Good to see another xj from AK on here! I have a few 2 door xj's myself. Based on the pics I'm guessing your from Atown?

 

just outside of anchorage! There's a few, but they aren't nearly as active as they once were

 

Hard to find time for this thing lol. Was able to get the rear brakes hooked up, locker and ring gear installed on the carrier, as well as continued work on getting some more clearance out of the rear wells. Just need to finish it up, grind it all down and spray it with some protection before putting the flair back on

 

Pulled the jeep out again today so I could get the garage all cleaned up so I can fix my 2500 to sell lol. Getting super excited to start driving the jeep again, even better that the snow is starting to melt

 

Front brake lines ordered and finally got the front shocks mocked up and brackets in. Had to pull it out of the garage for awhile, but should be driveable as soon as the lines show up

 

Looks like a beast dude. Keep up the good work

 

Brake lines finally showed up right before I left for vacation. So should be driveable when I get back. Have some welding left to do as well as fixing the shock bushings to fit the bolt a bit better and everything should be set to go for a test before I regear it

 

Finally back home after a lil vacay, meaning time to finish off the jeep. It's nice that the suns up at 11pm as seen in the picture lol, makes for some easy long nights

 

Got the brake lines in and started figuring out how I wanna setup the steering stabilizer. Next up is getting the pads installed and bleeding the system

 

Have been really busy so haven't had much time to update, but here's how she sits currently. Got the front end pretty much dialed in other than needing a new drivers side axle shaft (sheared at the splines). Just need to finish up the rear end and I'll be truly ready to see what she can do. Taken it on a few trips around the block with 3.55s and it wasn't overly terrible, but it should be a lot better with 5.13s.

 

Finally was able to get some time in to take out the jeep. Locked front and rear with 5.13s it crawled through everything I needed it to up until the truss welded on by a previous owner let loose taking my upper link with it...

 

Looks like a good time out there. Wouldn't be a real wheeling trip if you didn't break something.

 

Amen to that. Part of the reason I went where I did cause I knew I could the truck and trailer to it if something did break

 

I'm going to do some work on the front end of mine the next few days, but after that I should be ready to finally take mine out too.

 

I still need to do upper ball joints, rear shocks, and dialing in the front end but I had the spare cash and it was wayyyy to nice a day not to take it out lol. So I’m right there with ya lol