From: Edward Morgan (morgan54801@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 21:55:34 PST
Rock crawling and mud boggin' is getting a little
farther then I wanted to go, just a open top, unique
type hunting rig, that has eazy to get parts and I
wouldn't be using up a collector vehicle.
Ed Morgan
--- Dave Ball <vought@msn.com> wrote:
> There are a couple of MB/GPW vehicles that show up
> at Sierra Trek every year
> that are built with Chevy fuel injected V8's and
> five speed transmission and
> disk brake Dana 60 front and rear using the Advance
> Adapter kits and Boyce
> axles.
> Most of the frames are later stuff but the CJ-7 is a
> good one to use as well
> we call those hybrids KJ's and anything is possible.
> The neatest Jeep I have seen is one of the stretched
> M38A1 Ambulance bodies
> on the CJ-7 frame they were M718 or something like
> that it had a Cummins
> Dodge 6 and was built from a MV and a Wrecked Dodge
> pickup I had to yell to
> talk standing next to it and it blew the transfer
> case and got towed home
> from that adventure....
>
> http://www.advanceadapters.com/mounts.html
> http://www.boyceequipment.com/
>
> Dave
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward Morgan" <morgan54801@yahoo.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 12:51 AM
> Subject: [MV] DEWAT MB
>
>
> > All this talk about de-milled firearms got me to
> > thinkin'.
> > The Jeep MBs that you see for sale go for $8,000
> to
> > $23,000, they are just out of my price range, so I
> > went out into the cold and measured up a 1980 CJ7
> > frame that I have sitting on some old rims. The
> frame
> > is 29" outside to outside on the front frame rails
> and
> > 36" outside to outside on the rear frame rails.
> > I think an MB frame is 29" on both ends but the
> wheel
> > houses are both 36" across so I could use the CJ7
> rear
> > ends with the disk brakes and the wheels should
> fit in
> > the wheelhouses. I would just have to shorten the
> > frame so that the wheelbase is 80". I
> could
> > use the hydraulic clutch and the duel master
> cylinder
> > for the brakes. I have a Chevy 151 with a 4 speed
> > trans, the 151 is 19" from the center of the motor
> > mounts to the top of air cleaner, so that should
> fit
> > under an MB hood.
> > Have any of you ever tried to do this?
> >
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