n_a_i_w

Nice man! You've been busy. I'll be replaceing my axles this weekend. Have to do the seals also. Fun times. Wish I would have grabbed my tourqe wrench from you. Let me know when your in town.

xjfanatic

Ya I have definitely put more time than I would like to admit into it this year. I had to use a sawzall to cut out the trackbar bolt on the axle side because it was totally seized to the sleeve inside the bushing. I've been meaning to get the wrench back to you, but have had no free time. I head to Colorado for the week tomorrow, but I'm totally free next weekend. We should go out for a beer or something if your free. Oh by the way, I thought I fixed everything, but the death wobble is still ridiculous so I went to get it aligned today. Turns out the threads where the upper control arm adjusts are shot and the arm is actually bending and moving forward and back. It was kinda scary how much it was moving. So I finally tracked down the issue, now I just have to wait for new parts.

n_a_i_w

Dude...... let me know when your comeing back in town. beers are on me. also dates for easter jeep safari. I have to have my time off for the yr in by feb. 15. I picked up a spare set of axles today to. so no more turning back. I have axles and drive lines.

xjfanatic

Nice man I am in...well it was about a 12 hour drive today so my boss told me to come back on Wednesday, so I'll be in town Wednesday night and should stay in Phoenix for almost a month I think. We have our ride and drive training event for Monroe on february 23 at the arizona fairgrounds i have to promote. You should come, its totally free to the public and you get to drive some cars on our road course. As for Easter jeep safari, at this point I am planning on going up there to set up and run the Rancho display, but I dont have any definite dates I will be up there yet. The actual event goes from march 31st through April 8th though... I will hopefully have the jeep trail ready by next weekend if my new control arm ships quickly and it fixes the issue. We need to go wheelin soon, I am starting to have withdrawals.

NuclearCowboy

Ya got a great jeep, keep on gettin it!

junior3382

Now this is a build thread. Very nice Dude....

93zjwheeler

Nice jeep what is the bb trick? How much for your iroks and beadlocks? What did you take in college sorry for all the questions but i want to know so I can do this to my jeep

98 brutus

Where do you live? That things way to clean to have ever seen snow lol sick rig brotha you gave me alot of ideas!

jhampton

love the build man keep the good work! also not gonna lie...im stealin some of your ideas

98 brutus

Hey also what kind of paint did you use todo the quarter panels on the xj? Is it like a bed liner spray paint or??

n_a_i_w

I asked the same question, Its the walmart rattle can bedliner. The stuff is awsome. I did all my armor and lower panals of my jeep with it.

xjfanatic

The bb trick is putting bbs inside of your tire instead of weights on the outside in order to balance them. Its more functional with larger tires as the bbs can always shift around to rebalance the tire. Only drawback is they don't balance out until about 25 to 30 mph. I got a deal on the iroks because I knew the discount tire general manager, paid just over 290 per tire. I found the bead locks on Craigslist and got a deal on those too, under 100 per rim. Deals are out there, you just have to search. In school I studied aftermarket automotive management, so no technical stuff, just the business side of the aftermarket.

Well now I live in Arizona, so she stays really clean, but the first 9 years the jeep was in my family it was parked outside year round in northern Utah(lots of snow), and the 4 years in Michigan parked outside. It took a beating,but I managed to take care of it pretty well. Now she is babied in a nice warm garage all the time.
I used rustolium sprayon truck bed liner, found at Walmart. Works great and is easily touched up after some battle wounds.

xjfanatic

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ZJ24

Awesome XJ!

Drewjharper1900

Great build man! Ive got a few questions though. How are those 36" irok's on the stock axles? and before you did the beadlocks, were those wheels 15x8's or 15x10's?