First of all... HUGE thanks to Jeff (Squirrel80) for giving me 14 hours of his time yesterday and busting his ass with me to work on my project on super short notice! I can't tell you how much it means to me... I love 
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Also huge thanks go to Dan Turner @ Loose Nuts Enterprises for getting me my RE springs at an awesome deal, TNT, Tom @ T&J's, Jason @ Rough Country, and thethe guys from RJROffroad for busting ass and getting product to me on time. Everybody I talked to I stressed how quickly I needed the parts, and they all showed up by Thursday... I ordered on Monday! I couldn't have gotten this done without the help of.
So yea, you're probably wondering right about now... I guess I get to drop the ball. Grimm and I worked out a deal, and I ended up with his MJ. So don't get mad, at least it's staying in the family. I had to get it done before the December 5th toys for tots race out in Barstow though, which left me only this weekend to work on it. As next weekend I'll be on vacation, and the following weekend is the race. So I called up Jeff and asked if he was free this Saturday, he had absolutely no problem with it... his wife might be a different story :laugh:
So we pulled her in and got to work!
Once we had her in the air we started stripping her down!
Notice it looks like a bomb went off under the thing haha. So we took the front axle out, and get her all cleaned up, with the help of some degreaser and a pressure washer
After we got it clean it was time to cut off the stock lower shock mounts, add some Currie LCA mini skids (Thanks Tom@T&J's!) and also some new shock mounts.
While we let that cool down we set it aside and started to work on the TNT U-Bolt Eliminator spring over axle flip. We dropped the axle and started the flip. Now... before I get any crap about the D35, I know it's a pile. It's not staying, this is a temporary fix. It's getting an MJ D44 and Deaver spring unders... But for now:
Then we got the front end put back together, so we could put weight on it and see get her at ride height so we could set the pinion angle. Jeff has some awesome tricks for this. You can also see the upper bar pin eliminator chongas... (not really sure what they're called, shock conversions?)
Once we got all that set up we added all the finishing touches. Jeff bent me up some new hard lines in the rear, we put the new front brake lines on, torqued everything down and put the wheels back on. I'm sure I'm missing some stuff, as it took us all day to do this. But I'm really impressed with how much we actually got done.
Don't mind the tie straps, I didn't have a track bar with me or shocks, so I strapped it all down so it didn't move too much, and trailered it home. I'll have wheels, tires, shocks, and trac bar soon! Here she is all safe and sound at home
! Also huge thanks go to Dan Turner @ Loose Nuts Enterprises for getting me my RE springs at an awesome deal, TNT, Tom @ T&J's, Jason @ Rough Country, and thethe guys from RJROffroad for busting ass and getting product to me on time. Everybody I talked to I stressed how quickly I needed the parts, and they all showed up by Thursday... I ordered on Monday! I couldn't have gotten this done without the help of
.So yea, you're probably wondering right about now... I guess I get to drop the ball. Grimm and I worked out a deal, and I ended up with his MJ. So don't get mad, at least it's staying in the family. I had to get it done before the December 5th toys for tots race out in Barstow though, which left me only this weekend to work on it. As next weekend I'll be on vacation, and the following weekend is the race. So I called up Jeff and asked if he was free this Saturday, he had absolutely no problem with it... his wife might be a different story :laugh:
So we pulled her in and got to work!
Once we had her in the air we started stripping her down!
Notice it looks like a bomb went off under the thing haha. So we took the front axle out, and get her all cleaned up, with the help of some degreaser and a pressure washer
After we got it clean it was time to cut off the stock lower shock mounts, add some Currie LCA mini skids (Thanks Tom@T&J's!) and also some new shock mounts.
While we let that cool down we set it aside and started to work on the TNT U-Bolt Eliminator spring over axle flip. We dropped the axle and started the flip. Now... before I get any crap about the D35, I know it's a pile. It's not staying, this is a temporary fix. It's getting an MJ D44 and Deaver spring unders... But for now:
Then we got the front end put back together, so we could put weight on it and see get her at ride height so we could set the pinion angle. Jeff has some awesome tricks for this. You can also see the upper bar pin eliminator chongas... (not really sure what they're called, shock conversions?)
Once we got all that set up we added all the finishing touches. Jeff bent me up some new hard lines in the rear, we put the new front brake lines on, torqued everything down and put the wheels back on. I'm sure I'm missing some stuff, as it took us all day to do this. But I'm really impressed with how much we actually got done.
Don't mind the tie straps, I didn't have a track bar with me or shocks, so I strapped it all down so it didn't move too much, and trailered it home. I'll have wheels, tires, shocks, and trac bar soon! Here she is all safe and sound at home
