Building my 66 CJ6 to look capable of things it will never do

I've been lurking here off and on for years and decided my latest jeep was a keeper, so I joined up. I say "latest" jeep cause this is the 55th jeep I have owned. I bought my CJ6 off CL out of Mississippi over the holidays. It is home and the tub is off the frame already. I ordered 3.5" wrangler lift springs from Quadratec and all the stuff I need to outboard the springs from Ruffstuff. The body will not be altered. I'm installing a D44HD up front and a 14 bolt in the rear, both full width, and to be different, I'm doing them both SUA. I do not need a lot of height, and with 4.10 axles a 33" tire will put me in the sweet spot for power. I plan on suspension seats mounted to a full cage, and Saginaw power steering-which is what I have been looking at the most on here lately. Making room for that column looks like a challenge with the front dump exhaust. I'd also like to install a T-18 with a Dana 20, but keeping it passenger side drop is required and I don't want to drop money on an adapter if I can avoid it, as that money will be well spent elsewhere. Oh, and my jeep came with a decent full hard top, so I'll be fixing it up nice as well. Coming from the south, the jeep is not very rusty, and all of the fasteners actually unscrewed-something we are not used to on jeeps this old around here! I'm glad to be here, and look forward to gleaning much knowledge from all of you and hoping I can help someone else along the way. I have pics as soon as I can get a site located to put them on....

 

Phototbucket works well for me for pics.

 

Here are some pics...I think...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/114014609@N08/11857613924/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/114014609@N08/11858000086/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/114014609@N08/11858007376/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/114014609@N08/11858017556/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/114014609@N08/11857209405/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/114014609@N08/11857489753/

 

How do I get the pics to actually show in the post instead of just a link?

 

Have you thought about ground clearance issues with a 14bolt and 33's? That just seems like WAY overkill for 33's.

 

http://s997.photobucket.com/user/bc...onal A-120 Build/57IH51_zpsfc843e25.jpg.html]

 

open 2 tabs one here and one to your photobucket account
click on the picture you want to post to the right of the pic are 4 choises
click the IMG one and it will show "copied " them move to here and paste

 

When you reply to a post, click on Go Advance. After you enter your post, click on Preview Post and what you see there will be your post. If you like it click on Submit Post

 

Welcome from butte county ca


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Ok, I think I see how to do the pics and I'll try that tomorrow when I'm back on my computer. On the iPad now and don't want to try it from here. I got photobucket all set up.

Now, for a technical question. Found a ford t-18. I get what is required to mate it to my v-6 bell with the drilling, welding a tab on, etc. what is required to mate it to my d-18 transfer or a Dana 20 transfer? All the fords were drivers side drop weren't they? Is that where the high dollar adapter comes in? Also, do I have to use a hydraulic clutch? Seems like I should be able to keep the stock pivot and cable as long as I can keep the ball on the transfer end of the tube...
havent ever done a tranny swap, but while the tub is off it looks like the right time. Sorry for the lack of caps, but typing on this iPad makes me crazy. Been reading t-18 posts for hours and haven't seen answers to those questions yet. I have seen reference to using a scout adapter for the 20. Thanks!

 

14 bolts is overkill with 33" inch tire....the pumpking of a 14 bolts wont leave big clearance under it. Dana 44 with be perfect. Been runnning a 360 with t18 with tsl 36" for 2 year, rear dana 44 with welded carrier, never broke axle yet.

Also 14 bolts weight way much more than a dana 44.

 

Bryan, to get pics to show up, you somehow have to grab the URL (will look something like this and usually end with .jpg:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2706/4131887578_1401c7e067_b.jpg

then you put tags around it like this:

 

Take a look at these pages for info on T18 to D18 or D20: http://www.novak-adapt.com/catalog/adapters/transmission_to_transfer_case/t18_T19_to.htm

 

My compliments on your choice of jeeps to call your keeper.




Troy Cantrell
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Build thread - '66 CJ 6:
http://www.jeep-cj.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15075

 

Welcome to the forum,
Here is a pic of a Wagoneer D44 next to a 14 bolt. Not the best pic to show the difference but it's a huge difference because the D44 is about a foot closer to the camera. The 14 bolt with 33" tires will leave you with just under 10" of ground clearance not to mention the lack of fuel tank clearance if you have the rear mounted gas tank.
[/URL] 20140110_175628 by Sparky Powers, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

Lets try some pics today...

 

Well, that worked, so lets get to where we are as of yesterday. Tub is off, powerwashed it all after thoroughly soaking overnight with a citrus degreaser on all of it, and then brought in and put on jackstands for the axle removal, which will take place this evening.





A big THANK YOU for guiding me through the picture posting issue. Should have minor updates as we proceed. I won't bore you with the "installed a bolt" stuff, but will try to show my outboard installation clearly. Got the outboarding brackets from RuffStuff today, and they are TOP QUALITY. Axles coming out are 3.73 ratio as determined by the "spin and count". I found a Ford T-18 and a Scout T-? with a Dana 20 behind it. If I can verify the Scout tranny is a T-18 I'll buy that stuff. Then it looks like I will need the one piece bellhousing since mine has the adapter, right?