high clearance fenders...with a twist. got the idea from a friend on mine who did it to his:

 

rear quarter panel cut/fold:






Ill get some daylight pics tomorrow when i get the new side view mirrors on...but im happy with how it came out. just need to seal it up from the inside and it'll be done.

 

Uh oh, next thing to go will be the back half of the roof with a full exocage. He's getting happy with the sawzall.

If your feeling better and want to do a ride on Oct 10th, let me know.

 

haha nah, keepin the roof (till i roll this one)...but a cage is in future. im actually goin to see a concert that weekend in louisville...and my xj's not technically street legal right now (lacking side view mirrors).

 

side view mirror:







still folds up too:

 

playin around in the xj a bit:

 

well here's the latest...i'd been wanting a cage for awhile, and the recent damage from golden mtn kind of sped up my plans. so i'd been in contact with my friend matt for awhile, discussing possibilities. I had 2 conditions: i wanted a roof halo that could be used to pivot off of trees, and i wanted it to be pretty stout. i dropped off the jeep in knoxville last week, and picked it up this past weekend. i think the pictures speak for themselves:





the master at work:












door bars:




we finished in time to go wheelin on sunday

matt posing in from of my jeep:

 

^ trail fifteen at windrock...and the reason why i am soon going to be cutting out the rockers:

 

I wasn't to far off on the exocage prediction now was I.

 

hybrid cage my man...they are the way to go!

 

finished the mechanical fan pulley delete:


shorter belt:


here's the correct sized belt for anyone else interested in doing this:


80.25" to 80.5" fits perfect. this one is off of a 1999 ford contour 2.0 without a/c.


im also now in the market for an a/c delete pulley if anyone has one. ill be removing all the a/c junk pretty soon, and i just found out my heater core is bad and leaking coolant...so ill be swapping a new one in soon.

 

love the cage , i wanna try to do something like that to mine

 

some progress made on a few projects...

pile of crap removed:


moved the radiator about an inch forward:


had to clearance crossmember a bit for radiator filler neck:


lots more space in there now for the taurus fan:


a/c is gone as well:


dash removed...a/c and heat box gone as well:


had a mess of wires to go through...removed quite a few and cleaned up the rest:

oh yes, those are lime green zip ties...



much more to come in the next few days...

 

top of the dash is in for the most part:



also found a plastic container that will work perfectly for the heater core.

 

Here is a link to the AC delete pulley you need.

http://www.napaonline.com/MasterPage...By-Pass+Pulley