SATURDAY MORNING

Hey guys. My name is Kris Froehlich, owner of Froehlich Suspension Tech. Started the build on my next Jeep, Just thought I would share it with ya guys. Trying to get this done for the Puyallup Swap Meet on the 13th so it should go pretty quick. Here are some parts that will be going onto the jeep today. We should be starting on it soon. As soon as everybody wakes up and gets here to Brandons house. (My Business Partner) Decided to do it here cause its a remote location and we have the house to hang out in and cook food. lol

Here are some of the parts and pieces.

1.25" solid hex, 7/8ths hiem, crossover steering.



1.75" solid hex, 1.25" hiem, LCA's. and 1.25", 7/8ths hiems, UCA's.








Here's a pile of mounts and parts and pieces.











Front and rear bumpers




SATURDAY NIGHT

got a lot done today, but not enough... here's some snaps.
here's the stock xj....





Chrysler 8.25 ready to come out. (will be for sale at the swap meet)


Kris hacking and a cutting, wrenching and removing.


this is our standard 3 link crossmember/skid plate and LCA/UCA mounts. all painted pretty orange.








and our rear bumper coming together. this has the optional swinging tire carrier on it, just not in these photos. more to come. oh and in the pics it is sitting upside down.






SUNDAY NIGHT

worked on the front tonight. here's some snaps for your viewing pleasure.
LCA/UCA frame mount prep.






mounts.






a comparison of mounts.




front axle coming out.



being prepped



and the rear all in place with a fresh set of bilstein 5125's. should have about 4.5" of shock up travel, will have to adjust bump stops.






MONDAY NIGHT

cross member/skid all mounted up.





enlarged shock mount holes for 14" Bilstein shocks. made custom mounting tabs(not pictured). moves shock up about 3".





quick reference shot of new shock.



also hacked off all old control arm mounts. need to clean up and paint. pics to come.

 

Kris! Welcome to the forum lol

 

nice. i like to see new suspension builds... 3 link is always nice also. just wondering if the cross member has a 1" tc drop?

 

Hey man. Yea I've been over on NAXJA for 6 Years now. Thought I'd come over here and check it out too. I actually saw you driving the Jeep around the other day man. Looks good.

 

Oh yea. They are fun. I've done quite a few now. This one is taking a good deal of time since we are going through and taking the time to prep and paint everything. I always forget to take pics while im working so its good to haave Brandon around. He takes the time to stop and take pictures of the progress.

The crossmember has about 3/4 drop in it. Maybe a little less.

 

The rear bumper looks killer. Cant wait to see the suspension come together. Looking to upgrade to long arm myself. Is this another choice I may have in doing so?

 

Thanks

Yea, definitely! Did you see that stack of 8 crossmembers? lol Sorry I forgot to post up the link to the website with most of our products. Its still not complete but fully functional. www.froehlichsuspension.com

Feel free to give me a call or shoot me a text to if you have any questions.

 

Interesting build. I appreciate all the pictures. I'm more of a touch it, see it, smack your knuckles on it kind of guy. So the pictures help me process.

Forgive my ignorance but what are the end specifications of your build?

4.5 long arm, 3-link?

 

No dont worry about it, my fault I never specified. Front 3 link with 8 inch coils and 14" bilstein shocks. The jeep will actually sit at about 7 inches after adding all the armor.

 

this might be a dumb question but have you ever thought of making bumpers out of aluminum? i thought that would be stronger and lighter on the supension but probably super expensive.

 

You can by some aftermarket bumpers aluminum but they are expensive. And I still dont actually understand why wou would want to. Yea they are lighter, but they wont take a hit without denting like steel would. The difference in weight wouldnt be significant enough... As long as you have proper valved shocks, proper spring rate coils, you shouldnt have an issue with ride quality or handling if that is what you are worried about...

 

welcome to the forum.

excited to see where this goes.

 

Yea I Just got it out and getting ready to put a vortec 350 in it and 6" longer arms under it. Still trying to figure out a tube frame for it too. Wish ya good luck at the show.

 

update: been working on the FST XJ for the past 3 days and here is our progress pics.
words are boring so we"ll just keep the pics coming.

 

wow this is a fast build lets see moreee