- Location
- Lafayette, CA
Well, I finally started a project I have been planning for a couple years now.
I have been constantly getting hung up on my rock rails so what better way to solve the problem then do some boatsides. I also needed a good place to mount a cage off of.
I would have simply followed what XJ ranger did in his writeup, as well as other people had done, but my situation was rather unique.
I have a two door. I want to retain full use of my doors. I want to be able to roll the window down as far as possible. It needs to be "water tight" as it sits outside most of the time. It also needs to be semi quiet as I do not have a tow rig and I drive it to the trail. So with those goals in mind, I decided to start cutting the shit out of my Jeep:scared:
Pictures:
How it sits now. ~6.5'' of lift and ~102'' WB.
This is the clearance I had AJs rocker guards. 24 3/4'' front, 23 1/2'' back.
Unfortunately my driveway is not flat, so I had to put the back on ramps to get the rockers flat. It looks like it isnt because the rear has slightly less lift then the front.
Door and front fender off
A 2 door door with manual windows and locks weighs in at 65 lbs. I will be trying to lighten things up a bit by removing everything I can.
I cut out the bottom hinge:
There is more metal behind it then I thought there would be
And then moved it up. Its only tack welded right now to make sure everything works.
And this is how Im going to get the window to not roll down as much.
You can see the nut that is above the window. There is a pin just to the left of that. That is how the window attaches to the roller mechanism. I am going to remove that nut, flip that bracket so its now pointed to the left, and put the nut back on. I will take more pics as I suck at describing it.
Everything below the red line will be cut off. Plan is to do 2x6 1/8 wall for the new rockers, HREW 1 3/4 tube for the legs going from the rocker to the frame, and skin it with 1/2'' UHMW or similar.
Thats it for now. Im hoping this will take less then two weeks, but I usually underestimate how long it takes me to do things, so we shall see.
I have been constantly getting hung up on my rock rails so what better way to solve the problem then do some boatsides. I also needed a good place to mount a cage off of.
I would have simply followed what XJ ranger did in his writeup, as well as other people had done, but my situation was rather unique.
I have a two door. I want to retain full use of my doors. I want to be able to roll the window down as far as possible. It needs to be "water tight" as it sits outside most of the time. It also needs to be semi quiet as I do not have a tow rig and I drive it to the trail. So with those goals in mind, I decided to start cutting the shit out of my Jeep:scared:
Pictures:
How it sits now. ~6.5'' of lift and ~102'' WB.
This is the clearance I had AJs rocker guards. 24 3/4'' front, 23 1/2'' back.
Unfortunately my driveway is not flat, so I had to put the back on ramps to get the rockers flat. It looks like it isnt because the rear has slightly less lift then the front.
Door and front fender off
A 2 door door with manual windows and locks weighs in at 65 lbs. I will be trying to lighten things up a bit by removing everything I can.
I cut out the bottom hinge:
There is more metal behind it then I thought there would be
And then moved it up. Its only tack welded right now to make sure everything works.
And this is how Im going to get the window to not roll down as much.
You can see the nut that is above the window. There is a pin just to the left of that. That is how the window attaches to the roller mechanism. I am going to remove that nut, flip that bracket so its now pointed to the left, and put the nut back on. I will take more pics as I suck at describing it.
Everything below the red line will be cut off. Plan is to do 2x6 1/8 wall for the new rockers, HREW 1 3/4 tube for the legs going from the rocker to the frame, and skin it with 1/2'' UHMW or similar.
Thats it for now. Im hoping this will take less then two weeks, but I usually underestimate how long it takes me to do things, so we shall see.