I need help from LJ owners ...

[efuentes]

After thinking long and hard I decided to ditch my CJ8 project and instead build a CJ Unlimited .

Down here in Mexico The LJ was not sold and I cant get hold of some of the measures, especially from the back part, could somebody measure the rear area for me?

Thanks for your help.

Saludos

 

[dukegnarley]

I'm most of the way done doing this to a yj. you will need to stretch the back of your jeep 14 and 7/8"

= 55 and 7/8"

 

[efuentes]

Thanks a lot, did you stretch 10 inches in front of the axle to keep the wheelbase at 104?

Its that a LJ softtop?, cool ...

Saludos

 

[NOMADIC_LJ]

DUKE you must post front pictures of the stretched YJ!!

FUENTES, are you building an LJ with a CJ front clip?

 

[efuentes]

FUENTES, are you building an LJ with a CJ front clip?

No, I am stretching a CJ-7.

 

[JeepN95YJ]

Duke,

Any info on how you made the Unlimited top fit the windshield? Do you have a build thread anywhere?

:safari-rig:

 

[dukegnarley]

I stretched the frame once at the top of the wheel arch, and i stretched the body once. This left me with a weird looking wheel well, so i bought some poison spyder LJ crusher corners to cover it up. The wheelbase should be right around 103.5" to make the body stretch i used the back end of another yj so there is only one weld seam.

I do have a build thread going on over at Jeepforum in the YJ tech section.
http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=629700 Some of the people over there are a bit overly enthuisiastic about it though (so you've been warned).

Pics of how i got the tj top to fit the yj windshield frame are on about page 13. It was actually really easy. the main thing is you can't use a stock yj rollcage because the bars that go forward to the windshield are too far apart for the door surrounds to attach to. If you had a cj cage you could probaby put the bars wherever you wanted to to make it work. I'm using a factory LJ cage for now.

 

[dukegnarley]

DUKE you must post front pictures of the stretched YJ!!

FUENTES, are you building an LJ with a CJ front clip?

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that's the best i can do right now. this side doesn't have the crusher corner on yet.

 

[jeepmedic46]

looks good, Looking foreward to seeing this build up.:archaeolo

 

[efuentes]

Duke,

Thanks alot for the link, you just made my life alot easier, I´ll post picts of my buildup.

Saludos

 

[NOMADIC_LJ]

Edmundo, sorry to Hijack, I just wanted to post this pic I found some time ago. Its more for Duke since he is building something close to this.

I'm not sure if its a stretched YJ or a CJ8 with a YJ clip. Very cool either way

 

[efuentes]

Looks like I have settled on the configuration, my CJ Unlimited will be running hi line fenders, 35s on 2" lift and a 5.3 Vortec.

Hopefully it will be something like this pictures .

I will modify a standard hard top with a pop-top of some sort, I am also still thinking about the right suspension, but leaning to front coils and leaves in the back like the military JK.

Do somebody have detail pictures of the German pop-tops?

Saludos

 

[dukegnarley]

Duke,

Thanks alot for the link, you just made my life alot easier, I´ll post picts of my buildup.

Saludos

I think we're all waiting on pictures.:elkgrin: