AngryTj's Rubicon Build

[AngryTJ]

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?

Sorry I completely missed this.

Short arms in the front work for now until I'm brave enough to build a 3 link with bridge over the diff.

The towers are actually Dave's customs unlimited. Cheapest towers around other then using a ford shock tower.

Let me know next time your going to Mabel and ill come for sure

[konastinky1234]

They look like gen right towers

sounds expensive. back to fabricating my own i guess

[Henchman]

They look like gen right towers

[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?

[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.

[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]

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!

[kfeal]

This thing is awesome. Great work dude.

[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

[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

[Grandzjtsi]

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

[AngryTJ]

custom highline hood, fenders and corner armor has been painted

[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]

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]

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.