Flatland Rig

[biggoofy]

Do I spy a d35?

[mrbudlightbeer]

Sweet LawnBoy in the background!

On a serious note, the fab work looks good!

[Brad S]

Do I spy a d35?

Maybe...

I take it very easy on the skinny pedal. Ive planned on an 8.8 for a while, just havent made it happen yet.

[13bullets]

Small update:

I'd drill a couple small holes, 1/4" or so, in the bottom of that for weep holes. Maybe on the part that faces the gas tank, so you don't see them from the rear. It's going to be hard to keep water out.

[Brad S]

I actually did that several months ago. They work pretty well.

[1ABrian]

nice fab work man. be sure to post your 8.8 swap too

[lateralus3]

so i assume that the measurements i gave you worked out on the skid plate?

[Brad S]

Yep, worked good thanks

[Brad S]

Just got back from CO and some mild wheeling. We went out for a wedding and tried to make it into a vacation.

Heading over Monarch pass the old bucket of bolts decided to overheat. Not enough air flow with my solid radiator skid, so I unbolted it.


Didn't get a lot of pics, but here's a few:





And no, we didn't pass, just thought it was funny.



American Flag Mountain (Taylor Park Reservoir)

[Jeep Whore]

American Flag Mountain (Taylor Park Reservoir)

the only thing that would be even better to this picture is if the flag was blowing and fully extended or if there was a few more Jeeps in the picture aswell.

looks like a fun trip though!

[Brad S]

Next stage begins...

[Brad S]

Started tearing everything off. Cracked open the cover - everything appears to be in decent order.

[Brad S]

Since this is still a semi-daily driver, I'm attempting to keep ABS for the street:

[dp96zj]

^ that looks familiar. I tried grinding every other tooth/wiring it up correctly, but I must've screwed something up because the ABS stayed on. Hopefully you have better luck than I did!

[lateralus3]

I said screw the abs. I was going to try to do what you are doing but the guy that did my gears took the abs ring off. Are you re gearing it?

[Brad S]

I said screw the abs. I was going to try to do what you are doing but the guy that did my gears took the abs ring off. Are you re gearing it?

Not regearing right now. Staying on 32s for a little while, so I figure if I get the chance to go to 35s I will regear then.

^ that looks familiar. I tried grinding every other tooth/wiring it up correctly, but I must've screwed something up because the ABS stayed on. Hopefully you have better luck than I did!

Yeah, hopefully it comes out ok...

[Brad S]

Had some down time waiting on parts to arrive, so...




All 1/4" - It will depend on how much free time I have if I go ahead and finish it out or just end up buying a premade cover.

[Brad S]

On another note, I'm swapping in a waggy steering box:





prepped 4th hole:



More to come tomorrow hopefully!

[lateralus3]

looks good, what parts are you waiting to come in?

[Brad S]

Welded (through some buggers at metal due to poor accessibility) a 1/8" plate on to add strength:



Gear box in, new lines installed:





I was waiting on a bracket kit for my 8.8. This arrived the other day so now I just need to find some time to burn it all together.

[Brad S]

Ordered the JCROffroad OTK steering kit and got to work.

Drilled and reamed knuckles as well as pitman arm, cut off old garbage and rebuilt the trackbar axle-side mount.



Now for the question - do you check draglink and trackbar angles based on mounting point or the actual bar? If mounting point, this looks decent - true?

[K2]

Mounting point. Looks good.

EDIT: I think for the draglink at the steering box end you go to the bar, because the pitman arm and the joint are bolted together the swing point is in the bar so to speak. Does that make sense? So I think those angles will be a bit to far off.

[dyn0mitemat]

Yea you need to be at the center of the TRE's (the pivit point) to determine that, you cannot go by what the actual bars are because you can make them a big S or Z shape (in theory) and it'd still swing the axle down in the same arc as a straight bar if it were bolted to the same points.

I had a factory trackbar setup (factory mounts I should say) on my turd, and did 1ton OTK and ended up having bump steer. Gotta move the axle end track bar mount up like 1.5-2"

[Brad S]

Ok, that's what I was wondering. I guess I will have to move the axle-side trackbar mount above the axle...
I'll have to do some thinking about how to modify the trackbar itself because the mount will actually need to come inboard of the coil spring. It is a JKS trackbar and I already shortened it a bit, so I probably can't cut anymore axle side or there won't be threads inside the trackbar tube...

[Brad S]

I built an OTA trackbar bracket last night.







Draglink / Trackbar angles look much better now, true?



One thing I didn't really consider; however, was how close the trackbar would be to the passenger side UCA mount... I think if I just trim the mount a bit it should be fine, but I will probably have to take about 1/4" off of it.