wroughtn_harv
Super Member
Some of my favoritest favorite memories involve a 59 or 60 CJ5 with a small block chevy and a Super T10 four speed. 5:38 gears and the eighty inch wheel base kept things interesting.
Occasionally I'd take it to town for grins. This was in the early seventies. The aluminum flywheel, headers, big cam, etc and so on meant that at idle at the light the whole jeep was shaking. Kids in their Roadrunners and Goats wouldn't even glance over. They'd look straight ahead. Light to light I could give the Kawasaki triples a run for their money. I could only do eighty or so but I could get there in a New York minute.
She wasn't worth a flip in the rocks, no torque due to the aluminum flywheel. But in the sand she was a ton of fun. If you are ever on I 10 when you hit Palm Springs look north. You will see a mountain with a gash taken out of the middle of it where the motorcycles and buggies used to run up. The first time out with the jeep I got stuck sideways up there. The pucker string was so tight that day a butterfly landing on it would have caused a major problem of the embarrassing kind.
After the second clutch went out, thirty eight hundred pound
scheifer, I developed a system involving a come along and the roll cage where I could pull the floor pan, drive shafts, and then slide out the tranny-transfer case combination, change out the clutch, and have it back running in about an hour.
There wasn't enough room for the reverse hook up on the Hurst shifter. So I had a separate little lever coming up through the floor board for reverse. It was also a good anti-theft device.
Once, only once, I stomped it on dirt without having it in four wheel drive. Eight inch wheelbase makes things happen so fast, violently fast. Brakes weren't an issue. The aluminum flywheel replaced them. At fifty five I could lift and if you weren't ready you were in the windshield.
She was a ton of fun. Unreliable, finicky, noisy, rough riding, but gawd, she was fast.
When I decided to put a four speed in my 79 chevy van I used the separate lever through the floor for reverse and had four on the tree. It was a hoot short shifting and catching fourth next to a gearhead. They'd almost break their necks spinning around to see the impossible.
If you have a GM pickup or van with a standard trans on the column you can change over to a Saginaw or Muncie four speed and use the original column shift if you put a reverse through the floorboard. Great entertainment value and an excellent anti-theft device.
Occasionally I'd take it to town for grins. This was in the early seventies. The aluminum flywheel, headers, big cam, etc and so on meant that at idle at the light the whole jeep was shaking. Kids in their Roadrunners and Goats wouldn't even glance over. They'd look straight ahead. Light to light I could give the Kawasaki triples a run for their money. I could only do eighty or so but I could get there in a New York minute.
She wasn't worth a flip in the rocks, no torque due to the aluminum flywheel. But in the sand she was a ton of fun. If you are ever on I 10 when you hit Palm Springs look north. You will see a mountain with a gash taken out of the middle of it where the motorcycles and buggies used to run up. The first time out with the jeep I got stuck sideways up there. The pucker string was so tight that day a butterfly landing on it would have caused a major problem of the embarrassing kind.
After the second clutch went out, thirty eight hundred pound
scheifer, I developed a system involving a come along and the roll cage where I could pull the floor pan, drive shafts, and then slide out the tranny-transfer case combination, change out the clutch, and have it back running in about an hour.
There wasn't enough room for the reverse hook up on the Hurst shifter. So I had a separate little lever coming up through the floor board for reverse. It was also a good anti-theft device.
Once, only once, I stomped it on dirt without having it in four wheel drive. Eight inch wheelbase makes things happen so fast, violently fast. Brakes weren't an issue. The aluminum flywheel replaced them. At fifty five I could lift and if you weren't ready you were in the windshield.
She was a ton of fun. Unreliable, finicky, noisy, rough riding, but gawd, she was fast.
When I decided to put a four speed in my 79 chevy van I used the separate lever through the floor for reverse and had four on the tree. It was a hoot short shifting and catching fourth next to a gearhead. They'd almost break their necks spinning around to see the impossible.
If you have a GM pickup or van with a standard trans on the column you can change over to a Saginaw or Muncie four speed and use the original column shift if you put a reverse through the floorboard. Great entertainment value and an excellent anti-theft device.
Although not much in the comfort or luxury dept.
