jeeptruck636

I agree. At least from the pictures it looks great! I live in that area, and most mj/xj’s have a lot of natural weight reduction. Nice find

Someone on here needs to get that. @neohic. It’s nice to be able to see nice photos of that truck.

If I remember right the xj shackles will get you 3/4”-1” lower.

Unless there’s a Jeep show, probably 1 to 2 a year. That’s in south east PA. There was somewhere around 10 at the all breeds jeeps show this past year though. Even Pete was roaming around.

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I have 285’s on the rear of mine and they still sit inside the edge of the flare. There is still some room to go wider but there are not many tire choices in 295, or 305 width, and 315’s may be pushing it. I have off the shelf mustang wheels and everything fits really well. I have all the specs in my build thread. What I would recommend is a 275 because of the amount of tire choices available in a bunch of heights and wheel diameters.

Could I borrow that time machine you used to go back and get those parts?

Do you have any future engine plans? Stroker, LS, diesel?

Quick question. Does anybody know if there is anyway to increase the attachment quality on mobile?

It’s been awhile... Here’s a update. I still have the truck. I now have a son who is already 1.5 years old. He is the best thing in the world. But my whole life was on hold for a while. All is well now, but he had to have 2 surgeries before he was born, and 1 when he was a few days old. All I can say is I’m thankful for all the people at the Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Then me being me, I broke my leg riding dirt bike and had to have a titanium rod hammered through my knee down to my ankle. But on to the truck. I have slowly been collecting and building parts to build a turbo 4.6 stroker. Using a 12 counterweight crank, Russ Pottenger pistons, rods, cam, ect... Edelbrock head, Precision 6266 turbo, Precision 46mm wastegate, tuning with Megasquirt MS3x. Currently I have the turbo, wastegate, built the megasquirt, crank, and I have a Vortech air to water intercooler.I have a bunch of other parts ready to go. Currently I am in the process of the turbo mounting. Its going slowly, but when we buy a new house (with a nice garage) I will get back to it.

Looks good! Can’t wait to see this come together.

Most likley you will need a adjustable track bar if you don't have one already. With that much lift, the track bar gets too short and pulls the axle towards the drivers side.

So 1 day before my deadline of my wedding. I did a tape measure alignment and took it for a drive. Everything went great. I entered it in the PA All Breeds Jeep Show a few weeks later. I have been going to this Jeep show every year since 2006 and this was the first Jeep I ever entered in the show. I was nervous to say the least. It was definitely a outcast especially at a off road event. But most people really liked it, it takes a certain taste to like a lowered jeep truck. This was 2015 show. I have since been to the 2016 show, however I brought the Comanche, but I didn't have enough time that day to enter it in the show. I was hoping I would open my hood and this would be inside one day. This guy was pretty cool, and there are some videos on YouTube of him. Lots of Comanches at the show that year, Earl*T was there and he is the one who said I need to join Comanche Club. I'm pretty sure these are members trucks as well. I am currently trying to find some missing photos from other parts of the build. Steering damper brackets and clamp build, Wilwood clutch master install / how to make that work. I had it corner weighed at Ray Barton's Racing Engines and have pictures of the scale with the weights. I had a computer failure a while ago and I'm missing a bunch of pictures. More to come.. Sorry if it takes me a while.

Where I left off the tie rod hit the track bar bracket when the wheels where fully turned. So I tried a v8 ZJ tie rod I had because it has a slight bent to it, and I thought it might clear. It didn't so I cut the mount down 3" to make room. Because I raised the frame side of the track bar, I needed to raise the pitman arm so I could reduce the bumpsteer it will get. I chose a TJ pitman arm because it has the least amount of drop that I could find, and it's the same length. The YJ arms are 1" shorter than the XJ/MJ, the TJ arms are 1/2" shorter than that. (TJ = 1.5" less drop than XJ/MJ) The big issue with raising the frame side mount of the track bar is that the track bar would contact the oil pan with little suspension travel. So I made version #2 of my track bar setup. It's solid 1". One of the last little things I needed to do for its maiden voyage was to shorten up a set of sway bar end links. Incase I forgot the sway bar I used is 1". I have a 1.125" bar that might eventually go in. Also I left the v8 ZJ tie rod in because I couldn't break the rod ends free on the factory one.

The front wheels are 17x9 with +24mm offset / 5.95" of backspacing. The rear wheels are 17x10.5 with +20mm offset / 6.53" of backspacing.