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And now that I took at a look at where Olympic 4x4 is on the web I recognized the shop and know exactly where it is. Like you said in my back yard so to speak!
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It's going to be a quick build, she leaves town in a few weeks so we've got to have her new (old) rig looking good and road ready by then. Basically she has a gnarly lifted 96 XJ with some serious issues, so we picked up a sweet unmolested 95 for cheap and now we're transferring all the gnarly bits over to that. I'm doing the heavy lifting (literally) and she's doing all the customizing (she's on her 5th can of truck bed liner). When we're done, she'll be off in "Frankenjeep II" and I'll take what's left of the 96 and put it out to pasture at Olympic.
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I hadn't originally considered doing a build post here on the project, but as I get to know this forum it seems like a cool thing to do. I'll talk to my kidlette about it and see if she wants to share our little project with the rest of the world.
It's going to be a quick build, she leaves town in a few weeks so we've got to have her new (old) rig looking good and road ready by then. Basically she has a gnarly lifted 96 XJ with some serious issues, so we picked up a sweet unmolested 95 for cheap and now we're transferring all the gnarly bits over to that. I'm doing the heavy lifting (literally) and she's doing all the customizing (she's on her 5th can of truck bed liner). When we're done, she'll be off in "Frankenjeep II" and I'll take what's left of the 96 and put it out to pasture at Olympic.
It's going to be a quick build, she leaves town in a few weeks so we've got to have her new (old) rig looking good and road ready by then. Basically she has a gnarly lifted 96 XJ with some serious issues, so we picked up a sweet unmolested 95 for cheap and now we're transferring all the gnarly bits over to that. I'm doing the heavy lifting (literally) and she's doing all the customizing (she's on her 5th can of truck bed liner). When we're done, she'll be off in "Frankenjeep II" and I'll take what's left of the 96 and put it out to pasture at Olympic.
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Shocks??? So with my 4.5" RE lift going in the Jeep what is the recommened Bilstins shocks I could run? I know the 5100 series seems to work but do I need to measure my ride height after I lift it to get accurate calculation or what has worked for you guys on this?
Collapsed Length (IN): 17.01
Also, has anyone heard of running say F150 shocks instead of buying brand new if I can source some from a junkyard in great shape what model vehicles could I get them from and year? Specifically ones that will work on this level of lift?
Thanks!
Collapsed Length (IN): 17.01
- Extended Length (IN): 28
- Travel Length (IN): 10.99
Also, has anyone heard of running say F150 shocks instead of buying brand new if I can source some from a junkyard in great shape what model vehicles could I get them from and year? Specifically ones that will work on this level of lift?
Thanks!
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For your interior, it is no problem to clean up after the weather dries out...in say, MAY! lol. Go to Dollar Tree and pick up a couple of spray bottles of AWESOME. (it's a cleaner) pull your interior out, spray each seat, etc, 1 at a time with Awesome, wait a couple minutes and spray off with a pressure washer starting at the top and working your way down. When you get to the base, tip it forward and put a block under the rear of the seat tracks, or lean the top on a trashcan, whatever is handy. then start at the back of the base and work your way to the front. Go slow. I use a little electric pressure washer for jobs like this, it puts out enough pressure to do the job, but doesn't frag things up. After washing, I use a shop vac to suck all the water I can out of them. If you don't have a shop vac it takes 3 days to dry out. (like these, my shop vac had puked it's guts out.) The next set of seats I did I have a new shop vac and it took a full day for them to dry out. (washed them in the afternoon on Thursday, they were nice and dry Saturday morning.) Same thing works for carpet, you just need something to hand it up on.
Dirty Seat out of a 99 Cougar.
After awesome and pressure washer. It is soaking wet, but looks alot better!
They took about 3 days to dry completely in Washington Summer weather.
Dirty Seat out of a 99 Cougar.
After awesome and pressure washer. It is soaking wet, but looks alot better!
They took about 3 days to dry completely in Washington Summer weather.
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For your interior, it is no problem to clean up after the weather dries out...in say, MAY! lol. Go to Dollar Tree and pick up a couple of spray bottles of AWESOME. (it's a cleaner) pull your interior out, spray each seat, etc, 1 at a time with Awesome, wait a couple minutes and spray off with a pressure washer starting at the top and working your way down. When you get to the base, tip it forward and put a block under the rear of the seat tracks, or lean the top on a trashcan, whatever is handy. then start at the back of the base and work your way to the front. Go slow. I use a little electric pressure washer for jobs like this, it puts out enough pressure to do the job, but doesn't frag things up. After washing, I use a shop vac to suck all the water I can out of them. If you don't have a shop vac it takes 3 days to dry out. (like these, my shop vac had puked it's guts out.) The next set of seats I did I have a new shop vac and it took a full day for them to dry out. (washed them in the afternoon on Thursday, they were nice and dry Saturday morning.) Same thing works for carpet, you just need something to hand it up on.
Dirty Seat out of a 99 Cougar.
After awesome and pressure washer. It is soaking wet, but looks alot better!
They took about 3 days to dry completely in Washington Summer weather.
Dirty Seat out of a 99 Cougar.
After awesome and pressure washer. It is soaking wet, but looks alot better!
They took about 3 days to dry completely in Washington Summer weather.
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I don't have a pressure washer but it is on my buy list of things to get. Always wanted one and they are not too expensive to purchase. Plus I can get some good use out of it so I will grab one of those too.
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Yep... I have been following this. If you can afford it, most good car washes have hot water shampooers that will kick *** on this problem Carpet and all. Just go cash in and get a bunch of quarters .lol
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Thanks the car wash might be a option! Buddy I work with said he has a pressure washer gas operated one that he selling so when I get back from deployment I may just buy his. I will get plenty of use of it so for the price he is asking I think I may have one if not car wash it is.
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Thanks the car wash might be a option! Buddy I work with said he has a pressure washer gas operated one that he selling so when I get back from deployment I may just buy his. I will get plenty of use of it so for the price he is asking I think I may have one if not car wash it is.
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Bugout4x4, I will take that into consideration and see what comes of it. Hopefully the seats are not like that and I could just use a shampooer, easy day!
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By the way everyone I got extended on the Deployment so not sure when I will be home but doesn't appear to be much longer than we already anticipated. Could be after the Holidays which sucks big time but Jeep will still be there when I get home. Still ordering parts as I do my research so when I get home I will be 90% ready when the time is right to tear into it.