I would keep the TTBs and just upgrade them a little bit the late 70’s d44 has cast wedges for the radius arms on the tube ends between the pumpkin and the outer C where the knuckle bolts on. you can’t cut them off because they are hollow. Downside to running that axle hard without proper...
Thanks I almost went 37’s but these 40’s were roughly $72 a tire lol (we bought 9 of them at the Leduc Swapmeet for $650)
Steering is just some high steer arms with a 1ton Y-link style and a West Texas Off-Road hydro assist. All the ball joints on the steering linkage are now shot so I’ll be...
Final assembly complete and taking it to its first run. “It’s not pretty but it’s also not a show car” lol famous last words of a mediocre fabricator.
Bucket list trail complete and no real repairs needed after 3 days of pretty hard wheelin.
Couple final things I had to get done before we went to the rubicon trail was a winch mount that I decide to tuck in deep below the radiator for a better approach angle and to open up the rear wheel wells to fit the tires.
The rear is some Chevy 63’s that for some reason they had the leafs clamped to the overloads and some sketchy stacked blocks. Got rid of those by doing some +2 stretch U-bolt eliminators from rough stuff specialties. The shackles are still wildly ghetto but they work 🤷🏻♂️ also added a B-Fab...
Here is where things got sketchy…..
The lower links it had vs what I put together using some Johnny joints from poly performance and some 1.5” .250 wall dom
Snagged these killer seats from the swapmeet too…. Sorry to the guy whose buddy sold them to me while he was asleep. He was very upset ($300 was too good to pass up) two fronts and a matching bench.
God a killer deal from a friend who had some brand new “vintage” Allied rock-a-thon beadlocks circa 2009 got my best helper bolting up the 40’s from the Leduc Swapmeet
What’s up everyone,
This is my dumpster lol
1988 Jeep Cherokee XJ
Good ol high mileage 4.0 with an automatic stock 231tcase.
Dana 44 4.88 gears with locker
9” 4.88 gears welded
(Was told they came from a 77-79 F150 or Ful size bronco)
I snagged it off marketplace for wayyyy cheap and it was in...
Your dodge is sooo fucking sweet! I was drooling on it at KOH last year. Well from a distance I was chasing racers doing photography but yeah I wanted to check it out more. So sick!!!!
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