ta2tony

Here's a couple pics of the bolt. Its barely hitting the edge. I remember the stock shackles being tapered and narrower frame-side. That's probably why they cleared these bolts...

ta2tony

Also, been meaning to put this in for a while. When I was trying to determine which springs I wanted I was trying to find shackle angles different springs resulted in...going to put some key words in here to make it easier to find via search.

OME Old Man Emu 2" medium duty shackle angle.

Corpos

You gonna replace with shorter bolts or nip em off?

ta2tony

I just took them out all together. There's still 3 bolts on either side holding it on, plus I hope to be putting a custom rear bumper on soon that'll probably mount differently...

No more jarring ride from the rear!!!

ta2tony

Soooo....been thinking a lot lately about straightening and beefing the front end of the wrecked 2 door, putting in a new radiator, slapping some cheap ole craiglist 35's on it with maybe 2" of lift, caging it, toss en some gears and lockers and having an awesome Low-Cog XJ to trailer to the offroad parks...

Could be done fairly cheap and would be nice not having to worry about rolling my DD. I'll keep ya posted.

tssguy123

ftfy.

ta2tony

Effing hilarious...you're right, low-cog is extremely overated. Flipping your XJ on its side is where its at!!!

ckysodkorn_xj

yeah because uptravel is overrated. sounds familiar huh? =) good looking jeep hope u get it figured out.

ta2tony

No, on the red 2 door that got totaled (see 1st post) if I did that I would remove the front fenders and do a comp cut on the rear.

Otherwise, yes, touché. LOL!

ta2tony

BTW, my KC Chiefs have been making a bunch of your LSU Tigers millionaires...don't hate!

LOL!

ckysodkorn_xj

i would like to see more of this comp cut.

ta2tony

Sweet. Turned in my last assignment for classes this semester, so school's out for summer for this old guy. Time to get some more work done on the jeep.

I trimmed my flares to match the cut on the front fender, also did a little clearance work on the other ends. Sanded, and painted. Woot. Hopefully get them mounted this weekend.

ta2tony

Flares turned out pretty good...considering they used to be white. The shape on the front that I trimmed turned out about how I envisioned, so I'm happy for that. Prolly gonna go get some hardware to mount them tomorrow. Trying to figure out a good way to make "quick disconnects" for them...something that would come off pretty fast. That way I can take them off before heading to the trails...any thoughts?