New Jeep Project!

That looks like a great project!

 

Drive train still stock? Looks straight and no rust!!!!

 

Wow, looks like a nice foundation!

What’s the plans for it?

Just saw this one recently listed as a Barrett Jackson Jeep. Wouldn’t be my first wheel choice, but thought the paint/decal combo looked really good:

 

Cool! I like it.

One of my classmates in high school had one, and he would bomb around town like it was a hot rod. My geology professor at JC had one, and drove it daily. Rode in it once or twice, and it seemed like it swayed a lot - must be the soft rear springs they come with.

 

If SOA already done maybe a sway bar will tame it down for road use. Disconnects if you still want trail articulation.

 

Are you sure they're CJ springs? The later Saginaw equipped C101s had wider springs. I can't remember what the actual width was, though.

 

Certainly the rear springs are wider for all the Jeepsters, maybe 2.5"? I've never seen a factory Commando with anything but 1.75" front springs. Maybe they existed - this race car looks lwider than 1.75" -

 

I have to admit, those things are growing on me the more I see what people are doing to them.

I saw this a while ago, pretty cool video:

 

OK, thanks. I thought I remembered the springs being different on the later C101s. I need to take a closer look at my 2. Maybe one or both of them is modified and I never realized it.

 

Interesting. The '70 and '71 I have are both saginaw equipped. I wonder if the switch to saginaw occurred mid-year. What is the build month on your '70?

 

So I went out and measured my unknown year, saginaw equipped parts rig. It, like my '70 and '71 has 2" wide front springs with the same shackles that adapt the wider spring to the shackle hanger.





You're distracting me from prepping my 3B for the Willys Reunion trip. I'm itching to get my 101 back on the road!