Major work on my 85 CJ7

Well, I have been slaving away on the 85 CJ7 I scored at the E-town swap meet a few yrs ago. some of the things i've done so far: dropped in a Mallory Unilite dizzy, coil ,and wires, ( got them from craiglist $25) new spark plugs too ! cleaned up all the wires under the hood, it's a sm. blk. chevy conversion, when the previous owner took the old engine out all the un-used wires were just left hanging and laying everyplace. new alt. , built all new battery cables out of 1ga. welding cable and soldered on eyelets and weatherproofed all the solder joints. new milemarker hubs, new steering stabilizer from pro-comp.

Thanks !

Some pics of the 85 CJ7, these are the afters, I picked up a set of Accel yellow 8mm wires, a Mallory Promaster square type coil, and a Mallory Unilite dizzy used from CL ($25). The CJ had a set of the same yellow 8mm on it when I bought it, I cleaned them all up, and used the 2 sets to make 1 good set that fit correctly, and custom made 1 long coil wire to reach the inner fender well mounted coil, had to get the mounting bracket for the coil (ebay), the dizzy looked fine, it was missing the grommet that the 3 wires go thru though  , this isn't my 1st Unilite, I have a pin tool that works on the male/female plugs, dug that out, and picked up a radio shack grommet, and fixed that up. Marked and yanked the HEI and dropped in the Unilite, and she fired right up ! ! thru the timing lite on real quick and that was all done!

I picked up several packages of heatshink tubing from HF, I use that stuff on everything ! ! most of all with my Jeeps, I put silicone or hot glue on the splice or wire/connector, slide over a long piece of heatshrink and heat it up. This is a cost effective way of making a waterproof splice or connection. I'm a big fan of upgrading ALL the battery cables also. I have used old welding cable, but recently I found a place on ebay that sells new 1 and 2 ga. welding cable and fine strand battery cable at a great price, I think like $2.50 or $2.80 a ft. and free shipping. They also sell tinned 1&2 ga. eyelet lugs. I use marine type battery terminals and eyelets, and solder the wire in, hot glue all over and heatshrink on top of that. these things can carry lots of amps and are waterproof to say the least, at a fraction of the cost of a marine store ! !