Maze's slow cj 7 restoration

James5454

New member

• Aug 18, 2015

• #1

The start of the painful restoration

 

2Cross

Caught the Bug

• Aug 18, 2015

• #2

Subscribed. My brothers and I restored a CJ7 twenty years ago.

We still share ownership of it.
That thing can wheel awesome

 

James5454

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• Aug 18, 2015

• #3

Awesome. My dad bought it within a month of when I was born. So he gave it to me. It has a lot of issues. I have to build a transmission. Buy a new engine. I'm changing the gearing to 4:10. Putting a 258 with a built up t-176. 4" lift with 33's and 1.5" wheel spacers. Air conditioning and fuel injection. I'm tearing apart the transfer case now to rebuild. Gotta buy the fiancé a vehicle before I can unload a lot of money on it and getting a lot of specialty tools and get a building. Definitely wanna put a lot of time and money into this thing

 

Jk909

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• Aug 18, 2015

• #4

Keep us updated man, this is definitely going to be a cool build

 

James5454

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• Aug 18, 2015

• #5

Thanks. I definitely will keep the updates coming. It will be slow at the start but once it starts it will definitely be moving quick. I'm already excited to be driving it.

 

2Cross

Caught the Bug

• Aug 19, 2015

• #6

James5454 said:

Awesome. My dad bought it within a month of when I was born. So he gave it to me. It has a lot of issues. I have to build a transmission. Buy a new engine. I'm changing the gearing to 4:10. Putting a 258 with a built up t-176. 4" lift with 33's and 1.5" wheel spacers. Air conditioning and fuel injection. I'm tearing apart the transfer case now to rebuild. Gotta buy the fiancé a vehicle before I can unload a lot of money on it and getting a lot of specialty tools and get a building. Definitely wanna put a lot of time and money into this thing

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It will be worth it.

That's cool that it's as old as you are.

Here's my CJ7.

 

James5454

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• Aug 19, 2015

• #7

That looks great. It's nice to see when people bring back older jeeps. They were the best in my opinion

 

Thruxton865

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• Aug 19, 2015

• #8

Good luck to you, it will be awesome. My favorite jeep was a Levi addition CJ my dads friend had in Alaska. White with blue stripes. It had a v-8 and side pipes with denim looking seats. Sorry I had a flash back.

 

James5454

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• Aug 19, 2015

• #9

That's ok. It's nice cause the old cj's are definitely good for memories