Harold of the Rocks

[chedisme]

So I guess having a build thread is the in thing now a days.

So most of you have met Harry. He's a 98 2 door. Im onmy phone right now so ill add more later.


I got my clayton rear X-member in the mail so I figured id take a pic and waste all of your time by showing it to you.

And I figured it wouldent be a NAC build thread with out a cat.

 

[MrSimon]

So you are actually doing the rear conversion!? AWESOME!!!

When do you think you'll be done?

This will be a fun thread!

 

[chedisme]

Ill most likly be done by the end of may. It really depends on when rich is free to help me. My welding skills just aren't up to a job like this yet.

And Im getting my taxes back soon and will be buying the stak 3 speed Tcase. Its gonna be bad ass!

 

[chedisme]

ok so heres a brief history

I had a Nissan Hardbody pickup,

and it got Tboned by a 16 year old driving his dads jag.
so I took my insurance money and planed on getting a wrangler. I couldn't find one with reasonable miles for my 5k budget. so I thought hey a 2 door cherokee is basically the same thing.

so I found mine for 4k. I think it had 65K on it.
First thing I did was buy a bumper since I had bought a winch for the Nissan just before it was killed.

Chepo roxolid off ebay.

got the winch hooked up. caught a lot of crap for having a winch on a tiny stock jeep.

then came my lift it was a a RC 3".

thats how I found . I couldn't figure out if I had a D35 or the 8.25
I had no clue what they looked like or what they were.
I signed up here, and promptly for got I had. about a year later I met a guy who recommended the site to me I came here tried to register, and got all pissed when my name was taken. so i tried my password and remembered what I had done.

bought some 30"s and black steels.

 

[chedisme]

then on my first trip to raush this happened.

have you ever seen someone so happy to have just ruined their interior?

I tried to let it dry out. It didn't work so it came out.

I couldn't afford to line it so I put my driver seat back in and drove it like that for a few months.

finallybought some.

then came my TNT this thing was awesome. It allowed me to nun much harder trails. so at my first NACFest I put it to good use.

it let me run and keep up with guys who were much more built and or experienced then I was

 

[chedisme]

then I did a gauge cluster swap and forgot to rite down my miles so I have no idea how many I have now, motor mounts, yellow top, oh and I did this

at my first NACfest I wont a protofab front bumper

got it painted and mounted

soon after that I got a sweet deal from Rich(roc2pus) on his old 5.5" long arm setup.

it looked pretty doofy with all that lift and worn out 30"s so I sprung for some new rubber

 

[foxwar71]

And Im getting my taxes back soon and will be buying the stak 3 speed Tcase. Its gonna be bad ass!

BORING!!!!



I'll let you know how mine fits and what you should do :thumbup: (I might even start on it this weekend while I wait for 60 parts :shhh

 

[bert01xj]

The pic of you holding the bumper makes me think you broke out of the nut house for Nacfest

 

[rweaver138]

nice bumper, i won the same one at nacfest last year

 

[Begster]

BORING!!!!



I'll let you know how mine fits and what you should do :thumbup: (I might even start on it this weekend while I wait for 60 parts :shhh

Ha, I'm sure he'll have his installed way before you even get around to your install.

 

[Andy in Pa.]

at my first NACfest I wont a protofab front bumper

LOL... I sent this pic out to the owner of Protofab, he had a good laugh and promptly printed it out and put it on his wall.

 

[foxwar71]

Ha, I'm sure he'll have his installed way before you even get around to your install.

:bs:


Im gunna remove a 231, cut floor, and jack a Stak up there this weekend just to prove you wrong!!!!! (And from experience, Im gunna order/replace the output seal thingy ahead of time )

 

[Begster]

Oh, the seal that you were so adamant didn't exist?

 

[foxwar71]

Oh, the seal that you were so adamant didn't exist?

They dont, Im gunna fill the splines/yokes with RTV everywhere and run it.

 

[chedisme]

BORING!!!!



I'll let you know how mine fits and what you should do :thumbup: (I might even start on it this weekend while I wait for 60 parts :shhh

youv got to stop buying all these different color jeeps and focus on turning your sticker and box collection into a jeep.

 

[chedisme]

ill add some more later. im to lazy to do it now.

if your lucky ross Ill post a pic of the box my Xmember came in.

 

[chedisme]

So earlier today I placed the order for my stak 3 speed. Im pretty excited, although all that excitement is tempered with that depressing feeling you get when you spend alot of money for a singular thing that is relatively small in size.

I cant believe it was 400$ to ship the dam thing! I almost told the guy to forget about it, but Iv really weighed my options out and the gearing is spot on what I want, and other then a hole in the floor for the shifters it should be pretty simple to install.

 

[MrSimon]

Done by KOH?

 

[chedisme]

Done by KOH?

I seriously doubt it. They don't keep any in stock due to the high cost and different options you can get it with. So they have to build it and ship it from the othersie of the country. Its gonna be a few weeks. Im hopeing. For nac fest. But the rear coils are my priority right now.

 

[foxwar71]

My bolt in Stak, with all the options I wanted, was in stock in Baltimore. Got it in one day even