A new beginning

[Ooph!]

I was given the Low Manufacturing Technical Service Manual and with it came a 10 page assembly manual.

I'll have to scan and post them at some point, a cursory web search didn't show any.

I remember seeing the kit advertised but it was out of reach at the time

[Ooph!]

Started to look over the new 4x4 and found some interesting things

Two labels one for the hubs and one for the fuel tank on the inside glove box door.

The tank is 18 gallons

 

 

 

The seat which appears to be out of a Datsun has a center console with cup holder, very 80's

 

 

 

A gun rack behind the seat, I couldn't get the release to work to tilt the seat forward

 

 

 

 

It has a Weber carb with a factory adapter for the stock aircleaner

 

 

Edited August 28 by Ooph!

[Ooph!]

The distributor is an l16 dual point and ugly inside so I wanted to pull it, opened up the valve cover but unlike the dizzy it's very nice in there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 6 by Ooph!

[datzenmike]

Replace the advance set and throw the retarded set and that fram filter away. Boom done. Scary clean head.

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

Yeah, that head has been rebuilt.

[Ooph!]

I've noticed that shipping at Rockauto can be hazardous to your wallet.

The cropped screen shots are for all the same parts except I dropped 1 brake line but there's one in the cart.

Shipping charges drop from $53.96 down to $13.99

I still haven't ordered, they can wait

 

 

 

 

Edited September 10 by Ooph!

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

I'm sure you are aware of the little truck with the letter A, B, C, etc. Rockauto charges separate shipping charges for shipments made from each warehouse.

 

 

Also, Rockauto is notorious for using shipping as a profit center, unlike many other places (Summit racing), but their prices on the parts are also a lot lower than other places (again, Summit), so you have to weigh the shipping vs part cost.

 

There was an article about this years ago. In the article, it also explained how Rockauto does not reveal their warehouse locations. This is obfuscation at it's highest level, so you can't use the warehouse location to help decide the shipping method. I've paid overnight freight for orders to find that they come from SoCal, which would have been one day with standard shipping. So how bad do you need the parts???

[EDM620]

Watch that little warehouse ship point - it's worth paying a slightly higher price on the part to have it come from the same warehouse as other stuff- cheaper in the long run

[Ooph!]

Time for a complete brake rebuild the master and calipers are stuck.

I put the rotors on the brake lathe yesterday and there's not enough thickness left to clean them up.

Looking at Rockauto there are 5 and 6 lug rotors available for the jeep CJ but not quite enough info to tell me if they are the same unless I'm just not seeing it, I'm going to take a chance and order the 6 lug so hopefully I don't have to re drill the fives into sixes. Also I think I need tires, Ha ha but they still hold air.

 

Edit: I found the rotor specs they are different .4 inch thicker, height of .101 Dia of .11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 07:51 PM by Ooph!

[]2eDeYe]

Thats an odd looking front brake setup. 
Custom hub and I don't recognize the caliper. 
 

Nice spare haha

[Ooph!]

The rotors and Calipers have been 1978 to 91 Jeep CJ so far, I'm assuming the hub to be a LOW manufacturing piece.

1979 was the Disc brake first year for 620's so to base it on the CJ would have been easier.

The manual does say 78 Datsun conversions use the stock disc brakes but this is a 73

Edited yesterday at 01:18 AM by Ooph!

[Stoffregen Motorsports]

CJ rotors are different from SJ rotors, so go with the 5 lug.

 

Ford calipers and Dodge calipers had a cast iron bracket, unlike Chevy which used a stamped bracket and a "sliding" pin. Maybe IH used cast parts too, I don't know.