Project Rudolph
- Thread starter XJ_Rudolph
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XJ_Rudolph
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- Pleasanton, CA
Personal advice, enjoy this stage in your build, it is awesome, maybe do some aussies and just rock v8 zj steering.My rig now, bronco dana 44 and a chrysler 8.25 29 spline. It isnt as much fun as my rig was with 33s and a welded rear.
Really?! Right now im hoping to do fuel injectors, bumper and winch before the Reno Run!
XJ_Rudolph
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- Pleasanton, CA
do they really bend that much?!
XJ_Rudolph
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- Pleasanton, CA
Got my rear seat headrests in!
This is wear I welded a plate in and then welded the shock tower to it. Needless to say it ripped apart at the plug welds.
BigKintheXJ
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- Cupertino
Crappy picture but it looks like you didn't prep your frame rails very well before welding.
It wasnt a lack of prep as much as that is crap from the roads that got in there. **** salt.
- Location
- Virginia City, NV
I may wheel more aggressively than i should. But i could show you all the bulges and creasing in my floor and b pillars that would give you a good idea just how much they flex when you wheel. That was from one season of wheeling without stiffeners.
XJ_Rudolph
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- Pleasanton, CA
Big things going on this Wednesday! Getting in a new bumper and a Warn M8000-s! Gotta get the XJ ready for Reno Run at the start of the summer. Anyone know of anything I should do armor wise besides rock sliders?
blondejoncherokee
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- sacramento
belly pan + gas skid.
XJ_Rudolph
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- Pleasanton, CA
Do you know any belly pan that I can put on with long arms? Or do I have to custom it?
blondejoncherokee
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- sacramento
build one or buy one and modify it to work.
what LA are you running?
what LA are you running?
XJ_Rudolph
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- Pleasanton, CA
- Location
- South San Francisco, CA
Gas tank skid for sure. JCR makes a super beefy one. The stock one isn't bad either, you mught get lucky and find one at PnP.
blondejoncherokee
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- sacramento
just buy something and make it work or just go buy some 3/8" plate or 1/4" plate and build something.
you could cut and weld 1/4" plate to the bottom of the stock X member even . Get a factory t case skid then as a better than nothing approach.
Also consider ditching that LA kit and get a real Long arm kit.
gas tank skid just go to PNP for now and grab a stocker for the time being.
you could cut and weld 1/4" plate to the bottom of the stock X member even . Get a factory t case skid then as a better than nothing approach.
Also consider ditching that LA kit and get a real Long arm kit.
gas tank skid just go to PNP for now and grab a stocker for the time being.
XJensen
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- Sacramento
T case and gas skids if you don't have them.
XJensen
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- Sacramento
Lame that long arm kit doesn't come with a tcase skid
XJ_Rudolph
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- Location
- Pleasanton, CA
XJ_Rudolph
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- Location
- Pleasanton, CA
Smittybilt XRC bumper went on! Fitment was way too perfect, they should have increased their tolerances just a little bit. Finish on it is spot on, and once it went on it was even on both sides and sits well. No spot for vacuum can though, so its temporary zip tied to the bracket that the horn is hung off.
Today my Warn M8000-s comes in and im super excited! After that, iv gotta find a gas tank skid, then try and figure out how im going to so an underbelly skid.
Today my Warn M8000-s comes in and im super excited! After that, iv gotta find a gas tank skid, then try and figure out how im going to so an underbelly skid.