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Ended up pulling the trigger on some 17x8 steel Raceline Beadlocks and some Mickey Thompson MT's. They only weigh 2 lbs more per corner compared to a Raceline Monster or similar beadlock and I can live with that trade off for cost savings and the look. These also got me back to the iconic...

Little rubicon trip photo dump. Didn't take much we were all just enjoying the trail. My fiance's 80 y/o grandpa and dad had a blast rock crawling. Here's the Jeep at the start of the trip. The jeep was sagging more than normal in the back due to bringing much more camping stuff and food to...

Thanks! She's a good one and a Jeeper. Her family is from SoCal and are into old school VW sandrails. This Rubicon trip I'm bringing her grandpa and dad and introducing them to the rockier side of things.

Affirmative my friend! Thank you for the kind words.

Time for a small update. Since the last post I added a rear antirock. This transformed the way the Jeep perform on and off-road as expected. I also threw on some new MORE rubber motor mounts and pulled the wheelspacers. I didn't like how much wider it was and right now the rear tires barely...

Looks like a Ford 8.8 to me.

Looking good! That’s a major hurtle. Once you figure out that trackbar it should be smooth sailing. I’m curious to see what you think of the ORIs on the trail and road.

Nice work! Planning something similar soon. Did you keep the stock back half?

Here's a couple of shots of the Jeep on John Bull Trail in Big Bear:

Here's the initial shakedown report: Did 200 miles of off-road driving from Barstow to Needles across the Mojave. The Jeep feels pretty darn good. Then did about 400 ish road miles to Big Bear area and did a couple of rock trails. No breakdowns which is a win in my books! The front end feels...

Thanks lots of hours into it at this point! Lots of seat time in different stages to figure out what the long term plan is. I'm thinking it should be close to dialed in for the foreseeable future, but you and I both know they're never done.

I PM'd you a parts list and some urls for what I used.

I'm pretty excited, the plan is to meet up with a friend and go from Barstow to Laughlin Nevada all on dirt via Mojave trails for a few days then head up to Big Bear for some rock trails and dirt-biking. Nothing hardcore but should be a fun trip and my buddy has an IFS tacoma so the first...

I'm terrible at updating this but the rig is on the trailer ready for it's first real shakedown run! I finished up the crossover brace for the shocks, got my front driveshaft lengthened, did some maintenance, spring preload adjustments, and converted the tailgate to a dropdown which I've always...

It was a pretty old post I can find all the stuff I ordered and send it to you if that would be helpful. I used 1.75” .120 wall for the upper arm and 2” aluminum lowers. The upper needed about a little less than 10* of bend if I remember correctly. Everything has a good amount of room at full...

Our builds are so similar! I stole this idea from toximus and made my own hose from Pegasus racing radiator elbows and joints. I also had to put a slight bend in my upper control arm to clear the motor mount at full bump. So far I’ve got about 1000 miles on the build and no issues leaking or...

I went with the Barnes version which has its own set of challenges. Looking back I’d probably leave the box closer to a stock location but I’m overall happy with the end result.

Tower on frame: Brace: Not genright but same idea. Used 12” coilovers and jk axles. Got 6” uptravel in the front with 4” of front stretch, however I had to keep steering in the stock locations on the knuckle to achieve this and put a large bend in the trackbar. I used 1.5” .250 wall dom and...

The bottom link isn’t working for me but I’m 99% sure I used the Dorman on mine without issue.

It's road worthy now, I'm sorting out a handful of minor details still but I figured I'd show some pics of it cleaned up and out in the wild. Rock lights for the hell of it while I rewired all my accessories to a switch panel. First fill up in months after driving it to work Drives great...