i love the monster tires sticking out haha

 

Today I braved the cold and put on my new crossmember, 1" drop spacers, and transmission mount. Not too much of a hasstle rung one bolt off but no biggie it'll be ok. Thanks to cherokeeaddiction23 for helping me wrestle my drivetrain to line up.



New crossmember and drop spacers



Old cracked crossmember, tranny mount, and 31's

 

Thank you!

Yeah it looks beefy with the 10" rims I think. We're supposed to get snow in my area tomorrow or sunday so i'll hopefully be able to have some fun with them!

 

Duratracs are awesome in the snow, you won't be disappointed. Nice looking 2 door!

 

Well it snowed 2-3 inches so I got to go do some donuts and try em out!! They're great and needless to say they have a crap ton of spray!

 

get some bedliner on that underside!

 

lookin good whats next

 

What wheels are you running? lookin good too!

 

I know! There is a small rust hole on the underside I need to pop rivet some 8 gauge sheet metal over and bedline it so it's comin soon enough!

Thicker wires, new plugs, a rotor button and dis cap, then I wanna try and make my own rear tire carrier.

Ummm some Eagle Alloys I'm not sure what. They look like american racing knock offs

 

I thought they were, asked a few other members on here but i like to know if theres other options

 

 

Did you ever fix the broken X member bolt?

If not, they are not too hard to get out. welding a piece of bar to to the broken part and then cooling it with oil makes the seized bolt shrink really fast. you can un-thread it right out.

I have also found that if you get a 7/16 20 tap and 7/16-20 grade 8 bolts about 2-2.5" long you can drill out the old threads and re tap them for the 7/16 thread. The tap will say what size drill to use. Its a simple fix and far more reliable in the long run.

It would really suck to get something hung under there and peel back your cross member on the trail. I have seen this happen before with barbed wire. It ended up ripping the cross member free and it was a small disaster on the trail.... in the rain.... miles from home..... I really miss college LOL

Looks great
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Oh by the way, I love 2 door 5 speeds enough to get emotional over here in Ironman land. Ill be following this build.

 

Thanks a lot! I have actually been thinking about that again lately and the bar and oil technique seems like a pretty good idea. Here soon I'm gonna have to get up underneath it and do some small rust hole repair so maybe when I do that I will try the bar and oil.

 

sweet looking RED XJ ,needs some more black accents on it.

 

Thanks! yeah I plan on next week to buy a hood from the JY and cut nice big vents in it and paint it flat black just so I have a trail hood and my nice hood. Then I'm gonna buy some ~2" blocks for the front from Cherokeeaddiction23 so I can see if I want to have a more JeepSpeed look.