Yeah. Had to get new u bolts and top plates obviously but otherwise yes. The only problem was that the spring perches were 1" wider than the dana 35's but I went ahead and put it in there anyway. So hopefully that wont have any problems later on.

 

Removed rear fender flare on driver side cuz itle be harder cuz the gas cap/gas pipe or whatever its actually called is there. But Im going to be cuting my fenders (front and rear) like this guy did ( ) and eventually doing an exocage too. For the rear wheel well Ill be cuting out the current one and welding in some sheet metal diagonally kinda like boat sides but hidden kinda. Check out the other vids by that guy too, its the most bad *** xj Ive ever seen. Comments, thoughts, or ideas are welcome.

 

Painted my diff cover red after cleaning it up, cleaned up the bolts, put some rtv silicon on it and got it bolted up. Let it set for awhile and then went and torqued it to its specs. Finally starting to get around to building my winch bumper. Drilled first couple of holes on one side. Will be doing more tomorow after school and might have some pics up of the begining of my bumper.

 

Differential lookin fine and begining of winch bumper.

 

Oh boy here it goes. Before comp cut pics.

 

Now lets see the afters

 

It will probably take till the weekend to get front and back cut. Ive pretty much cut all of the drivers side rear off.

 

Did some more on the rear so heres whats been done so far. Havent decided on how I want to cut my front yet.

 

progress update. Started cutting the front. I also might be getting some wheels to fit my 1 ton axle and some well warn 36" tires to temporarily roll around on.

 

I applaud you for taking on such a project. Nice job. Can't wait to see how it comes out.

 

Thanks. Havent gotten much done but I finished the front drivers side. It will look alot better with larger tires.

 

Havent had time to do much because of school. I have put a fan in my hood and Ive finished cutting out the metal around the gas nozzel. For the fan I used the wires from my windsheild washer fluid pump and I wired in a new switch.

 

So update on this super slow build. Havent done a ton cuz of having to keep fixing random different necessary things on my truck. I have done a good bit of work on my winch bumper. Each side is bolted to the frame in 8 places 16 all together. I have droped my gas tank because I will be installing leaf springs off of a 99' chevy 1500. They are around 12-13" longer than the stock cherokee leaf length and they will also move the axle back 10 or 11". As to them being super stiff I will probably not use the whole pack but I'll see how it is when its all together and such. I'll be making custom rear mounts for the leaf spring shackles and using the stock front leaf spring mounts. However the stupid front leaf spring mounts nuts, on the inside of the frame broke off of the frame when I tried to take the bolts out. So I guess I will be drilling through the frame support on the opposite side to extract them and I will be putting a bolt all the way through the leaf eye and through the frame support and I'll put a metal plate on the inside of the frame support and weld it on and put a nut on the bolt going through the frame n' plate n' all. So anyway I have my work cut out for me. I would love to have it all together and running with long arm front suspension w/ dana 44 front and about 4.5" of lift and 37-40" tires and whatever else so I can tow it to the Easter Jeep Safari... Time to find a job. So anyway heres a couple pics. Bottom of main frame support bumper mounts bolted to in 3 spots where the sway bar used to be. Driver side has the 3 steering box bolts through it aswell as the bottom 3 (sway bar) and the 2 front stock pinch seam bolt holes. Passenger side 3 sway bar holes, 2 pinch seam, 3 holes drilled through main frame support with peice of metal on inside that will double as a point that will be part of a steering box brace Im fabbing up as soon as I get a Dodge durango steering box.

 

Snorkle in the works. A RV septic hose and the top of the air filter box from a pontiac sunfire along with its filter. Just cut a square hole in my roof the size of the fins on the filter and put it in and drilled some holes and bolted on the top of the intake box. Not sure how I will run the hose to the the throttle body. Possibly just through the hood. I made it fit the throttle body with a thin peice of rubber that I wrapped around the throttle body decently tight. Sized it up and then I stapled it together and streched it around the throttle body and worked the hose over it. Real snug fit.

 

Got my jeep moved inside my garage for winter time even though the temps. still in the 40's-60's. My welder had been out of the sheilding gas so I took the chance to get flux-core. Got it all working right and welded bottom plate on bumper (3/16). Got a cardboard mock up done and Im going to see if my schools ag. class could cut it out with their plasma cutting table. If not Imma check with my tech schools welding class. Need some 1/4" for my top center plate and I'll be set.