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Just a little bit tonight. Turning cardboard to metal always takes longer than I would like.... That one panel took the majority of the evening season to make and fit. It has at least 2 bends plus a step-up flange on the outside rear to match the blister in the floor. There was a lot of...

There isn't a perfect option, but I think the 9" trail gear flange is probably the closest option. You basically have to cut/face off the counter bore section where it goes into the t-case to get a decent amount of spline engagement. To make it ideal, it would help to make the counterbore on...

Nothing amazing this weekend, I got sucked into fixing the misses car, which didn't really need fixing. Did you know that having some sound deadening material de-laminate off the door of an Audi and get trapped behind the window sounds JUST like the regulator is broken.... I did get the dash...

For sure! Working on old metal with complex curves is an art form....

They did basically keep the Rubicon D44 front other than a tube and brake upgrade.....minus the locker. It would be interesting to actually have part numbers to compare the J8 SF D60 parts list to the Rubicon D44. I basically remember it being done for the tube upgrade also. From everything I...

While there have been vehicles like the E350 that can see pretty consistent loading and had a semi-float axle, even the E350 had a full float and even full float dual rear wheel option. It just depended on what GVW the vehicle had optioned I believed. Not all where semi-float. I would have to...

Just a short evening tonight... Crack repair in my dash corner. I drill out the root. Grind out the crack a little with a Dremel and small cut off wheel. I try to keep the gap as small as practical. If I can, I weld the back side 1st, then weld the front side.... After a little work with a...

Nothing super special last night....just arts and crafts.... I made this little tool out of some foam board, a sharpie, and some hot glue. It's purpose was to do this.... So I could make this.... I needed a mostly accurate template of the profile of the windshield frame in relation to...

Cell phone cables are cheap on Amazon, just keep one in the rig full time.

Ok....let's cut up some stuff! This is basically where we I left off mentally, but I decided I should probably use some sharpie to illustrate what I needed to do. I basically need to remove a 1.25" section of the 'flat' part of the dash in order to move the 'corner' at the end of the dash...

I'm going to disagree. 60's are neat and all, but they have their weaknesses. The 1st thing I don't like with the J8 offering is the C-clip design. This not only makes axle retention more of an issue, it also makes the carrier weaker because of the cross pin design. SOME semi-float wheel ends...

In an effort to show more about how and why I do things..... One of the things I wanted to do on this build, and most future builds, was to make the dash removable for easier wiring. Unfortunately, I don't think I can make that happen on this body. After further investigation of the top seam...

Stuff like that always sucks, I think you did a fine job finding a solution really. I'm sure it wasn't fun.... My vote for comms would be a decent ham radio with a repeater book. If its an emergency I would even think about jumping on some of the USFS/BLM repeaters. As far as a the JK...

So do all 2500 rams now, so I would suspect that the coils are not the problem with weight handling capacity. A spring is a spring. You always make a compromise in load carrying capacity vs ride quality. If the weight is constant it is much easier to build a spring to do that job. What I would...

Keeping the B-pillar is an interesting twist. I wonder if that would make a top harder or easier to make? The 2-door doesn't have one and seals to the back of the door. I think with the 4-door B-pillar would need some kind of extra sealing area or feature. While a flat floor is nice, it would...

Just an unpractical idea, but I wonder how hard it would be to make a 'blank' door that would retain the open/close/lock features, but ditch all the extra weight from the window, door panel, window mechanism, etc. The factory doors are not THAT light.

I will say that the killer of off road performance is weight, any idea what all this metal is going to be doing to the weight of the vehicle? I see a LOT of JKUs on the trail that are WAY over the GVW of the vehicle, perhaps by a ton or more. I do think that was one of the interesting things...

I tried to find the like button.... Well said.

Ok, my tube bender is done, now back to the regularly scheduled programming right after this shop cleaning break....

I don't know if I would call it a 'budget' tool really, you still have the die cost that you will with any bender. The dies are roughly $300 each. This kit seems to have been about the same cost as a normal 'manual' style bender package from any of the big manufacturers ( $350-400 ) but with...