69 J Build

Post by **rstep** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:18 am

Rolled the J into the garage Tuesday and by last night have the front clip off the cab ready to come off and the motor is unbolted ready to pop out.

On the trailer Tuesday.
With everything removed yesterday.

Interior gutted.

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Post by **fulsizjeep** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:06 am

Lookin Good Bob

Tad · Post by **Tad** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:31 am

Glad to see they didn't hack the dash.

Post by **rstep** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:30 am

Started yesterday by getting the engine stand together,the b-350 out and torn down.Beca did most of the work and has a great understanding of what got done.

Overall the engine's in good shape so rebuild time.

Tad · Post by **Tad** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:58 am

rstep wrote:...
Overall the engine's in good shape so rebuild time.

Excellent!
Been thinking about this since I saw the FB pic's with the spreadbore intake yesterday.
I don't think the Buick powered FSJ's got the 4V option, I think someone has been in that engine before.
Heavy as heck intake but the 69-70 versions are the ones the SBB folks search for.
Pull the casting number off it and I'll x-ref to the two I have here.

Post by **rstep** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:25 am

Tad,yes it looks like the engines been opened before. The cast # 1387069-C.you gotng to be around later today.

Tad · Post by **Tad** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:25 am

Yep, I'll be around.
You probably already searched this out but that is a '69 intake.
Block code is between the front spark plugs on the drivers side.
1969 would be RO or RP and 70 would be SB, SO or SP. SP is the 315hp engine.

Dug out some goodies for Beca.

Heater box is in the Nissan, yard is full of parts for her, adapter ring is still at school.
Lot of stuff here for her truck. Think I have a spare HEI dizzy also.

I think I have a new water pump also in the box-O-parts in the jeep.
It's the Skylark version which is slightly taller. If you run the Skylark water pump you have to switch to the Skylark brackets.
I have and entire set of Skylark bracketry at the shop too, it's a way better setup than the Jeep version.
Oh, and I have a radiator for the Buick FSJ setup for auto trans.
I sure have a lot of crap I have not used.

Post by **fulsizjeep** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:28 am

Good to see y'all making progress so quickly Bob. I am especially liking the garage scene since we just got 5" of white stuff dumped on everything here.

Nice cache of B350 parts Tad. Little did you know...

86gwrhino · Post by **86gwrhino** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:32 pm

lookin good!
reminds me of my little sister tearing into our 69 fj!

lindel · Post by **lindel** » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:19 am

Looks good Bob, keep it up!

DC78FSJ · Post by **DC78FSJ** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:33 pm

looking good. I can't wait to see it done...

Post by **rstep** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:38 am

The cab is off the frame and the frame is moved out of the shop for blasting.

The T-18/D-20 is out and replaced with Turbo 400/D-20 both ready for rebuild.

Today Beca and I are going to start some body work,by welding in all the extra mirror holes on the doors and taking out the 2 small dents on the cab.

Post by **fulsizjeep** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:02 am

Great team work AGAIN!

That T18 bell housing is crazy lookin!

Post by **Stuka** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:21 am

Wow, coming along nicely

Tad · Post by **Tad** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:44 pm

fulsizjeep wrote:...That T18 bell housing is crazy lookin!

Freaking huge was my words.
Could be a winner behind a BBCaddy.

Post by **Stuka** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:53 pm

fulsizjeep wrote:Great team work AGAIN! That T18 bell housing is crazy lookin!

That bell has the spacer built into it. The bell I had for my Cherokee was the same bell found behind 258's, but with a larger spacer to go between them. It wasnt all one piece like that. My bet is that is the same bell from a T98.

Post by **rstep** » Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:26 pm

All I know is that thing is heavy,can carry the 400 around with out help but that one made me feel like a boy so got help just to move it.

Post by **rstep** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:38 am

To catch up from the weekend the cab is off and Beca started the body work by filling in holes on the doors,and removing small dents in the body.
She also claimed the pony buckets I had stashed.
She did real good welding in the holes with her new helmet. (thanks to Tad who taught the twins to weld for a summer when they were 7years.) ^:)^
Ran by the tranny shop this morning $650 to rebuild the t-400 Beca and I will do the t-case at home.
The interior will be the black buckets ,charcoal grey carpet and all steel Blue,the door panels we are going to stich up with the black vinyl leftover from the cherokee.

Post by **fulsizjeep** » Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:49 pm

I see Beca doing <vroom-vroom> behind the wheel.

The T400 rebuild sounds like reasonable $$. Does that include a torque converter?

Post by **rstep** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:23 am

Thanks to Flint,have the razor grill coming to replace this.

Taught Beca to use the buffing wheels on the grinder to bring back the Bling on the old rhino.Now she can trade it or sell it for more parts that she'll need in the future.
We also got all the mess out of the gutter areas someone had put RTV in over the body filler.

We finished up the weekend by stripping the fire wall of everything with Jess's help

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