1 Ton YJ Crawler build

[ryan]

i do not like the corvette fuel filter/regulater setups. too much variation with the aftermarket units.

just use the fass regulators when i can.


i forgot how nice your rig is.

This is a speedway branded one. Not sure what to expect - my buggy had a fass style setup, but it had all that high dollar racecar ultra 4 stuff that was a pain to service too. Hope this one works, and price wise I can keep a spare and swap it out in 5 mins on the trail

 

[ryan]

Snug. But not TOO snug. Looks great.

I was hoping to mount my steering reservoir in the drivers fender area on the radiator, but that might be a little dicey now with trying to fit an intake. Should have just enough room to put it on the strut tower, but that's a problem for future me

 

[ryan]

Took me a bit to get the hang of the stainless lines vs the nylon braided. Kept fraying them out, eventually used electrical tape pulled really tight with more wraps than I thought I should have, but it worked really well holding it together while I cut it with a grinder

 

[ryan]

Fuel system is all together now except for one AN-8 fitting I needed for the return line

 

[ryan]

Next up is getting the wrecked steering box out and the Atlas a new input shaft. All the wiring to finish up

 

[ryan]

Took this photo today for @rusty ol ranger

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Took this photo today for @rusty ol ranger

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You guys never miss a beat do ya? lol

 

[ryan]

You guys never miss a beat do ya? lol

Had to!

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Had to!

i know i know lol

 

[ryan]

My goal has been to get a little bit done every day, even if it's just 30 minutes or an hour of work. Yesterday I decided to ruin my perfectly good tailshaft mount for the VSS

Started pretty and painted

 

[ryan]

Placing the bung, that silver mount goes inside, but I'm trying to get it as far back as I could so I could get it to see the reluctor ring on the tailshaft

The Advanced Adapters kit comes with these goodies

Drilled my hole, and realized I was going to have a problem - the tailshaft mount is double walled, so with the bung placed like this it wont be close enough to the reluctor ring to "see" it. Started to cut it open a little more yesterday, hope to finish it up with the dremel today and figure out a way to reseal it so that I don't get crap into the void and end up filling up the tailshaft mount with crap. Probably going to end up doing something crappy with jb weld, but not totally sure.

 

[ryan]

Yesterday I ruined a perfectly good part, and everything looks like it'll work

 

[ryan]

Have to seal it up with some RTV and get a feeler gauge in there to make sure that the gap to the reluctor ring is within spec

 

[ryan]

In the adventures of stuff you screw up when you do something dumb, the belt that I had on there the first time was far too short, re-measured, ordered a new one and put it on. See the obvious problem?

 

[ryan]

Put the previous one on in the correct way, and suddenly wouldnt you know my previous measurement was right

It might be a little bit too wide, think I'll go to a dayco one in this length and call it a day, but I'm not totally sure