The Resurection Project

Locked_N_Loaded wrote:

You shall see sir...wrenched on odds and ends on the Jeep all day. Shocks and shock mounts and bump stops will be in tomorrow. Too bad I'm a god damn idiot and this is NEXT THURSDAY - I was all ready to ship out Wednesday night and just realized I read Joe's post wrong. FUCK FUCK FUCK. Still in though

At least your jeep should really be ready now

Got the driver side bump stops and coil retainers taken care of today so if no major prob pop up I should be finished the jeep on sat. giving me sunday to do some maintenance on the tow rig.

Coil retainers

figured I blow the dust off this one since it's been a while. The brown Santa showed up today and left a few parts.

yukon 5.13 gears with install kits, yukon 35 spline spool for the rear, and yukon 35 spline 60 axels

I totally forgot that the master install kit comes with new front axle seals so I'm good to go on them.

I'm hoping to line bore the rear 60 axle monday and my cousin is supposed to help me install the gears Tuesday or wedsday giving me to the last moment thur to put them back in

Last minute is your style.

And to think I was just starting to catch up. Damn, gonna have to start phase 2 early.

I hope he is good at seting up gears or you have all day on tuesday or wednesday. Its can be a long process. In on page 33, damn

he's mechanic that used to do gears for a 4x4 shop years ago till he went and got his own shop. So i'm hoping that he'll get both done in the same day.

Don't worry Bill i'm not going to add to much more to this thing till after nov. or so.

Got the rear axle bored out saturday.






fixed a few of the problems from harlan so other then the gears the jeep should be a go for Big Dogs. I'm taking the rear axle down to my cousins tomorrow to hopefully get the spool and gears installed. Then either tuesday or wed i'm taking the whole jeep down so he can put it on a lift to do the gears so I don't have to pull the front axle.

Thats a cute picture

thanks man, I love you to

Just ordered this today



That is all gentleman.

All right Ive sat down and came up with a list of stuff that needsto be done on the jeep by the end of feb.

1. install full hydro steering
2. finish installing seats
3. install rear coilover
4. throw on the 39's and cut/ bump stop body to fit
5. move rear axel back
6. install 35 spline outers and 35spline hubs

By aprils Big dogs
1. Rear bumper and winch
2. front coilovers
3. fix broken stuff from feb.

I guess your all right. What had me worried about tying it into the cage work was that my c pillar was just welded to the floor and not tied into the frame since the coil bucket was i the way. But since thats getting all cut out ill be able to go ahead and tie it in. (which will make me feel a whole lot better) Any way this is what i was thinking, kind of simple but easily installed, purple being the bars and maroon being the shock.



Also got the new tires in, i was kind of disappointment that my 38.5" tire wasn't much bigger then my burned out 36's.





Decided that i was going to move the rear axle back 3" on top the 1" or two it had.



new stance which will be around 112" once I move the front axle forward another 1" or so.


picked up a few parts for the rear


decided to ditch the idea for a rear winch bumper do to the fact that it would push the rear bumper out further then i wanted screwing up my departure. So I just decided i'm going to weld in some 4x2 box steel across the back with a receiver welded in and work off that.


i'm supposed to pick up the coilovers and my new beadlocks this saturday. So it looks like this project is going to get kicked into 3rd gear.

for those who didn't see the finished full hydro steering


Seats installed


last pic of the two jeeps together


Its now in its new home in VA with john.

Yeah new home with John. Now the rookie is asking me ten million gay questions. Thanks Joe.

better you then me

i need some help on how to set up the rear coilover hoops. it was suggested that I do something like this



any other ideas or thoughts?

I thought about something like this but was told it wouldn't work.

i think it would be easier and still be strong enough to do the straight lines off your cage, you could always put another straight shot for support going up/down in the middle of the mount to help

Joe the lower mounts are not adjustable, they pretty much have to go on top of the axle. Only way to mount the correct length is place the upper mount at the height it needs to be. Find out where it needs to be and then come up with a way to mount it. First pic looks more structurally sound for the whole vehicle.

Ok Joe where are the pics of the Beadlocks that are gona make you and R&S Fab Famous And just so everybody knows Joe is never aloud to repaint his beadlocks there is a lot of time involved in them

agreed with bill on the mounting

I understand about the mounting thing, I'm just trying to come up with a way to mount the CO were i won't have all this tube going every were. I may just end up doing like that first picture but when people mount there front hoops they don't need tubes coming off the top of the CO mounts except for the one that goes across the engine bay. So just out of curiosity (other then more structural support) what makes the back different then the front to need the extra tubes coming off the CO mounts?

jealos-z wrote:

Ok Joe where are the pics of the Beadlocks that are gona make you and R&S Fab Famous And just so everybody knows Joe is never aloud to repaint his beadlocks there is a lot of time involved in them

Ill run them for the feb 14 run but after that that there getting repainted. Just from having them in the back of my truck during the snow I got tired of explaining why i had hot pink wheel with those nice tires

my thought is that it is primarily structural integrity of the vehicle if talking about a buggy, the tubing has to be there for strength of the vehicle. Then if the coilover needs to be mounted higher they throw the bent tube on there to create a mount. Honestly I would do like the first picture, yeah it adds weight and you have a lot more tube everywhere but that is cheap insurance, especially if you have Matt or Nick spot ya.