Hazel - 79 Jeep J10 Gladiator

[Dalamar]

My buddy Josh and I are building this pickup for his daily driver, custom built how he wants it.
He's always liked this truck since he was a kid and finally has one of his own.
We're building more of a pre-runner than a rock crawler.

In short we're fabricating a custom suspension with ALCAN all spring lift, reinforced with custom trusses and trailing arms.
Powerplant - replacing the AMC 360 with an SBC stroked 383
Trans - upgraded the TH400 with red eagle pro stock kevlar and B&M convertor.
Borg Warner 1339 transfer with an all gear mile marker with 16% OD
Disk brake conversion
Interior will be upgraded
ect.

Here's what we started with:

[andrewb70]

Cool project. You certainly don't see many of those around. I didn't even know they were made, but then again, I am not a Jeep aficionado...LOL

Andrew

[srh3trinity]

Are you going to do the round headlight and grill swap? I think the core support has provisions for the round headlight and the earlier grill. I think it is a cool look.

[EastEnder]

Sweet build! My old man had one in green that I loved as a kid. Sadly, like most j10s she was a victim of rust. Good luck!

[Dalamar]

Thanks Andrew!

Are you going to do the round headlight and grill swap? I think the core support has provisions for the round headlight and the earlier grill. I think it is a cool look.

Yes we're going to do a grill swap but we're looking at the late model muscle grill. That's a good question, you know your Jeeps.



Ender, that's cool and yes sad. Most of these things do have major rust issues.
We lucked out on this one and it is almost rust free!

[Dalamar]

Front axle: DANA 44 open knuckel passenger side drop.
Rebuilding it with custom trusses, bearings & seals. Gears are good.

[Dalamar]

[Ron S]

Love those trucks, that one seems to be in exceptional shape. I did an 85 about 10 years ago, really loved it until someone offered me way too much money for it. Thought it was cool that jeep kept the grill/core support the same from the 60's all the way to end, so the old grill bolts right in with just removing a few tabs.

[srh3trinity]

Love those trucks, that one seems to be in exceptional shape. I did an 85 about 10 years age really loved it until someone offered me way too much money for it. Thought it was cool that jeep kept the grill/core support the same from the 60's all the way to end, so the old grill bolts right in with just removing a few tabs.

That is the grill I was thinking about. Ron, you need to list all of the cool cars you have built/owned because you have had some cool rides. If I had fab skills, I would build a crew cab and do a Cummins swap with a mild lift. That would be a cool truck.

[stichingmike]

Love these fsj pickups,,I have three right now,,,yours sounds like it's going to be cool when it's done. glad to see someone else fixing one up. here's a couple teaser shots of my big jeep pickup

[Kcrain]

Love these fsj pickups,,I have three right now,,,yours sounds like it's going to be cool when it's done. glad to see someone else fixing one up. here's a couple teaser shots of my big jeep pickup

I know this is not pro-touring but we need trucks for parts runs and to haul our cars to events. Please start a build tread or at least show some build pictures. Keith

[srh3trinity]

Love these fsj pickups,,I have three right now,,,yours sounds like it's going to be cool when it's done. glad to see someone else fixing one up. here's a couple teaser shots of my big jeep pickup

You sir are on to something. Cool build.

[stichingmike]

Hey guys, I didn't put these pictures of my truck up on here to take away from Dalamar's biuld up,,just to show him one of my trucks I was slowly biulding. I don't know if the site would allow me to run a biuld thread on this truck,,for now it's stalled out with me working on my 73 roadrunner pro touring which I have a thread going on here that i need to update soon. Just working on the car to much to post anything. Might tie in some pictures of the truck with my road runner as they are sitting side by side in the garage.

[Dalamar]

Love those trucks, that one seems to be in exceptional shape. I did an 85 about 10 years ago, really loved it until someone offered me way too much money for it. Thought it was cool that jeep kept the grill/core support the same from the 60's all the way to end, so the old grill bolts right in with just removing a few tabs.

Thanks Ron.
I love em too. I guess is someone offered me way too much money for this i'd off it too

Your grill looks great I love the old school kaiser grill. On this one i'm going with the late model muscle grill.

[Dalamar]

Love these fsj pickups,,I have three right now,,,yours sounds like it's going to be cool when it's done. glad to see someone else fixing one up. here's a couple teaser shots of my big jeep pickup

Thanks Mike.
is that truck 2 of your 3 ??
haha, it looks like a monster. that dodge towing it looks like a ranger.

I like how you slanted the roof, that looks bad.

What generation cummins are you putting in there?

[Dalamar]

[stichingmike]

Dalamar, This streached dually is my first truck,,it's a 65 model,,I have a 78 and a 72. I really need to get this truck done,,as when i put these pictures up I noticed the date on them,,it's been sitting since 2011 with very little being done to it besides alot of thought and dreaming..I have been tinkering with the tilt front end for it. As far as the motor,,at first it was planned on a 445 olds because I had it already and was rebiuldt,,then got into the idea of the cummins,,but lost out on 2,,so it was back to the olds motor..Then late last year,,I got ahold of a 440,,and was going to biuld that and woth a 671 blower, the engine block is in the machine shop got bored out,,but I have it on hold as now with looking at the truck I decided it DOES need the cummins,,looking at the secound gen,,right now as that is what is in the dodge that is pulling me,,by the way,,even thou it doesn't look like it in the picture,,both trucks are the same lenght. and Mine sits just 3 or 4 inches higher than the dodge. Mike

[Dalamar]

It will definately be cool when you're done with it.

Here's a little update on this project:


Beefed up the factory frame recall reinforcement!

[Dalamar]

here's a sneak peek at the motor

[95riosnake]

You are a busy guy Dal! This will no doubt be a sick build as well. I need friends like you around here lol, I'm the only guy in my group of friends here that likes to fabricate, everybody else just bolts on parts. Nothing wrong with bolting on parts but what's the fun in that right? lol