- Location
- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
Paint for what man?!
Project: Cheap! But still OK.
- Thread starter I Lean
- Start date
The diff covers, so far. But there will be more to paint.....
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Those diff covers... works of art.
Dang, you beat me to it.
I got a little time to work on stuff today. Beginning the wheels:
Take one 17" dually wheel:
Ruin it thusly:
Clean the paint off the outer lip, tidy up the plasma-cut edges a little bit:
The next step will be welding this in place.
Now repeat 4 more times.
It takes about 10 minutes per wheel, so I'll give myself another hour of labor for the 5. (not all are done yet, but....)
This will be the wheel center, as well as the inner part of DIY beadlocks. As such, the brake caliper gets into the recessed part of the wheel shell, so I'll add a 1/2" spacer to the middle. That should clear by a teeny bit, making these wheels absolutely as much positive offset as I can make fit. (since these axles are W I D E, and I'm not narrowing the housings)
Take one 17" dually wheel:
Ruin it thusly:
Clean the paint off the outer lip, tidy up the plasma-cut edges a little bit:
The next step will be welding this in place.
Now repeat 4 more times.
It takes about 10 minutes per wheel, so I'll give myself another hour of labor for the 5. (not all are done yet, but....)This will be the wheel center, as well as the inner part of DIY beadlocks. As such, the brake caliper gets into the recessed part of the wheel shell, so I'll add a 1/2" spacer to the middle. That should clear by a teeny bit, making these wheels absolutely as much positive offset as I can make fit. (since these axles are W I D E, and I'm not narrowing the housings)
Hub centric. I'll bore the inside of the 1/2" spacer on the lathe to fit properly. That way I can use stock Ferd lug nuts.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Is there a specific reason you started with dually wheels, or was it the low introductory price that drove this decision? I like it, whatever the reason. They should have a higher load rating than single wheel, or used to. 😁
Purely the free-ness of them.
kmboren
Recovering XJ owner anonymous
- Location
- Southern Utah
Your skills continue to blow me away Carl. Well done. Can't wait to see the finished product.
Jinx
when in doubt, upgrade!
- Location
- So Jordan, Utah
See the finished product? yes.
compete against it? no... (I am still having flashbacks of what he could do in SoopaHicks TJ)
Not sure he will compete with this, but just in case he does!!
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After doing extensive research, I was able to generate this handy flowchart for you to aid with your project.
I ran the wheels through this algorithm and everything seemed to check out.
RockChucker
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Highland
I'm curious what kind of steering angle you'll be able to get with those wheels. I've looked at those axles and unless you run low backspacing it gets tricky to get anything past 40° of steering angle. Tire gets into the driveshaft and not much room to sneak a control arm through. Even with 37" tires. Curious to see what you come up with.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Mantis arms!
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
I can't wait until this ends up an ZJ
FIFY.
ZJ or WJ would be cheaper too. Ryan's WJ was freakin' majestic...
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
We must resist the Grocery Getting...
The WJ was nicer, cheaper, more luxurious, and more capable than any JK. The WJ really is a win win win vehicle.