ZJ Build.....

[MNC]

Nice work XJ.

You work fast

[yeti]

have you done much to the front end.....chewing through ball joints ,tie rod ends and such.....need to beef mine up as the stock shit dont like the 33s...bad day at the wof man yesterday....read somewhere that you have used ironmans stuff...what was shipping like.......cheers mark.....
oh its been 3 or 4 days....progress,,

[xj]

have you done much to the front end.....chewing through ball joints ,tie rod ends and such.....need to beef mine up as the stock shit dont like the 33s...bad day at the wof man yesterday....read somewhere that you have used ironmans stuff...what was shipping like.......cheers mark.....
oh its been 3 or 4 days....progress,,

pannard end into the chassis bracket doesnt like the flex much. Im about to put my third one in. Looking at adding onto the stock bracket to allow a heim joint to be used instead.

No problems with tie rod ends or ball joints though. (on any of my wagons)

Andy at iromman4x4fab is a bloody great bloke to deal with and very well priced. However the crew at ironrockoffroad have sent various items as "birthday presents" with bugger all value. Never had a problem with $$$ at our customs. The only issue Ive ever had with a US supplier was quadratech.

http://www.ironman4x4fab.com/

http://ironrockoffroad.com/

[xj]

Some more pics of whats been done:

Heat exchanger (the "bush camping peacekeeper" = hot shower for the girls). Its held in a fire extinguisher bracket and bolted to the firewall:






Where the muffler and cat used to live:




And remodelled tailpipe:




JET module tucked into its ne home:




2nd battery/inverter/small storage area:

[xj]

Yep, pretty cool for a heep

Thanks... i think...

[churchill]

Nice, where's the flatscreen?

[xj]

Nice, where's the flatscreen?

It hangs over my headrest for the young fella to play his playstation off.

(joking about the playstation)

[terranoman]

I notice you cut out the part of the video where it got towed out by my old Terrano hahaha jj

[xj]

I didnt cut it out ya plonker, it was on a seperate video. What are you doin sunday? Richard and others are coming up the hill. Text me through ya number too aye, ive lost it while changing phones.

[xj]

Removed the stock track bar mount and ball-jointed rod end and replaced them with something a little more user friendly.

As with anything Jeep nothing runs smooth.. the replacement bushed rod end was threaded fine and leftie (despite apparently being a matching unit for the existing adjustable track bar from the same manufacturer) so a stock end got its thread cut off and stitched onto the new one.
All in all a neat little adaptation and one which comes with a certain piece of mind in knowing that Im not going to flog out yet another ball-joint.

New mount and end




Existing setup




The old and the new


The new unit modified to fit and installed:






Next mission is temp and O2 sensors

[lilpigzuk]

Sooooo, whats next? Back to a CJ

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-ca ... 548624.htm

[xj]

Mayyyyybeeeee a v8 tow wagon and a chopped up disco on a trailer