I am not going to copy my whole "build thread" over to this site, but I tend to prefer this site. All the cool kids are here. 
I'd still like to document the slow development of my continuing build and ask questions that have a hope of getting answered. Thus this thread.
Recap of my current build:
My dad was the original owner of this '02 5spd Sport. It had the optional rear Dana 44 stock. He built it for 33s with rear detroit locker, front ARB, 4.56 gears, OBA, skids galore, warn front and rear bumpers and a Warn XD9000i winch. He mostly wheeled it in Washington and Oregon but had done Moab twice iirc. When he started talking of selling it because he wasn't using it as much since moving to the dry side of Washington where trails aren't nearby, I jumped on it and shipped it out to Toronto, ON Canada where I moved 11 years ago for work and stayed for the woman.
Since buying it in the summer of '14 from my dad, I have done the following**:
1) Metalcloak Front and rear fenders, corner armor and rockers
2) replaced the 2.5" Rockkrawler lift with Currie 4" and then later did the Savvy mid-arm upgrade
3) 35" Nitto Mud Grapplers (wished I had went Trail Grapplers instead..live and learn) on Dirty Live beadlocks
4) Motobilt front and rear bumpers
5) TMR skid plate with tummy tuck (I think it is a 2" drop iirc)
6) Vanco 17" big brake kit in the front with BMB
7) Currielync steering upgrade
8) outboarded rear shocks and spring perch relocation
9) RCVs in front, Chromo in rear
8) Tuffy rear storage drawer
9) Rockhard bolt in cage
10) Thor cowl intake
11) Bestop soft top, but still have my hardtop with broken rear glass (2nd time it happened)
** less thing that I since got rid of or replaced
Those are the major upgrade excluding things like stereo, interior,
I'd still like to document the slow development of my continuing build and ask questions that have a hope of getting answered. Thus this thread.Recap of my current build:
My dad was the original owner of this '02 5spd Sport. It had the optional rear Dana 44 stock. He built it for 33s with rear detroit locker, front ARB, 4.56 gears, OBA, skids galore, warn front and rear bumpers and a Warn XD9000i winch. He mostly wheeled it in Washington and Oregon but had done Moab twice iirc. When he started talking of selling it because he wasn't using it as much since moving to the dry side of Washington where trails aren't nearby, I jumped on it and shipped it out to Toronto, ON Canada where I moved 11 years ago for work and stayed for the woman.
Since buying it in the summer of '14 from my dad, I have done the following**:
1) Metalcloak Front and rear fenders, corner armor and rockers
2) replaced the 2.5" Rockkrawler lift with Currie 4" and then later did the Savvy mid-arm upgrade
3) 35" Nitto Mud Grapplers (wished I had went Trail Grapplers instead..live and learn) on Dirty Live beadlocks
4) Motobilt front and rear bumpers
5) TMR skid plate with tummy tuck (I think it is a 2" drop iirc)
6) Vanco 17" big brake kit in the front with BMB
7) Currielync steering upgrade
8) outboarded rear shocks and spring perch relocation
9) RCVs in front, Chromo in rear
8) Tuffy rear storage drawer
9) Rockhard bolt in cage
10) Thor cowl intake
11) Bestop soft top, but still have my hardtop with broken rear glass (2nd time it happened)
** less thing that I since got rid of or replaced
Those are the major upgrade excluding things like stereo, interior,
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