Boxing Clever
If you’re going to buy a 4x4 with its guts removed, you’d better know what you’re doing. Which was exactly the case with Richard Alder when he took on this Jeep Wrangler YJ and resolved to revive it with the engine from an Isuzu Trooper – and a gearbox that’s an engineering work of art
When Richard Alder went out and bought a Jeep Wrangler with no engine or gearbox, things could have gone badly wrong very easily. In fact, but for a simple twist of fate this tidy little YJ could have been lost altogether to the world of off-roading.
A 1990 left-hooker, which came to the UK in 1992, the Jeep now sits proudly on a businesslike suspension lift, with some of the best bumpers in the world looking after its vital interests. But it could so easily have been so different.
‘I started off by looking for chrome stuff bumpers and so on,’ admits Richard. ‘That was the way I meant to take it. But then I saw these new heavy-duty bumpers on Smittybilt’s website, and I thought they looked the business. So I decided to do it that way instead.’
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