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Just gathering all my parts for the swap and want to clean up the calipers and the knuckles. But what parts do I have to protect? The knuckles look like I can just go to town on. But for the calipers can I just take them apart and start spraying? Also, does the media used matter? I have...

So I am a bit worried about pulling with my rear JCR bumper. I have been thinking and the way it is, I am putting all the force on the factory 8 bolts only. Green is the force from a strap, blue is bolts, red is steel. This is how the bumper attaches to the nut strip. I made my own so uses...

Around here it seems like everyone is getting busted for not having mud flaps lately. So I want to save myself the 120 dollar ticket. I have been searching, and looks like a bar coming out of the hitch with flaps bolted to it is the easiest for sure, but looks ghetto, and I am trying to keep...

Just gathering all the parts needed to do the WJ knuckle swap here, and looking at the JKS spacer, do I need to weld it to the knuckle? Doesn't seem like it can go anywhere once bolted in. I am going to put a couple of tack welds on it, but I do not have a set up to put some real welds into it...

I've been reading a lot of threads to pick how to build my rock rails, and will be making it with 2x6 steel. In my searches I came across someone that made the rails into a compressed air tank. I can't seem to find that build anymore, but I was more wondering if it is worth doing. Seems like a...

I'm getting a vibration under acceleration around 2000 rpm, regardless of speed. Could it be from the driveline angle? It would be a bit steep if the diff was parallel to the transfer case. Oh, and I can't get that damn socket off the leaf bolt.

So I had a u bolt elimination and shock relocation welded up for me. But I think the shock relocation is installed wrong? Should be on the top half of the axle right? I used one of those small gravity feed sand blasters to clean up the metal and welds and just shot a quick coat of primer...

I need a new tie rod as the factory one just isn't cutting it anymore. And that has me looking at steering options. I like over the knuckle as it gets everything up and out of the way a little and seems like it brings geometry back to stockish. I have 5.5" of lift or so. I'm looking at the...

Since I wheel mostly mud/muskeg and woods I was thinking if the bottom of my XJ was smooth it would kind of slide over some things instead of getting hung up. But at the same time, the smooth plate could just be a big old spoon scooping up the mud/muskeg making it harder to get unstuck. Is...

I installed the boostwerks orbital eye shackles and testing out my articulation I noticed that the one leaf can invert, only slightly, but it is definitely past being flat, not by a lot, but by a little. The tire is stuffed into the wheel well about as far as it will go. The drivers side could...

So as per everyone's recommendations about my rear suspension (Orbital eyes and relocation bracket) being bang on what I was looking for. I am not looking to get my steering under control. I have 5.5" of lift or so. And I have a drop pitman, adjustable heavy duty track bar. And a new (8,000...

I am just in the middle of installing my new boostwerks shackles with the ballistic joints. But how tight to I put the insert with the spanner wrench? As tight as it will go?

Right now I have I think 3 degree shims, they seem to be perfect for my ~4.5" of lift right now. But I will be taking my sliders out and doing the boostwerks shackle, and shackle relocation boxes. I'm thinking this will give me 1-1.5" of lift? But in any case I feel like I am at the high end of...

I feel like my jeep is falling apart on me. I have an intermittent overheating issue, seems random when it wants to jump to the red line, and it'll move there from one tick above half in a few seconds and then it'll move back down just as fast. If I stop and open the hood when it's at Red line...

So I bought the DIY JRC rear bumper and the rear lower armour. And aside from a couple little fitment issues it came out pretty good. If anyone else is buying the DIY I would recommend cutting the part the mounts to the stock bumper holes instead of using the bend tabs, this is where I had...

I read lots about how 35" tires will break stock axles, and sometimes other parts of the drivetrain. But why? Is it because of the extra weight of the tire? I was thinking extra leverage, but a 31" super swamper is going to be able to put out more leverage than a 35" MTZ just because the...

After adding a winch and and starting my new headlight wiring plus a couple of accessories I am realizing that feeding right off the battery with inline fusing sucks a lot. Is there some kind of a nice way to make a distribution block so I can have one nice heavy wire from the battery to the...

So looking through the several options available for the XJ front suspension. I keep seeing that the Y link and trailing arm (aren't those two the same?) suffer from unloading issues when climbing. So then 4 link would prevent unloading? But 4 link is quite a bit more expensive and I don't...

So I am looking to get 4.5-5" of lift and also lots of articulation, or flex. And I am SO lost at where to go. I'm new here, and have searched, and while I have read lots I feel more lost now than ever. Right now I am running the old man EMU lift, 2.5" coils up front. In the rear I am...