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At Azusa Canyon (San Gabriel OHV area) early this year or late last year.
Did 10 times better than those new fancy JKs :twisted:

 

Re: Picture thread

Just wanted to update my Jeep picture. It has been a while.
Before. (1990's photo.)
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And now. (Cell phone.)
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Did you make it up the bank?

 

Nice action shots from Azusa Canyon!

 

Many, many times. Easy peesy with a Power Lock. Don't have any good pics of it though. A lot of open diff 4x4s were struggling. I only had a hard time when I started picking the stuff with real deep holes. My open front diff did make those hard.

 

I walked out of the postoffice an looked at my cj it just looked great!!!
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Is that the same basic motor they used in the Isuzu Pup and Luv trucks? 1.9L in a Chevette and 2.2L in the trucks? I have a friend with a 4x4 converted postal jeep with the 2.2L out of a 4x4 Pup.

 

Did you ever actually find any 192 Perkins motors?? I've been searching for a few years now for a spare.... Only ever seen one on Craigslist halfway across the country and never got a response back.

 

I did not find a Perkins 192, but neither did I really search very hard for one, as you say they can be hard to find particularly in an automotive application. You can find the 192's and 203's alot of times in Massey Ferguson 65 tractors. They were used in a lot of agricultural applications through the 60's. Some of these had the same block as the automotive application but some had a tractor specific block so you have to be pay close attention.

 

I've figured out I think that the only major difference between the 192 and 203 is the bore. I didn't know there was a potential tractor specific block? Cast in bellhousing or something?

 

The C223 and C223T are the larger pushrod motors in trucks, even the S10 diesel. Most Themo King reefers have the lil C201 in them. That's where I get the 12v glow plugs from.

The 1.8L 4FB1 was in Chevette or Pontiac t1000 diesels and Isuzu I-Mark diesels exclusively, here in the US. Common overseas esp in Austrailia Indonesia and the like, even in pumps and generators. Rare here.
Steel ring lands, piston squirters, designed and built FOR a turbo. Like a Japanese reverse engineered mirror image VW idi 1.6l or 1.9L tdi(or whatev haha), improved and beefed up, with a much better cross flow OHC head. Factory redline of 5,400rpm. As close to a gasser motor behaving diesel I have ever seen, personally.
And the venerable and readily modifiable VE pump, although my NA pump is a KiKi diesel license. Have a rare C223T IP lined up for the turbo install, to be modded with a VW CSD, and VW diesel and cummins diesel typical tuning tricks and mods. Bigger plunger, and boost aneroid, and a manual timing advance for easier cold starts.

Perkins are kinda rare. We have a early 70's CAT forklift with one in it. Boss overheated it, and took 2 years to find another.

 

Yeah.... tell me about it. lol

 

That is a very sweet CJ5, '68BuickV6!
I love the looks on everyone's faces.

Some hater-ation(probably indignant SUV or truck owner who thought their vehicle was capable or awesome sauce), but mostly amused adoration and enthusiasm.

And the upside of this swap. In 2 weeks driving, to and from work, errands, and social whatnot, I have used less than 3 gal of fuel. I am guesstimating roughly close to 30MPG city, in a 4x4 barn door on 31's. I just got the fuel gauge working, because I got tired of trying to put $10@ 4gallons, and topping it off at $5, @ 2gal, once a week.

I'll know more accurately in a week or so.

 

Azusa canyon is all about playin' around. Lots of big built rigs go out there to hit the banks or hit the mud if the reservoir is low.
Most stockish rigs have open diffs and don't get far on the banks or in the mud.
So there were a few slightly irked vehicle owners who I think were wondering how I could do what they couldn't, but its all in good fun.



For most of us in Socal this is one of the closest places to wheel.



Edit: Also please excuse the poorly run wires. At the time I had the bumper off the day before and slapped it back on without running the wiring behind it. Its neater now.

 

SoCAL huh? I grew up in East SF Bay Area.

 

Updating my CJ's pics now that the rattle cans have been emptied!



That was Saturday after the hood was painted. Here's yesterday in the morning sun on the satin finish.



Feel much better with that red oxide primer gone off it!

 

I spent a little bit of time this morning with a can of Turtle Wax Rubbing Compound just to satisfy my curiosity of whether the paint is shot on this rig or not. I'm pretty happily surprised what an improvement it made with the previously dull and stained paint.


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After:

 

Much better.
A few years ago I was over at my neighbors house and his son showed up in his faded red Blazer. after a couple frostys we got the can of WD40 out, (I don't really like the stuff), sprayed and wiped the hood. The kid crashed the Blazer a few years later and the hood still looked better paintwise than the rest of the truck. Years ago when my father was in the Army Engineers they had to wash everything before a parade. After the wash, they would put a wipe of kerosene on the vehicles.