94XjSport94

Are you going to allow the misalignment of the ORI Rod ends to be the only part moving on a vertical plane? I thought they would need to be mounted in another 90* rotation to allow for a greater arc of travel?

N20jeep

i won't need much movement. i still need to cycle it out but i think i should be ok.

N20jeep

the best!

to mount the ORI's

N20jeep

Cut the brackets out, still need to do a little more shaping but they should do the trick .

N20jeep

did some suspension cycling to see if i was going to have any contact issues any where. so far it appears everything clears and doesn't bind, even the driveshaft which I'm excited about.


overall, everything is a very tight fit. but with the hydraulic stop in the shocks i think ill be ok

N20jeep

this is the clearance when the shock start to hit the last 3/4 of the internal bump. and when its fully compressed there is about 1/4" of space between the oil pan and truss.


suspension at 3/4" before 100% bump


got the hoops all tacked in.




it all fits under the hood

N20jeep

while i was working on the front, a buddy started on the rear fenders for me. The plan for this is to be able to stuff a 37" tire (with room for a future 40) up into the body a good distance and not have to screw with tubbing around the rear seat like i did on my last XJ.



this is just the initial cut, it will get rounded out and cleaned up as i start building and cycling the rear suspension.



he also removed those sidesteps that were on the jeep and started cutting out the factory rockers.


and finally i picked up a 3/4ton dodge master cylinder. ill need to play around with my front hoop some to make it fit.

JPXJMOAB

Holy crap you have done some serious work on this thing! LOVE this build!

Outlaw Star

Serious Jeep boner right now. lol. Great job Nick. Once its finished, I vote we RTI test it on the douch Dyllan's rig.

94XjSport94

That MC helped my set up a loooooot. Not going to add any air bumps for security or if you want to run it any lower?

N20jeep

thanks

lol, sounds good

I'm really hoping and relying that the internal hydro stop will be enough on the ori's

94XjSport94

My friend was bottoming out on his just a little bit this morning. He is running about 4" of up travel.

N20jeep

at ride height these will be about 6" up travel. so we'll see.

Atmos

is your steering just mocked up until you get hi steer arms? this has got me itching to tear into my heep and do the same

N20jeep

im going to get the angles as good as i can for now and run it without high steer for a bit.

the histeer will have to wait a while since im pretty much tapped out and still need to buy 2 tires, a grizzly locker, and some other random stuff.