Added a front receiver, winch cradle. Broke a front shaft on deer valley. Added chromoly shafts and 4.88's. More wheeling.
Added a jb4x4 high steer bracket. Worked very well.
Broke the ring and pinion in the 30, trying to pull a dead wagoneer sideways. Amazingly through all this, the rear 35 never broke? Time to upgrade. Had an 80's dodge rear dana 60, didn't even need to move the perches. Found a 77 hp44 ford front axle for $150, 4.10 gears, welded spiders, warn premium hubs. Ground off the radius arm mounts, welded on coil buckets, and lca mounts from ballistic. Used a leftover rough country wj lower arm in the passenger side upper radius arm location, like the IRO kit, only 9/16" bolts and no caster adjuster bracket thing. You can see the trackbar mount I built and sort if make out the upper. Steering is 1.5" 1/4" wall Dom and 7/8" heims from rough stuff. Yes the passenger side was double stacked single shear on a 3/4" grade 8.
Off to the con for Memorial Day last year.
And it snowed
242 would not stay in 4lo, leading to this.
Broke the rear driveshaft just before soup bowl. Lets just say the con in front wheel drive sucked. Replaced the 242 with a 231. Head to the Dusy Labor Day weekend.
More carnage. Ripped steering box from frame, Jerry rigged it back together, broke a front shaft, broke the sector shaft off the steering box. Came back the next weekend with parts, welder, generator, etc...
Lots of plating and welding trail side, swapped in the new Yukon shafts in the front, and the spare steering box I brought up had different fittings for the power steering lines. 8 miles of the Dusy without power steering, leading to breaking the intermediate shaft twice. Got it to the trailhead, and came back the next weekend with a trailer.