Builds The Warthog - 1977/73 combo (2 Viewers)

J Mack · Apr 10, 2019

PabloCruise said:
IIRC, didn’t you snap the rear pinion on your maiden launch?

Yes but that by itself shouldn’t stop me from encouraging others to pop a wheelie.

If anything it should give me some street creed and make my inspirational words of encouragement more meaningful.

Besides who here doesn’t want to see wngrog pop a wheelie?

wngrog · Apr 10, 2019

Clutch dumping is a thing of the past.

Megadoomer · Apr 10, 2019

That 500 gallon gas tank will help. Pigs are like the Plymouth Belvedere of the sixties, just draggin ass all over the place.

wngrog · Apr 10, 2019

Megadoomer said:
That 500 gallon gas tank will help. Pigs are like the Plymouth Belvedere of the sixties, just draggin ass all over the place.

No kidding. I kicked my ass all over putting leaf springs back in due to that hog trough

PabloCruise · Apr 11, 2019

J Mack said:
Yes but that by itself shouldn’t stop me from encouraging others to pop a wheelie.

If anything it should give me some street creed and make my inspirational words of encouragement more meaningful.

Besides who here doesn’t want to see wngrog pop a wheelie?

Agreed 1000%!!!

wngrog · Apr 18, 2019

Tomorrow is the big day.

I think I have everything ready for the transplant surgery.

In other news, after looking long and hard at the King shocks like @scrapdaddy did and just decided to go with what I know.

Iron Man Pro Firm 60 series shocks. They are so much heavier than the OME. Not even in the same class.

We are going to lower the top mounts on the crossmember so I can get more droop. These are about 1” longer than Ome but they need more room to drop.

Earlier I had raised them above the spring to the stock location for early Cruisers in the back of the axle but I want to try to keep the geometry the same. That much angle and I love dampening.

You can’t see due to the covers but, at rest and full of fuel (with all the leafs back in) the shocks are about 2” from fully extended.

I’m going to have Shaw Fab add new upper mounts to the bottom of the crossmember tube and extend my sway bar arms. Should be perfect. Not looking for a ramp champ but not wanting to carry tires all the time.

wngrog · Apr 19, 2019

Oh man. I was so excited I staged it all

Hooked it up to the Goat for transfer to the OR

The master at work

Lots of help. Great help. People that don’t need to be told what to do.

The motor fired and ran perfectly. My throttle cable is jacked. So sad but I can only idle it around. Ive ordered a new one but you can bet your ass I’ll try to rig something up to be able to drive it.

Stay tuned.

Megadoomer · Apr 19, 2019

My cable broke on the way home from work one day and I tied speaker wire to the linkage and throttled home a few miles with my arm.

wngrog · Apr 20, 2019

Throttle cable procured.

Clutch dumped. RPMs pegged. Smiles for days

RUSH55 · Apr 20, 2019

Taking pics of your speedo while doing 80 in a FJ55? Wow dude

But congrats tho

wngrog · Apr 20, 2019

RUSH55 said:
Taking pics of your speedo while doing 80 in a FJ55? Wow dude

But congrats tho

It drives perfectly at speed. It does want to change lanes a bit when I let off a hard throttle

I have a center arm rebuild kit and power steering to add to make it even better in the next phase

I also picked up my 100 from the body shop today from collision repair. I have a full house again and all of them run!

Megadoomer · Apr 21, 2019

New front fender? No blend?

wngrog · Apr 21, 2019

Megadoomer said:
New front fender? No blend?

Yeah and thanks for pointing that out as I just now see it.

I think I will let her “blend” it by getting it dirty.

Megadoomer · Apr 21, 2019

Sorry, I didnt mean to be a dick. I grew up around body work and can spot repair a mile away. Especially on silver cars. They dont even look good from factory.

J Mack · Apr 21, 2019

Megadoomer said:
Sorry, I didnt mean to be a dick. They dont even look good from factory.

Yeah that made it better, dick.

I like the two tone silver @wngrog, don't listen to the Doomer he only likes flat black and purple what can a guy like that know and color combinations.

Megadoomer · Apr 21, 2019

J Mack said:
Yeah that made it better, dick.

I like the two tone silver @wngrog, don't listen to the Doomer he only likes flat black and purple what can a guy like that know and color combinations.

Ya I am such a good body man that I paint my truck every year and no one can tell. Almost paint as often as JMack. Haha

wngrog · Apr 21, 2019

I figure she’s due a couple more wrecks before I repossess it. I’ll just choose to forget you pointed this out

On another note. The Warthog is leak free. Riding and running great.

I got the interior all finished. Holes are all filled on the tranny hump. No hot air coming through the floor or firewall. It’s still loud compared to my 60 but it’s 50% quieter than pre-project.

Mounted the Sniper display with a screw in cell phone mount far left. Mechanical oil pressure on the bottom left. Line lock switch. Left. Dopey red wire is audio input for Retro Stereo. Seats are Corbeau Moab and console is Smittybuilt.