally got the thing running a WHOLE lot better today... I replaced the fuel filter and noticed that the PO had put the old one on backwards... grrrr

Runs much better now... time to tune the carb(again) now that the fuel source is actually reliable haha

 

Nice color choice.

 

if you dont like the correct seats
there are lots of people that do!

i didnt think i was going to be able to find original seats for mine.
till RONDOG saved the day.

 

Did you drive that thing from Vail to Durango...in the rain??

 

Bill...
I would love to use the original seats... reupholstery is freakin expensive though! The new seats were cheap so that gives me plenty of time to do the old ones the right way

COJeepGuy...
No, didn't drive it all the way. There's no way you'd catch me with a 2A on I-70! I flat towed it most of the way.

 

De-sludged the oil pan yesterday and cleaned the old shop rags and rubber bits out of the oil pickuup... resealed everything and bolted it back up with some 40W summer oil. Oil pressure is awesome and it seesm much happier!

Also replaced the coil, condendor, rotor, and points... I think I'm a simple tune-up away from a streetable 2A! Booya!

-Bill, we'll have to meet up on Main Street as soon as the thing'll make the drive

 

CANT WAIT MAN.
we will be the cool cats in the very capable ice cream getters.....

 

Well I got tired of trying to make the engine run well and decided to tackle another project. I needed a way to mount my new seats... proved to be a rather involved thing the try and do well. After some time with the bender and welder I can up with something that I think will work until I can refinish the original seats...

Both seats mounted w/o the covers... plus my new center console.


You can't see the center support in this pic.... but you can see the awesome rotten tool bin that will need to be replaced...


Hopefully tomorrow I can get the finishing touches done on the seat mounts and try to get them painted. Then it's back to the engine.... yahoo

 

Booya!

Knocked out a big piece of the puzzle today... got the little tank running well and went for my first drive of any real length (2-3 miles)... I think the distributor shaft bushing needs to be replaced though... it makes a lot of racket (almost sounds like a rod bearing, but I can feel it in the distributor cap)

Installed a new alternator after the old one tested poo... turned out the old one wasn't installed or wired correctly.


The previous owner also fried the original ammeter when they hooked it up to the new 12V alternator so I replaced that gauge with a voltmeter. Still need to fix speedometer and install a new temperature gauge...

Getting there... look out UncleBill, I think it's only a couple days of tuning away from making the trip up there!

 

Got a couple things done today and one new project got started....

Fabbed up a timing peephole cover out of some aluminum scrap...


Found a spring at Lowe's that works beautifully to replace my worn throttle return spring...


Then I felt like having some fun with the project... I poked around online and found some old army pics of the "deep water fording" package they used to put on the Jeeps... so I thought I'd start making my own.

My motivation:



Here's where I got with it today until I ran out of daylight...

Under the hood I used the factory carb horn and 2" tubing. Still have to install a fitting for the crankcase breather.


This hole in the firewall was put there by a previous owner to run a heater into the cab. I thought I'd put it to better use.


Adapter plate made to cover hole in firewall... similar plate on other side will bolt together using factory holes. I'm going to re-mount the VIN tag on this plate just below the intake tube.


Routing out to the windshield...


From the front...


A quick-coupling will be used to extend tubing to the top of the windshield when it's up... that way I can shorten it when the window's down... little air cleaner added just cuz it was sitting around.


From the front...


Lots of work still to be done with this thing... the purists might hate it but I think it'll be sweet when it's done. Plus I'm doing the whole thing without cutting anything

 

too cool for school!

 

A little bit more work got done... the rain kept me stuck inside today

Interior bolted down... found out my new tire size won't fit on the rear rack (grrrr)... the bed is the only place it'll fit. Going to have to make a mount for it.


My fenders also have the factory mounting holes for the military spotlights... I tried out some that I had sitting around and they're just a touch too big and interfere with the hood latch. Some Hella 500's should fit just fine...


It's slowly becoming a real vehicle... hooray

All I need before I can take it for a loooong test drive is a working temp gauge...