path.on.35s
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Thanks. I'm extremely happy with it. I took it out this weekend. Drove it through a few ponds and I must say that I am impressed.
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As far as the 345. There is no plans to change anything. Big industrial engine that will last along time. It's purring like a kitten
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It's a jeep wagoneer front axle. It's six lug while the scout is five. I either was the 80 or 800 grill. I like the old ih logos on the too.
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What's not to like about an old Scout? Athestitacly I wouldn't have cut the grill out personally since I like the front end on them but it looks like it was done with some purpose so I can forgive it
i am working on locating a late 60's model grill to replace it with. the owner before this guy got it had plans on narrowing the front end about a foot and a half. the rear was dovetailed 2 foot and the guy i got it from returned it to 10 incher narrower then stock. he left it cut out to put in that electric fan but i have a thin fan out of an old drag car so im going to install it with the new grill.
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Probably because he got tired of installing them all the time...
No worries about the trade, the pathy wasn't enough for you off road so you traded it for a built wheeler, and one with style too. The PO probably traded across for something that he could still wheel but that was newer, more comfortable or whatever. Everyone got what they wanted.
One thing is that I haven't heard much good about the Dana 20s, especially with a V8 pushing it. Hopefully I'm just misinformed.
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he actually built this one and it at clayton and then found a good deal on a fully built tube buggy and had this one sitting around. the transfer case is my only concern with this rig. he had a low range twin stick in it but a buddy of his needed it so he put the 20 back in. as far as parts being hard to find he included enough parts to just about build another complete scout. full complete rolling chassis all it needs is a tub to be a complete vehicle. i feel like i stole it because i had 2500 in my hole pathifinder and there is over that in the front axle. lol. just caught the right guy in the right mood. hes going to use my pathfinder for a grocery getter unless someone offers him cash for it. i am working on buying the twin stick t-case from him. he wants 750 for it.
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oh the green will be black soon and i am already looking for a hard body or petrol to build. i miss my nissan but just in axles and tires alone theres twice the money that i had in my pathfinder. also i had the dreaded trans clog while wheeling and first started actin up. i now have the scout to crawl and going to start on a smaller trail rig again. best of all is he traded straight up and also through in a whole other powertrain plus a truck load of parts. lol
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ok dont hate me guys but i traded my pathfinder. i realized that my pathfinder was to the point where it was going to need to go under the knife to make it into a capable wheeler. it was either do a sbc swap and sas and chop the hell out of it or trade for an international scout i found on craigs list. so i went from this....
to this
1974 International Scout II
345
727 auto trans
Dana 20
(Wagoneer?)Front axle: 4:88 gears, ARB locker, chromo shafts, CTM u-joints & High steer
Rear axle: Scout 44 new 4:88 Yukon gears with spool
Gearbox rebuilt and ported by PSC
Ballistic Fab diff covers
springover with stock leaves, overload removed from springpack
5/8" u-bolts with heavy plates
35" Boggers with GOOD tread
Custom full cage tied to frame
late model chevy front seats
dovetailed rear
ARB compressor
all new floors
new body bushings
new shackles and spring bushings
Taurus elec. fan
new wiring
the engine purrs like a kitten. proven tough in clayton, ok!
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Yeah it was at the red river atv park north of bonham. I just moved from Sherman to bonham and go to the off road park at least twice a month. I go with a vw baja bug, a 56 Willis jeep and an xj.
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Is he looking for cash or a trade I wonder
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i think i wanna swap it for another pathy thats less street friendly yet street legal. i want a little better crawler. i work for the government so im really busy and dont have the time to sas it like i want.
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Nice gauges!
thanks but i would rather have it stock so i could have a little more ability to moniter the rig.
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its the whole wiring harness because he just cut the whole thing behind the connector and capped off the wires he didnt need. dont make much since to me but he didnt appear too bright. lol
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Hell yeah! A hammer will fix (or persuede) alot of thins.
if a hammer dont work then try a BFH. i have an assortment of them. lol
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the little buggy dug its little heart out with its 35's until all four tires were turning freely and it was resting on the frame. i love this rig. so glad i didnt buy another jeep.
