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id been thinking about this for a while, seeing Sams build motivated me to post this. I need tube and lots of it

WOW is all I have to say, really hard to get a tire off the ground, works better than i thought it would anyways rear shocks are not hooked up but who needs em anyways, I thought it would bog alot more then it does still climbs rocks like a champ stuff'n 40's

Here are some pics from today steering done! ....almost

since I'm going to install a high flow power steering pump, I wanted to try somthing. I fully rebuilt the stock XJ steering pump, the stock valve should be putting out around 2.5gpm so I drilled it out to just under double the size, polished and reinstalled it. hopfully raiseing the flow to...

got some stuff done tonight, for a change... or it feels like it anyway, since I wasted all that time on the stuff for the steering I'm not going to use now. So I got all the hydraulic crap together, orbital valve, pump(s), and balanced double action cylinder (thanks steph) everything bench...

screw it I bought an orbital valve, full hydrolic steering it is.

the sawsall came out today, I only did the front, following the exo. I gota draw some pics for the rear, you know its gota look good I'm making coil mounts on the lower control arm, so I don't have to move the coil bucket forward. There's enuf crap up there as it is, I'm stuck right now I...

now the sweet stuff

old parts /new shackles, plus I moved the rear shackle mount forward to help with the ride hight, not permanent, just till I 4 or 3 link the rear all links are dom/sleeved I call this a shock fin (like shark fin) had to ad'em for more droop... I need new shocks

the XJ now has Dana 60's, the front axle was moved ahead 7" from stock and the rear was moved back 5". stupid me forgot my camera, so crappy cell phone pics it is... till tomorrow the front axle was moved 2" or 3" forward by previous owner, I did the rest because the four link calculator...

I found a 4" slug at work, just so happens it fits snugly into my spring.... also drilled and taped it for a coil retainer, and made some large tabs for the rodends I'm waiting for while decommissioning a ten ton at work I grabbed this so its done. complete install of air horn, its loud ...

Axle truss started :smoke2: alot of cardboard died tonight I got some diamond plate,

New meats! :gr_grin: other stuff in the works are reworked 4 linked front end, drive line brakes, front axle truss, completed exo, rollcage, hydro assist steering, 5 point harness, major transfer case reworking sadly the rear will have to stay leaf because of a lack of money... for now...

The off season

I'll be going out Saturday, same area I have lots more exploring to do, make a run out of it? some of the pics are from Garson pit area and others are from the "Happy Vally Wastelands" (named it myself) Exploring Garson Lake

Epic washout!!! Here's a vid of the link mount breaking http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mvi0009xn3.flv Another vid of me screwing around in the epic washout "how to get body damage" http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mvi0005ps8.flv I did make it but it took 45min...

Heres the new 4 Link bracket added on Saturday nothing fancy, it wont be around long

More carnage as promised. The fluid on the ground behind the jeep is not serious unless it happened on the trail, it was the ice water out of the cooler :party52:

I couldn't get my hinge pins out in a civilized manner, so I cut the pins in half with a cut off saw, then stuck a screwdriver in between the two halfes and pried them appart. One half came out and I could punch the other through. I just replaced them with some clevis pins. I went crevice...

CRAP! the shop was busy tonight so I got no exo done, on the lighter side I went for a ride (haven't gone in a while). I think the hundred and some pounds the exo and bumper added help keep the wheels on the ground. Washouts or crevices are my favorite its impossible not to get flex'y...