whitneyj
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Mayville, WI
Well, I've been slowly putting everything together and I think I'm finally ready to post it up.
First some history:
I started with the common rusty's cold air intake and throttle body. After coming back from Iraq and buying a house with a GARAGE, I started getting into it more. I bored the TB and the spacer out to about 61mm, and swapped a high flow cat in with a turndown afterward. I ended up putting a Thrush turbo muffler on it for inspection reasons and it seemed to pull better so I left it, until the exhaust had to be cut off after the collector, more on that later.I Herculined the interior and swapped in a Fan Taurus fan, http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=953768. I ran some 31's on the stock suspension for a while and threw a 3" lift to see what the difference would be and that's when I decided it was time for more.
Present day:
I swapped a 9" in the rear with a 92 dakota brake line. The brake line ended up being 22" long which was needed becuase the block on the axle tube was on the opposite side the d35 was. I cut the shock mounts off the d35 and cut and ground them to fit the shock up on the axle tube.
It was a run of the mill easy swap. While I had the axle out I also added a couple leaves from another XJ pack to get around 4"-4.5" of lift.
I ended up have to re-bearing my hpd44 for the front, while I was waiting on parts for that I welded 3x3x3/16 angle from the front leaf spring hanger to my front bumper mounts.
After I got the front axle back together I started getting my parts for the radius arm setup I was building, http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=964377. I ran into a problem when I was mocking up the skid under the tcase. I knew that I'd have to notch the skid under the tcase to clear where the front output ended up being, but after I got everything together I decided I didn't wamt to weld up a bunch of little pieces to make a little "cup" for the tcase. I searched a little and found Jeff98XJ's thread on how he clocked his tcase and found Jeepfreak's thread where he did things a little different, that's a big thanks to BS Fabrication for the AL dowels and to the great write up! http://www.bsfab.net/?p=23. I don't have any pictures of when I did it, the wife had the camera at work. But I have one or two of the aftermath.
sorry it's so close, but it ended up being flush with the bottom of the rails. It wasn't hard at all, but I must have checked everything 10 times before I drilled the new holes. I clocked it the same amount that Jeepfreak21 did. I didn't need the tcase to go up that much higher necessarily, but I wanted as much clearance from the front DS to the header as possible. The DS would've made steel wool of the collector the way it was mocked up. Looks good now.
Today's project will be filling in the skid where I notched it for the tcase, welding the link mount that will go over the part I'm filling, and welding a couple more pieces of steel to the front and rear of the skid to keep the flexyness of it to a min.
First some history:
I started with the common rusty's cold air intake and throttle body. After coming back from Iraq and buying a house with a GARAGE, I started getting into it more. I bored the TB and the spacer out to about 61mm, and swapped a high flow cat in with a turndown afterward. I ended up putting a Thrush turbo muffler on it for inspection reasons and it seemed to pull better so I left it, until the exhaust had to be cut off after the collector, more on that later.I Herculined the interior and swapped in a Fan Taurus fan, http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=953768. I ran some 31's on the stock suspension for a while and threw a 3" lift to see what the difference would be and that's when I decided it was time for more.
Present day:
I swapped a 9" in the rear with a 92 dakota brake line. The brake line ended up being 22" long which was needed becuase the block on the axle tube was on the opposite side the d35 was. I cut the shock mounts off the d35 and cut and ground them to fit the shock up on the axle tube.
It was a run of the mill easy swap. While I had the axle out I also added a couple leaves from another XJ pack to get around 4"-4.5" of lift.
I ended up have to re-bearing my hpd44 for the front, while I was waiting on parts for that I welded 3x3x3/16 angle from the front leaf spring hanger to my front bumper mounts.
After I got the front axle back together I started getting my parts for the radius arm setup I was building, http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=964377. I ran into a problem when I was mocking up the skid under the tcase. I knew that I'd have to notch the skid under the tcase to clear where the front output ended up being, but after I got everything together I decided I didn't wamt to weld up a bunch of little pieces to make a little "cup" for the tcase. I searched a little and found Jeff98XJ's thread on how he clocked his tcase and found Jeepfreak's thread where he did things a little different, that's a big thanks to BS Fabrication for the AL dowels and to the great write up! http://www.bsfab.net/?p=23. I don't have any pictures of when I did it, the wife had the camera at work. But I have one or two of the aftermath.
sorry it's so close, but it ended up being flush with the bottom of the rails. It wasn't hard at all, but I must have checked everything 10 times before I drilled the new holes. I clocked it the same amount that Jeepfreak21 did. I didn't need the tcase to go up that much higher necessarily, but I wanted as much clearance from the front DS to the header as possible. The DS would've made steel wool of the collector the way it was mocked up. Looks good now.
Today's project will be filling in the skid where I notched it for the tcase, welding the link mount that will go over the part I'm filling, and welding a couple more pieces of steel to the front and rear of the skid to keep the flexyness of it to a min.
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