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Mounted, balanced, polished and installed with antisieze on the wheels studs for years of trouble free maintenance Some really cool 31x10.50r15 Tires and original 30 year old AMC Chrome CJ Wheels Sway bar and poly bushings installed along with front differential cover including stainless steel flange head serrated hex bolts to show you care. Rear flexible line installed (along with new brake drums) Note it's a good idea to use antisieze on the self adjusters for long trouble free life. Stainless brake and fuel lines and proportioning valve installed. It is less of an issue with these and more-so with the 6 bolt lock outs. Note we also use loctite on the hub bolts. Extra time invested in blasting the steel bearing retainers and lug studs and painting them. This will aid in long life of these calipers without hanging up.Īll installed with new slotted rotors, bearings, seals etc. We noticed the callper sliders weren't lubed well out of the box so we addressed that with some synthetic caliper grease. Maybe some lithium grease but I like it this way and they are much easier to turn when it's cold out. I've read that grease is not the thing to use in your hubs. We take them apart, degrease them and simply use a little gear oil inside. We are using a cool old set of Warn chrome hubs I'd been hording for myself on this build. We use a pilot bushing removal tool as shown to the right. These are difficult to remove without the right tool.

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New spindle bearing a good idea for a full restoration but for most rebuilds I'd say you usually won't need them. Steering and axles installed with all new USA made ball joints, tie rod ends and CVs. With 4lo selected in 4wd it will do just fine and if the owner ever wants to crawl it harder, he can always do a 4:1 kit in the t-case. This Jeep has far more HP than the common 304 and will be used up to 75 mph and won't be screaming at you and slurping fuel like a big rig. Most people want to climb or crawl something. We're running 3.31 gears in this Jeep which we took some grief from in selecting such a deep ratio. Rear differential in place with a G2 brand one piece axle conversion. Also differentials in place with HD spring sliders for a super clean underside. Shown here are the HD spring hangers and short HD Shackles installed. The body has gone to paint and we are working on the chassis. Again, the late 81 frame had these holes so all we had to do was tap them. We also swapped out the flexible brake line brackets as the widetrac version is slightly shorter. Our solution is to enlarge the shock tower holes (one side only) to the OD of the tube and slide it in first and then tighten down the shock towers for a firm fit. We can't get in the frame so the solution is to acquire tube that slides over the 3/8-16 bolts and cut them to length as shown. The factory resolution is bolt stand-offs or steel tubes inside the frame. Now you can't just bolt the widetrac shock towers on as the frame will collapse as you tighten the bolts. These are welded on from the factory so a little careful cutting and they're gone. The 76 to 81 shock mounts look like this. I say this because this frame was already drilled for the 82-86 shock towers which we had scavenged from a newer CJ. This frame is a 1981 and seemingly AMC was ready to make the switch but just didm't quite get it done. Note, all CJ5s are narrow trac to the end of their production in 1983. 81 Scramblers and all CJs for that matter had narrower differentials than thier 82 to 86 counterparts and we are therefore going to the wider version. You'll notice the differentials looking new. The storage container is clear full of blasted small parts. Super clean rot free frame.AND body! :)Īlready back from sandblast. Please tune in to watch it come together!Ī little behind on pictures but here is the teardown.

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It is getting a manual transmission to automatic conversion, widetrac axles, a new GM crate engine, 3 rows of seating and a custom sport bar! In the coming weeks it will get a full teardown and rebuild for a family in Colorado. This 81 Jeep Scrambler has been site seeing in the Arizona deserts and is now getting a career change to becoming a show quality driver!