neohic

Thanks, bro!

Hell yeah! Good to see you, Marcel!

Looking great!

Rattle can rebuild on the Dana 300, eh?

Small update on the rain cover. I like when everything has a place when not being used so I made a small cinch bag for it. The bag is about 14” long when it has the top crammed in it. Fits under the seat next to the gear bags nicely also. The top itself got an additional strap on the rear corners after I noticed it riding up and collecting water after the rain we’ve been getting.

Meh… I didn’t even notice until I got home. I’d rather keep the Sachs! … and the lowered suspension.

Went for a bit of a drive today and met @cord367, his dad, and paid a visit to J.O.E. Great to see that old truck! They’re doing an awesome job updating the truck and they welcomed me to take some leftovers. These are the old axles from my old XJ. No idea what’s next for them, but I caught myself getting sentimental over how many rigs they’ve been in and how many miles I would’ve put on them. As for the Eliminator, it rode home on the bumps. … not like they had far to go before hitting them.

What better way to stir the pot than with a V8, two door, IFS concept at Easter Jeep this year? I’m not at all suggesting that this is the final form, but I would say that it’s smart of Jeep to gauge interest with something wild like the Striker.

Great looking truck!!

My vote is for the widened silver rally wheels. I think they add the little extra punch of brightness.

I think that’s the shape needle for a tilt column.

Not the CJ stuff I was referring to, but thats definitely CJ stuff.

Congrats on the new rig!

Does your truck have a tilt column?

Sweet!

Sweet! So… when should we do some CJ stuff?

I absolutely kept all the removed parts! Dirt duties are for the CJ along with bad winter days. My long term mental project I’d like to do one day is a firewall buggy from an XJ. This would be a completely different story if this truck for sale was anything but a 2.8!

Hell yeah!

Mmm… I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it. I don’t need it… but I kinda want it.

Thats on the list also. I do have another 6” I can move it over but it would also put the pump right where I need to add a reinforcement plate come the day I start on the YJ spring swap.

The CJ finally got un-Moabed today. I pumped out the remainder of the fuel in the long range auxiliary tank and removed it. There was a bunch of last minute wiring that needed to get cleaned up and I never added an override switch for the fan… that I later did in a parking lot. This means that a new hole got drilled in the dash! The turkey pan heat shield got retired today also. I got a couple rolls of heat shield tin foil kind of stuff and went to town on nearly all of the exhaust under the tub. Hopefully that put a pin in the overheating fuel pump. Fingers crossed for no rattles! We’re getting into our heavy snow season also. I’m not interested in seeing how the new top holds up to wet, heavy snow that we’re supposed to get this week so it’s hiding out under the carport. Planning ahead for the next big project, YJ springs have been ordered. I decided to go with Zone Offroad 2” lift springs because they’re under the Fox/BDS umbrella. They offer a kit that doesn’t include shocks that’s very affordable! I’m hoping they don’t suck. For shocks, I’ve got two new Bilstein 5100s for a 3” lift rear TJ application already but they’re the same shock as a 3” YJ only with a bar pin in the upper bushing that’ll get taken out. The front will be matching 5100s for a 3” YJ. I’m not in a huge hurry to tear apart the whole suspension right now so I’m just collecting parts. Stay tuned for that!