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Clifford the Big Red 2-Door

WELCOME to the MEGA-Mod List for BigRed!
Here you will find every modification done over the last 5 years of building.
Enjoy.

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Now Onto the Good Stuff...

Basic Overview:
- 1999 Jeep Cherokee Sport Upcountry edition, 2DR 5SPD
- Fully Restored & Rust Free
- Fully Loaded, All Power Options, Leather Swapped
- 4.5" - 4 Linked Longarm Lift on 33s
- 4.0L/AX15/NP231J/HPD30/FORD8.8

Mods:

Exterior/lighting
- JCR Vanguard Front bumper (w/ Uniframe Tie-ins & Steering Box Re-enforcement)
- JCR Vangaurd Rear Bumper w/ Full Tire Carrier (w/ Unibody Tie-ins, Highlift Mount, Rotopax Mounts, and License Plate Relocation)
- Custom 2x6 Rocker Sliders
- Custom Lower Quarter Panels made w/ Integrated JCR Lower Quarter Panel Armour
- Notch X-MAX Fender flares, Polyurethane Coated (Colour Match Flame Red)
- ARB Aluminum Roof Rack w/ Custom Gutter Mounts
- Trucklight Military-Grade LED Headlights
- Stubby Antenna
- Amber 2x2 LED Cubes (front), White 2x2 Cubes (rear)
- AVS 2dr Vent Visors (rare)
- 35% Front Tint

MAJOR RESTORATION, All Rust Repaired!!
- New Floorpans
- Interior Bedlined/Carpet Re-installed
- Custom 2x6 Rocker Sliders
- Tubbed Rear Wheel Wells
- Custom Lower Quarter Panels made w/ Integrated JCR Lower Quarter Panel Armour
- Fully Polyurethane Coated Roof/Lower Body line down/rockers (Color Match Flame Red)

Interior:
- Grand Cherokee Front Leather Seat Swap (Converted to Flip-Forward for 2DR)
- XJ Rear Leather Bench
- Husky Floor Liners
- Full LED Interior Lighting
- Guage Cluster w/ Light Blue LED'S
- Black Headliner
- Shock-Top Belgian White Tap Handle Shifter
- Aftermarket Sound Deadening (lots and lots..)
- Alpine Type-S Speakers
- Alpine Monoblock 1100Watt Amp
- Kicker 12” Sub
- Kenwood Colour-Shift Deck

Suspension:

Front:
- BDS True 4Link Crossmember
- BDS Upper/Lower adj. LongArms
- BDS 4.5 Coils w/ Coil Isolaters
- Bilstein Rubicon Shocks, 13in Travel, 30.8 Extended.
- Relocated Brake Hardline
- Custom 1-off Stainless Brakelines
- IronRock Offroad Double Sheer Trackbar
- Inner Coil Bumpstops (Hockey Pucks)
- 28mm Swaybar Upgrade
- BDS Swaybar Quick Disconnects

Rear:
- BDS 3.0 Leafs
- BDS 1.5 Boomerang Shackles
- Roughcountry Shackle Relocation Brackets
- Extended Rear Brake Line
- Custom Flush Mount Lower Shock Mounts
- Custom Upper Shock Crossbar

Steering:
- JCR UTK 1ton Steering
- Chevy 1ton Tie Rod Ends
- Custom CNC Polyurethane Anti Tie Rod Roll Spacers

Engine:
- New(er) Engine, Currently @ 210,000k (400,000K on Body)
- Rotella 5w40 Diesel Oil
- 60mm CNC Bored Throttle Body
- Flowmaster Super 40 Muffler on 2.5 Pipe
- 1/O Battery Cables and Front Distribution Block

Trans/Clutch:
- LUK Performance Clutch Kit
- LUK Flywheel
- LUK Clutch Master & Slave
- New(er) AX15 trans w/ 200,000k
- Redline Racing MT90 Trans Oil

T-case:
- Advance Adapter Super-Short SYE
- Advance Adapter Rear Tailhousing & 1310 Yoke
- Novak Adapters S2K Cable Shifter
- 35 Tooth Speedometer Correction Gear

Driveshafts & Driveline:
- Tom Woods Driveshafts Custom Rear CV Shaft
- Rebuilt Front D/S from an AW4 Cherokee (1.4" Longer)

Diffs:

