It followed me home,

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Looking at fabricating a fan shroud, noticed that the fan tip could hit the fan shroud on the drivers side. Spent 2 days cutting, welding and drilling the radiator support. The radiator now sits 1" more to the drivers side. Which also made more room for the radiator overflow/catch can. I only made the brackets, bought the can.

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Another view.

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When I cut the front bulkhead removing the cross piece (for engine egress) I figured the opening would spread, it did, about 1/8". Enough spread that the holes were off center enough that the screws wouldn't fit.
The fix was to add a long screw between the two front radiator mounts and pull them together. Had 2 used R8 drawbars, cut off the bad parts and welded them together. One big long screw.

Now I need to figure where to hang a crank case vent can. There's no room for the can down by the starter. But there is room at the front between the engine and the radiator, both sides. I know that the later Dodge 6B's moved the crank case vent to the front of the timing cover. That would work but it still dumps oil on the ground. The Moroso can uses a -12AN fitting to attach the hose to the can.
I'm thinking about attaching it to a valve cover. "If" there's room inside I might be able to use a male bulkhead adapter. Cut off what isn't needed.
Another thought is mount it on the screw cap on the timing cover and use a 90? bulkhead adapter. If I mount it off center it might clear the injection gear nut.

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Love to lurk and read your thread.

I had the same issue with the fan blade hitting the shroud/steering gear on the driver's side. Went with a simple solution and notched the bottom of the fan blades and it clears now with some room to spare. I am hoping it gets warm enough to get back in the workshop soon and get all the little things like the radiator overflow tank mount done.

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One more thing to take care of again, the front of the transmission pan just started to seep, enough to leave a small pool of atf. It's been holding ATF for months no problem.
So much for $20 FelPro gasket. Mabe I'll try a cheap gasket this time.

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Love to lurk and read your thread.

I had the same issue with the fan blade hitting the shroud/steering gear on the driver's side. Went with a simple solution and notched the bottom of the fan blades and it clears now with some room to spare. I am hoping it gets warm enough to get back in the workshop soon and get all the little things like the radiator overflow tank mount done.

How did you re-balance the fan?

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We didn't. Just took equal amounts off each blade top and bottom measuring distance to top an bottom of each blade to make sure they were equal. Mounted it, spun it on an engine stand... no vibrations.

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Re-started the wiring. Working on the grounds. Took 4 hours* on Saturday just to bend and cut the neg 2/O cable. Connected it to the front using one of the front engine mount holes.
The Cummins crankcase vent arrived, did some preliminary hose routing.

*Shop was at 40℉, (4.44℃) 2/O doesn't like to bend at those temps;

[PabloAZ]

Crawling around upside down trying to bend that thick cable is lotsa fun, eh? I had an extra 2 gauge and the main 2/0 and neither one liked to bend very much at 60, let alone 40.

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Crawling around upside down trying to bend that thick cable is lotsa fun, eh? I had an extra 2 gauge and the main 2/0 and neither one liked to bend very much at 60, let alone 40.

I even bought a cable bender but it was still a tuff job.

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Shifting gears, working on the A/C
Learned that the Jeep has a thermostatic expansion valve system (TXV). Found all of the leftover A/C parts that were going into the Willys, there now going into the Jeep. Had to order 3 fittings, The outlet (low side) from the evaporator has a special fitting. A no. 12 male 90 degree flared to no. 10 hose. I originally thought it had a no. 12 hose, searched in vain for something comparable, nothing. Stripped the hose off the fitting found it was a no. 10. Could not find any one selling just the ferrule, so I'll sacrifice a no.10 fitting, use it on the old Jeep fitting. Problems solved. I expected the high side fitting to be problematic also, It didn't disappoint. It's a no. 6 female flared. Actually found that fitting online in about 5 minutes. Still have to flush out the evaporator, clean all of the R12 oil out.

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I was weighting the chances of failure with the AC evaporator, cleaning, leaks vs buying a new one. Noticed that all the evaps for a 89 I look at didn't look like mine. Looked at 74-85 wagon evaps, those look like mine. Why? When I was working on the gas engine I remembered the 2bbl carb was sitting on a adapter for a 4bbl (factory 4bbl manifold). 4bbl on the 360 were only offered in the J10-J20 trucks. So when the engine was swapped into the wagon they took the A/C with it?

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Waiting on more AC parts, decided to install the new BJ's 2.5" lift front springs. Took 2 days, 5 of the spring bolts were rusted tight. Had to cut the bolt heads off and pull them out using the threads.

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Got the 2.5" lift blocks cut and installed. Yes I know all about the warping of the leaf spring under high torque. If it is a problem I've got some good leaves from the front spring I can add to the rear pack.
When the swap is complete I'll recheck the lift and set the pinion angle.