Installed my Rusty's rock sliders and removed my side moldings.

 

i pulled mine off the trailer so i can finally start tearing it apart, does that count as progress?

 

of course!

my CPS is goin out. so i must change out immediately!

 

trade ya, i'll do your CPS and you come do my front axle swap and cut and tube the backend as well as build an engine cage and tube frontend.

 

Yeah, right!! LOL!!

 

New gears and lockers in 3 axles. 2 hp D30's and a Ford 8.8, and a ZJ bracket kit welded onto the 8.8.

None of them are mine though.

 

Coils, front shocks and adjustable track bar installed. working on right combo of leaves for rear bastard pack. Stainless brake lines will be here tomorrow.

 

Before:


After:

 

WTH are you up to Franky??

 

The HVAC trade is super slow, so i'm trying to get as much side work as possible. Gotta feed the family somehow.

 

OK, for a minute there I thought you were four linking the rear of your beast!!

 

Someday......

 

Well I started the 6.5 LA install today. So far it has gone pretty smooth with only one broken bolt. The whole front end is torn apart after 5 hrs of working and drinking LOL Hopefully it will be buttoned back up by tomorrow. Then it’s on too the back. Here are some pics of the progress and my buddy's kick *** shop

Before I started... the parts


The jeep ready to be torn apart and the shop










The Tool Room


Redneck engineering at its finest... a oil fed, vacuum motor blown wood stove. This sucker will heat the whole uninsulated shop to 65 degrees when it is 15 outside and make the 1/2 steel it’s made out of glow red!




And the progress, bye bye shocks




Bye bye old trusty JKS discos






Bye bye front coils


These help a lot!




Bye bye lower control arms


Looking kinda empty hanging on the uppers


First thing tomorrow it will be bye bye uppers and stock control arm mounts via plasma cutter then on to the new cross member and t case skid.

 

I can't wait to see her done, I'm toying with the idea of this same lift eventually!

 

I'm jealous. That shop makes me want to scream like a little girl seeing the Beatles in concert.