jeepaholic Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 Ok trailered her back to the house last night from my friends house. Got a few more suspension and drivetrain things to complete then comes interior, body work, new paint...Being in the south i am lucky to have 3 MJ's with NO rust whatsoever..Here's some pics of it on the trailer this morning.
speed_racer Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 Lookin' good! That's about the height I'm gonna' be at, what size are those tires?! What size coils matched w/those ACOS? And, don't brag about NOOO rust... I SEE SOME!!! haha!
jeepaholic Posted April 12, 2007 Author Posted April 12, 2007 Ohhh and yes it is squattin in the back right now...It has 2 d30 and a 8.25 axles in the back along with some other junk..It sits level when empty.
Rob S Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 Wish it was that easy to find a rust free unit up here. Took me forever to finally find one. Suspension looks beefy, I like it.
jeepaholic Posted April 12, 2007 Author Posted April 12, 2007 8" skyjacker with ACOS maxed out..36" TSL's....yeah the rust on the suspension stuff is surface where i havent painted yet and where the door meets the fender(hits) is the only other spot...New door and fender coming soon.
speed_racer Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 haha, I was just giving you a hard time, man! About that door/fender stuff... YUCK!!! JK JK!! Ill be w/RE 7.5" coils and ACOS, don't know that I'll leave them maxed tho. But those 36's look perfect under there. Any binding tests yet?
JeepcoMJ Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 alright, i like it, BUT looking at your longarm makes me uneasy on 2 counts. first, why did you tie them into the stock crossmember? one real solid hit will bend them all to heck...you're good enough at metal fab. that you could have made a reinforced crossmember and had nothing to worry about. second, with your longarms, why did you make the "towers" for the upper arm links so hi? that is gonna rob you of flex if I'm not mistaken? I really like it, i just think you will run into trouble on the front end there...those towers look as though they will either hit your muffler, starter, or oil pan (possibly even bellhousing).
jeepaholic Posted April 12, 2007 Author Posted April 12, 2007 remember...this is a work in progress...the towers on the long arms are yet to be trimmed along with the trac bar tower...the trac bar needs to be lowered another 1" or so and then cut off..If it hits the oil pan the tires will be sticking out of the top of the hood...the towers on the long arm hit where the stock arm brackets drop off the unibody..cut one side off just havent done the other yet...and finally the stock crossmember will be beefed up this weekend..
86FUBAR Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 hows the steering work fer ya ? looks half descent , i was thinking of fabing my own similar to that , any info is greatly appreciated
DirtyComanche Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 A couple things... Cut down the towers for the upper arms as far as you can. The joint doesn't flex there anyways, so clearance won't matter. You're going to have to do more than beefing up the stock crossmember. I'd build a new one, if I was you... But, you need to work on the uniframe and how it mounts to it. It's not thick enough to hold that sort of stress. Even if you drop your track bar, you will have bumpsteer. Just becuase of the length difference between the track bar and drag link. I'd probably just try it as is and see how bad it is. Is that final tire size?
jeepaholic Posted April 12, 2007 Author Posted April 12, 2007 yes its the final tire size...when i beef the xmember i plan on wrappin the unibody with a U shaped piece of 1/4"...I can't lower the upper arm towers too much or I will be into the chunk on the front end(i removed steering knuckles and rotated chunk for driveline angle)..Also stress will not be as severe as this is not a rock crawler but more of a mudder and play toy. Otherwise I would not have lifted as much and would have cut the fenders. ;)
1999MJ Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 that track bar sure looks like something from a 3point hitch from TSC am I correct?
yj2mj Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 that track bar sure looks like something from a 3point hitch from TSC am I correct? That's what it looks like to me. Go ahead and make one using high quality rodends, cause those tractor links get a lot of slop to them quickly.
yj2mj Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 And you might want to brace the upper and lower trac bar mounts as they see a lot of stress.
offroader461 Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 holy hugeness :eek: :eek: looks good though..I'm looking forward to see it when its all completed
beaterjeep Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 holy hugeness :eek: :eek: looks good though..I'm looking forward to see it when its all completed Definitely agree there. To all of it.
jeepaholic Posted April 12, 2007 Author Posted April 12, 2007 yeppers..good eye..its a tractor link...yes it is temp. but fit perfect...needed something and it was there..without it the truck almost fell over in the garage. :eek:
feerocknok Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 Looks like alot of work on a 30! Will you be running chromos?
jeepaholic Posted April 13, 2007 Author Posted April 13, 2007 Chromos is a possibility but until these snap I am gonna leave well enouogh alone not to mention i have 3 xtra sets :nuts:
wombat Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 Regardless of what all the goody goodies say I like it... Home brew stuff Hell I love it. awesome truck!!
88swampedmj Posted April 25, 2007 Posted April 25, 2007 are you running the stock axles with those 36s??
JeepcoMJ Posted April 25, 2007 Posted April 25, 2007 on the front he is...but that's hella beefed up and the only weekness i see now is the diffs but he seems to be good at what he's doing, so my worries are minimal it looks good.
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