Day 9 Project Irnwolf Pt. 3

15 Jan 2008. Its the six hour point and it is time to roll the chassis out from under the Body.

The frame is on its way.

So far so good. the rear tires just have to clear the front jack point.

The rear tires did clear the front jack point. Only by 1/2 inch. A levitating Scout body.

My little prize. A little dirty. OK, a whole lot of dirt. The power washer will have fun with this frame and engine.

Its about 7:30pm. The sun is going down and the lights are on. The frame is out, the body is floating in my driveway, I'm sore, and all is good. I have to do this one more time.

Day 9 Project Irnwolf Pt. 2

15 Jan 2008

Tires are back on the frame. Its time to raise the body towards the heavens. I have to get it high enough to clear the rear tires.

Rear shot of the body at its hightest point. Hope its high enough. I hope the tape measure does not lie.

Day 9 Project Irnwolf Pt. 1

15 Jan 2008

Now that everything is disconected its time to work on raising the body.

gas tank. will reuse it.

Day 8 Project Irnwolf

14 Jan 2008. Today I had to drive to North Las Vegas to pick up my one ton axles. These axles had to come from the east coast. They are from a 1986 Dodge 4x4 truck.

Will be stripping all the crap off, pulling off calipers, and starting the long process of grinding. I have to remove the welded on spring perches. Should be fun.

Driver side.

I need to get a picture of the Dana 44 next to these Dana 60. They are huge. I had to make some dolly's so I could move this massive axle. It weighs 600Lbs. Soon I will be putting in some 4.88 gears and an ARB locker. I will be rebuilding the kingpins.

A Dana 60 Rear end. Those drum breaks are on their way out and will be replaced with disk breaks. This rear end will also be receiving a 4.88 gear set and ARB lockers.

Project Irnwolf Day 7

Day 6 Project Irnwolf

The Doner for Irnwolf

The 2nd of December I purchased this 1979 Scout from Colorado City for two hundred dollars. It was sitting in a field for three years. The body is in bad shape but it is a complete Scout. I will take the body off this frame and keep everything else. I will put the body of Irnwolf onto this frame.

Nice rust.

Nice dent on left side. All the wiring is in great shape.

Maybe I should keep the interior. NOT!

Engine is in great shape and even runs.

Bad cancer.

Day 5 Project Irnwolf

January 2nd 2008. It's a nice warm day at 45 deg. Time to get to work on Irnwolf. Today my plan was to get the front clip off Irnwolf and getter closer to floating the body off the frame.

The hood, doors, and finders all removed. It took me about five hours to get to this point.

Finders and hood in awesome shape. No rust and one small dent in left finder.

Front clip removed.

Closer to floating the body. It's taken me about seven hours to get to this point.

All the pieces removed. all with no rust and no damage. So far so good.

Day 4 Project Irnwolf

The 19th of December. Another day with Project Irnwolf. I'm going to start to tear out the old dash and get the interior completely stripped.

The dash as I received it.

About four hours later and I'm down to this. I have to finish getting rid of the A/C unit, the remaining wires, steering wheel, and the foot controls.

The Bahamas

On the 20th -23rd of October we flew the Piaggio from KCRQ to KORL (Carlsbad Ca. to Orlando Fla.) and then to the Bahamas. We went over at 41000 feet and we had an average ground speed of 392Kts. It took us 4 hours and 15 min to get there.

Flight Aware from KCRQ to Florida

Million Air in Nassau Bahamas

The Nssau tower.

The view from my hotel room.

Day 3 Project Iron Wolf

Today is the 16 Nov 2007

Today I pulled out the drive shafts.

Out with the old exhaust system.

The Dana 20 transfer case is out.

Pretty soon I will be able to remove the body from the frame.

Day 2 Project Iron Wolf

Welcome to another day of Project Iron Wolf. Today is Saturday 10 Nov, 2007. I picked up Iron Wolf yesterday.

As you can see the inside is pretty much a crap hole. The battery and the gas tank are not where they belong.

The dash has been disassembled for me. and the A/C looks a little sad.

I did find out the engine is a V345. Yea!!! after removing a few years of oil I was able to find the engine size stamped into the block. Soon I will have the engine out and the rebuild will began.

After a days work cleaning all the crap out, the inside is now clean. Still no rust.

The interior is cleaned out. Its time to start pulling the muffler, drive shaft, and transfer case out. Then I will be ready to remove the engine. I found the biggest black widow in the engine compartment when I was digging through the wires. His body was as big as my thumb. I grabbed a can of raid and sprayed in every hole inside and out. Came back twenty min. later and there were five black widows dying hanging on their webs. I'm glad I did that. I would hate to get bit. See you next time.

Project Iron Wolf

WINNER!!! YOU ARE THE WINNING BIDDER ON EBAY.

Welcome to Project Iron Wolf. I won this truck on EBay for $200.

I'm here in Las Vegas Nevada picking up my prize. It is a 1972 International Scout II.

It is a stock truck for now. It has no lift and has 31" tires. The engine is a v8 and I hope it is a V345. I will have to wait till I get it back to Utah and find out what the actual size is.

The front and rear breaks are drum. The front axle is a Dana 30 and the rear is a Dana 44. Soon project Iron Wolf will have a 7" suspension lift, 3" body lift, Disk breaks all around, 36" tires, new paint, new interior, and a rebuilt engine.

The body is in perfect condition. No Rust! The trade off is does not run. I will have to tow it back to Utah. The two hour ride back is well worth it.