2001 cherokee....needs name ideas
 

so right now this is my dd but i am getting a new ram in about two months so i am going to start modding my jeep more. right now i am at 4.5 with 33's but i am gonna go 6.5 here soon. i am going to make new bumpers and sliders, thinking 8.8 swap but i have an 8.25 so idk. i have a roof rack, bedlined rockers, grill gaurd, rear bumper. (was a swing down but now my tire is on the roof rack. not in pic) this may start slow but should get going quick once it starts. i will be buying front and rear fender skins and making fenders of some sort....let me know what you think of her so far and give me a few suggestions please:help: lol
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...NE/bigjeep.jpg
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...0727112011.jpg

here is the roof rack i made befor i put it on

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...0327111908.jpg

well today i added some shackles, i had full 4.5 inch packs and stock shackles. i went to the auto store and got 2 inch chevy lowering and with a little modifactaion to them im now at 6.5 in the rear. just need to find time to do the front cause i am leaving for rocks and vallys on Friday morning.

pics when its done

Sounds like a decent plan I wouldn't worry about upgrading your rear axle to the 8.8. If I'd do it I go 44's front and rear. I wouldn't mess with the 8.8 rear. But good luck with your build! Jeep looks good!

thanks! yea axles will be quite a ways off from now but just kinda throwing ideas out there. i need to make a front bumper and new rear bumper, that is probably next on the list. i start my first semester of college in about four weeks,so depending on how that goes will determine how fast the build goes.

Did you get the shackles from Autozone? I've heard they are decent and strong too. Nice jeep, I'll be reading....

i got them from o'rileys. yea they are 3/16's seem well built, all you need to do it grind the metal bushing down about 1/8 inch and put some some washers on the leaf side. took me about 20 mins from the time i jacked it up until i set in on the ground.

ok well i got the lift done the other day and i started to make a steering box brace.
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...0808112016.jpg

Good looking jeep. Let us know how the steering brace works.

Very clean rig! I agree with Jeep 95 on the 8.25. If its 29spline.

thanks, and yea it is a 29 spline. looks alot dirtier in the pics than it is, i just washed it but have a limestone driveway so it gets all that white marks on it the first time you move it.

That sucks. 8.25 is one spline away from a 44. Very strong axle. I just did a swap from a D30 to a 8.25 a friend gave me. Check out my build. The only bad thing i have found so far is there is not a lot of aftermarket parts for the 8.25.

i have a 8.25 in my 2wd and i romp on it all the time, no problems

they are stronger than people give them credit for

i ordered some goodies!!!!!
http://www.jcroffroad.com/Merchant2/..._Code=XJArmor\

http://www.tntcustoms.com/Jeepcherok...ffeners-2.aspx

http://shop.jeeptubes.com/product.sc...&categoryId=15

jcr link not working but thanks for providing the jeeptubes link they got some cool stuff..

try this one.........http://www.jcroffroad.com/Merchant2/...y_Code=XJArmor

ok nothing to great but i finally got my truck last week so a started tonight to work on the jeep. i took my bushwackers off since i am making tube fenders, and i spun my leafs to get a little wheelbase stretch before i start cutting for the bigger tires/ tube fenders

here is the super extendo-wheelbase
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...ALONE/jeep.jpg

Looks really good so far I will stay tuned with this one! I can't believe how expensive those fender skins are holy crap!

thanks, and yea the rears are worth it, but the fronts are only 10 ga so they are pretty thin, i wish i payed attention when i ordered the fronts or i wouldn't have got them but o well. since i am only 18 new parts come few and far in between since i cant work while im in college. so there will be alot of raw materials and making my own stuff.

alright i just cut out the front wheel well. now time to fab up a new one...
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h.../wheelwell.jpg

this is off the other site im on

Yikes! I don't think the shackles are supposed to angle forward! What is that thing in the bottom picture?

that is i control arm drop kit, fixes the angle of the control arms

here ya go

Ok, that's what I was thinking. I've only seen the tiny one that RE makes. I'll have to look into that set-up, what brand is it?

it was given to me i think that it is superlift. the two "arms" bolt onto where the factory trans cross member bolts to, and to the lca pockets, then that middle peice connects the two arms and acts as a new cross member. i do no have the time to do all the required things for a wheelbase stretch so i will be flipping my springs back around, i don't remember what my shackle angle was when my springs were the right way.

today i finished welding up the stiffeners, and then attached the control arm drops and the new cross member.
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here is what the new angle will be on the lca's, it is much much better
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i hate removing the undercoating, by the time i was done my face was blacker than this and all you could see what the outline form my safety glasses
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tomorrow i am going to make my new longer lca's and shorten my uppers. i may start on a axle truss idk yet though we will see how long the front suspension takes.

Where in michigan are you

lapeer country

i didn't get to the front suspension because the steel yard didn't have what i needed, but today i removed the inner fender on the other side and then mounted my fuel cell, i also figured our how to mount my new fuel pump. is there anyway to hook up a fuel gauge to the cell? the floor cut isn't quite done but you get the idea.
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let see some pics of this new RAM truck you got? is it brand new? love the new Ram trucks. do you plan on trailering the jeep when your done with it?

Attachment 384526, i will flat tow with it, i have no room for a trailer when i move away for college

Sweet Jeep!

You may want to look into a shackle relocation bracket to fix that shackle angle. I wouldn't even want to drive it with those angles. A good shackle angle would be about 45 degrees out the back of the jeep. I can't wait to see how the rest of this turns out.


nice truck you got there too!

thank you, yea im gonna make some relocation brackets in the next day or two

thats a nice looking truck right there! did you get that just for college or what? im liking both rigs you got there man

thanks! yea it is a corporate lease, and it gets alot better mileage then the xj does. i plan on buying it when the lease is up.

is that the 4.7 engine in it? i dont see the hemi tag so i figure it is the 4.7 . i looked into these trucks a few months ago but didnt have the balls to buy it. is your lease pretty reasonable?

1500? Come one if you are gonna use it as a tow rig 2500 would be much better. Good looking xj though