The Dirty Bucket

**MUDDTRACKS** · 04-30-2006, 11:04 PM

This is my 98 ZJ 4.0 Leredo SE

This is what is looked like when i started In may of 2004.

And now it looks like this.

4.0 with 142,000 Miles
231 transfercase
88 AW-4 tranns
109" wheel base

List of things added

RockKrawler 7"Long arm Lift
37" GoodYear MT/R's with 15x10 Alum. rim's
Kor steering brace
79 Ford 44/9" axle's with 4.88's gears Alloy USA alxes and Lockright's
Disc brakes for the 9"
Superwinch 9.0 EPI with 125' synthetic rope and comp hook
PSC front stinger
AWshifter With Joystick for the aw-4
Cold air intake with throttle body spacer
700 watt power inverter
Cobra cb with 4' fire stick
Eor roll cage
Traffic Blaster horn
Yellow top Ultima
2x4 and 2" Led rear lights
8x12x1 trans cooler
A/C comp turned into oba

Some of the thing's I have made or changed with bfh or sawzall

Front and rear bumper's
tube around fenders
rock rail's
choped rear made it a 2 door
cut wheel well's
trianglated rear shocks
swaped out the stock 42re for a aw-4
swaped out the 242 for a 231
track bar brace
rear corner gaurds for the led tail lights
flipped tierod
drag link

Other things on the to-do list

swap out the stock intake manifold for a 2001 manifold (already have just need to put in)
Boore the throttle body to 62mm
Dove tale the rear

I do all the work on my rig.

By the way this site rocks

**rockhardmj** · 05-01-2006, 07:21 PM

How about more pics of your 'bed'?

**rrock802** · 05-01-2006, 10:45 PM

did you replace the grill with one from another jeep
i think it was 95 that the grills went from 8 slots to 7 slots
just wondering, or it could be a noob question

**MUDDTRACKS** · 05-01-2006, 11:46 PM

yeah i replace the crome grill with the black one

It looked a little funny to me being it was the only thing crome on the rig

I dont have any pics of the bed right now but i plan on dove tailing the rear so it is just a temp fix

**Patrickr** · 05-02-2006, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by MUDDTRACKS

yeah i replace the crome grill with the black one

It looked a little funny to me being it was the only thing crome on the rig

I dont have any pics of the bed right now but i plan on dove tailing the rear so it is just a temp fix

I couldn't stand my chrome grill either so I just sanded and painted it black.
I like how you cut it up so much, but have a bug deflector on the front.

**KansasCrawlin** · 05-03-2006, 12:05 AM

Don't meen to bother ya, but do you have some pics of the front end fab work, trying to make my 79 hp44 front work with my clayton's kit. Last ditch effort before using the fawking ford radius arms which dosen't justify me spending the cheese on the claytons. Just wanted to see hw you made that shit work. Kick ass ZJ, keep the good work up.

**MUDDTRACKS** · 05-03-2006, 02:26 PM

The bug deflector was on it when i baught it so i figured it would get riped off but it is still holding strong.

As for the front axle I welded my mounts to the cast wedge's then welded the top control arm mount to the diff.

I would buy the proper brackets if I was you.

I have gotten pretty good with welding to cast with a mig (

)

**MUDDTRACKS** · 08-16-2006, 09:48 AM

Well the old lady is skeered i just bought a pack of sawzall blades.

Not to much happening latley.

Went to tellico a little while back and broke a bunch of shit.

here's the list

4 44 front shafts

9" carrier and driver side axle shaft

steering gear box shaft the one connected to the pitman arm.
and some other little shit.

This is kind of how it went in tellico. Started the day off by going up to gaurd rail broke a 44 front shaft at the top but was still able to drive up.
then we headed up to helicopter pad was able to make it up the ledge with three wheel drive. then right at the top i got a good bounce and bam there goes a 9" shaft. well no one had a shaft and the carrier was messed up good so we had to leave it over night. That was fun seeing as we stripped the tires winch and tools from it and dropped it on the ground. The following day we got a carrier and shfts but the shaft was to long. so i cut the splines off and shaved the end of the shaft so it would fit in the carrier so we could bring it down.
Now i have one wheel drive in the front and the u joint is taking a shit.
we turned it around and started down the mountian everything was going good till i got past gaurd rail and hit two big rocks dead on and rear came off the ground and bamm the goes the steering gear box shaft.

Well at this point i want to set the bitch on fire and call it a day.
My friend Shane saw in a magazine where they used snatch blocks and a winch to make a steering setup.

I't took a while but we were able to use 4 snatch blocks and 20' of syn winch rope. I am tryong to get pictures from a friend to show you all.

They way it worked was spool in to go left and spool out to go right.
It was a slow ride back to camp but it made it.

When i got home i made it road worthy and have not done anything else.

plans are now to get cromo shafts.

Plus cut off the rest of the bed and re do the whole front to shorten that up and drop more weight.

**Firestarter** · 08-16-2006, 10:04 AM

Sweet rig

You ever near Daytona at all? I go to college there (am actually there now, but am leaving in a few days...will be back again on the 26th), and i fly to Gainesville airport by the drag strip from time to time. Would be cool to check your rig out sometime.

**MUDDTRACKS** · 08-16-2006, 10:24 AM

Nope dont make it down that way to often.

But there is Jeeptoberfest coming up in ocala. I will be there.

