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It's all the same

LabRat

Textbooks set me back almost $600 for this spring semester, so I wasn't able to order my tubing or get any of the steel to build my cross member and mounts yet. I get paid Friday and will aim to get things rolling next weekend, at least the build of the cross member, I'm ordering my tubing from onlinemetals.com after shopping local they had the best price for 1.5" ID x 2" OD x .25" Wall Dom tube.

Going to make a clone of Clayton offroads long arm cross member like many other self builders do. http://claytonoffroad.com/product_in...697e765fa45ef3

The long arms are going to be 4link radius style made out of said tubing with creeper joints at the unibody mount, grease-able bushings at the axle mount and johnny joints on the uppers.

Every thing is measured and planned (measurements subject to change of course) just need to get the steel and DOM.

LabRat

Update:

Okay so after what seems forever I finally have everything coming UPS to start building my long arms. Tube got here this morning, I landed up ordering claytons longarm crossmember to save time, so busy with school that it would be weeks for me to take the time to build it myself.

I have a link end and ballistic bushing coming for my upper. I revised and decided to do a y-link long arm setup with the y on the driver side, like IRO's. Will be putting it all together this Friday and over Saturday, hopefully be done and on the ground Sunday .

Also ordered an adjs trac bar and a 3.75" drop pitman arm from Synergy.

Will have pics and updates to come on Friday.

LabRat

Okay, the much awaited photos.

Cut, welded and installed everything this last weekend.

Forgot to take some photos of the bushing mount being welded to the arms and a few other things if you guys want some let me know.

Started with this, .25"wall DOM each lower is 33" long, upper is 16".



Welded in the bungs



Test fit everything



Made mount on the driver side are for the ylink setup, cut off the old lower control arm mounts and installed everything. Cycled the axle to see if there was any binding in the arms that would limit travel, which there wasn't.











Installed my front shocks and adjustable trac bar this morning with a HD bracket this morning. All that's left to do is throw in my drop pitman arm, front driveshaft and bleed the brakes.

LabRat

Side note, made a trip to the U Pull U Pay and picked up a 5.2L grand cherokee front driveshaft, 5" longer compressed than the stock xj one, and a 99 xj center console . There were some decent seats in the xj that I thought about taking but it was getting pretty nippy out by the time I got to it.

dpace7XJ

I'm likin it!

LabRat

New photos,





Tested the front articulation before work the other day.











Next things to do is drop some change on a SYE and build some bumpers.

LabRat

Surprisingly after this lift I don't have any "death wobbles" which I did get when I had it stock height and threw the 33's on. Even did a tape measure alignment. Every thing is pretty sound. Don't really want to take it off road yet or even throw it into 4hi/4low until I get an SYE to put in the rear driveshaft is pulled out a good inch.

smdirtrider

Very nice! I really need to tint my windows. Makes a huge difference. Any updates on the SYE?