Hi there, new forum reader...
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:11 pm
Hi there, I'm just making my obligatory introduction... I'm not much of an off roader, at least not yet, I'm all new to it, though not new to 4x4's. Just never owned a jeep, though when I was young, my dad owned an M37 and we explored a lot in the Utah deserts. I currently live in Milton Freewater, OR (near walla walla).
I bought my first 4x4 for specifically getting into tough places ( mostly for business ), and I'm slowly getting it ready to go... should be driveable in a week or two.
It's an 81 W150, slant six power, 4 speed, converting it to propane, adding PowerTrax no-slip to the rear and Lock-Right to the front, raising it a bit, and eventually 33 in tires.
I'm converting it to propane because propane is cheap. Diesel, for my other truck, is 4.28/gal here ,and I can fill up on propane for 2.20 as of two weeks ago. I am modding the engine with much higher compression, larger valves, breathing improvements, distributorless ignition, closed loop mixture control, and hope to get about 18 mpg on propane.
Hope to meet some of you eventually and perhaps even take a travel to some of the scenic spots with ya. I'm not into hard core technical crawling... I just wanna go the places that are remote and hard to get to
I bought my first 4x4 for specifically getting into tough places ( mostly for business ), and I'm slowly getting it ready to go... should be driveable in a week or two.
It's an 81 W150, slant six power, 4 speed, converting it to propane, adding PowerTrax no-slip to the rear and Lock-Right to the front, raising it a bit, and eventually 33 in tires.
I'm converting it to propane because propane is cheap. Diesel, for my other truck, is 4.28/gal here ,and I can fill up on propane for 2.20 as of two weeks ago. I am modding the engine with much higher compression, larger valves, breathing improvements, distributorless ignition, closed loop mixture control, and hope to get about 18 mpg on propane.
Hope to meet some of you eventually and perhaps even take a travel to some of the scenic spots with ya. I'm not into hard core technical crawling... I just wanna go the places that are remote and hard to get to