"Heep" drives out of the garage

Heep · Jun 5, 2004

8 months ago

Its not done but its gettin there. me and a buddy welded,cut,and painted 99% of everything on it.

The buildup
HEEP

SPECS:

87 XJ 4.0 AW4
Front Waggty D44 -Aussie Locked
Rear Scout II D44-Trussed and Spool
F&R Disc's
Warm Premium Hubs
36" Iroks
Custom Long Arms-they tuck up out of the way
Lots of engine work(nothing major)
Hood vents
TJ flares
8" Skyjacker coils in front
6" BOR leafs w/ 1.23 RE shackle
Bedlined then painted with tractor paint
On board Air (converted A/C)
4.88's
tranny mod
Stickers for HP
bunch of other crap I cant think of
(steering needs to be re-done)
Also an internal and external cage is next...

AZXJ · Jun 5, 2004

You guys did a great job.. Looks Awsome now..

baseballneal86 · Jun 5, 2004

WOW!!! That thing is sweet! Got any more pics of the long arms? How about some dimensions of them too. It looks like you used the stock crossmember, did you beef it up at all? VERY nice job on the build. -Neal

Jeep · Jun 5, 2004

:clap: :clap: :clap: WOW - Sweet Jeep

small pederson · Jun 6, 2004

very nice. got any idea yet on what your bumpers will look like?

ladywolf · Jun 6, 2004

wow, complete transformation! nice job guys! Now, if I could only do that to my acft....new paint job, comfy seats......NAH its great the way it is

Kris

JeepFreak21 · Jun 6, 2004

That's a fawking nice rig! Very clean buildup. I wish I had a 2 door!
Billy

JeepFreak21 · Jun 6, 2004

What's the hoop on the rear axle for? Truss? and it's a good thing you had those TJ flares for the front... who did that hack job on those fenders?! :laugh:
Billy

xjhm · Jun 6, 2004

looks good, lose the center caps...
and it doesn't need bumpers, look at the approach and departure angles!!!

yeah, lets see the crossmember and mounting points for the arms,
i need some more ideas for mine, before i finish it and see something i wished i had done...

small pederson · Jun 6, 2004

if he's gonna trailer it, ya it doesnt need bumpers. but its easy to design a bumper that wont take away from those angles

Heep · Jun 6, 2004

baseballneal86 said:
WOW!!! That thing is sweet! Got any more pics of the long arms? How about some dimensions of them too. It looks like you used the stock crossmember, did you beef it up at all? VERY nice job on the build. -Neal

thanks, yes we used the stock crossmember but we beefed it up alot with 1/4" and 3/16" heres a pick

Also I dont have any great pics of the long arms but heres one

Heep · Jun 6, 2004

small pederson said:
very nice. got any idea yet on what your bumpers will look like?

yeah the front, we bought one from Rigid or Ridgco something like that, we are gonna throw a winch in there too. We are going to make the back one and make it as tight and small as possible.

Heep · Jun 6, 2004

JeepFreak21 said:
What's the hoop on the rear axle for? Truss? and it's a good thing you had those TJ flares for the front... who did that hack job on those fenders?! :laugh:
Billy

Yeah the rear has a truss on it we figured it couldnt hurt so we bent some tube with the bender and welded it up.As for the hack job on the front, that was intentional. The back on the front TJ flares has this goofy ass wavy lip on it. All we did was hold it up there trace around it and went crazy with the Jig.

Heep · Jun 6, 2004

btt :wave:

Jes · Jun 6, 2004

Please tell me there's more than just the four little crossmember bolts holding this thing on...

Jes

Heep · Jun 6, 2004

Jes said:
Please tell me there's more than just the four little crossmember bolts holding this thing on...

Jes

There will be if that makes you feel better......

Beezil · Jun 6, 2004

Heep said:
There will be if that makes you feel better......

HOLY SHIT!

You'd better do something about that.

those stock fasteners are NOT designed to handle holding the rear of the drivetrain AND the entire from axle and rolling forces!

get that problem solved!

Gil BullyKatz · Jun 6, 2004

Jes said:
Please tell me there's more than just the four little crossmember bolts holding this thing on...

Jes

Question for all you fabbin guru's....

If he were to take 1/4" plate and weld a long rectangular section of it to each end (on top of it), with let's say, room for 2 more bolts fore and aft of crossmember, bringing the total to 6 per side...would that be enough?

He'd only be adding a 1/4" drop right?

Heep · Jun 6, 2004

Beezil said:
HOLY SHIT!

You'd better do something about that.

those stock fasteners are NOT designed to handle holding the rear of the drivetrain AND the entire from axle and rolling forces!

get that problem solved!

Were workin on it, we are going to tie the crossmember into the belly skid were putting on it. Think that will be sufficent?

thompson97 · Jun 6, 2004

what are you soing to fix your steering issues? looks like your angles may be your problem. is that a bulletproof or rusty's OTK system on there in those pics? looks very similar to mine. i'm asking because i just installed a combination of rusty's new OTK and orgs stuff. my angles look perfect, but my draglink is about five inches longer than my track bar...and i still have a little bit of bumpsteer. much better than before, but would like to eliminate it all together. i'm avoiding mounting the draglink to the tie rod as thats what i was running before, and it sucked. let me know if you figure out what works for that set up (if you aren't changing it all together).

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