Recent content by MichaelMaxim

Turn 30 and that all goes away. Then the only thought of cheating is which car to drive? The DD or the XJ today?

I thought that would get the pot stirred up a bit!

Hey everyone, A friend of ours may have a chance to drive the MFS Buggy in the 2010 King Of the Hammers race in February. Will is a fellow XJ owner and I think we should all go over to Pirate4x4 and vote for HeavyMetalXJ to be the driver. He's in second place now and needs a little more than...

Well today a little more progress was made on the Jeep... The transfer case input gear was machined down to spec and the transfer case put back together. Now I'll have the Tera 4:1 LOW kit in, the Tera 2LOW kit too and a snazzy Novak shifter that will match the Ox locker shifters. I should...

Here's how I decided to mount my Ox locker shifters in the center console. I made a cardboard template and then cut it out with some thin stock and the plasma cutter. I primed it and got it ready for paint. Mounted them in the cab and labeled front and rear in case I have um...

TD Offroad from TN custom made stinger bumper... winch yet to be installed.

When I first got my bumper I rushed to get it on for a trip without doing it right. Here's how I hacked it up the first time around to try and get ready in time... shame on me! So Billy at Xtreme offroad decided to make it much more accepting for a winch and even has a place to weld my tube...

She did pretty well on the trail after the first round of mods...

Right now I'm working on getting a new e-brake setup on the XJ. Since I swapped in the Waggy 44 in the rear, I lost my e-brake setup. It will be similar to a pinion brake like you see on the larger Rockwell axles but done at the output shaft of the transfer case on the yoke. I'll have...

I bought a 1997 XJ with 190xxx miles on it two summers with the intentions of building a serious trail rig. I wanted something I could pay cash for and then build as I go. I used to have a 2001 TJ that we owed a lot on and I dumped 8k into it with the lift, suspension, winch, bumpers, sliders...

I wish someone would make front fenders like the rear quarter guards to match... rolled to the body line and heavy duty!

AJ hit me up. I want a set of these.

And who's the hottie with the nice rack? Sorry was just looking at the rest of your build pics and her boobs seemed to distact me a bit in your photo gallery! lol

What was the reason for going leaf springs in the front and not just doing a long arm setup? Also - you might want to beef up the shackle mounts that are welded to the unibody... IMO - you may have had a stronger mount by taking a piece of retangle 1/4" thick box tubing, cutting the top off and...

Call Zach at 505 Performance. He just set me up with all new steering for my XJ for $325. 1.25 DOM .360 wall tube with hiem joints. I got a tie rod for my Waggy D44, a new drag link and trac bar. 505-333-2600 or www.505performance.com