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The stiffeners will become full length skids A couple of guys in the club are starting up a fabrication shop and since hers is the only 2 door, she'll get to test a lot of stuff out. First thing after the frame stiffeners get welded in will be 2x6 rockers though other than that, gas tank skid, diff covers and thatll probably do it for her

Went wheelin with some of the club this weekend. Ill post some pics up from my phone, work blocked photobucket again

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Found a box truck who took a wrong turn lol

said he was stuck out there for 5 hours

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Stiffeners came in last week! We were on vacation and just got back this weekend so the Jeep is going in next week for surgery!

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Sanded, cleaned and POR15'ed the inside of the stiffeners

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So our buddy whos welding in the stiffeners hydro locked his motor in his cherokee the week we were supposed to bring her cherokee in lol lucky he already had a parts cherokee at his shop with a good motor so we started pulling/swaping those motors.

Today, YES, today is the day it gets dropped off! Not exactly sure how long itll be there, maybe a week. But Ill be there helping out, preping stuff so Ill try to get progress pics as well!

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It was her birthday Saturday so I told her if she took it easy, we could go off road since she's been dieing to lol


(you can see my new cage additions)

Trying to upload a couple videos too

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I don't know why but this was the only video that went through and it's sideways..but here you go.

Not as deep as usual but a little thicker

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So after work I went to my buddy's garage where the stiffeners are getting put in

This was just out side lol even more jeeps in the bays. So we dug into his motor a bit and found his problem

And then I got to the stiffeners. First things first, since she has a short arm, you have to cut the leading 8 or so inches off

then I started wire wheeling the undercoating and rust off




Didn't get a finished shot of the passenger side but you get the idea. He said he might be able to get it in the garage today but that depends on another job he's doing

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I did some much needed cleaning up at my garage and didn't get to my friends garage till late. We did manage to remove the old cowl panel

And replace it with one from a parts jeep


He had to pack up the race car last night and he'll be racing tonight. Hoping to get back to the cherokee after that

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It's in!




started dropping the cross member, marked and sanded where the welds will be. Notched a section of the stiffeners in the rear by the leaf spring hanger so they would sit flush and then called it a day. He's going to be away till Sunday or Monday with the race car so, unfortunately, no progress updates until the

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So they got a lot done on it yesterday without me knowing. Luckily they took some progress pics so here's what I got







Looks like they just about finished up the passenger side
And the drivers side...


Will be cut out and replacing all the bad then laying the stiffener over that

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Got some more work done on her XJ. Passenger side is all finished. Just have to paint




Started on the driver side



got it all patched up and tacked the stiffener in place for the night


And even found a smaller muffler to replace her original one with


the club is hoping to go wheelin on Sunday so we're trying to get this finished by then and test it out in the trails

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The shop picked up a couple parts jeeps too, here's hers parked next to a stock one...



Never realized how huge it was compared to stock lol The roof sits almost a foot taller

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Well its all done!




Just have to get some adapters for the muffler and that'll be all set. She can live with it for now though lol we're hitting some trails today to put it to the test!

Jbh97009

Why are you still running a rear sway bar?