Old Jeep, new parts, what am I doing?

[duck spy]

What do you mean your brothers golf cart is not working????
I t was working before it left here. hahahahahaha my bet is the kids,,,
What is the web site for the ponds,I've got a pump and filter in mom's and dads fish pond but thinking it could be cleaner.

 

[EddieWalker]

Been wondering what happened to you?

Go to Pond Boss Magazine Home Page! for pond stuff, but not what you are thinking. That's more of a garden site. Pondboss is for earth ponds with real fish.

We'll be there in two weeks, see you then.

What happened to your email address?

 

[duck spy]

twalker@volcano.net

sturgeon,are bitting good now,and schoolie strippers,are all over the place with some bigger fish showing up all the time,will have to take a trip out to the delta and do a little fishing,depending how long the kids can hang out.
See ya in a few weeks.
Thanks for the link.

 

[EddieWalker]

We played around with the Jeep and Blazer this weekend. Steph asked Peyton is he wanted to go to town and get some new stuff for our vacation, or work on the Jeep with me. He didn't even hesitate.

I pretty much just give him a tray of sockets, and let him take off everything that he can get apart without breaking or cutting anything. It's suprising what I end up with!!!

One of my main goals is to get the Chevy disk brakes onto the Jeep axle. I'm not making it 4 wheel drive, so there is no need to save any of the internal parts of it. I also don't care for front drum brakes. I've dealt with wet drums on other vehicles before. Slid off roads, down embankments and slid into other vehicles. Wet drums don't work.

I also plan to use the Chevy rear axle in the Jeep. I have four almost new tires on the Chevy rems, so being able to use all those parts on the jeep has allot of appeal to me.

And to complicate things, I want to have the look of the front axle with the differential showing and original leaf springs with those really cool looking shackles.

As you can see in the pictures, the original axle has a ball joint that the hub assembly and drum brakes attached to. I wasn't sure what it was made out of, so I cleaned it up and ran a bead across it to see if I could weld it. It welded really nice. So then I cut the bell off with my torch.

Next I spent way too much time trying to figure out a way to attach the Chevy spindle and disk brake assembly to that axle in a manner that will be strong and still look good. I'm not overly concerned with my angles since this is only going to be driven on my dirt roads. If anybody has any ideas on alignment, I'd appreciate hearing them, but my plan is to get it plumb and weld it solid.

I ordered some parts from mcmasters.com today to build my bracket that will alow the assmebly to be removable, greasable and of course, to be able to steer.

One thing that has me stumped is removing the differential. I've unbolted every nut that I can find, pulled the axles and beat it with a hammer. It won't budge. I've thought about heating it up with the torch, but hope there's another method that I'm overlooking. Any thoughts?

Eddie

 

[dbdartman]

I've seen 2 different ways to remove the differential from a housing like that: First was a LARGE pry bar, second (& correct "service manual way") was to use a "case spreader" (basically a large threaded rod with ends that fit into the 2 holes on either side of the center section & push said holes outboard relieving the pre-load on the carrier bearings).

Since you're not reusing any of that, I'd opt for the big bar method.

As for attaching the Chevy spindles to the Jeep axle tubes, I'd probably butcher the Chevy control arms & attach what's left of them to a plate cut to fit over the axle tubes (those Jeep tubes & knuckle ends should be forged steel, good to weld to), with appropriate gussets.

For alignment, I'd shoot for 0 degrees camber & around 3-5 degrees positive caster (upper ball joint behind lower).

 

[RobJ]

Rear axle...should come out easy, looks like a lot of gunk in there. put it on the other side of a couple trees, rope around the carrier...use your favorite means of appling pull!!

 

[ScottAR]

Case spreader is about $250. Big pry bar and hammer. Watch your feet.

 

[EddieWalker]

Rear axle...should come out easy, looks like a lot of gunk in there. put it on the other side of a couple trees, rope around the carrier...use your favorite means of appling pull!!

I had to read this a few times to get it.

Eddie

 

[RobJ]

I had to read this a few times to get it.

Eddie

In other words...beat it out!! hehe