foxwar71
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- Location
- Foxboro, MA
Did the rect tubing just snap? Doesn't look like any welded areas? That's pretty wild.
Red Jeeps reincarnation
- Thread starter Colin994
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XJLI
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Long Island, NY
Buy the rubi front for sale in the classifieds
billyjp2
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- Location
- Indian Orchard MA
please tell me that something ross fabricated fell apart at the hands of a pothole.
Colin994
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- Location
- Wellesley Ma
looks like it snapped where it bends 90 degrees down to the tubing and just left a flat plate metal sandwich around the leaf pack. I know a couple shops who could help me out but I'm thinking of burning in an iron rock truss while its out, and honestly I'd rather find someone with a welder so I could learn to do it myself and pay in beer rather than just drop it off at a shop.
think this is the list of fun things for now until I figure the front end out, then i'll regear/lock it to match. really starting to look into that waggy 44 with the mini truss in the classifieds though, doesn't seem like too much more work to get a solid 44 going after I can afford steering and everything else to finish it. hope all this is a good plan...
truss:
http://www.ironrockoffroad.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=IROR&Product_Code=IR-XF88T&Category_Code=F88S
bump stoppage:
http://dpgoffroad.com/products/dpg-adj-rear-bumpstop-plates-xj/
http://www.energysuspensionparts.com/proddetail.asp?prod=191311
cover:
https://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/catalog/88DCOV.html
think this is the list of fun things for now until I figure the front end out, then i'll regear/lock it to match. really starting to look into that waggy 44 with the mini truss in the classifieds though, doesn't seem like too much more work to get a solid 44 going after I can afford steering and everything else to finish it. hope all this is a good plan...
truss:
http://www.ironrockoffroad.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=IROR&Product_Code=IR-XF88T&Category_Code=F88S
bump stoppage:
http://dpgoffroad.com/products/dpg-adj-rear-bumpstop-plates-xj/
http://www.energysuspensionparts.com/proddetail.asp?prod=191311
cover:
https://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/catalog/88DCOV.html
Colin994
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Wellesley Ma
Hey Ross any chance I could bribe ya for a date with your welder sometime soon??
Outlander560
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- Location
- New York
YES and I can pick up the psc system :rof:
their is a xj44 in the classified with a IRO truss burnt it along with other parts I'm going to him to get a motor and could pick up anything if you want and meet you somewhere. Possibly pick up the ax-15 as well just a huge parts swappage :greensmok
foxwar71
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Foxboro, MA
Hackjob Fabrications strikes again!!
Yea, let me know when you're around.
squashman702
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Brighton, MA
Hate from the guy that can't install a unit bearing.
He just added the patented jpduece quick release mod, DUH
squashman702
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Brighton, MA
Wing nuts, finger tight then backed off half a turn? I thought that was Ken's move?
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
**** the haters, quick release balljoints are easier to fix on the trail, just slide em back in instead of having to press new ones in when they get broken in half.
It's like hood pins for your suspension.
It's like hood pins for your suspension.
Mpeckham22
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- Location
- MA/NC
i must say yet again colin..... LOL
lucky your up at the NAC... the SEC is well.... the sack.. noone fun or interesting...
lucky your up at the NAC... the SEC is well.... the sack.. noone fun or interesting...
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Colin994
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- Location
- Wellesley Ma
k so after ripping everything out the u bolt plate's looking pretty beat up...
im still no fabrication genius so I'm having trouble deciding on whether or not i should try to reweld the plate back on, strip the remaining part of it off the axle and start over with a new ube, or just say **** it and go back to u bolts.
the end goal will probably be 37s on this thing so i'm almost worried that ube's will be even weaker in the future, any thoughts?
im still no fabrication genius so I'm having trouble deciding on whether or not i should try to reweld the plate back on, strip the remaining part of it off the axle and start over with a new ube, or just say **** it and go back to u bolts.
the end goal will probably be 37s on this thing so i'm almost worried that ube's will be even weaker in the future, any thoughts?
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
That has been breaking for a while, look at all that rust on the edge.
I would go with tnt UBEs or back to ubolts. If you look at the TNT ones they have a vertical rib from the box tube to the axle that runs parallel with the leaf spring, it is probably there to keep exactly that failure from happening.
I would go with tnt UBEs or back to ubolts. If you look at the TNT ones they have a vertical rib from the box tube to the axle that runs parallel with the leaf spring, it is probably there to keep exactly that failure from happening.
foxwar71
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- Location
- Foxboro, MA
Red jeep always had a bunch of axle wrap. I bet the top plate started to bend since it was just flat and I was too lazy to bend the ends up for strength. Plate probably warped and caused the bolts to loosen and the perch to see more abuse. Colin bent the UBE's on his MJ the first run out, no traction bar and wrap like a bitch. Black jeep has the same UBEs but its always had a traction bar and they're still mint.
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
Yeah, probably.
My 1/2" ubolt plates that Colin said were going to bend in 2011 are still straight, except where I have introduced them to rocks rather vigorously :gee:
My 1/2" ubolt plates that Colin said were going to bend in 2011 are still straight, except where I have introduced them to rocks rather vigorously :gee:
MoparManiac
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- Location
- Amherst, NH
Yeah I forgot you wheel like a girl.
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
Yeah sorry dude, I went wheeling like a girl in early January, where were you and your badass MJ?
I pussy footed around and was very gentle with my jeep. I should detail it soon and put some eyelashes on its headlights.
I pussy footed around and was very gentle with my jeep. I should detail it soon and put some eyelashes on its headlights.
Yeah sorry dude, I went wheeling like a girl in early January, where were you and your badass MJ?
I pussy footed around and was very gentle with my jeep. I should detail it soon and put some eyelashes on its headlights.
Ken your hate level has been rising lately, both in quantity and quality, and I have to say I approve.
