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Heres my baby a well used and abused but well taking care of 1993 ZJ. Its the 5.2, 249. Has a IRO long arm kit with 8 inch coils. Rubicon Express Adjustable track bars front and rear. IRO double shear track bar bracket up front. IRO's Over the Knuckle steering with heim joints. Rubicon Express 28 in long stainless brakelines front and rear. Rubicon Express Sway bar disconnects up front, no sway bar in the rear. Shocks are 12 inch travel, (32in Ext., 20 in compr.) It also has a custom front driveshaft out a place in Utah. Its got a 7 or 8 inch slip built it, and is a double cardan. So it allows plenty of travel.

Wheels are 15x8 RockCrawlers with 3.75 back spacing, Tires are 35x12.50 Procomp Extreme Mud Terrains.

For axles it got Yukon Chromo's in the rear with a LockRight. 3.73s still.

Armor is Trail Gear sliders, welded in 3 places. Front bumper is a custom tube prerunner built by TXpro here in texas, with a winch plate and is welded not bolt on.

Engine has an electric fan conversion, MSD ignition pieces, Hypertech PCM, K&N CAI, Flowmaster 40 series.

Inside is all dynamatted, with infinity kappa 6.75s in all the doors, and soundstream tweets in the dash. Powered by a 7 in touch screen DVD player. It has a single 12in sub in the back with a 700w mono sub amp powering it.

Its got spray on bedliner on the roof between the rack rails for camping gear, also did the rear hatch and side mouldings and the hood. It helps keep scratches at bay and is easy to retouch. I did the hood louvers myself.
Its been mine for 3 years now. It was bone stock when i first got it. After my first deployment it got a 6 inch short arm kit. Then it evolved from there. Im getting ready to deploy again, and it will get a tube rear bumper, front locker, and some corbeau seats.

I have done all of the work myself, with the exception of the welding.

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Discussion starter · #3 ·
so i went out and flexed the new springs today, ill let the pics do the talking...

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As you can see, it did pretty damn good. You can see the back tire was still on the ground, and the front shock still had 1.5-2 inches of uptravel left. I took off before walmart reazlied there was a maniac behind their store. haha
 
I've said it once and i'll say it many more times. This is my FAVORITE rig period, as far as keeping it simple and functional. Of course I have a bias opinion since we are have matching colors!! What do you have planned next? Maybe a rear pre-runner bumper with tire carrier?
 
Discussion starter · #5 ·
Mperk12000... first off, thanks man!

Yes, thats exactly what i have planned next. Its been in the cards for a while, but yesterday finally made it happen. I was REAR ENDED! Not bad, as u can see in the pics from today, but it was a 4 car pile-up! The car that hit me got rear-ended after she hit me, so her car was totaled!

As for the jeep, my trailer hitch and gas tank skid took all of the blow, she actually lifted me up and drove under me! Thank god for lift kits eh? Insurance is working it now, the rear hatch is all bent and wont close right, the tailight cracked, tweekd the bumper a little and cut the wire harness to my trailer hitch. Im going to collect the money iand just get KOR's rear tube bumper. It will match the front perfectly.
 
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Yeah, the rear is getting long armed soon. Im deploying AGAIN here in a month or two. This time im saving for the rear IRO kit, some corbeau baja seats and TJ D44 with the E-locker in it for the front. It'll all be waiting for me when I get home. Thats one of the nice things about deployments. I came home last time to a stack of about 10 grand in parts. muahahah
 
Looks tuff, but watch that driver side spring. Looks like it's rubbing even on level ground. I parted out a 93 that had the same issue with stock springs. Knuckle had a little bit of a notch forming, but the spring was really wearing out right there and broke.
 
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Well guys, I just got done doing the D44a swap! I put in a complete D44a with 3.73s and disk brakes in place of my old beefed up dana 35. Now, I had yukon shafts and a lockright in the 35, and never broke a thing, i still had the stock shafts as spares. However, its just cooler to have a disk braked d44. I again have a spare set of shafts should I break one of the d44's, but at 1.5 inch and 30 splines, its a big step up from the old puny 27 splines.

As for a locker, ya, u can see by the pics. lol. Its from Miller :punk: Not my first choice, but lockers for the dana 44a's are hard to find, and in all, I made $100 on the swap by the time I sold my old axle. Not bad eh? :hump: I paid 50 bucks for the D44a and sold my dana 35 for $200. Spent some money on new brakes and seals for it, and hey, came out ahead. free money, and a bigger axle, still locked and still have trail spares. BTW I even have a spare cross pin, c-clips, spider gears, ect ect should this one ever fail me. Now, I am going to truss it with the long arm kit for the rear, and do away with the trac bar. triangulation baby! :cheers:

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are ur front long arms adjustable or are they fixed at 36.5" center to center? if so, any rubbing issues? I just ordered fixed long arms from IRO.... your rig looks good...
 
Discussion starter · #16 ·
They are the fixed ones. No rubbing issues, other than me not running bump stops in the front. It will eventually push a tire up into inner fender (or whats left of it). It will clear the long arms at full turn, (good design by IRO), and with 3.75 back spacing, it tucks inside of the wheel arch.

Im doing claytons rear triangulated kit with a truss now.....
 
Discussion starter · #18 ·
hydro steering

Well as my luck would have it, I stumbled upon a hydro assist steering setup. My brother changed his buggy from assist to full hydro with a double ended ram. And he happened to give me his Trail Gear Hyd. assist set-up.

So.... it'll be here thursday, I'll see if I can get it installed before I deploy.

heres the skinny.... Trail Gear single sided ram, believe 8 in stoke,2 in ram. Its coming with a Jeep XJ steering box already tapped and plumbed with the lines. Bolt right it. Cant wait.

heres the kit....http://www.trail-gear.com/ram-assist-kits
 
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claytons

Well, its been one long month over here in afghanistan, but at least its looking up!

Today I ordered claytons rear long arm kit! No more track bar baby! And I even splurgged and spent the extra for their triangulated shock relocation kit!

The install should be done this month out at TXPRO 4x4 in lampasas texas. I'll have the wife back home take some pics so i can post it.

The beast gets bigger all the time!!
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