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yeah the trim is missing because i had just stolen it and went for a joy ride.
actually all the trim inside other then the dash is removed from the truck. not a fan but it was like this when i bought it. as far as the guages im not really a fan but the p.o cut the factory gauge wiring harness and started to install some crappy guages so i just went to autozone and picked up a few till i find a new dash. i would like to have a full interior but its also nice to be able to wheel with the windows down and not have a care in the world. -
my usual place but we had 8 inches of rain. lol it got washed out.
a few hours later i found myself in a mess from the mud boggers. once i got a tug to get me out of the hole my little pathy crawled out on her own.
this was my second time through the bog and this time the tranny got hot so i had to swallow my pride and do the walk of shame and get a little tug.
she made it through after a little tug and time to cool down.
some times you have to keep the windows down. this is the aftermath from all the wheeling this weekend.
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Trim more and take a hammer to the inner fender lol
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I grounded the crappy welds off and rewelded it. A buddy tried welding while I was gone. I slid it off a creek bank and fell about four foot on to the passenger side wheel and stuffed the 35's real good and it held up great. Originally I didn't plan on welding it at all but I started thinking about how hard I've been on the rig and went ahead and welded it up lol.
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I looked and all looks fine. I found out that I stuffed the rear wheel into the body when I slid off of a 4 foot rock. Looks like it had enough force to snap the bolt and leave the threads in the body. Lol will try to fix this weekend
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I will check them out. Thanks guys
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Yeah I found new half shaft cv joints from rockauto.com for 57.00 a piece shipped. Havent heard of the place before but it's worth a shot.
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Thank you. I like it. It's got me all pissed off. Tried the speedy cv boots and fought them the whole time. Got them on and took it around the block and they pulled the bolt heads through the boots and are split open again.
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well i had been looking on here for ways to drop the panhard bar. as we all know that if you lift it then the bar is no longer going to be parallel to the axle which causes the rear axle to be shifted off center causing several problems. some have made adjustable panhard bars or just lengthened the stock one. thats ok but on compression it will still push the axle to the side. some have made ones off the calmini brackets. with this it wraps around the stock mount and just seemed to be able to move and looks like you would shear off the mounting bolts if put into a bind. the other option was to make a bracket that is inserted into the factory mount and it looks good but seems thin for the forces that are placed on the bar during wheeling. i took ideas from all of the above mounts and made this.
i measured how much of a drop i needed and it was about 6 inches. i cut the tube to 14 to be safe. i realized that the stock mount was too thick to slide the tube over. to correct this i cut the back of the mouth down the middle so that it could be compressed thinner to fit in the tube. once it would fit i had to notch out the side of the tube to allow it to slide up further on the factory mount.
i made the slot about an inch and a half so that the top of the tube would be up high enough to use the factory bolt holes and mated up with the welds of the trusses on the factory mount. i then made a template of the bolt holes and transferred it to the new mount. only problem is that when you collapse the mount then the holes arnt alligned right so make a template of the back too and transferre it as well. once the holes are made i took my two bolts and mounted the new panhard bar mount to the truck. i marked where i wanted the bar to be once mounted and began cutting the bottom of the new mount. i cut it in a way that i thought would allow it to articulate but yet keep its strenght too so i cut the rounded portion and then left a tab to fold over and weld so that the bottom of the mount would be strong.
once this was completed i centered the axle with plumb bobs off the frame rails and with a fat guy pushing on the axle i marked it and drilled the hole for the bolt through the panhard rod and there you go. i bolted it all up and while i was away getting the paint the big guy who helped me decided to lay the goose poop looking welds to finish it up. lol they held so i painted it and took it to the off road park for a test and it has held very well and allows for more flex without the driver side tire rubbing the frame. this is my first how to so i hope this helps guys and hope it makes since. will post pics of the painted finished product.
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I like how the legos look coverless honestly
they look unfinished to me. if someone says something about it i can just run over their car lol
dont hate me guys... i traded my pathfinder
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It ride smooth. It's got flexy springs. It's a full size suv so it's not cramped. It hasn't been "smushed" at all. The rear had been " dove tailed " to make the rear narrower. If you don't know what that is then google it