ya i love these diff covers and at only $65 bucks a piece you cant beat the price for what you get!

i will only use the lap belt being the driver. the girlfriend will be using all the harnesses when i tell her "buckle up, we are gonna do somethin stupid!" lol

 

Looking good! Have you decided on shock mounting yet?

 

yes i have. i ran a piece of square tube from frame rrail to frame rail for the top mount and then made some little mounts for the axles. they will be triangulated a bit so that they wont bottom out or over extend. im sticking with some bilstein 12" travel shocks

 

i will be picking up a pair of those shocks next week, 5100 series ones. really looking forward to them, heard great things!

 

I run the 12" bilstein 5100s up front and really like them. I had the bilstein 10" 5150s in the rear which I like even more but they broke in half... Any bilstein shock is good. I won't buy another brand

 

wel i got some price quotes on parts yesterday. looks like wednesday i will be picking up my braided brake line and hard lines to finish up the rear brakes and then dropping off my tom woods driveline at the local driveline shop to get it retubed, extended, and balanced. the 3' braided line is about $30 custom made and the driveline is gonna be around $150 to get extended. should have it back in a day though so the jeep might be mobile by friday!

 

It's $150 just to get it re-tubed? I need to get mine extended to 42" and was wondering about how much it costs. What length do you need for yours?

 

im getting it extended 5" to 39.5" total. its about $150 to get it retubed and extended and balanced

 

I have everything to go full width and such but over here in Yakima over 76" wide is illegal And the trails are closed till maybe June. .....

 

ive only heard of an enforced width restriction in washington at evans creek? we wheel the east side a lot with full width rigs and have never heard of that?

 

the past 2 days i have gotten a bit more done.

-changed diff fluid front and rear
-got brakelines made and installed
-rear driveline extended and installed
-hubs regreased
-all joints in the arms greased
-welded muffler on in place of cat

i also took her for a spin. without the rear shocks on it sways a bit when going around corners. i flexed it out the best i could also.

new driveline. i found this tom woods driveline at the local swap meet for only $20! then i had it cut and lengthened.


installed



rear brakelines installed. ran a braided line along the upper control arm



sprayed the jeep down. was collecting a bit of dust in the shop lol





did some stretchin







picking up a brand new set of bilstein 5125 12" travel early next week. hopefully i will pass emitions. i have no catalytic converter now because i cant fit that and a muffler under the jeep anymore. then should be at evans creek opening weekend to test it out!

 

lokin sweettt... i dont know if you said or not but are you doing a long arm coil front end or is it staying leaf springs

 

I have been able to see this rig in person a couple times now. Very impressive and very big is all I have to say. Can't wait to see it on the trail.

 

nice man! i'm REALLY liking that comp cut! i hope you don't mind but i stole pics of your rig for a tech question i had...

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f67/co...22/#post918237

 

I will be leaving it leaf spring front. I will eventually be upgrading to a yj milwrapped lift spring though

Ha no worries glad my project can help others!