My 1950 Willys Trail Rig

[OWEN]

Guess I gotta upgrade to a Pro account.

Picked up a couple HP front 60s from my friend who is going with Rockwells. I stripped one housing tonight, looks like it will be what I need. Next I have to find some SRW hubs or a complete 14 bolt with SRW hubs... And I am going o have to firgure out what to do with my narrowed 60... might be a good upgrade for my wrangler

[netrachamp1853]

aww jeez, here we go hahaha

[OWEN]

Been doing more work then updates. I'll throw some pics up when I figure out what I am doing with my photo album.

Drivetrain is set in the jeep, its a couple inches higher than before which will give some nice belly clearance. I had to cut some of my firewall out and add in some sheet metal for bellhousing clearance. The TIG butt welds 18ga sheet metal pretty damn well. The new front 60 will work very well as a solution to the problems I talked about before. Trimmed some more frame and torched off the old motor mounts in favor of some new ones that will make room for the upper front links. Starting to move forward. Pics soon.

[clean4drxj]

I'm gonna have to shoot down to see this and have a few cold ones!

[Zullock Holmes]

can i come up this weekend????

[grundlepunch]

And I am going o have to firgure out what to do with my narrowed 60... might be a good upgrade for DANAS wrangler

fixed

[OWEN]

fixed

I might let it go to a good home... let me know if you are really interested in it.

[OWEN]

Pics.

New front 60, seems to take care of the previously mentioned problem




Ruff stuff heims for the uppers in front and to replace the ones on the rear uppers


Floor mod, needed for bellhousing clearance, 18 ga sheet metal butt welded TIG


Cut out old hacked motor mount frame mounts and patched



New motor mounts, provide more clearance for front upper links (and look a hell of a lot cleaner)

[clean4drxj]

Looks great so far... oh BTW.. NICE welds!

[OWEN]

Updates


35 spline time?

bling


Stance


Dana 60 truss/upper axle mount/ram mount made from 3"x4" box



Front 4 link tacked in




Just gotta move the upper axle link mount brackets out a little, the passenger side upper gets really close to the serp belt at a little over 5" uptravel. Other then that its pretty good.

[clean4drxj]

those are some purdy knuckles

[netrachamp1853]

looks awsome man, how narrow is that front 60?

[kracker]

all i can say....this build is absolutely insane

[OWEN]

looks awsome man, how narrow is that front 60?

the one in my jeep? its full width, the one I took out was 65" wide

all i can say....this build is absolutely insane

Ah its just booger welds and expensive parts collecting dust, but it is fun

Welded links



I broke out the wire feeder to save some time, welded up most of the stuff on the front axle, just waiting for my kp gussets/shock mounts from ballistic, and I want to bed a tube to rotect the whole thing and add a d ring for hooking up the winch.





Assembled and painted my engine black for better heat cooling and to look cooler and I boxed in my upper link frame mounts and gusseted my motor mounts






I really hate painting but I added a little class to my knuckles

[OWEN]

Oh yea that is a new GMB high volume water pump, I figured I would replace it while it was convenient