We had an old Scout, I believe a 66. Posi front and rear. That thing could have climbed a telephone pole. As long as you didn't get the distributor wet,
Ain't that the truth. It's been years since I owned it and I'd forgotten about that. Spash any water under the hood and it died. That was about the only thing that would stop it though. I bought the 12" wide, 33" tall tires for it and took it to a body shop to get the fenders cut so they would fit and the 1st thing they told me was that the 4 cyl wouldn't turn them. I just opened the hood and showed them the 392. With that much power in a small package I got a lot of calls to pull others out of mud holes back then.
Yeah, I had one Jeep Wagoneer ('66) that would start to miss on a cloudy day and quit if I so much as pointed it at a mud puddle. A much newer YJ wasn't much better but grease and silicone helped. Another Wagoneer, a V-8, would actually show a blue ring on the hood, above the distributor, on a rainy night. Ran OK though. GD
I had an old Wagoneer-bought it sitting in a farmer's field and it took a whole case of Raid to evict all the wasps before we could start working on it. 'Wasn't too bad of a reclamation actually. Needed brakes, and the previous owner had the plug wires all out of whack. Once we did the brakes, fixed the spark plug wire placement, and put a fan belt on it, it rand good for a couple years. Had that old straight six cyl. Pontiac 230 Tornado in it. Ran great as long as you didn't get moisture up by the distributor.'Wasn't as good of a mudder as the Scout, as it wasn't posi front and rear like the Scout was, but I got a couple good years out of it, and only ever hung it up once on a muddy logging road. 'Had to get a local farmer to tow me out with his old Minneapolis Moline.
