Set in the new cage, waiting for Jake to get home from work to bolt it in and set the height of the seatbelt anchors. Everything I touch I hit end of my shot off finger on so he can take it from here.
Jakes CJ7 build
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Build an inclined rack for him to tweak it out on, that way if an EMP hits, you can roll it off.
Driving a vintage ride just screams "class"
Nice industrial fan in the background, lol... and the "block & tackle" ain't bad either! I always liked a decent shop! 
I missed that story.
Installing seat belt bungs, I inspected the flywheel bolts that we removed and about half of them had pulled threads. I ordered new ones so that’s going to slow our roll a little. New flywheel clutch and pressure plate waiting to go in. When we removed the original roll bar today we found the only rust we have found on the Jeep so we will cut it out and replace the metal while we are at it.
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Ow, ow, ow! I know someone who had an injury on the tip of her finger. She had some hard plastic caps made for protecting the end of a finger. It had 4 rounded pieces that came down from the tip and could be wrapped or taped to keep it on. No banging the finger, just the plastic cap.
https://www.amazon.com/AMZ-Medical-...15747&sprefix=finger+tip+prote,aps,136&sr=8-7
I have those but I can’t hardly stand them. I just put a little gauze and tape on it.
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I wonder if they are too small for your fingers? I don't see that they come in different sizes.
I replaced the old coil and distributor with electronic ignition but if need be I could put the old stuff back in about an hour.
Jake's ready to GOOOOOOOOOO
What you're doing with this build is invaluable to Jake's future. More people should build their first car! Teaches a lot more than how to use a wrench, that's just the setting for the real lessons.
My dad was a business man so I learned mechanics on my own mostly through trial and error. It’s almost felt like a curse to me a lot of time in the past. I can fix most anything but really don’t want to fix things myself these days. This old jeep has been really fun for me though.
The day we brought it home.
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Just for comparison sake, here's the military version of the same engine.
Is that a 4 or 6 cylinder?
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Yep,It has headers and a 4 barrel intake. I milled an adapter plate to use a 2 barrel carb on it though. It was the old 6 makes 8 kit.
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I crushed two of my fingers in a safe earlier this week. Not quite as bad as that.
Flywheel bolts came in today, I’m really excited to put it all back together and get it on the road!
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Oh them ARP's... good stuff but good grief do you pay for it.
It’s shocking what those 8 bolts cost!
Bet each time you did you danced a jig!
You know it!
Put a strip of cloth and a shotgun shell over it, let it breathe once ever hour or two.
Whenever I get those irritating finger cracks in winter (not enough Bag Balm), I always wind up hitting those darned cracks... not as painful as your finger amputation, HB, but still painful & annoying, lol.
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I had to get new rod bolts for my build. Ending up being around $88 with shipping.
I said 75$ myself. OUCH! I would have used extreme tensile hex head bolts and split washers myself. Net cost 8$.
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What happened with mine was this: my machinist was torquing them to check the big ends and one of them just snapped. Glad that happened then and not later. Pretty surprising that it happen considering that the engine is a big block Ford 460. One of the strongest bottom ends ever made.
