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    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
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    Someone on here needs to get that. @neohic. It’s nice to be able to see nice photos of that truck.
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    If I remember right the xj shackles will get you 3/4”-1” lower.
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    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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    Show off
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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.
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    Could I borrow that time machine you used to go back and get those parts?
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    Do you have any future engine plans? Stroker, LS, diesel?
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    Quick question. Does anybody know if there is anyway to increase the attachment quality on mobile?
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    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.
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    Looks good! Can’t wait to see this come together.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    I'll be there. Been going every year for the last 11 years or so. It's a great show. Lots of cool people, vendors, and the obstacle/ rock course is always entertaining.
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    Thanks, I am almost caught up with the Regular Car Reviews video. Soon. I don't know if I will do any videos. Maybe in the future, but not currently. ​I will be at the PA Jeeps: All Breeds Jeep Show tomorrow the 16th and Sunday the 17th if anyone will be there.​
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    On the front axle the coil spring perches could potentially contact the frame (with the crazy articulation that this thing can do :laughin:)! ​So they were trimmed to clear. Also the perch was clearanced to avoid contact with the track bar mount. The sway bar used is the 1" bar. I currently have a 1 1/8" waiting to go in. Oh, and I forgot to add, I used WJ lower adjustable ball joints and XJ uppers, to get a little bit of camber. Here is everything going into place. I used a drop bracket on the passenger side track bar mount because the track bar was angled up towards the passenger side when sitting at ride height. This is all "version 1" of my track bar set up, I am currently working on my 3rd version right now. Again, more clearancing. The track bar mount could use a slight trim. Here is a shot of a factory upcountry coil from my 01 XJ that will be cut and used. I have a set of upcountry and v8 ZJ springs so I measured them and they are the same. Finally sitting on all four! I made a deadline for myself which was to drive it to my wedding. So here it is a few days before my wedding, and it's sitting on all four. But now I realized that the tie rod hits the track bar mount when I turn the wheel. :fs2: So the next step is track bar version 2... ​
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    For brakes I used a booster and master cylinder out of a 96 Cherokee. Also I wanted to get rid of the load sensing valve, so I got a Wilwood 260-11179 proportioning valve. Which gives full flow to the front brakes and has a adjustable rear output for adjusting bias. It also has a built in low pressure switch. For brake lines I used NiCopp lines and eliminated the extra line to the rear. The rear for now has factory drums until I put the 99-04 Mustang 8.8 in the truck. The front is WJ brakes with Powerstop carbon/ceramic pads. (which I didn't know were even a thing, they leave a lot of dust, but they brake hard).
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    Got the JKS hub spacers and welded them up. I heard people saying that you don't need them for a 2wd because they're for u-joint alignment/spacing. I tried without the spacers and the wj rotors made contact with the knuckles. The next step was to cut the factory bump stop mounts shorter. I cut 3" off of them and bought new factory bump stops and extended bump stops, so I could cut them to whatever length I needed. Whichever would work. Once again more test fitting... Also started to mock up the 90's s10 air dam. Got some stickers. Because stickers equal horsepower right? Also finished up coating the frame and fender wells.
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    On with the build. I decided to clean up and reuse the factory control arms with poly bushings. Before After While I had everything removed from the front suspension. I decided to start the long and tedious journey to remove the factory undercoating and paint. To later recoat everything. I then purchased a Rusty's Offroad double shear track bar bracket and joint, and made a straight adjustable track bar to go along with it. However I had a minor clearance issue, where the bracket contacted the coil spring perch.
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    For the front tires I bought Continental Extreme Contacts in 245/45/17, and had them mounted and test fitted with the factory axle still underneath. I also got a few more parts for the build. I bought XJ shackles, WJ brake rotors and 99+ Timken hub bearings. I also picked up used 04 WJ knuckles and Akebono calipers. MJ vs. XJ shackles Here are the new WJ rotors redrilled to 5x4.5 The hubs had to be machined to accept the Fords smaller hub diameter, just like the rear axles. I left roughly 1/4" of the hub diameter closest to the flange the original size where the rotors sit. The WJ knuckles were cleaned up and the "high steer" arm was cut off on the passengers side because of clearance issues.
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    Time to cut the axle. When we did this I was nervous things would spring and move. But once it was all said and done everything stayed where it should and after 5,000+ miles on the axle so far, all is well. Here is the axle cut and and the upper control arm mounts lowered 2.5" and mounted back on. Here are the brackets we made to lower the lower control arm mounts. The mounting location is lowered 2.5" After some finishing, I blasted the axle to prep it for paint. To finish the axle I used POR-15. I forgot to add, I also had to cut off the steering stabilizer mount because it could contact the frame. I made a simple block off plate for it. Also at a later point I removed the axle and cut the axle opening wider towards the passenger side and moved the gusset closer to the upper control arm mount. Because the oil pan favors the passenger side. (I hope that makes sense).
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    Sorry for the long delay, I didn't have a computer for a while. It takes some getting use to because its so close. But it makes a really nice hand rest. Its just a factory 97-01 XJ washer bottle. There's some write ups on swapping it. The only thing you really need to do is to drill a hole in the inner fender for the fill neck, and lengthen some wires and hoses. I'm located around Reading / Lebanon.
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    A loss in oil pressure and that noise could be a bearing. Check the oil and filter for debris. Another check would be to pull a plug wire at idle and see if the sound changes, it should get quieter if it's a bearing. (You are removing the combustion cycle from that cylinder, thus reducing the pressure on that bearing). Do this one at a time for each cylinder. See if that helps.
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