CJ7 junk yard parts bin on 42's

Ran more double blacks today. My son drove most of them, which might be more rewarding to watch and spot him make it happen than me driving through. Got mostly vids, but here's the honorary trail 90 shot.
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He never had to pull cable, but I did on trail 94 to keep from losing the windshield.

Got to the top of one trail and reached for the shifter and it was in the passenger seat... Roached another set of engine mounts.

Heading home in the morning, great father son weekend in a rig we built in the garage over the past 6 years. He's going into his senior year in a few weeks. I'm sure there will be many more great trips just like this.
 
Awesome! I need to make it out to ivy branch one of these days!!
 
It's a good spot and bear wallow is right down the road too.
 
Put two new engine mounts in it and put the 40 mickeys Thompson "street tires" back on so he can drive it to school again (65 miles round trip). Only one engine mount was ripped completely apart, the other was starting... I don't remember beating on it that hard...


Had some fuel delivery issues with the Holley sniper, mostly my fault since the service loop I put in to make replacing the pump easier started kinking and fuel began to cavitate on the suction side. Straightened that out and it seemed fine until it ran for a couple hours. Then the pump gets loud again like it's eating air. Never shutdown again though. I checked the fittings and the hose all is fine. At initial start up and the first 45 minutes it's nearly silent, run it for a few hours and it's LOUD.

Tonight he was out and called me because it would start but not stay running. Told me the fuel pump would prime but once it fired the pump would shut off. Turned out the special plug you have to buy extra to connect to any ignition box had a lousy connection so butt spliced that and it's good for now. Hopefully...

Definitely would not have been able to do the trails at ivy with the carb, but there's a certain level of reliability with a carb that I'm missing right now. This thing seems finicky, I suppose with time my confidence will grow.

Bolt check and weld check last night showed all was fine, but the front waggy springs are S shaped again even with the antiwrap bar. The main leaf is pretty thin, but I guess I'm over flexing it. Will look into 4 linking the front, but prefer the leaves for his daily driver duty for now.
 
Have you thought about chaining the motor mounts like the old school yota guys did? Leave it some room to move, but not so much it can tear the motor mounts?
 
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