awesome build. looking forward to seeing more progress

 

sold off the rear 8.25 so i temporarily tossed in the 14bolt and some junk 35s to keep it a roller

 

cut off the upper control arm mounts the PO had welded to the truss.


along with mocking up a tie rod to see the clearence issues ill have with that riddler cover


and tossed some roller 35's on it so i could pull the 2wd beam axle out and slide the 60 under the jeep


pulled off the front bumper and flares so it would fit

 

i set the front of the jeep up at the ride height it will be at.

theres just over 6" between the top of that pankiller truss and my oilpan. so ill have to make sure I'm pretty precise on setting up full bump. lol


started mocking up the control arms in my crossmember to see what I'm working with.

since the crossmember and arms were designed around a almost center LP EB44 front axle it puts the lower control arm pretty close to the driveshaft. i still need to run the axle through its range of travel to see if this will be an issue or not. worse case scenario i will need to cut off and relocate my crossmember side control arm mounts.

 

and a heavily anticipated arrival has shown.

my shocks are here! so now the build will be moving a little faster
16" rear, 14" front

 

started mocking up my steering.

this is with running a small drop pitman arm to help out the angle some. I'm going to angle the axle side track bar mount a little more to help match the drag link angle and buy me a little more truss clearance.

the eventual goal will be to have a local guy machine the knuckle and cut me a keyed highsteer arm so i can flatten out my angles . but i think I'm just going to run it as is at first.


and it looks like ill be doing a little diff cover grinding.

 

Man that blue is gonna look Hawt!!! Happy to see some progress loved watching your First build! You do good work!

 

Awww man... I was hoping to snag that 8.25 from you. Crap.

Oh well, kudos on the progress. She gonna be ready in time for SOAR?

 

That thing is purdyyyyyy! Nice build!

 

yea, I'm exited to finally be working on this thing again. need to get it going
the jeep won't be ready by then unfortunately, a ton of work. still want to make it to jeep beach
appreciate it

 

picked up a 12' piece of 2x6 for my sliders. also my front stiffeners showed up. and i bent up some front shock hoops.

so i tore down the front end and cut out the inner fenders. and cut out a good portion of the inner fender. after the shocks are mounted ill end up re-skinning the inner fenders.

 

WOW! Yeah, you took a shark bite outta that inner fender.

 

Not to much done this morning besides i finished cutting out the driver side inner fender and made up some templates for the axle side shock mounts. They will be cut out of 1/4" steel. i wanted something that would tie the truss into the C's, and i think these will work out well

 

CAD's are nice!

 

What's the purpose of shock hoops?