opinions anyone???? Or anything you would suggest for my build???

 

Also FYI
All I am using for the axle swap is O/A torches, 4.5" angle grinder, hand drill, and common hand tools.
Just so everyone knows you don't need any specialty tools other than that to do this swap. Although it would be a lot easier if you had a band saw, plasma cutter, drill press etc.
I'm using a Hobart 210 MVP Mig Welder for all the fab work not any big fancy miller or Lincoln welders. It is a great welder can weld 3/8 all day long or bigger if you bevel it. I would recommend it to anyone can't beat the price and is spool gun ready to weld alluminum

 

Where's that "like" button.... :P

 

haha they should have one.
I got my control arm brackets made up along with the upper control arm sleeve/bushing.
this is going to be my daily driver for a bit so I need to have it done before the snow flies

 

So I got a lot done the past few days. Got all my lower and one upper control arm mounts built. Got the outline (top) of my truss welded in have to box it later. Had to cut the upper tube off the y-link long arm and angle it different because it would not work the way it was. So I got that modified and welded back together. Got the upper control arm mount lined up with the modified upper tube of the y-link and burned that into the truss. So the way it sits now the long arm kit is completely finished finally. Its all coming together nicely. I went to a local fab shop and had two 1/4"x6" diameter plates cut out on a cnc plasma cutter to complete my coil buckets. I went and got a plum bob to mark out where the coils and shocks need to be. I have a lot of good pics just need to get them uploaded hopefully tomorrow.

 

I have a chrome grill and head light trim laying around off an XJ country what do you guys think? Put them on or leave it black?

 

Looks great but i hope you didnt pay the 7000 that nut case was asking for it for like a year on craigslist

 

hahaha I didn't pay anything for it. He sold it to some dumb a$$. I had an 89 4 cylinder, stick YJ the dumb a$$ traded the truck to me for. The frame was starting to rot out, holes in the floor etc. on my wrangler I talked him right in to trading like it was the greatest idea ever. Like two weeks before hand I smoked the d35, yoke, and driveshaft all at once haha. Had to throw a set of used gears in it I had got for next to nothing. And a JY yoke and shaft I got off eBay that was real cheap. I bought the YJ for $2000 before last winter off my dad for something to beat around in but everytime I took it out I grenaded something. It had about 6-7" of lift with 33's and a welded rear. I twisted the rear driveshaft off twice. The guy got a boner over my YJ because of the spray bomb paint and it had a back seat hahaha. I never rushed so much in my life to get him to the notary to change the title over before he changed his mind lol. I think the leaf set up was a con but the axles where there, it was an HO I mean it is one hell of a base for a project.

I've had going on 15 jeeps and I'm only 23 I know what to pay for them.

you might as well throw $5000 in a fire pit if your dumb enough to pay $7000 for that. It is in good shape rust wise and everything but I would have paid $2000 for it if I was looking at buying it.

 

prob should have posted that in the beginning of my thread huh

It had bald 35's on it when I got it but I had 34's to throw on it

 

That nut case had this truck for sale since 2008 actually and started at $8000, then $7500 and so on. It had nice wheels and new 37" boggers on it might have paid $3000 for it back then. After that he had a set of cragar alloy 6 bolt chevy wheels painted black on 35's and still wanted that much.

He must have been high 99% of the time.

 

LCA brackets finished.

Dont mind the buckets that where trimmed down with torches.

I wasnt going to sit there with a cut off wheel and cut all that 3/8 steel off fawk that.

That will be cleaned up when I take the axle out for finish work

 

I still have to make mini skids for the LCAs yet and I had to trim the buckets because they where too long

 

Basic outline of my truss. All I did to shape the truss is mark where I needed to bend the plate scribe a line with my square. Then use a cut off wheel and cut about 3/4 of the way through the plate then you can bend it where you need it and weld up the seams. A lot better than making five plates and try to weld them all together across the axle straight.

 

Breather cut out.

Coil spring plates.

Side view of long arms

 

Had to cut the upper off