If your ever in Gainesville on a thursday night we all meet up on archer road near 75 right next to sonny's bbq at 9:00

**KansasCrawlin** · 08-16-2006, 10:38 PM

dude, do you think it's possible to post some pics of your front lower control arm mounts? i'd like to see them to get some ideas. i'm still pondering about my 79 ford 44. thanks.

**MUDDTRACKS** · 09-24-2006, 01:30 PM

Here are a few pics nothing special

http://s104.photobucket.com/albums/m183/MICHEAL764/

Man summer sucks in the south. It's to fucking hot to get anything done.

I redid the way my rear shocks mount but I need new shocks with more travel. So i will put that on the list of shit to buy. It's never ending.

Also been Itching to cut up the rear but i dd my rig so i have to wait to get some time off. Also thinking on moving the gas tank up and putting it where the rear seats use to be.

**MUDDTRACKS** · 10-31-2006, 07:59 PM

Well It's finaly coolng off in florida Thank god.

I've been working on the front.

Love the sawzall

Righ now i am clearing all all the shit out of the way that i dont need.

So i can push the winch back next to the radiator and move the sting back for a better aproach angel. the front was sticking out way to far.

I should be able to move the whole setup back about 8-10" and make a nice tight fit.

I could not beleave how much mud was in the rad when i cut the front cross member off no wonder the thing is running warmer

**NAFTEL** · 11-01-2006, 11:04 AM

yeah you should think about relocating that rad to someplace in the bed like mud racers do.

**Jim311** · 11-01-2006, 04:50 PM

That would be sweet. Run a Taurus electric fan and mount it all in the back.

Mike I got some prices on those 44 shafts with Super Joints. I priced out a Waggy 44 set and it came to 515 shipped. Thought I'd let you know since I know you were looking for a set for your 44. I'm sure the shafts for yours would be around the same price as the Waggy 44s.

**MUDDTRACKS** · 11-01-2006, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Jim311

That would be sweet. Run a Taurus electric fan and mount it all in the back.

Mike I got some prices on those 44 shafts with Super Joints. I priced out a Waggy 44 set and it came to 515 shipped. Thought I'd let you know since I know you were looking for a set for your 44. I'm sure the shafts for yours would be around the same price as the Waggy 44s.

I think for now i will leave the rad where it is but that is a good idea.

as for the shafts that is a good price will have to talk to you latter about that.

**MUDDTRACKS** · 11-20-2006, 12:34 AM

Well I have been working on the bucket some more.

Got my ac turned into oba. It only cost about 70 bucks to do. i used the rear bumper for the tank and ran the line thru the frame rail.

I put the 750 watt power inverter back under the hood

and did some more work on the front bumper

weather has been great here wich helps alot when working outside

o and a posser shot for the bitches lol

More pics to come

**ATL ZJ** · 11-20-2006, 01:21 AM

I'm loving the front bumper and approach angle. Nice to have everything out of the way of the front tires huh? Any chance we'll get to see it at the next GSSE?

**MUDDTRACKS** · 11-20-2006, 01:54 AM

Im going to try and make it to gsse next year. I wanted to go this year but went to tellico in june and had a crappy time and broke allot of shit and lost the ambition to fix it for a while.

Im still working on the front bumper but it is nice having the clearence.

**MUDDTRACKS** · 03-20-2007, 09:24 PM

A few pics of shit that has been done

the tabs i made to fit the 88 cherokee frond calipers and bracket they mount to

then it was bolt up for the most part

I used suzuki sidekick four door rotars they are a nice tight fit for the 9" 5 on 5.5 bolt circle and no changes needed to be made to the axle or the rotar

in the last pic the caliper is just sitting on the rotar but it was a tight fit to make work. There is only about the width of cardboard between the rotar and caliper and bout a .25" between rim and caliper.

after i got that all to work i added alloy usa axle shafts all the way around.

now that all that is out of the way i plan to move the gas tank and take about 2.5' off the rear.

sawzall has been calling me

**MUDDTRACKS** · 03-20-2007, 09:30 PM

o and before any one ask about the spring perch on the axle that shit is coming off. I got a set from btf works. Just have to get off my lazy ass and do it.

Also found out Mile marker hubs dont hold up to 37" tires and alloy shafts

**CurtP** · 03-20-2007, 10:06 PM

Interesting. Why did you use a bolt-centric non-vented rotor for this setup? I can't see that being a good idea with 37" tires or with the weight of the vehicle. I'd be worried about the piston of the caliper, which was made for a considerably thicker rotor, being too far out of the bore; especially when the pads wear down. The caliper mounting brackets look a little thin too, IMO.

**jfowlzj95** · 03-20-2007, 10:08 PM

Nice! This just feeds more ideas to me on converting my 9" to discs.

**ATL ZJ** · 03-20-2007, 10:11 PM

Looks good, did you break the hub(s) this week or is that part of why you didn't bring it to morris mountain? Good meeting you and hope to see you on your trail behind the wheel of that ZJ sometime soon..

**MUDDTRACKS** · 03-20-2007, 10:18 PM

the tabs are .25 think plenty strong the piston is long enuf i checked that before i started and the non vented rotors are working just fine have been on for over a month now and no problems.

I drive it everyday most of the time with a trailer behind it with around 600-1000 pounds and it stops great when loaded down it stops even better with the added weight.

ALT ZJ It was cool to meet up. Your zj is bitchin

I didn't have the money to tow the my rig up there so i just rode along

But i'm going to be at gsse come hell or high water

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