FL Crawler II.
07-17-2015, 09:55 PM
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Things still to do:
-lots and lots of welding left. I've been welding the stiffeners and sliders off and on, so still need to finish it all along with the the slider supports
-build a mount of the dana 300
-hopefully a skid plate.
-build a rear cargo rack for the back hatch area to gain a little more storage.
-I ordered some 35spline yukon hubs and 4340 stubs that i need to swap in
-MAYBE a rear pinion guard
-set final ride height and fine tune alignment
-probably more also.
08-25-2015, 08:09 PM
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so I've been driving this thing around a lot and put about 5 hours of driving on it last weekend along with a bunch of driving this weekend.
but last weekend i took it to a show n shine
also took it over a car crush while i was there, driving over the cars was easy except for the part of my fuel pump sending unit separating after i hopped the back end up.
i picked up the fuel cell and pump assembly already assembled and apparently it fell about 1" short of sitting on the bottom of the cell. so it popped out of the retaining tabs on the unit. we took a part of a wiper blade and rigged the unit together so it wouldn't separate again. worked great and i fixed it permanently earlier this week.
got the jeep pretty much done. installed the 35spline stubs and yukon hubs, built a d300 mount, and finished up some other misc work.
well, went wheeling last week in TN. was just shy of a 1200 mile round trip with a week of wheeling in between.
we went to the cove in TN. and i have to say that place is amazing. pretty much endless rock crawling with all the bolder and rock filled creek beds and all the trails just littered with all sorts of stuff to wheel on. its not a hardcore place by any means but there are definetly things there to push almost any rig. the family was with me the entire ride and seemed reasonably comfortable the whole time.
Overall the jeep performed well. ended up averaging about 13.0-13.5 miles per gallon, even driving through the mountain. suspension is still a little bouncy due to me running pretty high pressures in the shocks. but now they feel broken in so i can start fine tuning them. only damage i had was a bent tie rod and crushed in my driverside fender and hood a little.
warning....pic heavy
but last weekend i took it to a show n shine
also took it over a car crush while i was there, driving over the cars was easy except for the part of my fuel pump sending unit separating after i hopped the back end up.
i picked up the fuel cell and pump assembly already assembled and apparently it fell about 1" short of sitting on the bottom of the cell. so it popped out of the retaining tabs on the unit. we took a part of a wiper blade and rigged the unit together so it wouldn't separate again. worked great and i fixed it permanently earlier this week.
got the jeep pretty much done. installed the 35spline stubs and yukon hubs, built a d300 mount, and finished up some other misc work.
well, went wheeling last week in TN. was just shy of a 1200 mile round trip with a week of wheeling in between.
we went to the cove in TN. and i have to say that place is amazing. pretty much endless rock crawling with all the bolder and rock filled creek beds and all the trails just littered with all sorts of stuff to wheel on. its not a hardcore place by any means but there are definetly things there to push almost any rig. the family was with me the entire ride and seemed reasonably comfortable the whole time.
Overall the jeep performed well. ended up averaging about 13.0-13.5 miles per gallon, even driving through the mountain. suspension is still a little bouncy due to me running pretty high pressures in the shocks. but now they feel broken in so i can start fine tuning them. only damage i had was a bent tie rod and crushed in my driverside fender and hood a little.
warning....pic heavy
08-25-2015, 08:23 PM
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went wheeling this past weekend in a localish spot. was good to get it out on some familiar trails to kind of compare to the last XJ. still getting used to it. but being closer to home i was more willing to lay into the throttle, which was fun.
overall still pretty happy with everything, but I'm increasing the want for bigger tires. while not a huge deal, i find myself dragging the axles over everything.
overall still pretty happy with everything, but I'm increasing the want for bigger tires. while not a huge deal, i find myself dragging the axles over everything.
08-28-2015, 07:44 PM
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