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.

I BOUGHT A JEEP!

After years of wanting one, years of riding in friends and years of off-roading in things that WEREN'T a jeep, I have one. Here's the rundown

1989 YJ Wrangler Laredo
4.2L I6 Carburated AMC 258
Rear Dana 30 high pinion - reverse cut - 27 spline, 1.16" diameter shafts, 7.13" ring gear
Front Dana 35
NP231 Transfercase - "Command-Trac" part-time only - 2.72:1 ratio low range
Gearing looks to be around 3.??:1
5 speed
Weber carb (boo)
dana drive shafts
full doors, hard top

That's it for now, I just wanted to get a little info on line. More to come :)