The "Mudhound" unde the knife

[Mudhound]

We are going from this:

To a 5.0, T-18, doublered, divorce mount "X"cased' offroad beast.

 

[Mudhound]

Blown 2.9 goin' Bu-bye:

And, now, the main attraction:

Oh, and for all you Jeep haters: Take a good look, as this what just about everyone around here sees: The back of my Comanche in front of them.

 

[Mudhound]

I am not going to bore you folks with the " this is how to pull your motor" pix. But, I WILL show you the drivetrain BEFORE it actually went in:

THAT is a 5.0, T-18, and BW(eewww) 1356 going in.

 

[Mudhound]

Okay, I tried the "put the tranny in from under the truck, then hook it to the motor" thing. Wrong-o. So, I did this instead:

 

[Mudhound]

I split the tranny tunnel to get the shifter tower to clear the tunnel, and.....:

 

[Mudhound]

Not too bad for NO bodylift. And, yeah, I am keeping it that way.

 

[4x4builder1]

all that nice paint on the motor and none on the trans and tcase. get it all painted much easier to clean up after muddin, anything glossy makes it easy to spray everything off

 

[Mudhound]

Well, it is going to be coming back out again, as I have to mount my oilfilter bracket on the frame, and the pan is changed to one that I have modded.

 

[Mudhound]

The pic with the shifters is showing them at bulldog and hi, as I will show why in a few.

 

[Mudhound]

And here is the "why" when I say "and HI":

THAT is not goiing to fit in the frame, so:

Ya' know, that has got to be the easiest tear-down ever on a "X"case.

 

[Mudhound]

Even the factory shifter boot from a 5 speed fits right:

The tranny shifter and the "hi-lo" box shifters fit just right. The other spot is for the divorce mount "X"case that is going in behind the chopped down (WAY down) BW 1356.
And yeah, I am going to be bending the levers AWAY from my knee.

 

[Mudhound]

I will give ya'll a break for now on the pix, but I DO have alot more to post.

 

[big91explorer]

I wanna see moar pix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[dangerranger83]

Nice!

 

[KELLY88]

Nice work so far! What kind of suspension plans do you have?