Really? That absoutly sucks!

 

In my state of Queensland, you are not allowed to put tyres on that are more than 15mm (3/5 of an inch) larger in profile than the largest ones stated by the manufacturer. Although that looks like changing to 50mm (2 inches) in the next few years. You are also allowed no more than a 2" lift.

I love seeing the pics of what you guys can get away with.

 

Well yesterday was my birthday and my parents supprised me with a fire extinguisher and a hi-lift! I got the extinguisher mounted today and got familiar with the hi-lift.





I plan on using the desert rat mount for the hi-lift.

 

Belated Happy Birthday!

 

Thanks Botak!

Today i rigged up a rain cover so i dont have to put my doors on every time it rains. And i also took off my rough country hood decal. The only thing rough country thats left on my jeep are the springs and aal. So i figure its time to toss it!

 

Alrighty so first I wanna say SWEET RIDE!
Second I wanna say I love the low COG look, I have the exact same lift you had before you replaced pretty much everything and I'm thinking of just doing 32's because I'd hate to mess something up by not putting on a tranny cooler and I have to highway drive a lot so I'd like to keep my stock gears a workin as good as possible haha. Also I know you said you couldn't imagine putting on the lift yourself. Well... I had to haha and my rear axle fell off my jacks with the spring plates disconnected and it hung by the brake lines and they never broke! got kinda lucky.
So I have a few questions
first: Did you bedliner the whole side of your jeep? it looks like it and I like it, I think it would look good on my white one. I don't have the money for my tires yet but i went out there and trimmed the fenders anyway haha. I used a pair of sheet metal clippers too... but any I plasti-dipped them for the time being just to protect my tires before I bed line it.
second: I'd like to take off my doors but my jeep is a 98. What problems will I run into with 98 hinges?
third: So I'm kind of confused about bumpstoping. My fronts are completely dry rotted and my driver side is gone. My back ones are pretty perfect though. Any suggestions? I know you just wrote a whole write up but just wondering, do you think i should just go with some poly ones or hockey pucks, which I'm not even sure what to do for those and what size would you think I might need going 1" shorter tires? And for the back is there any other suggestions besides what you did?
Well thanks man! Your jeeps awesome and I love your dog haha

 

Thanks man. I appreciate the compliments. Ill answer your questions in order.

First off, a tranny cooler is still a good investment even with 32's. There only like $40 and take an hour or so to put in. And there isnt a big different between how 32's and 33's are gona drive. Just food for thought.

1. I bedlined the rockers. Basically from the body line where the side molding used to be on the doors down.

2. I got lucky and have pre 97 hinges so making the doors removable is easier. But you can still do it with your hinges. I dont know alot about yours but i know it can be done. Just do some searching and you should find a few write ups.

3. You deffently need to replace your front bumpstops. You can either go with some poly ones from daystar or the like, or you can get some oem ones and do the hocky pucks. As for the rear, i have found that the best way to do it is how i did it. Deffently dont stack tubing between the bumpstop and the frame. It will end up hitting your shock. And the height of the bumpstops really depends on how much you trim your fenders. Its sort of the thing you have to put on, measure and then adjust.

Hope this helps ya!

 

Only 40 bucks! Hmmmm your food for thought has now made me hungry. How much did you have to limit your turning with your steering stops?

and for your rear bumpstops, I know where u got the plate but did you have to make the extra ones to stack on?

 

Its not limited enough to notice. And yeah I had to make extra plates to stack. Just got some steel from ace and cut em out.

 

Cool well you have inspired me to make my jeep as sweet as yours haha.

 

Glad to hear. Don't know if you will get it AS sweet as mine, but you can get close! Be sure to do a build thread.

 

haha yea prob not actually but actually I still got some questions for you. So I know you've replaced everything in the world on your jeep so it's not really the rough country lift anymore but before you did anything, how was the handling on and off road with just the rc 3" with the 33's because I'm still a little scared of putting on 33's haha. But yea I actually started on my write up today, it's in my sig. Check it outt haha

 

It did just fine. Flexed pretty good. I needed to move my axle foreward. That's why I got the long arms.

 

Installed my new teraflex sye and tattons driveshaft yesterday. Everything went smooth except the effing snap rings! But it got done and so far still works.







And heres an update of my sticker window!

 

Nice man!! That shaft looks familiar....
This thing is really coming together nicely.