Not a bad idea. Keep the wheels for sure.

A beater shouldn't have the 5x4.5 bolt pattern

Need to set a date for Golden Mountain this fall. You should come.

 

i mean a cut the fenders, put bald 33s on it, and if I don't break it in half by the end of the weekend I'm pissed kinda beater. And yea I need to do more wheeling I've only been like 6 times this year.

 

Well I finally got my jeep back on the road and my long arms installe about 3 weeks ago. I also got my serious steering and 35s on about a week later. I put longer shocks in it yesterday, it has a stupid amount of flex now. My initial thoughts on the rustys long arms have changed completely. I'm extremely happy with them now. I thought they were gonna **** me on up travel. But with 35s and the amount of fender I have left they actually give me plenty of up travel. In fact in gonna have to cut some more fender. The jeep climbs 10x better with them. Anywhere it just wanted to push and big on short arms it jumps right up on long arms. The ride is also great on the road. Here's a **** ton of pictures.

 

This thing is getting beat to ****. I need to find some damn fenders for a reasonable price, so I can redo the front clip. I have everything else. In the last couple of weeks, I've changed the track bar bushing, the ball joints, the brakes, and 3 tie rod ends. The need from all of this and the cause of the ****ed up front clip was the best night of wheeling of my life. We rode for 19 hours only stopping to **** or check out a view on aetna.

 

So, a couple of months ago I decided that I was done forever with tie rod ends.

They ware out too quickly with my heavy right foot, and total disregard to the fact that I am driving in the woods and probably shouldn't be doing 35 mph. So I built some new steering with 1.5x.250 DOM and 3/4 heims.

I used ruff stuff brackets and 7/8 heims for the track bar.

This is by far the best steering set up I have had on my jeep.









I also swapped in an hp 30 with new ball joints and wheel bearings when I did the steering swap, and put two new 35s on it since my front tires were worn out from the terrible alignment that was caused by worn tie rod ends, bad ball joints, and bad wheel bearings.

 

Great progress..I hate aenta red clay! **** to clean.

 

I just leave it dirty lol

 

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have been steady beating on this jeep since my last post years ago. It's still essentially the same, lots more body damage and routine maintenance. I'm gonna start posting again with some build progress. Not sure if anybody looks at this stuff anymore. If anybody from the old days is still on here drop a reply.