Jbh97009

There is a guy in Washington that 'supposedly' has 10-12 pair in stock at all times, colors vary but he has them.....

I'd love to put them in the front of mine, but don't see that happening anytime soon.

Liking the new build! I'm a sucker for late models, and your building one bad late model!!!

N20jeep

thanks man!

N20jeep

anyways, back to the build progress.
got some frame stiffeners from ruffstuff, still need to get the front and rear.


stripped the interior out to check out the floors and start making room of the cases.


cut out a big section of the passenger side, and still need to cut out some of the driver side.

Basslicks

Off to a great start Nick! Are you able to reuse anything from the old jeep except the front shocks and the motor? Any of the custom links you fabbed?

N20jeep

been tinkering with it here and there. only have tiny bits of time during the week at the moment to make progress.

slowly piecing the engine together. still need to make some little brackets to hold the coil rail to the valve cover. but its coming along.

my wheels showed up. nothing special just 17x9 pro comp steelies with 4" BS. down the road ill do some weld on deadlocks. but they'll do for now

and the spool showed up for the 60.

and since I'm converting this thing to an AX15, it means i needed to swap out the pedal assembly. for some crazy reason i figured that the older pedal assemblies would work in the 97+ jeep. so i bought the first one i came across.

i was wrong. while the fire wall mounting holes are the same, the upper dash mounting is completely different.

so instead of just tracking down a late model one (which is turning out to be pretty rare) i decided to make it work. plan is to splice the two together. i cut the early model one up to get the clutch assembly piece and welded it to the late model one. and i swapped over the brake and clutch pedals to the new assembly


still need to add a couple small plates so i can weld the two together in a couple other spots that don't quite line up right. like the top since i cut a little bit to far. and i need to modify the brake switch mount since the 5 speed brake pedal doesn't line up like the auto brake pedal to the switch. but the way it is now will be good enough to mock up and make sure everything works.

N20jeep

finished mounting up all the clutch stuff, ended up being more of a pain in the *** than i thought. there were no mounting holes in the fire wall so i needed to drill those. and it was a pain to get the new modified pedal assembly back in the jeep.

N20jeep

and i pulled out the tcase, completely sealed it up and finished cutting the floorboard for it to all fit with my crossmember. everything fits up nice and tight above the frame rails. i "may" have to pull it back out and clock the case down slightly. i won't know until i have the axle and front suspension in the jeep.

also, my original plan was to just run some stick shifters for all 3 shifters. but now I've been considering cable shifters so i can have all 3 shifters in the factory location and make it look a little cleaner. so well see

cholthauss

I'm a fan of the cable shifters easy and looks clean!

94XjSport94

This is from Florida, needs more rust!

What lockers are you putting in the axles?

Edit, went back and read. Are you keeping stock lockouts with the front spool or are you going to run slugs?

N20jeep

i plan on just running the set of warn premiums i have, and if i break those a few times ill go ahead and upgrade to 35 spline outers and the yukon hubs.

no slugs for me since i will be driving this on the street everyday

XJwonders

Got any more close ups of the doubler? I'm currently building one and I would like some input.

What fluid are u running in the 231?

94XjSport94

Same thing I'm planning with mine. It'll have a welded carrier and thick cut 5.38's. It has 35 spline outers already, but I want to leave the stock hubs on since I want to drive it around town a little, and to help with turning while in 2wd on the trail. What tires are you going with? I'm going to be running a set of 39" colored tires.

N20jeep

what pictures are you looking for?

ill be running 80-90

thats right, you have the SD 60/sterlings right?

ill be running 37" MTR's again.

XJwonders

I would like close ups of clocking ring and the shaft. How thick is the clocking ring? The holes that bolt up to the adapter plate, are they threaded?.

XJwonders

and why did u decide on 80-90? Any particular reason?