Jeep TJ overhaulin

[chadschoon]

so ive decided to through some real axels under the tj, the rear is a Dana 70 with a detroit, and the front is a HP Dana 60 kingpin also with a detroit.

so far ive built the rear truss and have all the links mocked up for the rear. also have the coilovers mocked up. Im into the rear truss about 20 hrs. im integrating a cooler/sub woofer rack into my cage that i hope turns out really well.

here are some pics of the whole process as of now. more to come, i hope to have most the tubing done in the rear today!!!

 

[Kiel]

Looks good, I have about the same amount of time into my rear truss But I have like 12 bucks invested in it too

 

[waynehartwig]

Love your exhaust!! Everything else looks great!

 

[chadschoon]

man what a long day! I got alot done I'll post some pics up in the A.M.

 

[waynehartwig]

man what a long day! I got alot done I'll post some pics up in the A.M.

:whistle and tapping fingers: :clearing throat: it's morning.. Where are the pics!

 

[chadschoon]

ok so maybe in the afternoon here is some tube work on the rear.

 

[chadschoon]

one more, and more to come

 

[James K]

very nice, I really like the look of the tube work.

 

[Meat_]

Looking good

 

[James K]

one more, and more to come

a question, when you notched the frame for the CO's why didn't you just run the frame rail straight back?

thus eliminating the drop at the back and giving you better clearence.

 

[Meat_]

a question, when you notched the frame for the CO's why didn't you just run the frame rail straight back?

thus eliminating the drop at the back and giving you better clearence.

He's out working on it again..... I'm pretty sure that notch is from when RL did coilovers on his stock axles.

 

[James K]

He's out working on it again..... I'm pretty sure that notch is from when RL did coilovers on his stock axles.

ah..............it just looks like it was freshly done.

 

[Meat_]

I was just asking him why he didn't push the back out farther and he said he couldn't go much more with his frame notch, so he just reused the same links. If it is a newly done notch..... I guess I'll have to go over and ***** slap him.

 

[James K]

I was just asking him why he didn't push the back out farther and he said he couldn't go much more with his frame notch, so he just reused the same links. If it is a newly done notch..... I guess I'll have to go over and ***** slap him.

yeah, in the first set of pics it looks new. I wanna go if go to ***** slap him, not to really slap him but just to see it in person.

 

[Meat_]

 

[waynehartwig]

I think he just took the paint off of it. Heres an old picture from back in Feb when he had the RL upgrade done... It looks the same but painted black.

Sorry for the size of the damn thing. I don't know what you did to it Meat! It's from your old post here:

EDIT: Removed the big as$ picture.... Meat will have to fix it, since it was his picture in the beginning

 

[waynehartwig]

Looking good Chad!!!

 

[James K]

I think he just took the paint off of it. Heres an old picture from back in Feb when he had the RL upgrade done... It looks the same but painted black.

then explain the blueing around the weld area

 

[waynehartwig]

then explain the blueing around the weld area

Can't explain that.. But if you look at these two pictures the notch and hoop look identical, other than the black coating and the rubber divider.

Here's the two pictures, but you'll have to click on them to make them bigger to see the notch.. Maybe Meat knows how to do it differently?

 

[Meat_]

You suck at the internet Wayne

then explain the blueing around the weld area

It looks like he plated it... the curve looks the same but there are some holes that are covered.... maybe I'll just go ***** slap him regaurdless