Jibs

The only photo of me at the hammers. Taken by Mike Ingalsbee, a well known offroad photographer, who has been in the business for 20+ years, and who I was able to drive around and hang out with. I am on the right in the background:

Ask on a Subaru board and you'll have your Soob answers. Ask on a Jeep board and you'll have your Jeep answers. Everyone is a little biased in their opinions as to what makes a better wheeler. The only true answer is WHAT MAKES YOU COMFORTABLE. There are many variations of builds, and is determined by what kind of driver you are, what kind of trails are near to your home, how much money you have, etc. If I had 20 grand, maybe I'd be in a Subaru, and maybe I wouldn't. It depends on how the money was handed to me, As of now this thread is just a WISH thread, as none of us has 20 grand to make a true call to this thread, many of us have an amount we have spent on our rigs. I have been contemplating in the last few weeks in which direction I want my build to go, as I know that with the kind of wheeling I do, the area in which I live, and the people I hang out with, that there is NO SUBARU that will come close to what I want. Period. Therefore, I have two options: 1) Buy or Build something else that will, or 2) Build a Subaru that WILL do what I want. Either way, I wouldn't be using a lot of Subaru parts for the build. I am 6500$ into a build with the Scout, and that is not near half of what it needs in order to finish it the way I want, and that doesn't include the purchase price of the vehicle itself. That being said, I used to wheel a Subaru and loved it for what is was. It was a unique and mildly useful offroad machine, and would be great for about 60% of thr trails around where I live, and for what I do regarding work and such. And yes, some of us wheel, and have been wheeling since before it was cool: circa 2005:

If you haven't put a rig on its side then you're not doing it right! I just put mine on its side a couple of weeks ago. Now that that's over I can get on with wheeling it harder.

What's up Dave? Haven't seen or heard from ya in a bit! Is it true the rumors I hear? Your wagon is dead? We should get together sometime.

I was in the Green 2door JK in the first pic, first thread. If I ever make it up to another show, I want to tow whatever soob I bring and hit the trails up there.

Moonrocks:

Broken Link Mount. We had a welder on trail and got it fixed. Only damage of the day.

Spent a day at the Moonrocks and ran Boondoggle with Genright4x4 down in Reno. Got a few good shots. Boondoggle:

Ok, your grammar and punctuation SUCK. Please help us out and work on that. I have a headache reading your posts.

No more photos online. I am waiting on a few more to be published. Your grammar and punctuation is killing me in your response. makes things hard to read and understand.

I'll hit you up man. I've browsed your thread on pirate and will go back through it soon. I like what you've been doing with it and its coming together nice. Are you on pirate much? I'm over the limit on pm's here but will get with you over there.

We Photo'd Chocolate Thunder, Backdoor, The qualifier course, and then on Race Day, we Photo'd The sand hill hill at mile 48, Outer Limits, and Clawhammer/Boulderdash. I have some Photos published in this months issue of CRAWL Magazine. Check it out.

I was able to make the journey to Hammertown this year courtesy of CRAWL magazine. Got to work on the Yukon Car that Crawl was competing with in the Every Man's Challenge on Thursday. On Course: Backdoor Monday night for the 10,000$ challenge purse: One of the rigs drove right out of the rear axle:

Yeah except a stock scout dana 300 will cost me more than what I paid for the rig. And then I'd STILL have to dump the same amount of money into it that I plan on spending on my dana 20. The d20 will do fine behind a klune v or a nwf black box. Now if you wanted to make some cash, I'd pay you for that scout, and then I'll take the d300 and you can scrap the rest of it for money and we can both come out ahead. EDIT: Yep, the last d300 I saw for sale just sold on pirate for 700$

Yeppers. I still kinda lurk sometimes. Been busy working and buying parts for the scout, I wanted to be wheeling this thing yesterday if you know what I mean. As soon as I get this done, I want to tow my EJ brat up there to the northwest and have it built.

Yeah, I won't put the 3.15 gears in it, as I am planning on running a klune v or a NWF Black box ahead of it, and that'll give me plenty of gearing, but yes, the dana 20 will be twinsticked and get a rebuild kit, as well as upgraded front and rear outputs with the 1410 Ujoint yokes.

I think the stock Ujoint yoke is a 1350 I bought a pinion guard also from GLO, which protects the Ujoint at the axle when coming don off rocks. I bought a 1480 Ujoint Yoke. The above pic shows from left to right, a 1310, 1330, 1350, 1410, and a 1480 at far right. Here's a picture of the ring gear and carrier of the 14 bolt. I bought a Grizzly locker that works like a detroit locker in that when gas is applied the locker engauges and locks the rear. When no gas is applied, it works like a limited slip. I will be updating with more pics of the front, as well as with build pics when I get that far. I need to rebuild the dana 20 tcase, and at that point I will be able to get the 14 bolt into the rear.

Have been gathering parts for the last few years and it's finally starting to come together. Am starting with this: Its a 1978 International Scout 2. IH 196 4 cyl. (Soon to be replaced with the IH 345 V8) Dana 44 Axles Chrysler 727 Auto Trans Dana 20 Tcase 2.03:1 Low Best of all it's a Right Hand Drive mail truck. Which is going to make it fun with getting the power steering in, as there's little room on that side for the steering box. Normally it goes on the outside of the frame on the normal left hand side, but is going to have to be on the inside of the frame on the RIGHT side. I'll have to either push the axle forward and the box forward, or move the engine and trans back a couple of inches. I'll probably move the axle, as I could use the room for the tires as well. Next I bought a 14 bolt GM 1 ton axle for the rear: Its got a 10.5 inch ring gear, which is massive, the track width is 67" which is about 9 inches wider than the stock dana 44's. Its got big 1.5 inch 30 spline axleshafts and is a tank of an axle. They are super common, and are very cheap. The downside is the massive brake drums on either end. They weight roughly 74 pounds EACH. The entire axle weighs 550lbs and close to 400 without the drums, I have a set of rear disc brake brackets/rotors and calipers from a 3/4 ton chevy that replaces them. I bought a Diff cover from Great Lakes Offroad made of 3/8" steel to replace the stamped crappy stock cover. Its got an oil filler bung, as well as an oil drain plug which is recessed into the bottom: Everything will get cleanded and powdercoated before being installed onto the rig.

That's what sliders and bumpers are for, do that and don't worry about the unibody. I've been looking at parts for sidekicks, they're pretty inexpensive. I've seen a spool for the rear of a sidekick for 103$, a 2" body lift for 119$. That body lift with a 2" suspension lift (195$ including new rear shocks) and you can fit 32's. That, and having a solid rear axle and stock 5.12's, and you're already off to a superior start compared to a subaru. In my opinion... Just sayin.

Even with 3 wheels he's still got more traction than a subaru.

A few of the board members have done it I believe. Zefy has put EJ rear suspension under his gen 1 Brat. Its just a LOT of work, a lot of custon stuff needs to be done, but with patience and $$ it can be done.

Hey pooparu, do you remember the length needed for the one piece driveline?

The cable thats in there is new, but it IS aftermarket, from kragen I think. I will go and get one at the dealer then and try that. Thanks a lot.

Cool thanks. One more question: what has been done when swapping to a 5speed as far as the clutch cable goes? Mine is as loose as it can be, but there's still not enough play to quite release the TO bearing. Does an ea82 cable work under the ea dash? thanks.