Project Poorly Planned

[jeep00xj]

when you made your rear upper shock mounts, did they hold well?

[Hydra]

they're holding up fine currently, they don't move at all and they are held in by two 3/8 bolts so I don't think they'll be going anywheres

[Hydra]

did you keep the orange?

Ohyeah, well it matchs the color of my guard, and I was too lazy to prep it for new paint, psshhh I'm not care

[Hydra]

well, havent done too much lately.

i cut and folded my rusting rear quarters and tore out the carpet in the back, nd pulled up the one in the front to check the rust issue

[Hydra]

Not much progress lately, 12 school hrs+ ~ 40 work hrs a week has kept me occupied, that and i am in need of a welder as my MIG lit on fire. My Winter check list

- Weld in stiffeners and simultaneously install CallahanAutoParts long arms
- Retrieve d44 from the gearing and plop that in with some ruffstuff hardware
- gear front and start my WJ conversion, which still needs balljoints, hubs, rotors, calipers, pads, trackbat and other misc, but shouldn't be too hard
- maybe weld in my rockers..... if i can find steel that isnt a billiondy dollars

that is all

[Hydra]

Progress has been made, despite my lack of inspiration.

Well on easter i did this



replaced the hatch now my jeep is a white girl with a black ass



Then after cracking and repairing the tinfoil UCA mount of the pass side i decided it was time to man up and take the jep off the road to do the stiffeners adn long arms ive had sitting around for the better part of a year

heres the stiffeners and crossmemberskid bolted together


the nutserts being tacked on, dave had 7 holes to use but with the curve in my TnT stiffeners it would have been a crapshoot to try and use the last one


orange arms cuz they taste better


the jeep is now roadworthy again. I have a ballistic truss and RE UCA mount to replace my broke ass one waiting to go in, as well as some used prothanes and a TnT trackbar. hopefully after that my front end wont be as shitty and ill be able to spend the dough on my 44 bracketry and front gears

[Trailer Ray]

Did you build those arms? I might want some measurements on those, then again you're twice as high as I am lol. At least a materials list would be cool.

[Hydra]

Haha, now I bought the arms from CSaddict almost a year ago, he built them.

In hindsight I should just bought a new set because trying to adapt he set he built around his jeep was imperfect to say the least

[Hydra]

Well the other day this happened



so i drank some of these



and ate some of these



and did when i woke in the morning i had done this with hardly any recollection





then i went about correcting said situation, and this parallels my dana 30 thread quite a bit
new uca mount from RE, pretty beefy and there bushing are way easier to service than stock



mocking the ballistic truss up





and everything welded including the uca mount





sorry about the quality, its all done with my shitty iphone, and i dont own a camera... or a computer so...

anyways i also started cutting reinforcement shit for the lca mounts which im gonna box and gusset, as well as i ve started trying to mock up some idears for my inner c gussets

also welded the tubes just for fun

[Lawn Guyland]

i love reading the comments you post in between pics

[Hydra]

Theyre really the only thing worth reading, otherwise its like an art exhibit in LowDef

[Pedro]

so i drank some of these



and ate some of these

Wow, two good things I need to try.