Smokeyyank

Only on the areas that have light surface rust. Peeling clear coat I wouldn't even bother with until you are ready to paint. Nice thing with primer is it doesn't need a clean and smooth surface to bind, it helps, but isn't as crucial as a full on paint job. If you just want something on it, give it a scuff with some 220 spray the self etching and rattle can it to seal it. Just leaving it as primer is just about as effective as not doing anything. Since you're not in a rust belt state personally I wouldn't do anything until you are ready to 100% do it all. What you have is nothing crazy bad and I'm just of the mind set no need in do the work twice.

Gothca, I've just never seen someone do it that way. I've always just put on side on the coil bucket and the other either on the car lift or wrapped around something on the unibody.

That's pretty minimal and nothing looks like cancerous just surface rust. The clear coat peeling is no issue. My MJ has 0 clear left. If you want to sand it you can but I'd go with a self etching primer.

I'm not sure if this is real or a joke.....

-Looks like an adjustable track bar. Not sure what type though. -No not a drop bracket on your LCA, just a hacked up mess -You can count the leafs on your spring pack to see if a AAL. I bet someone will chime in with the normal number. I believe the MT would be thicker but I wouldn't bet on that. -The UCA looks like someone took a plasma to make the WJ arm fit -I don't know the "drop" on a pitman but there is a bend on it

You need to get on one side of the axle by the track bar and the other on the body or another solid surface. Basically just a way to pull the axle back over.

Keep the 4.0, rebuild it and regear accordingly. I have the 4.7HO in my WJ and I love it (also because it's a fresh rebuild with tons of "goodies"), but they have their issues especially with age. They are expensive to rebuild and not the most friendly to work on. 4.0 exact opposite. When I had the 4.0 rebuilt in my XJ it was a little over 2k for a rebuild and R&R. My 4.7 was 3.5k for the same thing. 4.0 crapped the bed at 225k, 4.7 160k.

Thanks! Love it so far. Nice being up out of the city and so close to the mountains. Grew up in Denver and while it's still home I just over it. Way to damn many people and out town asshats moving there.

Yeah, not my look.....fn ugly as sin

Right on, thanks for the info and terminology correction. I was welding outside and it was a little breezy so I'm assuming it blew away the shielding gas. Guessing the lower turned out better because it had the top of the bucket to help block any wind. Next time I'll put up a shield or something to block any direct airflow. Welding the exhaust was a challenge. I couldn't get beads going on certain parts, especially upside down. We changed the wire to a smaller gauge but still had some issues. The resonator was stainless and I just wasn't able to get a consistent bead around. Ended up having to do 2 passes with smaller beads. Other b*@ch was just not having enough room to get the gun in. It doesn't have any leaks and sounds awesome. Little louder than I was expecting but 0 drone and when you punch it it opens up. On a separate note, got all moved into the house this past weekend. I hate moving....with a passion. This was hands down the hardest one so far. Probably because it was another city and there was just so much to get moved. happy that it's done but now it's the dreaded task of unboxing and trying to keep the wife in check because she thinks we need to buy all new things....ugh. I took the WJ on it's maiden flight up the hill and damn the thing moves. I can easily pull 90 going up I70 which is something I haven't been able to do since having my old SS HHR that had a turbo. Rides nice a smooth. Steering wheel is crooked and I need to fix that, but otherwise all good in the hood.

I run ACOS on mine. I did it to balance out the rack give you tons of versatility over spacers. Don't know how much I "lifted" it. Probably about 1.5". You can also run upcountry springs for a little boost. I have a little taller shocks but that was because I swapped them over from my XJ that was lifted

Last thing I got done was the new exhaust. Running a Kolak 3" with a flowmaster super 50 and magnaflow resonator. I did get it finished but it was took dark for my craptastic camera to get a good pic. Sounds awesome! Along with the intake work thing just rumbles. Burning in some more welds. Intake is a beast

Here's the wheels and tires I'm running. Wheels are from mammoth. Took some searching to find, but they only market them for JK's. I love them. Think they are a good looking wheels and don't have a huge offset but enough to give it a little more of an agressive stance compared to just JK takeoff's. Tires are the Falken Wildpeaks AT3's I got LT tires all around. Heavy but I like them.

