Unfortunately because of my rather large collection of vehicles this one has got to go. Please give this Scout a good home!

I have grown up with jeeps, my dad had several different ones
and this one was eventually given to me by him. With the help of me and my
little brother this born again willy's transformed from a rustbucket to a very
capable four wheeler. It's maiden voyage was on sierra trek on the fordyce trail
in northern california. It saw many other trails from california to colorado
before it switched hands from my father to me. I took it across the rubicon
trail not long after driving it back from colorado and then it was born again..
again!

Sierra Trek "Maiden Voyage"	Swamp Lake Trail	Hollister Hills SVRA	Old Sluice, Rubicon Trail more pics here: 4th of July 2000	Rubicon Trail, California.

The engine is about the only thing that was left from when we
got the jeep, and it isn't even original. The engine is a "dauntless" buick 225
oddfire V6. This is quite an impressive engine, and was outfitted with an
offenhouser intake, first a holley then a motorcraft carburator, full length
headers, and a petronics ignition (the DUI HEI was tried but would not clear the
intake).

Motor as we got it	Current motor, with vette MC, caddy compressor, etc.	Other side	The motor with headers

A saginaw power steering pump was added along with a saginaw
box. The first build up used a front D30 axle with a drop pitman arm but was
later replaced with a toyota axle and billet hi-steer arms and tapped steel drag
link and tie rod from Sky Mfg.

Saginaw steering box braced to the frame	insert welded into wagoneer arm	insert on fj-80 and and custom drag link	billet arms by Sky Mfg	Front end with the toyota setup

The first build up used a muncie 4 speed transmission which was simply a blast
down in pismo but just didn't have the low range for the rocks, so
a SM420 4 speed transmission was swapped in. A Spicer 18 was used at first
and later swapped to a toyota
truck transfer case to get the offset needed for the toyota axles.
Using the toyota tcase also allows an easy upgrade to the 4.7 transfer
case gears, as well as the other toyota upgrades like a tcase break, twin
stick shifter, etc...

Tranny #1 w/AA mount	Tranny #2 and Tcase #1 SM420/Model 18	Tcase #2, toyota PU w/custom Xmember

The first stage of the buildup used a locked (lock right) D30 front axle and
a rear locked (detroit) Dana 44. The rear was outfitted with a full floater
kit and warn hubs. The front also sported warn hubs. After numerous wobble
issues with the front end I swapped to a toyota pickup front end. Because
of the 6 lug pattern I also swapped the rear axle but went with the land
cruiser axle for the correct offset using the model 18 tcase. I was not
happy with the way it fit in there so in came the toyota truck rear axle
and the toyota tcase for the proper offset. The rear axle was converted
to disk using GM brake components. More information on the brakes HERE.
E-brake come in the way of a hydraulic mico lock.

Stage 1 - D30 SOA	Stage 2 - Toy SOA	Stage 1 SOA D44 FF	Stage 2 TLC diff	Stage 3 - disk toyota PU

The jeep has been through many different spring setups,
starting with stock SOA, then rancho 2.5" soa with lift shackles. With the new
axles came wider perches, and rather than switching to the narrow perches I
chose to switch to wider springs. This meant custom hangers all the way around
and the springs of choice were the 5 leaf Jeep YJ springs. To make use of the
suspension travel long shocks and mounts were added. The shackles were also
fabricated. The jeep does NOT have a shackle reversal - the M38A1 originally
comes with the shackles at the rear of the front springs, although new mounts
were created for the wider springs.

Lo-buck long travel shock tower for the front	fabricationg the shackles and hangers	Originaly frame hole and new hanger before gussets were welded on	front spring hanger in front of bumper for longer springs

Lo-buck long travel shock tower for the rear	rear shackle hanger welded in place	rear spring hanger outboarded just a tad

When my dad first got the jeep its body didn't last long, due
to rust a malotte fiberglass body was purchased (that one can't rust!) and

painted black cherry color.

The new body	the frame before prep..

A custom dash was cut from a piece of aluminum and outfitted
with autometer gauges, and a glove box from JC whitney.

A shot from when we brought the jeep home	custom dash with autometer gauges, etc.	con-ferr rear seat