looking good i may have missed it how big r ur tires?

 

Yes I will. I'm trying to get a lot of pictures while building. The pictures suck cuz they are all cell phone photos, but you get to see what I'm doing.

 

They are 39.5 x 18 x 15 SS Boggers on 15x 10 waggon wheels.
I'm planning on beadlocks soon
they have been cut for grip.

 

Did you cut the boggers yourself? I have the chance to pick up a set of 33x14 boggers and cant decide if I should or not. If I do, I will be doing a smiliar design. Looks great! W

Whats the plan for the front end where the xj body meets the frame? You going to be covering up the frame at all with a bumper?

 

that is badass man love the stance you doing boomerang shackles?

 

They were cut when I bought them.
I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do with the front yet. The frame is 3" in front of the grill so I'm thinking that will be a good point to mount a winch plate and then build a massave bumper around that. One that covers the winch, frame and comes up to the body lines.

I have a set of Teraflex turnover shackles in the back. I'll try to get some pictures of them today.

 

Here are the shackles I'm using for the back.

 

I spent the day trying to come up with some body mounts. After cutting and bending several pieces of metal I came up with these for the front mounts.




I'm still working on the rest of them.

 

lol


BTW, I'm about to start looking for another XJ. The 88 had issues I didn't have time to screw with.

 

Whats the Yawn for?

You should have called me before you sold it. If you want some help looking for another one let me know.

 

sweet man i heard they break easily but idk i have just regular shackles

 

Being that these allow the axle to drop but provide no added spring rate wont you have traction issues when flexed? As the tire tries to climb over and object the extended shackle would provide little force taking away from the weight and therefore the traction on the tire.

 

I have two friends using them now and they have no problems with traction. In fact they seem to allow the spring to be more level at full flex with less up pull on the spring there for giving it better bite.
After I get it done and wheel it a few times I'll revisit this and let you know my findings.

 

Got a little more done today. Built leaf spring hangers for the rear.



They are just tacked in place until I get both sides done.
My welds suck, lol It's been 25 years since I picked one up. I'll get better soon.

 

Sounds good, and the work looks great too.