Jammed down to Hollister hills today and started off with my buddy saving this guy, we threw our tow strap on his rock slider and kept him from rolling and another guy pulled him forward, he dug tow massive holes with his fronts and the pumpkin was teetering on the tire

then we made our way up to the top

Followed by some romping around in the obstacle course then some posing




I couldn't even pull this off with my tiny tires and this would come up later

 

Everything was going great until the last trail we started down


No matter what I did I could not make it up this damn hill I must have tried 10 before admitting defeat and turning back it was really lame.
It was like this all the way up the hill, real fine dirt which made for some exciting fish tailing down hill on the way back.

snapped this of the trail as I heading back tail between legs

 

We stopped off in this pit to get a few hill climbs and donuts in before we left

Then my buddy purposely got stuck, since he was flexing his unibody he couldn't open the doors so he got out dukes of hazard style

 

I have been getting some time in on my welder and I have access to a lot of scrap since I work next to a metal fab shop so once I get a little for confidant and competent in my welding ill have something to show
cart needed a tank holder at work so I got to it



I added a some supports running up the side later, then flipped the cart and did a little more practice

 

Should have cleaned up the bottom some more ^
and I cut some sheet to make templates

and ordered a new tube adapter for my track bar since the old ones threads are a little jacked

 

I got Tires!
I was going to get brand new the next weekend but I found these
$200 for 5, the 5th on a rim

 

you running flux core wire? if so..why the gas?

 

Not a welding cart, that bottle is recovered refrigerant. I was at work and didn't have a bottle at the time

 

Scored this today, an xj Dana 44 from a really well maintained '87 how it ended up at the jy is beyond me

I am still up to the same shenanigans of building a giant pile of parts like a crazy person then doing it all at once.
On deck is and RE seal flange for an sye, insane amount of gaskets, poly performance leaf spring hangers and a pile of steel

 

Nice Dana 44 find. How much did they get you for?

 

$118.74 at my local pick n pull it was 1/3 off all parts
Just need drums and a new diff cover

 

Was that during 4th of July sale. I was tempted to go down to my local pick n pull and get a ford 8.8. Overall, nice find in a junkyard.

 

No it was today, not sure what the reason was but it's through Monday

 

First of all, clean jeep. Envious!!!

I would love prices like that. A D44 from my pic a part at 1/3rd off, would still be about 250$. Never heard of sales either. Vegas blows

 

Thanks a lot sandfish88, honestly that picture is a lie cuz it is no were near that clean looking in person. Also being a total miser has helped a lot though now the parts I put on it are worth way more than I payed for the thing
Heck I have seen at least ten d44's since I have been cruising the junk yards this is just the first time I could afford one (be able to part with the cash for one)