Some more work..

I've now also completely rebuilt my dash, too bad I don't have the time to do a custom flat, cj style dash yet.

I've replaced all of the chrome with black hardware except the front grill and the hood hinges.

I've de-rust'ed, recovered with plasti-dip and reinstalled my battery try, I also built a custom and far stronger battery clamp.

Adjusted my ebrake

Hacked more useless trim off.

A little bit of update..

So after buying a few hundred dollars worth of parts to put my 89 YJ back to stock that it would pass visual smog inspection, and then finding out I'd bought the wrong parts, I decided to curl up in a small ball in the shop and just cry for a little while. After the crying was done, I formulated a new plan of attack, SPEND MORE MONEY.

Seems like the solution to 90% of jeep problems is SPEND MORE MONEY. Damnit. :)

So, vacuum stuff on a jeep, nightmare, carter bbd, nightmare, pulse air, nightmare, blah blah. The solution of course was to rip all of that out and replace it with howell throttle body injection. I ordered their kit, $1300 thank you very much, and after dealing with a massive lack of customer service (or any kind of service), I was able to get my jeep upgraded. Runs like a champ now, well, a champ that has a miss and stumble at idle, still unclear what that could be.

So here's the long list of things that I've done/replaced
Replaced ugly aluminum center line wheels with black steel american racing wheels
Replaced crappy mud boggers with TSL Thornbirds, softer, quieter.
Replaced every fluid
Replaced stock ECM with GM ecm for fuel injection
Replaced carb with throttle body injection
Replaced exhaust manifold with oem
Replaced exhaust from manifold to tailpipe
Replaced MAP, o2, cto, sensors
Replumbed vacuum sytem
Nutter bypass
CUSTOM check engine light ;)
Replaced mechanical fuel pump with electric and high flow fuel filter
Add Electronic speed sensor


Still to do..
bushing replacement (all of them)
shocks
move fuel filler to side
flush mount tail lights
roof rack

Dreaming:
ford 8.8's front and read with 3.73
4 inch lift
high travel shocks with stretched wheel base
4.0 head conversion
better roll cage

Baby got a new pair of shoes...

New wheels and tire, what a difference!

Before:



after:


Thanks to craig's list, I got these wheels and tires for 400$ I'm SUPER happy about the deal.

Just Empty Every Pocket - JEEP

108$ - carter BBD carb with stepper motor
50$ - air cleaner
33$ - coolent sensor temp
90$ - exhaust manifold (still need exhaust pipe)
It's racking up! :)

Managed to get the diff fluids changed. Painted the front diff cover :p Hopefully sometime this week I can get some time from queeg/arclight to help with the carb/manifold.

I GOT PARTS!

Ok, aircleaner with various hoses attached and missing on the way, 50$ from ebay.

Carter BBD with stepper motor, 100$ acquired.

Stock exhaust manifold, 90$ shipped, acquired.

I think I'm very close to having everything I need to get to work making my jeep smog legal, YAY!

In addition, I changed out all of my plugs and wires, the plugs were pretty black, hopefully tonight I can get the carb installed adjust the mixture using a tach dwell meter.

Still todo is fuel filter, transfer case, diffs and tranny fluid change. If I pretend that the exhaust manifold and carb are going to be easy, then my list is pretty short!!! sooooon!!!

I need parts!

To pass smog in California, I need to have C.A.R.B. (california air resources board) approved parts. This means that the Weber carburetor and 'performance' exhaust headers somebody installed have to come off. I have to source replacements for both. So far, best deal I can find is:

Found out that this one wont work, I NEED the stepper motor :(
Carburetor, New Replacement-Type w/o Stepper Motor (299.99)
http://www.jeep4x4center.com/product-information.asp?number=BBD4.2S

Now I'm looking for a good price on a Carter BBD

**UPDATE**
Found a good deal on a manifold (thanks arclight!)
1987-1990 Jeep Wrangler - Replacement Exhaust Manifold
http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/details/QQJeepQQWranglerQQReplacementQQExhaust_ManifoldQQ19871990QQJ960706.html

I still need to find a stock air cleaner and possible the piece of exhaust that goes from the manifold to the part that attaches to the cat. Gah. On the upside, I'll have a weber carb for sale soon! :)

If anybody has any ideas where best to get these items, hit me up!!!

A little TLC goes a long way

The first time I heard this jeep fire up, it sounded like crap, wish I had shot a video of it... I had to stay on the throttle to keep it from stalling and downshifting would result in backfires.

After I got it back to our shop, the first thing I did was siphon off about 3 gallons of bad gas, I put 5 gallons of chevron 89 with techron and about 1/4 of a bottle of techron into it. IMMEDIATELY sounded better.

Next step was timing, I could hear that it was off and when I first hit it with the gun I couldn't even see the mark. Timing should be at 9 degrees, +/- 2, it was off the chart around 20 degrees when I started. After I was done with the timing, she was purring!

I hit autozone and bought 160$ worth of fluid and filters!
6 quarts mobil 1 15/40 synthetic oil
3 quarts of 75/90 gear oil (diffs)
3 quarts of ATF 4+ for the transfer case
3 gallons of 50/50 prestone
1 boche oil filter
6 champion plugs
new set of plug wires
2 quarts of dot 3 brake fluid
fuel filter

I forget what I got for the tranny but I have the fluids for that too.

Hopefully I can get to most of that before this weekend.