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Also in the quest to build the ultimate jeep (in my eyes) I ordered a vintage air kit for it. Was looking at an LJ two years ago that was wayyyyy out of my budget but was still tempted that had AC on it, couldn’t get the thought out of my head. I originally just had a Mojave heater I was going...

Rear truss bridge took longer than expected. When installing to fit the last pinion carrier bolt pulled the threads 🤦‍♂️. Had to wait a few days for some thread repair stuff and then when it showed up I mistakingly ordered 3/8 stuff instead of 7/16. Finally wrapped it up and had the bridge...

That being said my spare time to work on the chassis has been non existent until last week. Slid the front and rear axles back under it after their shave. Have everything squared back up. Link bars have been tightened down and truss welded back on. Hoping tomorrow to finish up the Barnes...

Had to take a break from the chassis for most of the summer. In early May I got serious about fixing the engine in my 2005 cummins since I needed a truck to haul the yellow scrambler and dad’s LJ to the scramble in Ouray. I had cracked a ring on it the December before. Pulled the engine out...

Rear axle is obviously done. Front has been shaved and ring gear machined. Went to install and realized I had thick gears which won’t work with the ARB. Figured no big deal, I’ll order some standard gears. Non existent. 5.13 is pretty much the only ratio that standard thickness isn’t...

14 bolt is shaved and geared. 5.13 gears and an ARB locker. Complete with an upside down Revolution logo, haha! Super duty 60 is up next!

I’d love to see this color in person. Pretty sure that’s what color dads 84 Laredo was that he had when I was born. He always talked about how deep the color looked.

It is beefy. It’s the same length as a cj arm pretty much as far as mounting holes. Having to set it up double shear for the heim added quite a bit of material.

Hung the poly tank, the bracket they offer lined up perfectly with the antirock sleeve.

Finished up my version of a genright twisted pitman arm. Had theirs been the right length I would’ve gone that route. Could’ve saved me from cycling the suspension and going steering lock to lock probably 60 times. Top and bottom plate are made out of 1/4”. Cut up a factory pitman arm for...

The angled weld washers worked as planned. Need to weld them on then cut the permanent drag link out of the 1.5 .250 wall DOM and make it permanent. From there it’s making the rest of the pitman arm and boxing it along with making the drag link mount in the knuckle double shear. Finished up...

The next day I realized I overcomplicated it. Would prefer to have a straight drag link. Tore it back apart and hogged the hole out on the knuckle a little bit to allow the bolt to tilt a few degrees (before with a straight arm it was limiting out the travel of the misalignment spacer on the...

So I dove in and started figuring out the drag link. At first I twisted the pitman arm slightly to allow the misalignment spacer enough travel for droop. Then decided to put a 22* bend in the drag link to allow enough travel on the knuckle side misalignment spacer. Then proceeded to build the...

Finally fought its way out of the back corner and made it onto the lift. Had to move the shock mounts again. Pushed them out to top of the knuckle, the bodies were hitting the shock hoop brace at droop before when on top of the truss. Plenty of clearance now.

Nearly a year later, 🤣, I finally have tackled the steering gear mount and pitman. I wish I would have spent more time laying out the 1/4 I cut out, didn’t spend much time cleaning it up. Figured I was going to have to do it a couple of times to get it right. I crudely cut the 1/4 plate out...

Nice. Saw him several times!

I saw two broncos. One guy I knew in the dentside brown/tan. The other was in a blue and white that seemed pretty built.

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My son and I just got back from spending the weekend participating in an event we had marked on our calendar when we heard about it nearly six months ago. Ultimate adventure style event, wheel your vehicle then drive it to the next park. King Of The Off Road. Camp Gruber ORV Park in Braggs...