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Bigwalton's LJ - Formerly "The LJ gets some big tire love"

Lift ordered!!!

After sending my discount certificate and order to someone who was out on vacation all of last week :banghead: the lift is finally ordered.

3" LJ lift with shocks and swaybar discos
Adjustable F/R trackbars
Lower adjustable arms

He'd quoted me a price on the phone a couple weeks back and when he did the math today, he was $50 higher, but I held out and he matched the quote. When I asked for the total to my card, thinking there'd be shipping added on, he said "that's what you'll be charged". I don't know if he assumed that the shipping had been part of the quote (that might explain the difference he came up with), but I'm not complaining :smokin:

He said that this order doesn't go into their normal order fulfillment since it's a "promo" order and that it will be 7-10 days before it ships out. Guess that's fine by me considering the fat discount they're giving me. :cheers:

Now to source the body lift...
 
Working on the body lift, found out that I got a gift certificate from PSC for getting into their calendar and picked up a Steering Box Skid for the LJ too :D

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The LJ looks great. My wife and I have been considering one when I get back from here in June. She wants the grocery-go-getter 4 door variety. I will leave that debate for a later time, like maybe in person.
 
Looking forward to getting it all put together and taking the "after" pictures :D

My wife drives a 4-door JK and it's a great vehicle for her, but it's definitely a totally different animal than the TJ/LJ. I like that she's driving it because it's amazing in bad weather/snow and does surprisingly well on gas around town compared to what we were ready to acccept. It's pretty darn good on the highway considering it's a brick.
 
Got the steering box skidplate from PSC today that I ordered with my gift certificate for making it into their 2011 calendar with the Postal fall color picture.

Awful nice working on a vehicle without rusted-solid bolts! Got it installed in a couple hours tonight. Most of the time was working through bits to get the 1/2 hole drilled in my beefy bumper to support the one end of the skid that doesn't use a stock bolt. It fit fine even with my SkidRow bumper, which I was worried about.

Hoping to hear that the lift kit finally shipped (or I'd be ok if it just showed up one afternoon) and then I can really get down to business. Was hoping that I might have it to do this weekend since I'm actually home.

Edit: pics to come, battery died in camera.
 
FINALLY got the Black Diamond people to let me know what was up with this. It's shipping today, should be here Friday!! :woot:

I know what I'm doing ALL WEEKEND! Anyone local (or not) who wants to come turn wrenches is welcome! :cheers:

:cool::smokin::evil::thumbsup:
 
Tires will be in on Tuesday afternoon :D :D :D

Is it Friday yet? Maybe UPS will have goofed and done 2-day rather than ground and the lift will be here this afternoon. Not sure if I wish I had a tracking number or not...
 
I went out tonight and hosed down all the bolts involved with PBBlaster and broke free a couple that looked bad. TOTALLY different deal working on a 5 year old LJ than a 25 year old CJ, wow. Even the worst bolts came loose just fine.

Also got a burr under my saddle to finally do something about the empty holes in my aftermarket bumper. Grabbed a set of part store driving lights that I've had on the shelf forever and tried them out, they fit perfectly. So I drilled some mounting holes and cut the wiring plugs off the stock foglights and added in extra wire to reach the new location. I painted the holes I drilled, I'll install the lights tomorrow for good.

Got to try to sleep now :)
 
YOU MEAN TO TELL US THAT THERE ARE JEEPS OUT THERE WITH OUT RUST TO WORK ON? I THINK YOU BETTER CUT SOME BOLT HEADS OFF AND GET THE PLASMA CUTTER OUT JUST SO YOU FEAL AT HOME WORKING ON A JEEP.:rotfl::rotfl:

HAVE FUN WITH THE LIFT CAN HARDLY WATE TO SEE ALL THE PIC YOU ARE FAMOUS FOR TAKING ON PROJECTS. :thumbsup:
 
Yeah, no kidding right? Who knew? :crazy:

I will say that I didn't mess with the trackbar or suspension arm bolts because I'll be driving this thing today before the lift gets here (hopefully! :fingerscrossed:) but as I was spraying things down with Blaster, I saw that there was a FAT Torx bolt on the upper end of the rear track arm that looks like it could be tight to get to since it's facing the gas tank. Come to think of it, I should have checked that out and made certain that I had the right Torx bit... darn.
 
Oh my, those boxes are purdy. Is there an over/under for the install time?:thumbsup:
 
I'm not putting a number out there Kevin, but if you want to... :)

Oh, and the delay in getting all this was a blessing in disguise, I talked with the tire place again this morning and they're having a sale right now that's going to save me $25 a tire. :D

It's all I can do to work right now and not be out there already :eek: :banghead:
 
Don't you love it when stuff comes without instructions? :banghead:

Unfortunately, as best I can find, there are no Black Diamond instructions posted anywhere. There's a page on their site for them, but there's nothing there :rolleyes:

I have instructions from a 4" TJ kit and have identified all the components I have (and realized those missing bracket bolts/nuts) and how they go together, so I'm confident I can make it all work (famous last words)

They also didn't send my rear lower adjustable arms and I appear to be missing one small (inconsequential) hardware bag for attaching the rear trackbar bracket to the axle. I probably have the needed hardware sitting around or will run to get it in the morning.

Worst case, I'm out of town for 4 days next week anyway and Kate can give me a ride to the airport if it's still on jackstands while they overnight what I'm missing :D

Starting on the front now.
 
No worries. Kate will have it done by the time you get back in town. She'll probably even have it decorated with Christmas lights too.:popcorn:
 
So where is the garage web cam so we can watch the agony of defeat and thrill of victory as you struggle late into the nights?
 
We are men and don't need instructions!
We have torches,welders and cut off wheels!
Grunt grunt
 
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