Finally finished up the conversion of my front bumper to hold a winch...Kinda like EricsXJ. And you can see in the pic I also finished my WJ knuckle/brake swap. The WJ swap went really good, I had WFO concepts make up some 1.25" x.219 wall tierod and draglink and used chevy 3/4ton tre's and DL ends...
I used the akebono calipers with out grinding them at all. I have 15x8 wheels with 4.75" bs...and the warn hubkit which really makes them about 4" bs.
The brakes are great, the pedal is not quite as stiff as I had hoped but I can lock up the 35's...so cant complain too much! here are the picks...a before pic of the bumper and steering and some afters...
I still need to work the draglink/trackbar angle with a TJ pitman arm that has a little less drop than the stock XJ one...but I dont have any bump steer with them being a little bit off.
I got to use the winch this weekend on a long steep loose climb out of a ravine...worked great, I might have been in a bad place had I not had the winch....
Bryan
I used the akebono calipers with out grinding them at all. I have 15x8 wheels with 4.75" bs...and the warn hubkit which really makes them about 4" bs.
The brakes are great, the pedal is not quite as stiff as I had hoped but I can lock up the 35's...so cant complain too much! here are the picks...a before pic of the bumper and steering and some afters...
I still need to work the draglink/trackbar angle with a TJ pitman arm that has a little less drop than the stock XJ one...but I dont have any bump steer with them being a little bit off.
I got to use the winch this weekend on a long steep loose climb out of a ravine...worked great, I might have been in a bad place had I not had the winch....
Bryan