The Silver Fox LJ Build

[hosejockey61]

looks great Jeremy! just missing a couple things that shall not be named!

Cheese grater?

 

[JMT]

Awesome work, Jeremy.

looks great Jeremy! just missing a couple things that shall not be named!

Thanks Tyler and Matt.

 

[JMT]

Cheese grater?

That was cheesy bro!

 

[JMT]

looks great Jeremy! just missing a couple things that shall not be named!

Better watch it!

 

[NashvilleTJ]

Great work, Fab-Man!

 

[JMT]

Great work, Fab-Man!

Thanks Jeff!

The real great work is happening over on the Yellow channel! Rooting for you. Really wish you knew or could figure out what the issue was.

 

[Woodrow]

Excellent job as always Jeremy

 

[Tob]

That's all good, but what's the mild cheese for?

He explained that already:

Load up your rig with everything you want in it for a ride height and shock travel bias. Consider your gas tank, passengers, shock towers, shocks, tools, everything.

 

[JMT]

He explained that already:

Hey, I do love cheese!

 

[JMT]

I had to add a 1/4 inch spacer under the passenger side to get things where I wanted them. I ended up with 6 1/8 inch up on one side and six up on the other side. I got the brakes bled in the rear. Of course, I’ll have to do all that again when I put on the BBK here in the next couple weeks, but I took it for a drive. I’ll be lowering the front about an inch. Well, at least I got it out and washed it all up. So much angle grinder metal everywhere covering this thing. I’m sure I’m gonna have to seriously vacuum the inside. My wheelbase before was 102.5 and now it's 103.5", so I'm happy about that. The departure angles don't seem that bad given the LJ's extra length behind the back tire.

 

[NashvilleTJ]

Looks great, Jeremy.

 

[02GreenTJ]

I had to add a 1/4 inch spacer under the passenger side to get things where I wanted them. I ended up with 6 1/8 inch up on one side and six up on the other side. I got the brakes bled in the rear. Of course, I’ll have to do all that again when I put on the BBK here in the next couple weeks, but I took it for a drive. I’ll be lowering the front about an inch. Well, at least I got it out and washed it all up. So much angle grinder metal everywhere covering this thing. I’m sure I’m gonna have to seriously vacuum the inside. My wheelbase before was 102.5 and now it's 103.5", so I'm happy about that. The departure angles don't seem that bad given the LJ's extra length behind the back tire.

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Looks awesome love the rear wheel well cut!

 

[lBasket]

Does it feel better driving around town?

 

[PG.]

Very nice jeep. Hope to see it in person.

 

[JMT]

Tie Rod Flip done.

Moving to BBK.

 

[hosejockey61]

Tie Rod Flip done.

Moving to BBK.

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Could just be the picture, but is the ball joint in picture 3 not seated all the way?

 

[JMT]

Could just be the picture, but is the ball joint in picture 3 not seated all the way?

You are correct. Good eye. They’re getting tossed. I have these for replacement.

 

[lBasket]

Tie Rod Flip done.

Moving to BBK.

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So you can just cut off the sticky-outy part of the old swar bar bracket instead of getting it off the axle tube that looks way easier than what I was thinking

 

[jjvw]

So you can just cut off the sticky-outy part of the old swar bar bracket instead of getting it off the axle tube that looks way easier than what I was thinking

If you cut the sway bar mount off vertically flush to the edge of the spring seat, the remaining chunk tends to disappear instead of looking like something was chopped off.

 

[lBasket]

If you cut the sway bar mount off vertically flush to the edge of the spring seat, the remaining chunk tends to disappear instead of looking like something was chopped off.

Good to know we'll see if I can finesse something like that...