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The other pic of them is too large to upload. Either way, these things are beef. But I’ll need to throw probably $3K at them now since I want 5.13 and lockers rather than 4.88 and spools, and they have absolutely no outer/brakes/hubs/shafts.

And, an update. I’m tired of breaking my front axle. My buddy with the Ultra4 car (post #37) wasn’t ever able to break his Jrat Sixty9s in RuffStuff housings, and was tired of kicking his spare axles around. It wasn’t cheap to get them from FL to AK, but they arrived today:

Man; it's been more than 7 months since I logged in here! Sorry! The only mount set that I had an issue with was the one just forward of the gas tank. I ended up cutting some additional spacers for those two body mounts.

What ever happened with this conversation?

Minor updates: the vibration continued getting worse which coincided with us moving and my putting all my tools and worldly possessions into storage where I didn't have regular access, my family being more-or-less homeless, and the addition of another vibration coming from the front somewhere...

Sorry; went into a hole for the last 8 months. Shortly after the last post we put an offer in on a real house with a yard and a bigger garage and stuff, which required immediately selling the condo and being homeless for a month+ and putting all our stuff into storage yada yada yada. Closing...

You can, so long as it meets factory I/M for the original vehicle that the newer engine came from, AND you get it passed by a California referee. When Anchorage had California I/M, it essentially ended legal engine swaps because you'd have to take the vehicle to California to a referee station...

#4 is a custom one-off. There was no factory half-cab for the postal. An owner cut down a postal World Cab to make that one. As to other tops, Whitco also made a factory half-cab for full hard doors.

I got a Kilby skid and it's been great!

They've got bigger tubes and 1-piece shafts, so yes, they are stronger. The only "weak" point they still retain is the relatively small amount of engagement between the tubes and the cast diff housing itself, but it's not that bad. Guys build FSJs and keep the stock axles all the time...

Another shot of the tailgate. With the BesTop seal in place, it actually doesn't even want to close all the way. And another shot of the windshield frame. Emblem close-up. Proof of concept: I hate how I have to carry a 1/2" on an extension to fold the windshield frame down, so...

I did eventually get the driver's side door worked out. And my buddy painted my "new" hood. It's a pre-'81, so it has the divot for the blackout light, but whatever. I admit I was slightly disappointed with the paint, but he wanted to finish the buffing in the spring when I was ready to...

It's just a spring shop here in Anchorage that builds their own packs, etc. The owner is a Scrambler owner though!

My friend looking at the ZJ later commented as I was winching the WK2, "Wow, that winch is fast!" I later checked the driveshaft while rotating on jack stands and decided that both the slip yoke and the centering ball were slightly going out, so I ordered a whole new shaft from Adams, and...

I couldn't ever figure out what was going on with the driveshaft vibration, and ultimately decided it was probably because I needed a new rear driveshaft; maybe something happened to it while I was changing to the 1310/1330 conversion joint? I don't know, but removing the rear shaft caused the...

Pre-gear change pics that I forgot to post: Cool pic a buddy of mine took and edited when my club was doing a winch demonstration just after I installed the headlights. Note the lack of winch. The solenoids had started giving me fits, so I took it off to give it to a guy who uses the forum...

I’ve been sitting on a set of used 4.10 rear JK gears for several years that I’d been holding onto because they are larger than the ZJ’s Dana 44HD ring gear, but they fit on the ZJ carrier and the pinion will work by using a Chrysler 8-1/4” crush sleeve. (This conversion also requires a...

There was a guy selling reproductions on eBay for awhile. I may have bought his last set as he was getting out of the fab business. Post #318 on my build thread shows a pic of one side as I was installing them. https://www.cj-8.com/threads/my-new-dream-scrambler.27328/page-16 I did sleeve them...

Certifiable did more work than I did. I’m away from the Scrambler at the moment, otherwise I’d take pictures. I’ll be back on Tuesday. In sum, I have the Advanced Adapters tailshaft, which is all cast aluminum. I used one hole already in the tailshaft for the mount/torque-arm, and drilled the...

You’d need to do the same thing as everyone else trying to run half-soft-uppers: get a TJ frame and cut/weld the pin.