My 1950 Willys Trail Rig

[Jeepbonehead]

that sucks, you'll figure it out though

[OWEN]

The headers have not arrived yet. Maybe tomorrow

This is the conversion guide that I used to fit my chevy BH on the Ford transmission. http://www.novak-adapt.com/knowledge/ford_to_gm.htm

I removed the transmission and cleaned the surfaces between the transmission and BH faces, thinking there was an alignment problem. The clutch releases fine with just the bellhousing bolted to the engine without the transmission, once the transmission is installed, it does not release. I am starting to think I did not cut the input bearing retainer short enough and it is pushing the clutch disc into the flywheel. Either way it is coming out again

[Jeepbonehead]

pics required now must see, detailed picks of exaust very curious

[OWEN]

hey let me know when ur gonna see if it all works ill stop by

Finished today, still doesn't work and the cherokee has a cracked head.... little disgusted today, but at least I got a new job

[netrachamp1853]

hey let me know when ur gonna see if it all works ill stop by

[OWEN]

I worked on it a little friday and saturday. My brother came to visit and we tried to get the clutch to work. Bleed the system at every point, extended the release rod, clutch still wouldn't release. Looks like maybe an alignment problem between the chevy bellhousing and ford transmission. Pulled the trans and transfer case yesterday, hopefully get it figured out today and put back in...

[OWEN]

I spent way too much time on getting aggrivated with the exhuast this weekend. Nothing was done, except putting pieces of tubing different place to try to get an idea. I couldnt come up with anything good, especially since the headers exit in a shitty spot.

The more I thought about it, the more mad I got. Today I made some calls after work. I got Steve from Advance Adapters on the phone and he was very knowledgable. I told him I was putting a 4.3 in a Flatfender and wanted to use their in frame headers. "They will not work for 2 reasons...1) The manual steering shaft... 2) Frame mounted clutch pedal." I told him more about my jeep and he said I should be ok since I eliminated both of those factory "limitations"

So next week sometime I should see these

And yes I got them in Nickle Plated for bling factor to compete with all of Shane's bling Hopefully I wont have to modify them

[Jeepbonehead]

wow do i hear you, every time i buy something i'm like i deffinitly didn;t plan on this, also why i have left things on mine to do

[OWEN]

what are inside those axles or yours? gears, diff, shafts?

4.56 gears, front welded (probably an ARB later on), detroit rear, front is narrowed to 63" WMS with 1541H alloy shafts, rear has a disc brake conversion, both are shaved. I run a NP435 and a D20 with a tera-low gear set and my crawl ratio is about 100:1


I want to definately go to an ARB front, and maybe some lower ring and pinions eventually. Its nice to do it all at once, but for me I do not have an endless budget, and I like working on it. So I left some things to do. Anyone who thinks this is a high dollar build is way wrong. I have spent more than I wanted but still nothing compared to what is out there. I have more repect for rigs built on a budget.

[Jeepbonehead]

what are inside those axles or yours? gears, diff, shafts?

[OWEN]

or you can get glasspack look-alike mufflers with the inserts in them

http://www.carchemistry.com/shop/ind...ct_detail&p=94

pretty pricey, they probably sound better than glasspacks and maybe quieter, which I like. Versus a 12 inch long summit glasspack is 20 bucks...

[Jeepbonehead]

those seem pretty cool i'd like to see how well they work

[OWEN]

the headers drop right outside the frame rails right? i'm pretty sure thats the way all old jeeps/willy's were

Nope, the headers are squeezed inside the framerails. The fenderwell headers are aftermarket and cool, for street use. Offroad I think exhuast run under the rockers would get destroyed. Plus if you look back you might notice my cage tie ins on the outside of the frame rails where that style exhuast would go... So it is out of the question for me. My headers are Edelbrock TES, the application was for my old '89 s10. I had to modify them a little to fit in my jeep. Mainly to clear the clutch slave

Fitting an exhuast is going to be a trick, there is not much room, that is were the wider framed YJs and TJs have an advantage. I just need to add some back pressure and quiet it down, and keep it from getting smashed.

I might end up running these if there is no room for a muffler... http://www.jegs.com/p/Car-Chemistry/...44688/10002/-1

[Jeepbonehead]

the headers drop right outside the frame rails right? i'm pretty sure thats the way all old jeeps/willy's were

[Jeepbonehead]

you have my attention with all that pipe