Build Thread 1986 CJ7 Build

[Belizean]

That hail hurts. What seal was used around the glass ?

 

[KRUPP]

It has the original rubber seal. Glazier said it was still in great shape and pliable.

 

[N9VIW]

I have to paint my new frame Chestnut Brown and have the glass installed... I've read a dozen tutorials on how to replace windshield glass in a car, but for some reason I can't bring myself to do it. At least if the glazier breaks my windshield, he's responsible for a new one, not me.

I've had several frames rot from the inside out over the years, so this one I used Eastwood's frame coating (the green stuff) and sprayed it inside the frame. From what I could tell, the frame was already painted with gloss black inside, at least as far as a flashlight and looking through access holes allowed me to see. Has Omix stepped up their game, or did I get a one-off decent frame? I coated it anyway.

 

[adjective]

Great thread, wish I had read through it earlier. Ordered those stronghold combo boots for myself. Also hadn't thought about those collector plates. I have an appointment next week to get my 83 registered and I may go that route. I somehow passed emissions yesterday but it would be nice to not have to deal with that as often

 

[Scottyp1134]

Scotty,

Thanks for the compliment.
As far as the tachometer goes, it’s been a couple years, but I seem to remember that I put in a wired connector at distributor. On my HEI distributor (Summit Racing), there's a plug at the cap with the power wire and the tach wire. I simply hooked the tach up to this wire and it worked fine. I have Howell TBI and there is a tach wire from it's ECM, so that might be the difference though.
Did you do something similar?
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I just finished adding on the Howell TBI as well. Now to revisit this pesky tach issue. I did connect the Howell computer to the tach signal wire on the HEI as instructed. Should I also incorporate that wire to the stock tach somehow? The stock tach has two wires and seems to be originally wired in series with the fat red wire with white tracer. There are even opposing connectors to it so I could eliminate the tach and keep the wires connected. I just don’t understand how the tach is supposed to pick up a signal off this setup.