TODAY IN GHETTO-FAB

[billyjp2]

Saw this bad boy at the junkyard today. Its a shame the owner gave up and never finished it. I think they really nailed the pinion angle

 

[iaml3lue]

That's great were was it

 

[billyjp2]

western mass, I can't give away my junkyard secrets.

 

[iaml3lue]

Man I wanted that beauty lol

 

[gotboost]

Grill looks in decent shape

 

[kastein]

hahaha I love the old upper control arm just sorta chilling there

 

[H8PVMT]

hahaha I love the old upper control arm just sorta chilling there

They function a lot like the auto snow chains on busses

 

[MrShaft696]

custom front blocks, looks safe....

 

[kastein]

Wait. Are you sure it was never finished? I see a flat tire on the driver side...

Were the welds connecting the leaf perches to the axle tubes cracked?

Gut feeling is that they sucked at welding and the perches broke off and the axle housing rotated the first time they slammed on the brakes.

 

[Olympus Off Road]

You have to royally screw up to send a TJ to the junkyard, especially with that purdy of a frame.

 

[Begster]

Anyone else wondering why there appears to be a piece of tube connecting both shackles together?

 

[kastein]

That's the flex limiting device.

Probably because he built ten foot long shackles and then realized they would fold over... so he fixed that with a fix that won't fix it.

 

[cmelo]

Probably handled like a Ferrari

 

[squashman702]

Probably was actually a Ferrari with a TJ grill.

 

[Hammered]

you'd think they would have at least tried to part it out

 

[cmelo]

It's much more satisfying to just throw it in the garbage, aka Billy's backyard.

 

[billyjp2]

 

[asp]

you'd think they would have at least tried to part it out

Whoever had the brains to build something like that doesn't have the brains to do the smart thing. I'm surprised to see a TJ in a junk yard but I'm not surprised it looks like that.

Billy, stop passing off your own work as 'some idiot made this and I saw it in a JY'

 

[billyjp2]

I may put leaf springs where they dont belong, but i usually stay away from blocks.

 

[asp]

I may put leaf springs where they dont belong, but i usually stay away from blocks.