Daily Driver, Go Where I Want To Build

NashvilleTJ said:
That’s an awesome shop you have there, @hosejockey61. And very cool from the outside as well.
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Thanks, a labor of love for sure and it's nice to get it set up the way I want. I love sharing it with good people although jjvw is starting to push the limits lol. My wife asked for his social security number so we can claim his as a dependent on our taxes :LOL:
 
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Documentation is sparse. Here are a few images of what happened with the front shock mounts.

These are the uncut Poly mounts which are the same that should be used for the rear.
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The cut up lower
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The cut up upper. I'll explain the weird window later.
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The top of the upper was shortened as much as I felt comfortable to get it as high into the fender as I could.
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Here is the frame without any shock or spring mounts.
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I put the lower here. Were I to do this again, I would push it backwards so the shock is parallel to the spring or sitting closer to parallel than what I ended up with.

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Also, I sliced off the inboard wall and used the control arm mount as the fourth side. Again, in hindsight this really isn't necessary. I read concerned that the brake caliper would hit the mount, but I ended up with lots of room.
 
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The upper. The weird window was a surprise problem to deal with when I discovered that the ORO York bracket had put the alternator battery cable bolt head right where I needed to put the shock tower. The hole I built was too make sure the bolt head had room to move around.

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The upper spring mounts were moved forward on the frame about an inch to better line the bump stops up again after the small front stretch in order to get the tires to clear the rear fender wall.
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This was before. The springs were getting into a severe shape at bump.
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I made an interesting mistake putting the spring mounts back on. I put them on too low. Which added about 1/2-5/8" of front ride height. I decided to keep this because...
 
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Full stuff, full lock. No steering stop extension.
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The top of the tire is a hair above hood line. And the rear wall is barely touching at the bump for the battery/abs tray.
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The inner side wall lightly rubs the shock body and spring mount.
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At street pressure I can rotate the tire by hand.
 
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jjvw said:
The compressed shocks are hard bump. The Currie bump stops are just jounces and will compress almost an inch.
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Impressive. Can't wait to see what's in store next.
 
rasband said:
Work to reward, would you say that all was worth it?
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Mike will tell you that I was absolutely hating every minute of this ordeal. This is true. But the way the Jeep drives now is fantastic. A few years ago, I never would have dreamed this was possible or even conceived it to be something to dream about.

I don't think the effort to get 12s up front is worth it. 11s fit better and don't need to be cut down to avoid cutting up the fender. But I have 12s and I'm not going to complain about that.
 
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And this is what the reservoir mounts ended up looking like. There are bolt holes in the inner fender that I used to attach these to.
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Alex01 said:
Impressive. Can't wait to see what's in store next.
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jjvw said:
Full stuff, full lock. No steering stop extension.
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The top of the tire is a hair above hood line. And the rear wall is barely touching at the bump for the battery/abs tray.
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The inner side wall lightly rubs the shock body and spring mount.
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At street pressure I can rotate the tire by hand.
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Beyond impressive! Nicely done JJ, cant wait to see this thing at moab
 
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And to make things more miserable for myself, I wasn't liking how the Currie steering damper mount was fitting in my crammed together steering and track bar log jam. So I made my own that is better fitting and lower profile.

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DylanM345 said:
now that youve done it, was it worth fitting a 12" over an 11"? and I take it you ended up with 6 up 6 down?
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Anyone and everyone should do 11s. And don't move the spring seats if you can help it. That added a significant layer of difficulty. And never ever ever do this ridiculous stuff to your daily driver!

I don't think I would have been happy with 12s if I hadn't done it the way I did it. I only got 6" up/down without cutting the fender because I screwed up. It is a huge amount of work to get there and I only think I did an ok job on mine.
 
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