'79 Jeep Cj7 ~ Body Off Restoration ~ 5 Speed ~ 37" Tires ~ All Steel ~ 4.2l on 2040-cars
Warrenton, Virginia, United States
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This beautiful CJ was restored in my garage with every part removed and refurbished, replaced or upgraded. The body is from a 79 which it is titled. The frame and rebuilt motor are from an 85. It currently has antique tags. About $20,000 invested and I have receipts for the work and parts. It was built heavy duty for the trail but I kept the body as close to stock as possible so it could be taken back to complete stock.
Here are the details. Custom Wheels and Tires * 37 inch H1 Hummer tires includes spare * Hummer custom headlock wheels recentered to 8 lug Chevy for Dana 60 front/rear Lift & Custom Bumpers: * Old Man Emu stock height springs with spring over lift * Anti-wrap track bar with additional crossmember * Modified reinforced skid plate * Custom front bumper with hitch and clevis and light tabs * Custom heavy duty rear bumper with swing out tire carrier, gas tank and Hi Lift jack holders * Custom side rails mounted to frame Strait 6 Engine: * 258 rebuilt (1985) * forged pistons * mild cam. * 100 miles on it +/- * Offenhouser intake * Holley trucker carb (470 CFM) * Cold air intake * Hooker headers * no catalytic converter. * Custom wiring harness, clean install with no extra wires * HEI distributer * Odyssey battery yellow top * Aluminum radiator * Electric dual fans * Backup aftermarket mechanical temp and oil pressure gauges (factory are still installed and working) Transmission/Transfer Case * NV4500 (Dodge 97 pickup, non diesel) 5.6 granny first gear, 5 speed * Dana 300 transfer case, This leaks and needs new seals * Tom Woods driveshafts, Rear is CV Axles: * Front Dana 60 (85 Chevy K30) 4.56 gears * Eaton Electric Locker (switch was not installed yet, I built a custom switch housing with labels made from CJ dash lights) * Rebuilt & shortened to 60" by a Woodbridge, VA speedshop * Rear Dana 60 (Dodge) * Detroit Locker * Shortened to 56" with 2" Spacers Steering/Brakes: * 4 Wheel Disc Brake, Rear Cadillac Eldorado large calipers with integrated E brake * Front brakes are 1 ton Chevy matching the 1 ton front axle * Corvette Master Cylinder * Hydroboost kit (Smooth and can lock up 37" tires any time) * Stainless brake lines * 4 wheel disc proportioning valve * PSC/AGR steering pump * PSC Steering gear * Power steering cooler * Heavy Duty DOM tie rod & drag ling with hi-steer and heim rod ends Body: * Hard doors painted and new weatherstripping * Soft doors * Painted Massy Ferguson Gray * Bedlined inside and underneath * Has one rust spot below Jeep emblem in body * Frame was painted POR 15 inside and out and painted Cummins Diesel Beige * New lights all around * Stainless hardware kit * New windshield and wiper components (motor is old but works great) * Upgraded wrangler heater blower motor * Seats are 85 originals in great condition, small tear was patched by an upholsterer from underneath. * Shoulder belts, newer model roll bar * Tuffy 10" center console with Alpine CD stereo with iPod attachment Lots of new and used extra parts included, 3 large bins full. |
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Thu, 02 Jan 2014Some background: one of the more scandalous international incidents of he-said/he-said from 2012 was when Swedish magazine Teknikens Varld put the Jeep Grand Cherokee through its "moose (or elk) test" and reported that the SUV nearly rolled over. That lead to a whole lot of accusations and rebuttals: more than one website and Chrysler's own blog reported that the Jeep was overloaded; Chrysler said Teknikens printed the magazine then let Chrysler respond, Teknikens answered all of the charges in a lengthy post and said Chrysler was given a chance to comment before it went to print; when Chrysler sent investigators to oversee the test and the Jeep didn't go up on two wheels as it did in the first test, furthermore all four wheels stayed on the ground when Auto Motor und Sport tested a Grand Cherokee in the same way.
Teknikens then re-ran the test with a new vehicle and said it's been doing this test since the 1970s, uses the loading information that Chrysler provides to the Swedish motor authority and the previous Grand Cherokee passed with no problem. In the second test, the Jeep failed again, then it gave Chrysler engineers access to the car's electronics and ran the test again. In that second round the Grand Cherokee didn't repeat the lurid two-wheel action, but in eleven runs it blew out front left tire seven times. Chrysler still objects to the results of all of those tests and maintains that vehicle was safe.
The 2014 Grand Cherokee was given its shot at the gauntlet in the latest round of moose tests, and Teknikens Varld reports that it passed without any problem at all, its stability control working perfectly, controlling motion at low speeds and all the way up to 44.1 miles per hour. You can watch the video of the new test and read the press release from the magazine on the updated Grand Cherokee below.
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Chernoby maintains that the issues being encountered aren't unusual for the launch of a new vehicle - particularly one with a new powertrain - and he downplayed the delay, telling Jeep dealers that they "will have ample inventory of the midsize SUV by fall." Among the kinks being worked out? Calibrating the Cherokee's cutting-edge ZF nine-speed automatic transmission and refining assembly line tasks to make the process more efficient.
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