A-man930

Resurrecting this thread. The entire suspension on my MJ is pretty much worn out (3" AAL+Chevy drop shackles, Rusty's 3" coils+.75" spacers.) I'd hate to go and replace a bunch of parts and not walk away with any lift. Realizing that a custom long arm setup is pretty much out of my budget and time allotment for the next several years, I have decided to invest in some good adjustable control arms (JKS) for a short-arm lift. The question now is how to lift the rear. -I don't really have a vantage point for how an AAL affects ride quality, but I hear it stiffens things up quite a bit. Which in my mind would affect off-road flex capabilities. So I'm interested in avoiding any kind of AAl. -I don't really haul much weight in the bed, nor do I tow anything. The only major weight I will be adding is a bumper that weighs at least twice as much as the original. Which I guess might be a bit of a big deal now that I think about it :doh: -I don't think I want 6.5" or even 6" of lift. I guess its because I feel like 33" tires won't fill my cut-out wheel wells at all (shallow I know. and no, I don't want to go any bigger than 33" tires on my D30...) 5" of lift sounds more like it. So what does this leave me with? Could I do a SOA with 2wd leaves and get about 5"??? Sound like a terribly bad idea? Thanks for your input.

I used to DD my MJ, now I'm a sucker for 35+ MPG in my Saturn. But yes, with proper maintenance and the knowledge that it is a 20+ year old vehicle you can DD and MJ.

I'll be doing this someday. Right after I hit the lotterys :oops:

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I wonder how friggin long you'd have to dig around to find one of these gems!

No reason to remove the cat unless its clogged (only happens if you've got something majorly wrong with you ENGINE btw) and you don't want to pay to replace it. Which at that point I can understand.

+1 for the acetone/ATF mixture. Never done it myself but have heard nothing but good things.

Now to make room for the side rails. My wife and I both cringed putting the cutoff to her, but it should be worth it {SMILIES_PATH}/comanche.gif Here you can see how low the factory bumper mounts hang. My mounts are almost the full height of the frame... more cutting [emoji12]

1st coat!

I wanted to get the inside of the frame really clean. This is a "sewer jetter" nozzle at the end of a pressure washer hose and it worked great for removing all kinds of goodies.

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After pressure washing the inside of the frame: I just couldn't stand to paint over someone else's nuts...

Getting carried away... I'm down to bare metal over most of the big surfaces. Just have to get into the corners and I'll be ready for POR-15!

organic (paper) filter media vs "synthetic" filter media, as its been explained to me.

mmm, Javelin :drool:

very nice recycling of old Jeep parts :clapping:

Why do you think I was in such a hurry to nab it? I was just waiting for you to change your mind! ;) You know she's in good hands :wrench: So on a related note. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should go about cleaning the inside of the framerails? I bought two cans of this: Seems like pretty cool stuff, but I can promise you that it won't stick worth a crap to all the muddy turds clung to the sides. I want to pressure wash it all out, but I can't seem to find anyone who sells a length of hose with a diffuser/fan spray at the end to snake into one of these holes and actually get good coverage... any ideas?

Got the bed off the other night to get a better idea what I'd be attaching this thing to. The lack of rust is nothing short of amazing.

Single stage will be easier to touch-up.

yes, I plan on trimming the lower bedsides and bringing some 3x3x3/16 box up to meet the wheelwells.

anyone know by chance how much the stock bumper weighs? I'd be interested to see how much weight I'll be adding with this crazy thing.

Got some 4x6x1/4 rec. tube "donated" to me by a neighbor so I headed out to a buddy's house and got the welding and grinding going earlier today. Don't expect to get to work on it again very soon but here's the progress.

Hate to post up a new topic for this but I'm having a tough time with this one. I have my whole column sitting on the workbench waiting for this ONE part to be found. The stealership evidently only sells the lower bearing by itself, to get the upper you have to buy a kit that contians the componenets for the tilt and such for like $60. My order won't drop till monday afternoon so if I can find an alternate source soon that would be great. And yes, I know the problem is a bad bearing, saw the balls fallen out of the plastic cage and the E-torx screws in the back are indeed tight.

yep, the Chevy drop shackles will give you 3/4" or so on the bottom (er, top) bolt hole. Mine have two holes. I didn't use the upper hole for fear of changing the pinion angle too much.

Haha thats awesome man. My MJ was around before my girl though, so she doesn't pretend to have senority :rotf: