muddyj’s 1987 Jeep Grand Wagoneer

finally got the snow plow mounted. Just need to finish up a little wiring and it should be good to go.

It's been quite a while sense I got the plow, but I finally started working on the new mount/bumper setup.  I'm going to box in and reinforce the front of the frame, and add two reciever tubes.  The two reciever tubes will be used to mount the plow, and maybe later on I'll make a winch mount or something else that will also use the dual reciever tubes as a mount.Anyway, here are a few cell phone pics of what I have so far.

Just traded my YJ for this beauty over the weekend (8-27-11).It needs some TLC, but it made the 180 mile drive home without any issues, so I think there is hope.I took these pictures when I got it home.  As of right now, the plan is to do a "resto-mod" with most of the focus being on the restoration part.  I might do a small lift and slightly larger tires, but this is going to be our winter time family hauler and summer time camping rig, so I'll most likely keep it close to stock, at least for now.

Changed the design of the plow mount.  I scored a reciever hitch that fits between the frame horns.  this will be used to mount the pump/lift arm.  Then the other (dual) mount will be placed a little lower, and a little farther back, and the push frame/plow will attach to that.here are a couple pics of the new single mount.  Oh, and this one will allow me to keep the stock bumper without having to cut it.

Mystery solved!!!!!  Evidently, this is the factory (if you can really call it factory, seing how waggy sun roofs were installed by a different supplier, once the vehicles reached the dealerships) sunroof motor.  When installed, the motors were mounted at the rear, and a long cable was routed up through the rear pillar, and along the roof up to the sun roof.I"m guessing there was a problem with the cable or something, because my sunroof has a much smaller motor attached to the sunroof itself.  This one was simply abandoned, and left hidden in the body.Here's a couple pics of the smaller motor, and it's location.

The kids, and the dog approve!!12-12-11Well, the waggy is still out of comission.After I got it home, it started having a lot of carb/vacuum line issues.  So, wile I waited for the carbureter parts to show up, I stripped out and replaced all of the broken and/or incorrectly routed vac lines.  Once parts arived, I disasembled the carb, and cleaned and rebuilt it.  Once it was rebuilt and tuned properly, it ran really well........for a few days anyway.It ran good, just long enough for the radiator to blow out, so, it's once again sitting in the garage waiting for more parts to show up.  Hopefully some day I'll get it up and running for more than a few days. LOL! 8-8-12It's been a wile sense I updated this page, and saddly, not much progress has been made.  I did get the new radiator put in, and so far, all has been well.  I have started the "de-wooding" process, which is taking longer than expected.  The vynal wood grain stickers are so cracked and brittle that even with a heat gun, they are coming off in tiny pieces.  However, on the pluss side, the paint under the wood grain looks almost new.  finally got the much needed new shoes.  Just some stock size goodyear wrangler radials to get me by for a couple years untill I'm ready to lift it.

The bumper is just setting there, it needs trimmed a little more so that it can move back and drop down just a little bit to be bolted back on.working on the plow mount a little more.  I made some frame reinforcements, and this is a sketch of the sub-frame that I'm working on building.  Once mounted to the jeep frame, the plow and pump will mount to it.