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Old 08-21-2016, 10:15 PM
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Job complete- install would've been much easier with a 2nd person. It took some thinking and setup to do this solo. Now that it's all tightened in it's extremely sturdy. Don't ever want to find out how much it can take tho-
Picked me up a 1980 CJ5 this afternoon. Now I have my hands full!
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Wow I never saw ur trend until now... I LOVE your jeep... Especially the color! It is like the ugly duckling story haha

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Sadly the CJ deal fell through. Damn guy didn't say he had it on E-Bay also. Went to pick it up and he told me "someone bought it on E-Bay BUY IT NOW. I was confident we had a done deal yesterday- don't usually carry 5K cash on me
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Nice looking rig. Sorry bout the CJ, but you do have $5k in your pocket and an XJ. Re-gear and 35's and a stroker and ............
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Nice looking rig. Sorry bout the CJ, but you do have $5k in your pocket and an XJ. Re-gear and 35's and a stroker and ............


I hear ya so much more to do on the XJ- I have some front coils/ rear leafs to go higher but I need to re-gear and stiffen out the frame prior-
Wanna run the Rubicon next year. Or maybe later this year if theres no snow
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A fewweeks ago I picked up some longer coil springs for the front/ leafs for back to bring it to a 6" lift. Installed the coils, finally got the right pinion angle up front too- and ordered a new set of RE hangers for the back so I can get the RE leafs installed. They're longer than the set on her now. Also ordered a new set of rings/ pinions to re-gear Ugly to 4.88.
After the regear, i'll stiffen the frame then drop on 35's. Getting excited

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Originally Posted by AceWhite
A fewweeks ago I picked up some longer coil springs for the front/ leafs for back to bring it to a 6" lift. Installed the coils, finally got the right pinion angle up front too- and ordered a new set of RE hangers for the back so I can get the RE leafs installed. They're longer than the set on her now. Also ordered a new set of rings/ pinions to re-gear Ugly to 4.88.
After the regear, i'll stiffen the frame then drop on 35's. Getting excited

Lucky bastid. I'm jealous
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Damn these RE leafs are beefy!!!
Front coils installed
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Originally Posted by chipmaker
Lucky bastid. I'm jealous

You're suggestion......
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Looking good!
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New coils & leafs installed. Up from 4.5" to just over 6"
Up next- gearing to 4.88
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Nice, ugly is looking pretty good. Where did you get your gears?
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Originally Posted by chipmaker
Nice, ugly is looking pretty good. Where did you get your gears?
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Ordered this today from TNT
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Got me a set of 4
Fox 2.0 with adjustable reservoir
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