Got the front all put together minus the ruined brakeline

Fixed the coil buckets. Used the IRO kit. Worked well and didn't take to long to weld it all in. Here's cleaning up the old area. had to grind down the old bucket as much as possible Welded the new buckets together. This is the first project I've actually welded on. I've messed a round a little in the past but not actually throwing beads down. Some beads came out really good others looked like, well.... $h!t Still learning but I totally dig welding. Need to figure out why I got some splatter New bucket mounted ready to burn in new bucket with coil and isolators in.

Well got more done on the WJ this weekend. Still can't drive it because of more stupid things happening. My dad wasn't paying attention when were compressing a side to put a spring in and ruined one of the new SS brakelines. Love the man but he has been fning up more things from just not paying attention and it's driving me bat$#!& crazy. Here it is at least sitting at ride height

The first time I saw/heard about "bluewaffles" I about lost my lunch. I can take a lot but good gosh that made me spew a little......fake or real I don't want to know but it's just flat wrong!

I know I can expect some rub. Not too worried about it.

Yeah, I knew they had issues, but didn't know what level until I pulled off the coil and the bucket was just non existent. Nice looking WJ what lift size if he running? I eventually will get a rear tire carrier.

This brings me to current. Next weekend will add in some more pics and hopefully have it road worthy. Will still have some other items to button up but I'm stoked! Things still to do..... -Finish up the front end (rear is done but forgot a pic) -Replace coil buckets -Add in Aussie to the rear D44 -Get the 3" exhaust in -Wire up the traildash -Wire the stereo -Get the rubber on running 265/75/16

Next was freshening up the underside. I am going to be running a 3" IRO lift along with Bilstiens 5100's, extended sway bar links, ADDCO rear sway bar and some other things. Go figure the coil buckets were toast.....waiting on my IRO replacement kit to finish up the front I also replaced all the control arms, here's the rear. That a arm was a b*@ch to get out. Ended up having to cut the upper ball joint off as it had seized to the a arm. Replaced all the brakes; calipers, rotors, pads and lines.

First order of business was addressing the engine. I had my engine guy rebuild the 4.7HO. It had spun a bearing and was toast. While he was at it I added in a fastman bored 68mm TB and AFE intake and a bunch of other "maintenance" items (forgot a pic but it's a engine.....) Also I went ahead and ditched the silly 247 t case in there in favor of the 242HD. By doing so I get 2wd vs all time 4wd. Also I get to add in a lunchbox to the rear. Freshed up the 5454rfe with new fluid and a filter.

Thanks for checking out my new build thread! Originally I was going to call it Smokey 2.0, but due to a really unfortunate event I decided to name it as a tribute to my furry four legged best friend that was tragically lost right before starting it. His nickname was Potimus. Onward and upward to what I am building. While I love the XJ platform it just wasn't big enough for what I wanted. After my last XJ being filled with gear, 2 dogs and the wife I was tapped out on space. We added the little peanut to our family and there was no way I was getting all the junk in the XJ. Ideally, this is going to be our camping/overland/road trip vehicle. I've always loved the WJ's just never found myself in one until now. Enter the 04 Columbia edition with the 4.7HO. I picked it up at Copart for $500 and knew it needed a new engine (which I wanted). It was a 2 owner car and overall pretty clean with the exception of needing a new bumper. It did not have the factory Columbia seats anymore, but the covers are decent

Ouch......yeah that's going be to be patience tester right there. I would drill them out. Start with a small bit and slowly work up to bigger one. Getting to them will propbaby be the biggest challenge.

Really?! I thought 4.10's where the deepest, but I'll definitely differ to the Jeep gurus on that one.