Bright Red 97 XJ Build
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Year: 1997
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Engine: 4.0 Inline 6
Hindsight is 20/20 but you could have gotten away with a fraction of the cuts, I did maybe 10-12 cuts per side at most. The flat areas really don't need extra relief cuts, you can bend them over as one long section and it helps to keep a nicer/straighter line. You can always sand them down some, massage it more with a hammer and use some body filler to smooth the whole thing out.
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Nice, that should only take a few hours. Maybe a city trip or 2 for parts lol.
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Cleaned up the knuckles as much as I could, didn't have a good wire cup brush. And all my black paint decided to disappear too.
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Locked and loaded front and rear.
D30 installed. 30 minutes for locker, 1hr 30min putting everything back together and filling the did with oil
C8.25 installed. 20 minutes for locker. 1hr 45min to fill the diff because the pump I had was stupid slow
huge thanks to Brandon for helping me out!
D30 installed. 30 minutes for locker, 1hr 30min putting everything back together and filling the did with oil
C8.25 installed. 20 minutes for locker. 1hr 45min to fill the diff because the pump I had was stupid slow
huge thanks to Brandon for helping me out!
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Jeep couldn't fit in the garage with the roof rack when we did the lockers. Still haven't put it back due to lazyness, but it looks naked without it.
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Everyone likes the look without the rack. It's growing on me, but still looks naked lol.
anyways. Picked up the 1 ton steering today and got the knuckles and pitman arm reamed from AresFab. One word: Beef. Decided in the end to go UTK instead. Alot easier and if I want to in the future I can easily switch to OTK. Currently painting it in 20° weather. Depending how that goes I'll have it in the jeep tonight amd put the new knuckles and ball joints in tomorrow after work
anyways. Picked up the 1 ton steering today and got the knuckles and pitman arm reamed from AresFab. One word: Beef. Decided in the end to go UTK instead. Alot easier and if I want to in the future I can easily switch to OTK. Currently painting it in 20° weather. Depending how that goes I'll have it in the jeep tonight amd put the new knuckles and ball joints in tomorrow after work
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