Recent content by Heffs_Heep

It originally a driver drop out of a 81 wagoneer. I didn't change it. I think you could make a passenger side drop into a driver side drop by re tubing the axle. other than that you'd just have to find a passender side drop TC, which I think some chevy stuff is(Dana300). but you'd have to run...

Making it pretty. Welded on some tow points and started painting. primer, then satin black.... I think... Might have been gloss. you can kind of tell in this pic. when I burned on the long angled plate I forgot about warping and welded it continuous. you can see the slight curve it has in...

Next project that I took on was building a rear bumper, the factory bumper was pretty mangled by this point, both tail lights broken, and I popped the rear glass out once when hitting a line pretty hard(didn't break though so i just put it back in). As far as design goes I was wanting...

Will definitely be going back to the 195 tstat. Very good to know about the gap needed, I wasn't really sure of the science and all that so thats some good info, I'll try something new when I go to put a different fan on. I cut the old mechanical fan pulley off so I've got quite a bit of...

over the next few wheeling trips i developed a pretty bad serpentine belt squeak. after a series of parts replacements and test I narrowed it down to the compressor bracket/fan pulley. it's a pressed in bearing that isn't really replaceable. Everytime I found some information on replacing the...

Short post. decided to take the doors off this summer and had to find some mirrors. so found some 10$ mirrors from orileys and bent up some flat bar, drilled some holes and made these. they ended up shaking too much, not enough support Im guessing. so I modified them a little and they work...

Next phase of the built was that I moved and got my own shop to work in. I'm sure my friend was happy to have me out of his shop for good. gettin settled into the new shop with an oil change and some under hood maintenance. From here I waited a few months so I could get a welder, as I also...

Couple little details have been coming to me as I think back about this swap. 1st: U joints, I installed orileys brand or "superstrength" I think, anyway that has been the downfall of my set up so far, I have since replaced with spicers but those orileys joints both broke and warped axle shaft...

Alright, just a couple pictures left from the axle swap. Installing the axle. Me feeling satisfied of a completed project. Trailered to the exhaust shop to have pipe run. was cut off right under the oil pan at this point. New exhaust pipe. Local Muffler shop guy does an A+ job and...

So there was a lot of: cut, fit, cut, fit, cut, fit to get to where I had these and the right curve and length but eventually I got here. Fun fact that makes this more sketchy, the front and rear axle swaps were by debut into the world of stick welding, it had only been mig up to this point...

it'll probably take a few posts to do this next part, front axle swap. I took quite a few picture during this process as it was my first time doing anything to this magnitude. I first began collecting parts, a large order from ballistic, some from BJ's offroad, polyperformance, ebay and some...

my axle swapping project took a while as I lived in a town 45 minutes from where I was doing the project. Heres what pictures I still have of the rear axle swap. Pulled the axles from the Waggy Cleaned out the diff buddy of mine helping clean up the housing Spring packs we put together...

Just wanted to make a quick post here, found a picture of those sketchy extended control arms I was talking about, basically just cut the control arms, then welded in a piece of 1x2x1/8" that had been cut and welded at I believe around a 120 deg angle. the idea was to have kindof a built in...

Set up like this I wheeled it a couple times but the ghetto front springs set up starting to deform, the rear packs I built were really stiff, shackle angle was terrible and I was having really bad death wobble due to jacking up all kinds of geometry. The shocks, breaklines were all out of...

Correcting shackle angle was the best thing I ever did for my suspension. Huge huge difference with a good shackle angle.