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Your going about this the smart way. I’m assuming your doing the build as funds allow. Space it out. Take your time. You’ll appreciate it that much more.
Overland LJR built to explore and expedition
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Yeah I'm at a stretch it's a little tighter than I'd like, but I'll take a probably a month or two break after April hah. The nice thing is I'll be pretty well setup on a basic short arm suspension and pretty good armor after all this work.
After that, besides the real big projects, there will be mostly small items here and there, there are still plenty of those on the wishlist to keep me busy and polish items but not nearly as hectic as right now.
The only armor I'd have remaining is the savvy gas tank skid and currie CA skids (if I don't do these before - need a welder) which is relatively cheap, the only thing I can think of besides accessories for the exterior then is Savvy taillights, and then nearly everything is doing enhancements on the interior.
For the big projects, which will probably be one-a-year, there is items like outboarding, color change, supercharger, new seats.
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That’ll be really cool...and it’s an LJR so all the mods your doing make it justifiable hahaha. I’ll stay tuned to the build and the eventual impact paint job.
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My goal for the second half of the year is to enjoy it more rather than all the wrenching, a lot more camping, trips and living with it for awhile
. It’ll be a good 75% of where I want it to be.
Don't forget new axle shafts, and a rubicrawler
. What supercharger are you eyeballing?
Don't you need to wait on the driveshaft until you tuck and measure? Or do you have that measurement from someone else who's done the savvy skid on an LJ? Like where the jeep is heading!
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Don't forget new axle shafts, and a rubicrawler
No idea haven’t even begun research on that.
Maybe, from my understanding it would be within tolerance getting it now and tucking after especially if I talked through that with Tom woods but maybe I’ll wait.
What is a rubicrawler?Don't forget new axle shafts, and a rubicrawler
If @Chris ever posts a video of his then we will all be able to see it in action. Think gear reduction like an Atlas 4 speed but only for the 42RLE.
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Trial run painting aluminum. Did it on my engine skid so it’s not as visible if it looks like crap. My process:
1. Sand with 220 grit
2. Clean with degreaser
3. Por Metal prep, let soak 10-20 mins
4. Rinse and let dry
5. 3 coats of sem self etch primer
6. Top coat
We’ll see how it goes. Took steps to the powder coater and will get them back by EOW. Hoping to have everything ready for rocker install this next weekend.
Also straightened my steering wheel and took a shot at aligning my headlights better.
1. Sand with 220 grit
2. Clean with degreaser
3. Por Metal prep, let soak 10-20 mins
4. Rinse and let dry
5. 3 coats of sem self etch primer
6. Top coat
We’ll see how it goes. Took steps to the powder coater and will get them back by EOW. Hoping to have everything ready for rocker install this next weekend.
Also straightened my steering wheel and took a shot at aligning my headlights better.
Always degrease before any sanding so you do not imbed contaminants into the material.
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One of those nights where nothing really went right. I thought I was decently well planned to install my rockers, had the painting figured out, the step was being powder coated, Alex helped with painting the rockers we used good quality sem and color match paints, and it had a couple of days to cure. Okay going into today.
The powder coaters were a couple of days late (although they were really cool about it and stayed late on a Sunday to get it me)
First task, disassembly. The old rubicon “rockers” were easy enough to take off. On my fender flares two nutserts were spinning which slowed things down and I anytime I remove the rear fender flares with the design of the inner fender wells I die a little inside.
Okay got it apart, cleaned, took the unlimited stickers off as they would be partially covered.
Time to test the fit and start drilling! Get the one rocker, oh whoops wrong side, get the other rocker.. that’s the wrong side too.
Turns out I have two driver side rockers , which have been preped, painted etc.
Notice the cuts and the raised metal edge.
So after being frustrated, tried to think what to do next. I already talked to Gerald and know savvy will take care of me but I just spend I don’t want to admit how long removing fender flares, might as well install the driver.
Don’t have to be as careful with the paint now, so we use one rocker as the template and the other one installed. All in all the install went okay, it wasn’t too bad. However, I think due to it being quite late we missed two holes that need nutserts. Also we didn’t have any hardware long enough for the step holes to go through the inside backer. I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong there but I think I need longer hardware.
It was past midnight at this point. I’m not taking this whole rocker off to drill out nutserts. So we hustle to reassemble flares, it’ll have to be a job for the near future and getting longer hardware.
Hey only one workday until vacation though.
The rockers do look good.. even if they’re missing a ton of bolts on the steps.
The powder coaters were a couple of days late (although they were really cool about it and stayed late on a Sunday to get it me)
First task, disassembly. The old rubicon “rockers” were easy enough to take off. On my fender flares two nutserts were spinning which slowed things down and I anytime I remove the rear fender flares with the design of the inner fender wells I die a little inside.
Okay got it apart, cleaned, took the unlimited stickers off as they would be partially covered.
Time to test the fit and start drilling! Get the one rocker, oh whoops wrong side, get the other rocker.. that’s the wrong side too.
Turns out I have two driver side rockers , which have been preped, painted etc.
Notice the cuts and the raised metal edge.
So after being frustrated, tried to think what to do next. I already talked to Gerald and know savvy will take care of me but I just spend I don’t want to admit how long removing fender flares, might as well install the driver.
Don’t have to be as careful with the paint now, so we use one rocker as the template and the other one installed. All in all the install went okay, it wasn’t too bad. However, I think due to it being quite late we missed two holes that need nutserts. Also we didn’t have any hardware long enough for the step holes to go through the inside backer. I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong there but I think I need longer hardware.
It was past midnight at this point. I’m not taking this whole rocker off to drill out nutserts. So we hustle to reassemble flares, it’ll have to be a job for the near future and getting longer hardware.
Hey only one workday until vacation though.
The rockers do look good.. even if they’re missing a ton of bolts on the steps.
It does look good. Is this your daily driver? How long before you can get the passenger side rock slider?
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It’s a “daily driver”, it’s my only vehicle although I don’t need a vehicle.
I’m not sure on the ETA, should know more in the morning, I’m going to have to buy paint again which kind of sucks.
My parents are in town the next two weeks so I’m not in the biggest rush as I’ll be busy/away, my Jeep is just a bit lopsided.
Ok......I was just wondering since you had it all apart if you could leave it that way until you got the parts you needed.....but guess not. Sounds like it's going to be awhile before you get the passenger side slider.....that really sucks! Two driver side sliders!!
