Post Pic's of your Jeep

[97tjguzzy]

I built up my jeep as a crawler, but now with two kids my focus is making it more reliable and more street friendly (and actually getting out of the garage for the 1st time in 2 years). I'm not giving up the 35's and lockers... but it needs some serious attention to make it the safe family wheeler/camping rig that it needs to be at this stage in my life...

Rubicon:

Rubicon:

Fordyce Creek Trail:

Fordyce Creek Trail

I SPY front leaf springs, cool rig, nice work with the waggy axles and the front leaf swap!!!

 

[cobound]

Was going to wait until it was done, but all these updates has me wanting to show it off a bit!

This is what I started w/: '84 Scrambler, 350 auto, D44/D60, 4.56 w/ ARBs -

Swapped tops, installed rear seat and a set of Pitbull Rockers w/ beadlocks and hit Moab:

Did some local wheelin and exploring

Then...

I smashed in the rear driver corner on Metal Masher and figured I'd add some beef to it before I hit it again, thus the progression its had over the past few months: TNT Customs quarters, flat fenders and rockers. It had some hidden rust and crappy prep work that I discovered when digging into the rebuild, decided to replace the windshield frame too. AND REPAINT to my desired color :victory:

Here she sits now, waiting on my shackles to be welded up, front drive shaft and a few other misc. junk that is needed before it hits the trail. Needless to say, this is the first year in a dozen I've missed the great call of the wild wild west but I'll get by, and it'll be all worth it in the end -

Should be out of the shop in a week or two...then some trail pic updates will come.

B

 

[OverlandZJ]

B, Scrambler is looking outstanding! Bet your glad you opted away from white again?


Introducing OverlandZJ... my next project.

 

[bldeagle10]

that makes me want a scrambler so bad. its beautiful. they are gettin pricey though!

 

[KMET]

washed it before work :coffeedrink:

 

[DonBeasley]

Mine out prairie dog "harvesting"

 

[Nikson]

2006 lj rubicon

work in progress...

 

[jaxs1984]

This was last year

 

[htek]

I SPY front leaf springs, cool rig, nice work with the waggy axles and the front leaf swap!!!

Bingo. People give me funny looks when they see leafs on the front... Actually people look at me like I am some kinda fool. But the reality is that I spent a bunch of money on Axles - Completely rebuilt D44's front and rear with Disk brakes all the way around, hy-steer, 5.13's, ARB's in both... I was financially pretty tapped out after tires, wheels, axles, steering and rear suspension. I didn't really have the money, or more importantly the skill and time to do custom link suspension in the front.

And really, 90% of solid axle Toyota's have front leafs and they have been wheeling the hardest trails for years... Not to say that I wouldn't go back to a link suspension given the time and money, but I have no regrets about the direction I took. At the end of the day, I can wheel the hardest trails in Northern California - so what more do I need?

And to keep this thread back on topic, heres how this poor jeep started out life - as a 1990 Limited:

Kinda funny how things come full circle... After abusing it, now I am trying to get it closer to it's original state...

 

[Lawrence]

My 2004 TJ

 

[Lawrence]

And my 2005 LJ

 

[ccarm]

And my 2005 LJ

Awesome Flex! Any specs on the coilover/suspension you have under that one?

 

[zerogspacecow]

This pix seems like a Treadlightly issue...

From the background Id say your in a area your supposed to be in

I don't think so... It's a lot where a construction project was supposed to be done years ago, but was canceled. I'm not exactly sure of the legality, but I see people there all the time, and there are no signs posted saying not to be.

Maybe my understanding of "tread lightly" isn't correct, but I thought of it as not hurting nature unnecessarily? Whatever nature was once here was already mowed down by the construction crews...

 

[cdnabn49]

work in progress...

***SNIP***

Nice rig!!! will be a great rig!

 

[Lawrence]

Awesome Flex! Any specs on the coilover/suspension you have under that one?

Thanks... Teraflex Pro LCG suspension system, 16" Sway Away remote reservoir coilovers (250/350) in the front, 4" coils+shocks in the rear, wheelbase stretched to ~110", 40" MTRs. It is a great setup but I am thinking of switching to 14" coilovers and 37" MTRs.