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Here is a pic of my jeep the day I bought it back in may of 2003'. I found an 82' CJ7 with a 258 I6 and a T-5 5spd tranny hooked up to a dana 300 t-case. The speedo read 133,000 miles. But the speedo stopped in 93' and it had been his daily driver since. So I figured it had at least 200,000 miles on the original motor and tranny. But to my suprise everything worked great. The motor was a little tired but I went for it anyway. He was asking 3500, I talked him down to 3000 and it was a done deal.
I got lucky with this jeep because it had never been offroad and never been abused. I even got a folder with of the reciepts on maintenance and other misc stuff! I asked the guy if he had had it in 4wheel drive lately and he said I couldnt get it to work. Well he had one of the front wheels with a hole for the lock out hubs on the back wheels. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. I changed it right when I got home and the 4 wheel was working great. Over the next few weeks I changed the oil filter, air filter, spark plugs, spark plug wires, oil, fluids, fuel pump and fuel filters. I noticed alot more power after these cheap changes.
A couple months later I had the stock carter carb rebuilt.(yea I know this thing says POS all over it but california emissions are tough to pass). After the rebuild the jeep ran even better.
A jeep is a jeep and I was just itching to get it lifted so I did just that. I put on a 2.5 inch rancho suspension lift kit and 31 inch mtrs. Shortly after I dropped the clutch on a steep hill and snapped the driveshaft. I ordered a front and a rear driveshaft just to be done down there for now.
Next was the interior. I ordered a new carpet kit, seats, roll bar padding, indicaters, shifter ball, and a new clock.
After all that good stuff was taken care of I compounded the paint. Which was original by the way. Waxed it and it came nice and shiny.
Wheeling
Dad going in deep
Dad stuck in deep mud
Dad stuck, looks like i get to save the TJ today.
