AngryTj's Rubicon Build

[AngryTJ]

Genright EXT tank install Part 2 of 2

Once you jack the tank up secure in the rear 4 bolts

Be careful not to pinch any lines while jacking the tank up. Once in place the skid has 2 ears on the sides that you have to mark a spot on the frame with a marker. Drop the tank again and drill this spot out on the frame all the way through.

inside view

Instructions say to drill a 3/8 hole through the entire frame and then only drill the inner hole to 5/8. The only reason one side has to be drilled larger is to fit the crush sleeve that prevents the frame from well crushing inward while tightening the bolts. I decided there was no reason why I couldn't drill the outside part of the frame to 5/8 since it would be easier then climbing under the jeep and drilling again.
Helpful tips for this step: have good drill bits ( I broke at least 4), have a 5/8 drill bit which I didnt so it took me forever to use a 1/2" bit and make it large enough and start with small pilot holes and slowly increase in size.

Reconnect fuel and electrical line to fuel pump assembly

Having someone to help avoids this :laugh:

FINISHED


Jacked up the rear axle to see how much room I had and it must be the large Riddler cover but I dont have a full 5 inches to go backward which is a bummer.


Mounted the driverside stretch corner

[AngryTJ]

purchased some hiline poison spyder front fenders w/ matching rear flares and my new longer tom woods DS as well

[AngryTJ]

Spent a few hours after work tonight cutting and prepping for welding. Finished the driveside

Notched the rear crossmember enough to fit the stock coil bucket


notched the coil bucket as well


Finished cutting and did a lot of grinding so this side is ready to weld up.

[AngryTJ]

Im having a guy on jeepforum make me a custom high line hood and paint my new fenders and corner armor..shots of the new fenders and custom hood:




Stretched steel corners with larger wheel well and welded flares



Love these fenders

[AngryTJ]

Thats his rig he's using to mount my fenders and make the hood on and in the meantime I got the rear frame welded up, coil buckets are set and the control arms are done. Couple slight issues however...first off I made the upper arms too long so Ill have to cut them and either use a slug to attach the arm together again or try cutting off the bung on one end and then shorter then arm and reweld the bung.

Second issue is with shocks. The first pic shows how the shocks currently mount which only allows them to be mounted completely vertical. The problem with that is my genright tank mounts directly in the location the shock would need to be. The plan is to cut the end off my lower shock mount, drill a cross hole through and mount them in the opposite direction so I can freely angle the body of the shock further back on the frame. Hope that makes sense.



Frame welded up



I did get to do some of my first welds which came out pretty well. The majority of the welding my buddy did while I was occupied with other stuff.

Final money shot. Springs arent in and the tire is just mocked in place not actually mounted.

[AngryTJ]

custom highline hood, fenders and corner armor has been painted

[Grandzjtsi]

Nice work! This thing is getting some serious $$$ and time thrown at it!

[AngryTJ]

Nice work! This thing is getting some serious $$$ and time thrown at it!

Thanks man! I actually traded my full doors to a guy for a highline hood and him painting all my parts.

Glad to see someone actually looks at this thread I figured noone did since its not a XJ

[AngryTJ]

measured and cut shock tower

welded in



Remounted the genright tank



She has a rake since I went with stiffer springs in the rear and the back is empty. But shes finally off jackstands!!



Painted the cage

Installed harness'

Ill eventually need to attach some velco straps to my seat covers to keep the harness' over my shoulders

Mounted Evap
Tightened all my control arms
Switched the front springs to have them on the correct side
Mounted front bump stops
Painted and installed windshield armor

Painted Chromo front shafts
Put the windshield back
adjusted the front trackbar
Took her for a short test drive!

Still to do:
Install front Superior Shafts
Extend Sliders
Install Rear LEDs
Mount winch
Re-install rear antirock
Replace various bolts. Couple transmission and engine skid bolts were missing

Got my new hood on last night and tonight Ill be installing the fenders and corner armor

[kfeal]

This thing is awesome. Great work dude.

[AngryTJ]

This thing is awesome. Great work dude.

Thanks man!

Had a late night last night but was able to finish everything I needed to in order to drop the jeep off at my cousins before leaving for vacation today. While I'm away he's going to try and fix my small oil leak, do an oil change, and if he has time install my synergy ball joints and swap in my front superior axle shafts.

The jeep drove home great, very smooth no vibes or anything so thus far Im very happy.

Parts came out AAmazing and I freakin love these PSC fenders.

Took a few pics.




Havent seen this site in over 4 months


I did have a slight issue initially with the gas tank not registering how much gas I had and instead showing completely empty with the light on but by the time I got home it kicked back to normal and the gas gauge works again.




Granted the pics arent the greatest but thats all I have right now. Off to Punta Cana!

[AngryTJ]

pic in the daylight


Inner fenders


First pics from the new Canon Rebel t3i! Excuse the lack of hood pins and few other items in these pics

[AngryTJ]

Got a few little things done last night:

Installed the hood pins and front signal lights


Rewired my CB to the battery and installed the PSC fender vents


Also was able to mess with the mounting point of my CB antenna, remount my windshield frame armor, and retighten all the jam nuts on my CAs.

[konastinky1234]

hey had a question for ya, not sure if i missed it or not...

1. Why short fronts and mid rear arms? I know you stretched so obviously longer rears came with that but are you shooting to make longer fronts? Or sticking with the hi clearance, short arm approach? Just curious.

2. What kind of shock towers are those ones you used there for the rear shocks? It looks like you ran them outside of the frame which is cool and I want to outboard soon.

3. Mabel on Sunday?

[Henchman]

They look like gen right towers