coming from a guy that has a lime green one haha.

 

Love the TAN paint............

 

Nice build so far keep it up

 

Don't forget to add the story about that broken yoke from this weekend lol

 

Yeah, ill get some pic up of it eventually, but basically at the CF meet at Rausch this weekend went to climb a ledge, hopped the rear end clear off the ground, it landed and the rear axle yoke bolts all snapped. Took all day to get a replacement part, had to drive all over east jesus to find a new yoke, bolts and straps. Got to whell all day sunday though, didnt ruin the trip.

 

hmmmm thats the 48" isnt it. i would have gone 60" but it looks really good and i agree keep the tan! or go a dark color like maybe gun metal grey?

 

like the tan too i want to paint mine pearl coat black like my bass boat so it has that nice sparkle although it might be dirty alot at least it will be extra sexy when clean

 

You broke ****? haha how come I wasn't told? Your jeep definietly did great man.

 

Yeah I cracked my front clip, but you were there for that one. Build plan update too, im definately 100% not going to lift it any more, no way it needs it. I think im just going to get 10" travel front shocks for a little more flex up front. Im going to cut out my now very dented rockers and cut the mounting arms off my rocksliders and weld the sliders in there, copies someone I saw at rausch and thought it was genious, getting a belly skid and new HD X-member and definately getting around to gears. Driving around with 33's on 3.55 SUCKS, awful on the 5 hour highway trip (even overheated my tranny trying to pull a hill) and too jerky when trying to rock crawl. 4.88's up there on my list now.


Some pics of the trip:

 

Well just about finshing up fixing the stuff I screwed up at Rausch. Fixed my rear exhaust hangar today and replaced it with an OEM one getting rid of that flimsy generic crap from autopart international. Had to refill my rear diff as well, I hadnt driven it in a few days and just happened to notice today almost all of the fluid had seeped out of the rear diff since I peeled the cover back so bad. Ordering a Ruffstuff cover tommorow and pounded the old one back into shape with a hammer & torch.

My rear main seal is bad I think too since it drips a silver dollar sized amount of oil out from between the engine and tranny everytime I shut it off. Just ordered one off ebay and i'll get that done this week, maybe i'll get some pics up of it. Im thinking of trying Amsoil in it too, not sure yet.

Also, since I destroyed my front clip, im getting a new one of those and getting two new front fenders from the JY and im going to weld steel plate over them and put tube flares on them then bolt it on. Im making tube flares for the rear as well but I think im gonna use JCR corner guards to mount them to for the back. Gonna do something like this https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f51/xj...-fenders-8000/ just gonna make a few of my own changes, such as welding the fronts on instead of sheetmetal screws. But anyways, im heading to the U-Pullit next weekend, maybe ill get some pics of that too.


Also just saw, my Build thread has 8,000+ views, and its in like the top 25 most viewed on the site, thats totally sweet.

 

hey man, you have a really nice jeep. i like the paint job lots; maybe one day when mine is not a daily driver i'll do an army green paint job on it. those are some sweet pictures too, from your trip. that thing does work.

 

Yeah I was there when that happened, I meant you blowing the u-straps off the driveshaft. lol

Dude, you better get pics up of everything you upgrading, cause it's gonna be hella sweet!

 

Yeah that happened on Saturday morning about 30 seconds after this pic was taken. Hopped the rear end on the ledge way too hard.

 

hey i did that to my header pannel too! haha.

 

I see, seems like I missed most of the good stuff, besides Adam trying to show off 2 times and failing both times miserably. haha