Front:
- Custom Built Chromoly HPD30 27 Spline

- (***WJ KNUCKLES IN PROGRESS***)
- ARB Air Locker 27 Spline
- RCV Performance Chromoly CV Axleshafts
- 4.10 G2 Ring & Pinion
- All timken Carrier/Pinion Bearings
- SKF Axle Seals
- Synergy MFG Rubicon JK Dana 44 Balljoints
- SKF Wheel Hubs
- Fully Sandblasted, w/ POR15 topcoat

Rear:
- xxx(BLOWN UP) Built Chrysler 8.25 (Locked, Disked, Geared)xxx

- (CURRENT) Fully Re/Built 96' Ford 8.8 31 Spline (Explorer)
- Slotted Rotors
- All Timken Carrier/Pinion Bearings
- SKF Axle Seals & Shaft Bearings
- Detroit TruTrac Posi
- Yukon 4.10 Ring & Pinion
- 1310 Conversion Flange Adapter
- Crush Sleeve Eliminator
- Ruffstuff AntiWrap Spring Perches
- Custom Flush Lower Shock Mounts
- Lubrication Engineers SAE140 Straight Weight Oil

Tires/wheels:
- (X5) Procomp series 52 D-Window Steelies 15in x 10wide, 3.75BS (-38 offset)
- Micky Thompson Baja MTZ P2s, 33x12.5r15 (Summer)
- Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs, 33x12.5r15 (Winter)
- Chrome Spline Lugs

Misc Accessories
- DUAL On-Board Air Compressors
- ViAir Pressure Switch
- x2 1-Gallon Tanks
- 900CCA Diehard battery
- Vacuum Reservouir Relocated
- ARB Kinetic Tow Strap
- Highlift Jack
- Rotopax Fuel Containers

Waiporous / Ghost natural area June 25-2015

Ruby Falls, Cadomin, Ab, Canada, Feb 2016

I'm going to have to correct you. Leaf springs can flex. My leaf springs flex better than my coil springs

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https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.che...2000231d98.jpg I take that back to a certain degree. A good leaf setup can flex, but coils will always be that much better. I used to have better rear travel until I made my high clearance lower shock mounts. Hopefully when I make the upper Crossmember I can get all that travel back :)

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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen (Post 3230641)

I'm going to have to correct you. Leaf springs can flex. My leaf springs flex better than my coil springs

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Originally Posted by ClassicCarl (Post 3230758)

I take that back to a certain degree. A good leaf setup can flex, but coils will always be that much better. I used to have better rear travel until I made my high clearance lower shock mounts. Hopefully when I make the upper Crossmember I can get all that travel back :)

if I had longer shocks I could flex more and if I had revolver shackles with longer shocks that would be insane.

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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen (Post 3230766)

if I had longer shocks I could flex more and if I had revolver shackles with longer shocks that would be insane.

Throw some bumpstops in there and then measure. Make sure you don't invert that shackle though lol.

The guy with the grey 80-series landcruiser in my pictures there has them front and rear. The things an absolute monster. Surprisingly well mannered too, don't seem to unload suddenly like I would have figured.

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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen (Post 3230766)

if I had longer shocks I could flex more and if I had revolver shackles with longer shocks that would be insane.

Revolver shackles are garbage

A nice flat leaf pack, boomerang shackle, and relocaters will work just fine.

OP:
Your photography is pretty darn good..always nice seeing a build thread with quality pics!

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Originally Posted by Xj88 (Post 3230773)

Thank you! The two hobbies meshed quite well together, the Jeep takes me places many people will never see. Makes for some good photo opportunities no doubt!

Man This 2 door is beast! Great pics and views!
How do you like the Detroit in the back? Do you dd this rig?

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Originally Posted by 88whitecomanche (Post 3231474)

Man This 2 door is beast! Great pics and views!
How do you like the Detroit in the back? Do you dd this rig?

Thanks man! She's been a DD for 2.5yrs now. I spent a ton of time making sure it's as turnkey as it can be.

The Detroit sucks horribly on road lol. Mainly because it's a stick shift. Has massive backlash. When I bring the clutch in it hits hard, you can feel it bang on the driveline. An auto would hold slight pressure on it all the time and would probably take up most of the slop and stop it from constantly locking/unlocking. It also is very hard on the tranny synchros, I step on the clutch, locker unlocks, and the synchro drag as I go into the next gear starts to pull the Diff back into lock (if that makes sense). Puts a lot of load on them, so I'm grinding into gears way more often than I'd like.

But offroad it's a beast locker, super fast to engage and tough as hell. Overall it's alright, but I'm probably gonna take it out and put in the Detroit mechanical LSD. I'll lose full lock, but as a dd, I'm more than OK with that. I got the ARB to drag me around anyway.