4.0L HO Jeep Engine Build

cudaspaz said

I'm looking at a 74 j-10 jeep pickup right now.

I might have to build one of these suckers to go in it as this thread is inspriring my sickness.

I know nothing about jeeps just like I knew nothing about barracudas ten years ago, time for a new game????? Insert evil laugh..........

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cudaspaz,

I was never a Jeep guy either until I got one for a loaner when my Dakota was back at the dealer for repairs. I thought it would suck as I was going camping up here in the Routt National Forest around Rabbit Ears Pass and I wanted my dang 4WD pickup dag nabit, lol.

Well.... I was really suprised at the passing performance on the highway plus the mileage....Then I got on the trails...:cheers::cheers: Yee freakin' ha! I was blasting around (plus determined to bring this loaner back with an inch of mud 'cause I was so dam mad that I broke the rear end twice on that dam Dakota that I was going to show them some 4WD Loaner pain) and I could not stop this thing. Even at 11,500'. I banged it through some rocks, tried to sink it in a many mud puddles, blasted through high meadow swamp, slept in the back and to top it all off it was "Moss Green" and when I finally got to the pre-determined camp site, all my buds thought I was a ranger when I pulled up and got out with my old leather cross-draw holstered Ruger Redhawk in .44 mag, lol! Open carry is allowed in Colorado BTW. :)

Anyway, I don't have much experience with the older Jeeps but these 4.0's are a dime a dozen from the bone yard and Clifford offers a carb manifold for these. I'd do it my friend. :-D Game on! :cheers:

Oh yeah, as I was driving back this completley mud and dust covered Jeep through Fort Collins I got nothing but thumbs up from other Jeep drivers. :)