M38a1 build

Got some bling today.... Bad thing is i am working for the next few days and probably wont get them mounted.

 

They are the Baja low backs. I didnt mount them yet, and i havnt done the notch for my old seats. Not sure if i need to do it or not. We will see

 

Well finally got the seats mounted today. i had to notch the wheelwells to get a bit more room for them..





seats done





It is great to have the seats in but it isnt driving anytime soon. I swapped out a sidekick slip yoke to replace the samurai one so i could keep oil in the transmission. Turns out the sidekick yoke is 1/2 longer than the Samurai. and i could not bolt the transfercase back in its mount. I made a trip to the bearing shop to see if they had anything in their books for a seal that would fit with the samurai yoke, but there is nothing available. So i sent out the intermediate shaft out and cross my fingers that they can remove 3/4 inch of length out of the shaft. They made this shaft and it had about an 1 1/2 of tube between yokes.

 

Well the guys at the driveshaft shop did a bang up job on shortening the intermediate shaft for me. It bolted right in and I finally have a clean floor in the garage. The suspension seats are really comfortable One of the last issues i am dealing with now is the transmission seems to want to keep the shifter in gear and will fight me when i try to shift gears. Since everything is a hybrid i am using the intermediate jeep pedals with a factory Suzuki sidekick clutch cable.

Originally i mounted the cable directly to the firewall.



I got to looking at it and see what i am getting for throw. With this setup i got just under an inch of throw. After doing some searching and talking to some good folks, and i needed to try and get some more throw. Also looking at the current setup i saw the cable was eating into the metal flange, fortunately the cable was not frayed. On the intermediate pedals i did not use the original connection hole because it was too extreme of an angle for the cable an i redrilled it a bit in. So now I am going back to using the original hole on the end, it should give me some more throw. For me to use the end hole i needed to get my cable to enter the jeep vertically. So i ended up cutting out part of the firewall plate and making a bracket that fit the hole and was angled in so when the cable was bolted in, it aligned upright to work out great with the new mount.



After getting it connected and did some measureing i found i got between 1/4 to a 1/2 inch more throw. tomorrow i do the test to see if it did the trick.

 

Did the hydro before, just not a fan of it. This is actually simpler. heck i just had to replace the mc for the clutch in my 4Runner tonight. Only lasted 3 months.

 

Yeah i deleted some of my pics off my account. If there are any you need, give a shout i can post them up.

 

I will post some tonight.The rear shocks botled to the factory location, and for the front i made the higher mounts that go into the fender wells for the front shocks. The mount on the axle is on top of the tube between the knuckle and spring perch. And for the springs mounts i just made some and moved them inward on the frame to fit the longer XJ springs. but i will pop up some pics later.

 

here are some pics of the mounts

 

No problem. fortunately it is pretty much done for now. the only other thing i really want is low gear set for the transfercase but that can wait.