Yep- for now.
been starting the hunt for LS swap parts.
been starting the hunt for LS swap parts.
Cool toy. 4.0 liter motor?
Cool toy. 4.0 liter motor?
Yep- for now.
been starting the hunt for LS swap parts.
LS? Not familiar. I owned a Comanche pickup in the late 80's- early 90's and was fond of that 4l. Made a capable little truck.
Don't see any kind of communications in your prep, or CB antenna.
I'm partial to mud tires over A/T tires, the Goodyear Wrangler MT/R did very well both on and off-road on my old Cherokee, even in deep snow.
I'd skip the V8 swap unless you're going to update the axles as well, but then you're getting into parts you can't get at a junkyard. If you have to many parts you can't get at a junkyard or off abandoned vehicles along a bug-out route, your setting yourself up to have a really neat stationary vehicle.
Otherwise looks good, wish I still had one of the 3 cherokees I've owned right now.
Was that you pulling out of Casey's the other day?
You have a good off-road vehicle, not implying that it isn't capable. I'd take that anywhere.
BUT gears break, axles break, driveshafts break... replacements are not going to be fed-ex'd overnight. Which I had to do with my first jeep when the coolant expansion tank decided to give out driving past Denver going into the Rockies.
SHTF - where are you going to get 4.56 gears, cro-moly axles and driveshafts.
How is that V8 going to do if you have to swap to stock axles and gears? Because SHTF those are the parts you are going to have to swap to if you don't carry spares for every single critical part that can break.
Just saying, the more custom it is, the less SHTF vehicle it is.
U spent more on aftermarket parts than it cost! LOL But it does look so coooool
I recently got new tires on my Jeep JK. BFG KM’s Mud Terrain, I switched them at 85,000 miles with some tread still on the rear? Proper maintenance of your tires will give tread life, even in M/T’s . My last Jeep I got 65K on the BFG M/T’s , and would have gotten more if I hadn’t missed a couple of rotations.I have CB, I just dont leave the antenna on- I keep it in the cab. I also bought a Baofeng UV5R I just need to make time to go take the test/classes.
On the tires- I have ran mud terrains, I will not again. Tread life sucks... I have ran 35k this year alone on my Jeep running BFG KO2's and they're still in great shape.
As of axles, my rear is a D44 and front is HP D30, both are trussed, regeared to 4.56 gears and have lockers and chromoly axle shafts. Trust me- it can easily handle a V8
I mean what is more common than the most mass produced small SUV of all time? lol
and the V8 I would be swapping in IF I ever did is by far Chevrolet's most used engine platform of all time- the LS.
Parts would be readily available and everywhere...the only issue I would have is finding spare driveshafts since that would be custom. I could carry U-Joints and find them easily
but the actual shaft itself would not be easy.