Here is the 360 installed into the jeep with the cowl welded on. This is where the hood will sit, I lowered the front grille of the jeep to see better. I have also sunk the winch down between the frame rails.  The new grille is welded to the hood.  It follows the rear angle pretty well.

Plus, it just looks freakin' MEAN!!!

And now for the surprise...

Yep, an M-151 slat grille. A friend of mine found an old M-151 out in the woods at Camp Lejeune while mountain biking. He came and got me and we went out and stripped what we could from it. It was pretty well rotted away. But I have had this grille for about 6 years or so and finally found a home for it. The hood is crooked since it is just resting there, I do not have it supported yet, that will be next weekends project, getting it all hooked up.

Ok the weekend has come and gone, my friends all went wheeling and I stayed at home wrenching.  I did get the radiator installed, the grille all the way on, the hood to shut and stay shut.  Next weekend will be clocking the Dana 300 and making mounts for the transmission and transfer case, beefing up the skid plate and getting the batteries mounted.

On with the pics..

Oh, the paint job.  Ya, it will be orange with blue flames, I just don't want to take the hood pins off again just to paint it.  So that is why the blue is the way it is.  So, get off me!

Alright, this past weekend, 10/20 - 10/21 I got the rear disk brakes on.  And today, 10/23 I had a day off due to the California fires.  We have two within 20 miles of our house, but we are in little danger, since we are in the middle of the city.  I also have tomorrow off, since the land between me and work is on fire, including some of work.

So, today, Chris and I got the dash tubing bent up and installed and figured out where the shifter will be mounted.

Here's the pictures, remember you can click on them to get larger ones.

All I will say on the disk brake set up is this; I got the brackets from Blue Torch and they did not fit, I had to make several cuts in them to get them on the axle tube.  They are thick, 3/8" and other than that everything went smoothly.  I used Chevy 3/4 ton rotors and calipers.  I just had to grind the calipers a little to get them to fit with 15" rims.  I will have a full write up on this went I get them plumbed.  Sometime next week.

And now a little something for Neil.  Here is my compressor plumbed up in my garage.  I only did this very little bit since I am renting so it will be easy to take down, but enough to get the job done.  I have the yellow hose coming in from the compressor tank, then going through a filter.  I have a water drain down below that and then it goes up and over and it all slopes back to the inlet side.  Then it goes through a on/off valve/pressure regulator then out to a Tee with two outlets.  The yellow coil hose is temporary for now.  That will become the red line which will go over to my work bench.  Then the bottom outlet will become another Goodyear hose with a reel right next to the tank.

Some more updates.  I have the steering shaft made to connect the orbital valve to the steering column.  Got the engine fired up.  And most of the wiring done.

Here you can see about where the Steering Valve will be mounted.  I still have to fab up the mounting bracket and weld that on.  But this gives you an idea of placement.  I used my stock steering column and then took the shaft with it and made up a connector for the stub shaft on the steering valve, since that is splined for agricultural equipment.  I ended up using a piece from a waggy rag joint and then welded some trailer hitch steel to it and crossed drilled that for the lower steering shaft.	This is just a top down view, it follows the frame and is plenty of distance from the exhaust, which was a concern of mine.  The fluid will already be hot under use, no need to make it hotter.
This is the battery mounts, it is under the passenger seat and will hold two batteries.  It's a tight fit, but they do fit.	Here is the three of us.  Me (left), Aaron (middle), Mike (right).  Mike had come out to California for a conference, which turned out to have been canceled due to the fires, so he got to stay with me for a week and help me work on the heep.  Aaron is just in their for posterity reasons, the gratuitous beer shot.
This is pretty much the dash, if you can call it that.  It's not all the way done, but done enough to wheel this thing, just have to finish up with some of the wiring.
As you can see I have changed the color of this heep.  OD Green will be the new flavor of the day.  Here I cut off and re-welded the shock hoop on, had to lower it some for the hood.	A front view of it with the new lower corner brace, I found it lying around, figured it couldn't hurt.
A few shots with the hood down, I have the position marks for the CJ headlight buckets on there, those are the white spots you see.  Need to make some tabs up and weld them on.