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[tc meiser]

What's up guys! my name is TC MEISER, i work at BEN HANKS RACING as a fabricator. I have been building my dad a jeep in his garage and wanted to post it up here to get feedback! I started with a CJ7 that he bought, and i tore it down and am building a new one using the old parts. Here is a parts list:

*motor- amc360
*Trany- 727 Automatic with arcar shifter
*T case- Atlas two speed
*axels- Terra hight pinion 60 front and rear, 35 spline, chromo shafts & drive flanges
*Wheels- 17 inch walker evan beed locks
*Tires- 42 inch IROK
*Shocks- 14 inch king coil overs all four corners
*Bumps- 4 inch Fox bump stops


And everything else has been built here is a before shots of the jeep before tear down. and i will post up pics from there. Let me know what you think any comments or questions!

 

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From there was tear down finally getting rid of this big peice of @*($)*%
Here is some of the tear down pics.

 

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We took the body off, stripped the drive train, kept what we needed and threw away all the tube work and the frame.

 

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Here is what the old Fab looked like on these axels. i definatly stipped the Shizz outta them.

 

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Stipped down and ready to be re- tabed

 

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Now the axels are cleaned up and ready for new brackets we decided to start on the frame. We built it 100 hundred percent out of 4x2 and 3/16th thick. We built the frame so there was absolutly no body lift. The body sat right on the frame. Which means we had to clearence the floor for a drive train to come through. We started with drive train on the ground and built the frame to the ground so we would have a flat belly.

 

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a few more of the frame being built... la dee da dee da

 

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With the frame well wraped up through a few D ring mounts on. Pretty trick

 

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Few frame plates to gusset and stengthen the frame and the picture of motor mounts

 

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bodys on the frame and up in the air just finishing up a few welds

 

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Then came the fun setting up the suspension we ended up doing a 3 link on the front with a track bar. We did a 4 link in the rear we ended up setting up the wheel base at 112 " we wanted to keep it as low as possible with running a big Ass tire. I think the belly ended up being 22 1/2 " at ride height

 

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a couple more pics

 

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Got new tires mounted got brackets all done finally sitting on its own. we used 1 3/4" 281 wall tube for lower links with 1 1/4" heims and 1 1/4" 281 wall with 3/4 3/4" heim upper links the tie rod is 1 1/4" sleeved 1 1/2" resleeved 1 3/4"

 

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:greg:a couple more self standing woot woot

 

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this took way more time than i thought it would i am tierd, going to bed. my old lady is waiting for me. there is a lot more to come i will fill ya'll in latter peace.

 

[Medsker]

That looks awesome, I love low center of gravity rigs

 

[Bart]

Nice work. Loving the build.

 

[_Auzzy_]

That is sick! great job man!

 

[Greg]

Looks real good TC, I love the fab work. I think it's cheating when you work at BHR, have access to killer tools and can combine that with incredible fab skills. I'm looking forward to the rest of the project, looks like you've been making good time!

 

[suisuki]

looks Bad a$$ so far, keep it comin'