Steve F
Adventurer
So I've had my XJ for 8 years now and living in Australia it seems to have evolved into not only a weekend warrior but an expedition vehicle. I've done plenty of long trips and lots of dirt roads etc in it but Winter this year I plan to take it to Cape York, the most Northern tip of Australia. To make the trip comfortable and to keep us off the ground at night (crocs, snakes, spiders etc) I decided to build a rack for a rooftop tent.
Anyway, first some specs. It's running around 5" of lift with drop brackets on the control arms and swaybar disconnects, 35" Maxxis Bighorns and Bushwacker flat flares. It also had a D44 in the rear with 4.56 ratios and a Detroit soft locker with OME LT shocks all round. There's a 120lt fuel tank replacing the stock tank, a homemade rear bar and tyre carrier, homemade front bar with 8500lb winch. A dual battery system is under the hood and a storage system in the rear with a 50lt Waeco fridge and additional 12v power points. There's homemade sliders, LED rock lights, Narva spotlights, an in car PC with GPS, topo maps of the whole country and street mapping as well as tons of music for the sealed road sections. Heaps more that doesn't spring to mind as well and all the usual stuff like SYE etc.
So the pics.
And the rack I'm building, low profile is the plan so it's pretty much done other than mounting the center gutter mounts and additional tabs for lights etc then paint.
Cheers
Steve
Anyway, first some specs. It's running around 5" of lift with drop brackets on the control arms and swaybar disconnects, 35" Maxxis Bighorns and Bushwacker flat flares. It also had a D44 in the rear with 4.56 ratios and a Detroit soft locker with OME LT shocks all round. There's a 120lt fuel tank replacing the stock tank, a homemade rear bar and tyre carrier, homemade front bar with 8500lb winch. A dual battery system is under the hood and a storage system in the rear with a 50lt Waeco fridge and additional 12v power points. There's homemade sliders, LED rock lights, Narva spotlights, an in car PC with GPS, topo maps of the whole country and street mapping as well as tons of music for the sealed road sections. Heaps more that doesn't spring to mind as well and all the usual stuff like SYE etc.
So the pics.
And the rack I'm building, low profile is the plan so it's pretty much done other than mounting the center gutter mounts and additional tabs for lights etc then paint.
Cheers
Steve
