Rymanrph Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 I used to have one of those too! Good luck moving forward with your new found work space.
RockinMJ Posted January 7, 2013 Author Posted January 7, 2013 Haha. Thanks man. Hopefully by next week I will take it to the scrap yard. Ordered my carpet this morning. After much debate and talking with Alexia I went with ACC black with the mass backing. Got it from RockAuto for 162 bucks shipped.
RockinMJ Posted January 10, 2013 Author Posted January 10, 2013 Carpet from RockAuto came in yesterday.Very impressed. Best prices and fast shipping. I will be using them again. Also seam sealer from Eastwood Auto came in.
RockinMJ Posted January 12, 2013 Author Posted January 12, 2013 Ordered the lift today. I went with a Rough Country 4.5 lift. I got the cherokee one. The comanche lift had short aal and the cherokee lift hall full length. Done a bit of research and seemed like perfect lift for me.They had them on sale for 459.00 and then I got 10% off for being a jeep forum member. Total with shipping was 462.00. http://www.roughcountry.com/jeep_xj_4.html
RockinMJ Posted January 15, 2013 Author Posted January 15, 2013 Pulled the old bed off and rear axle and suspension. Whoever invented the cherry picker was a freaking genius. Got to get the rear Dana 44 cleaned and painted and the front axle ready also. Lift will come in today. Very excited.Also got me a MOAB sticker for the build.
Alexia Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 I was trying to figure out how to use a hoist to lift the bed off! The pieces of wood under the rails are perfect.
RockinMJ Posted January 16, 2013 Author Posted January 16, 2013 Very easy and worked great. Lift came in today and this is a nice quality lift. Cleaning up axles this weekend and putting lift on. Pumped.
Backdraft Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 This thing is looking great! Congrats. And slick move getting the bed off! :thumbsup:
Rymanrph Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 If I had known that I could have pulled the bed that easily, I probably would have done it during several different projects. Nice job.
RockinMJ Posted January 26, 2013 Author Posted January 26, 2013 Got most of the lift on. Still have to connect the upper control arms and put shocks on. Overall I'm very happy with the Rough Country lift. Quality pieces, and great fitment .Frontend will come down quit bit after drive train is back in. Looks like a roller skate with the small tires. Torn between 32's or 33's. Oh yeah took cherokee to scrapyard and got $280.00 for it . I was pretty happy with that.
tubpilot Posted January 26, 2013 Posted January 26, 2013 That is gonna be one sweet truck! I have BFG 33X10.50 15 tires, I'm on my third set now. I don't think you can go wrong with that size, they fit stock 7" rims, they're easy on the steering, ball joints and brakes. I think they're lighter than 32's if that is of any concern. BFG makes MT's AT's and Baja T/A, Toyo makes open country M/T, General makes grabber red letters and Interco makes radial and bias swampers that size so there is a lot to choose from! If you ever go to Baja when a race is on spares are easy to come by too, class 10, 12 and 5 all run that size tires, dunno if you'll ever come by a 32 down there.
RockinMJ Posted January 26, 2013 Author Posted January 26, 2013 Yeah whatever size I get it will be bfg km2s. I'm will be putting them on 16x8 moab wheels.
RockinMJ Posted January 30, 2013 Author Posted January 30, 2013 Got some work done today. I put seam sealer on my patched up floorboard. I then decided to roll the mj out and pressure wash the jeep down. A small mouse decided to make its home inside the frame. It didn't like the pressure washing it got. haha. I had a set of Moab wheels that the clearcoat was coming off so I wire wheeled them and then painted Duplicolor graphite. Also decided to paint my light grey interior a flat black Duplicolor interior paint. I really wanted agate but this was alot cheaper. It turned out great also.
Dirteatr717 Posted January 30, 2013 Posted January 30, 2013 Lovin the color of the wheels and the console came out good, keep up the good work! Also I need to get a Moab sticker when I make my way out there later this year :D
RockinMJ Posted February 3, 2013 Author Posted February 3, 2013 Video I made in order to receive 10% back from Rough Country. Didn't really know how bad I sounded like a redneck till I watched this.
Alexia Posted February 4, 2013 Posted February 4, 2013 The rim repaint looks like it came out great! I had the same problem with interior panel pieces. I ended up getting a company in the north east to ship me all the missing pieces.
RockinMJ Posted February 6, 2013 Author Posted February 6, 2013 Euramtec interior lights came in. These are nice.
RockinMJ Posted February 7, 2013 Author Posted February 7, 2013 Please login into your YouTube account and " like"my video review of there 4 1/2" lift. I got and email from them saying I was in top 6 and winner with most likes on YouTube gets money back from purchasing lift. Here is a link to the review. Thanks so much.
RockinMJ Posted February 9, 2013 Author Posted February 9, 2013 Thanks. Well I didn't win contest but I am receiving 10% cash back not to bad.
RockinMJ Posted February 11, 2013 Author Posted February 11, 2013 Got some stuff welded in today. Welds suck but will hold. haha. Got the coolest mod put on today. I couldn't wait .
RockinMJ Posted March 5, 2013 Author Posted March 5, 2013 Took a break from the comanche to put up some much needed siding on my shop. Still not done. Looks so much better. The wife is happy also and that's what really matters. haha
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