Me too. Aesthetically and weight wise there is no comparison. I'm anticipating the same result functionality wise. Part of why I bought more of his stuff.
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Project Telluride: tons, big rubber, and a clean slate.
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Me too. Aesthetically and weight wise there is no comparison. I'm anticipating the same result functionality wise. Part of why I bought more of his stuff.
took advantage of a short day at work (only 10.5 hours today woohoo) and decided to get some work done on the jeep. Biggest things i wanted to tackle were the coil mounts and the lower links.
For the coil mounts, youll notice they are inbound from the LCA mounts. I knew it was going to be like that and am ok with it. Like i said, i didnt want to have to cut away a ton more cast on the drivers side. but they are supported all around and welded up
Both coils sit perfectly straight with no arch or latteral offset like ive seen on some 60 swaps.
I also was able to knock out the lower links. These are 1.25 heims on both ends. eye to eye currently is 29", with the tube being 23.25" each, which puts me at about 108" wheelbase, but ill confirm that once the jeep is actually on its own weight. Again, no welder, but included the pic because why not.
For the coil mounts, youll notice they are inbound from the LCA mounts. I knew it was going to be like that and am ok with it. Like i said, i didnt want to have to cut away a ton more cast on the drivers side. but they are supported all around and welded up
Both coils sit perfectly straight with no arch or latteral offset like ive seen on some 60 swaps.
I also was able to knock out the lower links. These are 1.25 heims on both ends. eye to eye currently is 29", with the tube being 23.25" each, which puts me at about 108" wheelbase, but ill confirm that once the jeep is actually on its own weight. Again, no welder, but included the pic because why not.
VAhasnoWAVES
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- Lake City, Mi
maybe i missed it... what size tube?
i saw that they were 1.25 heims.
i saw that they were 1.25 heims.
Rockdrummer93
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- Greenville, SC
Where do you put your frame side lower mount? My lowers came out about 30.5 eye to eye and with the coils centered over the axle I should have 106" with 2" of rear stretch
freerider15
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- FoCo, Crawlorado
If you look in the last photo, you can see his frame side lower mounts.
They're welded to the uniframe chassis stiffners.
Rockdrummer93
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- Greenville, SC
Mine are too right past the stock crossmember
Rockdrummer93
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- Greenville, SC
The back of my frame mounts are up against my crossmember
Rockdrummer93
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That is true
VAhasnoWAVES
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- Lake City, Mi
same think i used. they look small in the picture. but then again, these joints make everything look small. lol.
ive been building a 3 link lately. with the mount all the way back to the front edge of the crossmember i ended up with a 36" eye to eye measurement on the lowers, on only about 1" of stretch. damn things weigh 20# each.
ROKRWLR
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- Arvada, CO
Same 2" x .25 DOM for mine, too. My frame side is right at the cross member and I have 40" lowers. I have 1 1/2" rear stretch and I'm at about 110" WB.
Lots of scratches and scars on the links but haven't had any bending at this long link length. (And I haven't been gentle on them.)
John D
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- Rockford, Mi
What am I missing here and with the OP? 108-110" WB with 1.5-2" rear stretch? Stock XJ W is 101.4", right? So you're stretching the front 5-7"? Doesn't add up to me.
Likely that the stock WB is more like 106. Which makes up for the differences in your numbers.
John D
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- Rockford, Mi
That would explain the difference in the numbers, except that everywhere I see on the web it says 101.4". I wonder which is actually right. Mine hasn't been stock for a very long time and I never actually measured it in the start.
ROKRWLR
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Stock was in the 101+ range....
If you look at stock axle brackets, they put the coil pretty far off center forward. Typical swap brackets get them closer to or on the axle centerline. That in itself gets some stretch. When I had normal steering and a HP 44 I stretched the front about 3" and that was about all I could do with a steering box moved slightly forward and a bigger pitman arm. Mine now has full hydro, and I moved my upper coil mounts and did do a big stretch. Front of my 38s are even or just past the face of my bumper.
What makes it even bigger of a stretch is that most XJs with a bolt on lift (depending on lift) get the WB shortened substantially by the geometry of the arms and leaf packs so they fit the tire in the wheel opening at full stuff. I think my RE 4.5 short arm was under 100" at ride height. Long arms probably steal less WB.
This is 110": (this might be 111" before I pulled the front back a hair)
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DeftwillP
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How did you move the steering box?
