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For starters, I'm Nick, I'm 17 years young and recently purchased a 1983 Wagoneer. However this is not my first car, I bought a nova at age 15 and the old 350 started knocking so i figured it was time for an LS-swap. I swapped a 2004 LQ4 6.0 into the nova backed by the muncie tranny. I did all the work alone in our two car garage. It was a great learning experience and a good problem solving lesson. Here is the build ,ttp://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-hybrids/1243718-lq4-into-1972-nova-build-10.html, for anybody interested. And if you have any questions about an LS swap in your FSJ I might be able to help out a bit.
Onto the main reason I'm here. I picked up the wagoneer from a guy of craigslist for $1800. It was in grandma's car from 1985-1992, when the lady passed away it sat in a barn from 1992-2007 with 59,000 miles on it. The man I bought it from bought the Jeep in 2007 at an auction, and when i bought it from him it only had 83,000 miles.
It has very little rust, only a spot the size of a quarter behind the passenger side rear wheel, and a small dent on the opposite side. Paint is decent (besides the part where somebody decided it was a good idea to tear off the wood paneling) Runs and drives very nice, typical drive train, AMC 360, 727, NP-229, Dana 44 front, AMC-20 rear.
Interior needs alot of work, I will explain more about that in a little.
Enough of the talk, here are the pictures when I brought it home.
I don't know what somebody was thinking when they tried to "paint" over the wood paneling the peeled off with a brush.
^only spot of rust
Motor needs a good deep cleaning.
nice clean,cancer free floor pans in the cargo area after I ripped out the old carpeting.
Like I said before, The nova is my nice weather, summer car. This is my winter, rainy,snowy, long trip car, I will be driving the wagoneer 80% of the time. Plans for Wagoneer are as follows.
Four inch all spring lift.
33's
Paint (repainted same coppper metallic color)
Bumpers that i will fab in my Metal fabrication class.
Carpeting
Nice seats, or seat covers.
Rhino Grill.
Rear tire carrier on bumper,
Stereo with all new speakers,
Valve covers, Oil pan, headers and full exhaust going into a single magnaflow.
Roof rack
All the windows work except the driver window (needs new flex rack)
Thats about it for now except for a bunch of little odds and ends.
Here is a picture of my brothers 98 TJ that he gave to me when he went into the Army (which I am selling to get funds for the Waggy), Then my Nova i swapped an LS into, and then my twin brothers 2000 Silverado.
Onto the main reason I'm here. I picked up the wagoneer from a guy of craigslist for $1800. It was in grandma's car from 1985-1992, when the lady passed away it sat in a barn from 1992-2007 with 59,000 miles on it. The man I bought it from bought the Jeep in 2007 at an auction, and when i bought it from him it only had 83,000 miles.
It has very little rust, only a spot the size of a quarter behind the passenger side rear wheel, and a small dent on the opposite side. Paint is decent (besides the part where somebody decided it was a good idea to tear off the wood paneling) Runs and drives very nice, typical drive train, AMC 360, 727, NP-229, Dana 44 front, AMC-20 rear.
Interior needs alot of work, I will explain more about that in a little.
Enough of the talk, here are the pictures when I brought it home.
I don't know what somebody was thinking when they tried to "paint" over the wood paneling the peeled off with a brush.
^only spot of rust
Motor needs a good deep cleaning.
nice clean,cancer free floor pans in the cargo area after I ripped out the old carpeting.
Like I said before, The nova is my nice weather, summer car. This is my winter, rainy,snowy, long trip car, I will be driving the wagoneer 80% of the time. Plans for Wagoneer are as follows.
Four inch all spring lift.
33's
Paint (repainted same coppper metallic color)
Bumpers that i will fab in my Metal fabrication class.
Carpeting
Nice seats, or seat covers.
Rhino Grill.
Rear tire carrier on bumper,
Stereo with all new speakers,
Valve covers, Oil pan, headers and full exhaust going into a single magnaflow.
Roof rack
All the windows work except the driver window (needs new flex rack)
Thats about it for now except for a bunch of little odds and ends.
Here is a picture of my brothers 98 TJ that he gave to me when he went into the Army (which I am selling to get funds for the Waggy), Then my Nova i swapped an LS into, and then my twin brothers 2000 Silverado.
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