Project Geosynchronous Orbit

[MoparManiac]

If you read, I'm just doing door bars. No doors.

Yeah I could have made it a bit taller. Not a big deal.

 

[twodoorXJ]

Thats sweet.

Replicating that is gonna be fun lol

 

[MoparManiac]

Haha yeah ill probably just wing it again.

Probably wont get to that until next weekend. Tomorrow is the b pillar bar.

 

[OverlandZJ]

Lookin good... why no doors vs removable ones and moving the a-pillar bar to the back of the fender? You own battery powered Carhardt onesies?

I know a guy with a complete header panel.. minus one headlight surround. Was going to hang on garage wall .. but if you need it.

 

[MoparManiac]

Haha nah im gonna be taking out the glass as well since I plan on racing it next season at line mtn.

I actually picked up a header panel cheap locally, thanks though John!

 

[XJLI]

oh dip

 

[MoparManiac]

Redid the passenger side a-pillar, and bent up the driver's side a-pillar with the help of Dundy. Also threw up my b-pillars just to see. Nothing is TOTALLY in place so things might look slightly off.

And my b-pillars would make perfect fender bars on my CTD :laugh:

And part of the new drivetrain. NV4500 and NP241.

 

[RCman]

AWESOME!
Looking good.

 

[foxwar71]

Rock N' Roll.

 

[chedisme]

looks good.

 

[5-Speed XJ]

I think I missed it but whats the plan with the 241?

 

[MoparManiac]

Thanks guys! Might try to start the tube along the bedsides tomorrow.

I think I missed it but whats the plan with the 241?

Stay tuned

 

[eflores]

tube is for sissy's

 

[ktm racer 419]

tube is for sissy's

thats the exact reason im building my cage out of angle iron. i dont want people to think im a sissy

 

[eflores]

thats the exact reason im building my cage out of angle iron. i dont want people to think im a sissy

Well sonofabitch.....pics to gtfo

 

[MoparManiac]

Started off the weekend by doing some maintenance to my '01 Dodge CTD. Turns out the fifth gear housing on the NV4500 is cracked. So my plan is to take the housing off my MJs NV4500, put it on the CTD, and buy the cast iron upgrade for the MJ one.

With that in mind, I figured I would tear apart the NV4500 and NP241 destined for the MJ.

Looks like someone had been in this unit. It has 200k miles, but it doesn't look like it at all. The fluid looked brand new, all the bearings felt amazing, and every gear looks perfect.

Keep in mind I have yet to brake clean this thing either. This is exactly how it looked when I unbolted it.

Shift forks look amazing.

Chisel marks on the fifth gear retaining nut led me to believe someone's been in this thing.

And here's the front half of the NP241 that I'll be using. 6 gear planetaries are a bonus, as well as additional webbing/beefiness on the casting as compared to an NP231. This came from a Chevy so it has the 27 spline input. I'll be changing that over to the Dodge 29 spline unit to mate up to the NV4500.

After dealing with that yesterday, I went back to focusing on some tube work. Got the tube along the top of the bedside all bent up and cut to length. Ordered a JD2 tube notcher and Swag Offroad reacharound arm, so notching will be coming next week/weekend.

I think it came out pretty good. I always hated tubes that hang out in the middle of nowhere and this wasn't too much work.

 

[kastein]

you ordered a reacharound? lastara

looks great!

 

[XJLI]

looks nice, thats a sweet way to work the tube in there

 

[MoparManiac]

Thanks guys.

Can't wait to have a week and a half off to GSD.

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

put some XXXXing air in your tires, the rest looks ok