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jervisad wrote:this thing is awesome love the sound! good truck mate.

thanks

Stock steering damper does not like this kind of stuff

Some might say it is time to upgrade?

Fitting the rear long arms in a week or so and the muffler was in the way of the new bracket. Not anymore

Nice Jeep. The penny just dropped who this is
The long handled shovel and photography was the first clues, then i saw the soft sand saga
Norwest count is getting out of control

Cheers,

sibainmud wrote:Nice Jeep. The penny just dropped who this is
The long handled shovel and photography was the first clues, then i saw the soft sand saga
Norwest count is getting out of control

Cheers,

nice one, thank mate

That sounds wicked.

mmmm giving me ideas for my new shiny..

yeti wrote:mmmm giving me ideas for my new shiny..

Giving me ideas for the exhaust on my wife's Grand Cherokee 4.7l. Hmmmm....

TJ wrote:

yeti wrote:mmmm giving me ideas for my new shiny..

Giving me ideas for the exhaust on my wife's Grand Cherokee 4.7l. Hmmmm....

I am sure she will love you for it

luckyme wrote:

TJ wrote:

yeti wrote:mmmm giving me ideas for my new shiny..

Giving me ideas for the exhaust on my wife's Grand Cherokee 4.7l. Hmmmm....

I am sure she will love you for it

She is very supportive and understanding.

With the muffler out of the way, finally had enough room to put the rear long arms on.

Borrowed the exhaust jack from Camel(thanks bud), awesome tool Gotta love the forklift at work though...

As my driveway is on an angle big time, had to anchor Jane's body firmly...next time gonna do it on a level surface, makes fitting sh*t together way easier







Old A-arm, lower arms, shocks, sway bar etc out, new long arm mounts temporarily in place, drill 20! holes in uni-body/chassis rails. And if you thought that getting burning swarf all over you is fun, try to put eight back spacers inside the chassis rails thru a small hole and line it up with the freshly drilled holes plus the long arm mounts so much fun, but definitely worth it! No wonder had to crack a few woodys along the way, and then came the darkness




few days later - apparently one has to go to work between jeep sessions - all done

A-arm in place




During test drive had a decent vibration from the back, so tweaked axle/diff angle, huge thanks to adjustable A-arm, drive shaft in perfect angle with pinion shaft now



the new rear







Ride was good with short arms, but now i'd say its excellent!

IRO all the way

Looking good. But you do need more aggressive rims and tyres with that look.

Looking awesome. Bit of a mammoth task to do in that drive.

luckyme wrote:As my driveway is on an angle big time

Happen to know that house as i rented it in 1999-2001 and can vouch it is on a hell of an angle. Did a clutch on my Courier in the same place.

Cheers,

TJ wrote:Looking good. But you do need more aggressive rims and tyres with that look.

Yeah mate, have a brand spankin new set of 33x12.5 KL71s ready to put on

looking good m8

Sand blasted.



Then came the primer...



Then paint

ewhh yuck At least they won't get stolen Keep up the good work, watching with interest

kbjj wrote:ewhh yuck At least they won't get stolen Keep up the good work, watching with interest

hehehe, its a love or hate color aye thanks mate

nice ...i think.....

...and then the new boots

coolies mate ,,the green works ,,jeeps looking good, should do it to me shiny .......

yeti wrote:coolies mate ,,the green works ,,jeeps looking good, should do it to me shiny .......

thanks mate, taking her out on the weekend to get some dirt on those shiny rims

4x4part wrote:looking good m8

cheers, the Iron Rock stuff works like a treat so far

She is defiantly looking the part... I like...

looks mint man

I agree, thats cool. Always liked that green

oops

Few months back a bloody tree jumped right into my quarter window made it to explode to pieces.

Windscreen had a decent chip for over a year now, thought it'd be a good time to replace both. Insurance Co said all good, go to my preferred place or Smith & Smith. S&S are just down the road from work, so I went there. Windscreen is not on stock, but window can be replaced within 24hrs as they need to get it from another branch. Me dropped truck off next morning, late afternoon got a call from S&S that the window they've received is for the other side, so it wont fit... They ordered in a new one, should be there in a week. 2 weeks later got the phone call that that they got it. Dropped off car next morning, they called me in a few hours later that they're sorry it is not the right model, as it is not the right version as it does not have the aerial built in it....
After another week they called that the windscreen is here, I can expect a call next week from the technician who will fit it the day after... No contacts for two weeks so I rocked up to he office to find out that the windscreen is nowhere to be found...no trace of PO or PS, so in their view it has never existed

Another 3 weeks gone and guess what, they called me that the windscreen and the proper window has arrived, ready to put in Week later got a call for technician that he cant make it, so he will call in 3 days...next week he called at 10.30pm that he will turn up at 8.30am next morning...whatever dude, just f*kin do it

Just to top it off, when he arrived he said that he cannot do it cos the truck is too high and no one told him...of course they sent the shortest guy available gave him a hand or two while at work to fit them...

Anyway, it was all paid by insurance, new windows are original MOPAR

thats the same green as me front bar and rear bumper