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Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by Monkeyman, Jun 27, 2004.

  1. Jun 27, 2004
    Monkeyman

    Monkeyman Jeeper and Fast Boater

    East Troy WI
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    I haven't posted any updated in a while so here we go. I bought a ramesey 8000lb winch, a 2000 series (worm gear and series wound) and a set of high back seats with rails from a swap meet in the spring. I went to mount the seats and had to cut a little body out to make them go back far enough to be confortable, and that is when I finally realized that the bady was in to poor of condition to even bother mounting my seats to. So I now have cut all the body off from the fire wall and dash section back. I then was able to see the whole frame and realized that would need some work (were the tranny cradle bolted up I had some bad stresss cracks, and the frame was way out of wack becouse of them) so I took and cut and straightened all the bad areas and wellded angle on the inside of the frame to reinforce there areas. I am now boxing the entire frame so that it will hold up better to my buick 350's power. I also decided that if I was going all out like this that I better take and actually tie my roll bar into the frame becouse how it was it was not to likely to take any hard roll overs. My motor (buick 350 out of a 71 j2000) is all back together and ready to go. I installed my dana 300- sm465 adapter. Once my frame is all done I will put in my drive train and then build a custom body around that. I will get some pics up ASAP. Any ideas and, or coments you all have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot and wish me luck. Zach Jachowicz
     
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