ok its been a very long time since i updated my page and for good reason i ended up blowing my head gaskets in my original engine so i decided to rebuild a donor engine fron block up.,







heres pulling the original motor out

cleaning the intake manifold





more of the engine tear down

cleaned the heads and added new oil seals

cleaning stage 1 of the valve train

cyl bores still have amazing honeing done. re tapping the cyl head holes


one cyl head on

cyl heads on and torqued. valve train on and oiled up

engine coverd up awaiting parts

intake all assembled

new freeze plugs and oil pump and timing cover

new rear main seal

underdrive pully set


engine all primed

paint the waterpump

almost ready


the engine ran amazing for a month everything was replaced new in the engine except the pistons and main berrings. on the way home on the hwy one day the engine lost power and seized up resulting me being towed home. the engine build cost me 2500 bucksfor all parts and a friends labour. the truck sat at my house for a couple months deciding what i was gonna do with it. i purchased a 2003 ford excursion eddie bauer edition 6.0 deisel and fixed it up as my daily driver. i decided to fix my jimmy as i had a week off work and found a used motor that had 180 000km on it with engine harness. i took it apart and it was clean.

 

heres the jimmy after my complete over haul to what it is now. decided to get busy and start taking the rebuilt motor out of the jimmy to make way for the donor motor






heres the donor motor all ready to go in.cleaned all the intake and replaced plugs,wires,cap and rotor,engine mounts,added my underdrive pully,and new valve colver gaskets and oil pressure sensor,



engine installed and putting it all back togther slowly. did a a/c delete as well


after engine was all hooked up. i had to add all new fluids and reseal the transfer case gasket as well. installed a new driver fender as mine was damaged in the accident i had in the winter and cut a new hole for the snorkle and started the plumbing of it,




got my friend to fab me a snorkle bracket for support


while the jimmy was in the driveway i decided to lube and change all the diff fluids and paint



reassembled

as i seen the truck took some heavy salt damage and rusted the rig out bad causing the frame to get ugly and all the rear quarter panel wheel lips to rust out so decided to clean the frame rails





frame rails all painted

after all the work was done on the jimmy and got it running i cleaned it up before i take it for a test drive


after the clean up i took it for its first road test in my town and all seemed fine til i almost fried this motor pulled over to find a trail of oil behind me. the bolt for the engine oil lines to the oil filter block had stripped out causing the hose to burst leaking oil. had to make a temp fix to get it home,


after i got it home i took the oil filter block out to a local machine shop and had him retap the hole with a helicol repair kit. he charged me 25 bucks for the material and labour and had it installed the next day. after i had it running i gave it another fresh oil change and took it to my friends shop to get the holes in my quarter panel cut out and welded up with fresh metal

hole cut and new patch patel welded up and ground down


it was a 2 day process as it was worse then i thought after i took a screw driver all along the wheel lip and found more rust so we patched it all up.
while i was there i had him make me some small tabs to add rear limit straps so i dont max out my shocks at flex


welded up a bolt for the strap




the following weekend i started to finish the body work. i sanded the fresh metal down, used acid primer and used metal finish bondo to smooth out the roughness. after it was smooth i used duplicolor bedliner with kevlar to add some protection

 

i decided to drive it around for a few days and felt the trucks suspension and brakes were out of wack and needed to be serviced so i parked the jimmy again and decided to rebuild all the front suspension with custom parts as the factory parts were not holding up anymore


tore all the front apart down to the bare bones.

the rough country control arms were broken and needed to be rewelded and ball joints replaced


new procomp shocks,spicer lower balljoint,cleaned control arms and camber bolts,added alot of antiseize to everything

2x new hub berrings

the start of the custom inner tie rods

the setup of the tie rods compared to the factory

drilled out the end joles on the steering link for the new bolts

almost back together


upper spicer balljoints installed and painted

brakes all serviced and finished product


new 1 ton idler arm assembly and idler arm



heres the start of my custom cognito motorsports pitman and idler arm support brackets. just missing shank nut and heimjoints.

after all the suspension was done i made my custom makeshift washer tank




cleaned and painted my skid plates to match the theme of my truck

installed

truck all cleaned and ready for alighment shop..

 

truck all togther and awaiting alighment. after alighment shop it handles amazing and no play at all in the sterring system. keep u all posted next for my rock sliders next

 

not my jimmy but thought id show everyone my daily driver now and 2nd project
2003 ford excursion 6.0 deisel. mods-muffler delete,mbrp 4 inch exhaust tip,led roof marker lights,led interior lights,led running board lights,bf goodrick allterrain tires,bd deisel coolant filter,bully dog rapid flow intake,banks high ram intake and boost tubes,ford blue spring fuel pressure upgrade,new fuel filters and oil.pinion seal,rear outter seals,spicer u joints,10 000k hids,cree offroad led lights,scangauge 2,edge juice with attitude tuner with 5 functions.








quarter mile time was 15.3 seconds

future upgrades,rear lift 2 inch,new shocks,new steering dampers,cat delete,egr delete,sct livewire tuner,grille

 

What did you do to mount receivers in the front?

 

Wow great to see this truck back in action, i had seen this truck on kijiji a couple months back and thought it was kind of a shame to sell! Glad you didnt!

 

well its been along time since ive updated this page and I could never leave my baby alone as its gone through a radical transformation to the point its at now, I have sold the ford excursion since it broke down and cost 3600 Canadian dollors to fix so decided to sink the money back into the jimmy and convert it to a serious offroader that's dependable and reliable.

 

so my first upgrade was to change the axles since the regular 7.625 axle was weak I found a rear blazer 8.5 axle and decided to rebuild it over winter at a friends. we tore it all down to bare shell and sanded down and painted. installed new parts and a Timken berring set with factory 3;73 gears instead of my 3;43 and added a eaton true track locker. I upgraded the front diff as well to the older style flange cv for easy fixes and it was also rebuilt and a rough country drop bracket was added for better cv angles.



















heres the locker it was just surface rust as it sat in a moist garage I cleaned it up with brake clean after and inspected the gears

 

after the install of the axles I rebuilt the front end of my truck with new brakes.ball joints and zr2 billstien shocks for the front and urethane lower control arm bushings





the back I installed longer shackles,new fox 2.0 shocks and limit straps with new ebrake cables