Draken Offroad

[Vanimal]

Thanks for making me feel better about my junk

 

[Egodfrey]

take note to the high steer arms being on wrong

I bought the axles sight unseen on pirate and had them shipped to Draken while in the Stan.

To be 110% fair they sai that's how they came delivered on the axles....but they should have noticed it and changed them.

 

[Outlander560]

4 pics from the bottom is that a random washer welded to the tube??? haha whats the point of it LOL

 

[Egodfrey]

That washer was from the previous owner of the axles, id guess it was for brake lines.

They didnt strip any of the old mounts off, they just worked around them all

 

[chedisme]

That washer is structural.

Sometimes i weld a little tab on what i worki g on so i have a nice place to clamp my ground. Idk maybe it could have been from that?

 

[pajeepman]

I had meant to ask about the washers also. You would've thought drakken would have ground them off so they wouldn't have to ask what useless washers were we welded on for.

 

[ktm racer 419]

they are for brakelines. I'm guilty of doing that, but I usually make 1/8" tabs. looks less hack.

 

[Outlander560]

^^ thats what I was thinking it might be for but chedisme thats another good idea as well...

 

[kastein]

I like to throw a C clamp or pair of vise grips on whatever I'm working on, then put my ground clamp on that if the clamp won't hold well on the workpiece. Started doing this when I had to vise grip/c clamp some things together to weld them and it left little room for a clamp... realized it worked pretty well.

 

[Egodfrey]

Just remembered I have a Draken hat and shirt kicking around.

Hmmm how to destroy them?

 

[pajeepman]

they are for brakelines. I'm guilty of doing that, but I usually make 1/8" tabs. looks less hack.

1/8' tabs would look ok. rusty washers look total hack, probably best welds on the axle as they were there when Drakken got it:looney:

 

[POLAR_JEEP_04]

Just remembered I have a Draken hat and shirt kicking around.

Hmmm how to destroy them?

Oil rags? Wrenching clothes?

 

[foxwar71]

Oil rags? Wrenching clothes?

Trail toilet paper.

 

[Egodfrey]

We should get a line of jeeps lined up and just jeep running them over, everyone spinning there tires on them as they pass over.

 

[kastein]

Oil rags? Wrenching clothes?

They make good packing materials too, which is why I got two free Gary's Jeeps tshirts with the back half of the cab from Billy's last MJ. Didn't want to scratch the paint on my truck bed after all.

 

[XJLI]

Thanks for making me feel better about my junk

X2 ho lee chit

 

[kastein]

I bet if you had "de-modded" it with 4 steering stabilizers it would have gone down the road great.

 

[Egodfrey]

Just as a public service announcement Draken still sells parts under the draken name but they changed the name of the shop. Its now in the city of Oneonta NY and is called Dragons garage.

I have tried my hardest to find people before they use them and direct them away, i have been succesful a few times. They do alot of just regular car repair now from what i have gathered.

But one guy who also was deployed hated the FJ they built for him so bad that he drove it for 3 days and traded it in because he was scared to even drive it. Another guy had them beef up a rear suspension on a xj too tow a boat and apparently his rear shock mount just fell off going down the road.

As for me Im being well taken care of, my new xj should be pretty awesome when its done. It should be pretty "xtreme"