Making some progress on the wrecked rubicon I drug home last year.
BYB33's 2006 rubicon rebirth
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So the stretch is gone now. It was do to the fact that I got a great deal on a rough country long arm kit, but knew that the geometry is not so good with the bolt in long arm kit, so I did a little research and found under cover fab made weld in geometry correction brackets that would make the geometry a bit better than the rough country setup so, I went this route. The UCF brackets make the rear more of a mid arm kit so the rear control arms needed to be cut 5" shorter to recenter the axle in the wheel opening.
I wanted to get it all mocked up before cutting the arms just to make sure I got it right. I also did an artek coil spring relocation kit to address the coil spring bow issue as well. I have had many different plans for this build over the past year and a half, from wild to crazy. In the end I figured building it to a nice street/offroad spec would be what I wanted to do to preserve a rig that I wanted for 18 years. I will buy a beat up base TJ after this one is done to build a trail pig out of.
I just dont have the heart to go too crazy with this one.
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I would say with full weight on the rig "IE" (engine trans tcase etc) it would have been about 4". I cut 5 inches out of each rear arm to get it back to factory wheel base. I just dont have the heart to cut this 80k 06 rubicon up like that. I have decided this one will be a clean driver/trail rig and I will build another beat up base TJ for hard core wheeling that I wont feel bad about cuting up and beating on hard when this build is done.
Yes I will be out boarding the shocks and as I have read that will be done last so I have all the weight on the rig so I can cycle the suspension and get my placement right the first time with out guess work.
To be honest this setup if you left the arms the length they come and doing the UCF geometry corection mounts would be an easy stretch set up when done with a frame back half kit.
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Car-part.com I was having a hell of a time finding a good frame and this site was great. Even though I had to drive 3 hours to get it. Rust free and straight.
Looks like a great project. Looking forward to following along.
Jeff
Jeff
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More cleaning and a bit of paint on a couple surface rust spots on the floor pan.
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This was in march. I rebuilt the rear axle with new revolution shafts and new bearings and new ebc brakes.
Arb diff covers for the front and rear too. No pics of the front but it got new brakes, unit bearings, knuckles, spicer ball joints and, im still waiting for my rcv axle shafts.
Arb diff covers for the front and rear too. No pics of the front but it got new brakes, unit bearings, knuckles, spicer ball joints and, im still waiting for my rcv axle shafts.