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    That thing is 6 bolt wheels. Its a half ton J10.
    They come with D44 front and rear. The rear has slight passenger side offset as its AWD.
    does it have low range? The lever is under your right leg under the leading edge of the seat.
    It should also have a vacum dial lock in the glove box.....letteraly cardboard box....
    This thing lock the xfer case to be 50/50 split.
    In open opperation the front axle gets 20-30 % off the drive.
    It can be turned into a 2wd selectable.
    But them parts are way hard to find anymore.
    The chain drive xfer cases in these will stretch and skip indise the case.... the front drive shafts like to come off and eat the back corner of the TH400 trans missin.
    That trans is an odd ball as well.
    Round bell house not the diamond top like in the chevy/GMC
    so there is an adaptor plate to make the chevy stuff work.
    This would be a good thing for uprade to say a 700r4.
    The AWD works great as long as its tight and the vac lines have no leaks.
    We added selectable lockers to a 4door with that set up.....wow be shure the thing will stop or you could be up a tree!
    I mean WOW locked locked and locked...

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    so we want out last weekend for a drive.
    Ended up out on FS360 cedar mt. road, out by mettberry/longwater/hackett gutches,
    Snow is deep this year, got sucked off into the deep stuff at one point and did some fender damage.

    So comming soon will e front flat tube fenders with a matched set out back.
    Plan is to use some 1 1/4 .120 tube and some 16g flatstock.
    I dont like how wide mine are right not. 5inch is to much, but I think this jeep was sold in Utah thus it had to have full tire coverage.
    Colorado we can get away with 2 inch of tire expossed, so a 4 inch flair will do just fine.
    I wont e redonig the whole fender like most the DIY kits do.
    As the outer skins are replacable I dont mind cutting up my now bent front fenders.

    With the removal of the front sway bar a few months ago the front tires have impacted the fenders and snapped the plastic ones and bent the steel factory fenders, and the rears are suffering as well. my right rear got its tear last spring at mettberry.
    the left rear is the last unmolested fender.

    So I am nabing a bender from a friend and come the end of the month will be getting started on the new stuff. rears will be removale but yet heel straong to take a beating. some crusher ccornners might need be done as full skins to help here at some point.

    oops.. booboo!
         

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    i have 13.5" of tire exposed lol

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    I know right.....but you trailer your jeep a lot to Alex.
    In town on a daily driver the locals on the south side of town get a little upset about huge roster tails flying off the back.

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    City of Centennial dont like that at all !!
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    Right....but yet they can't seem to fix any roads as well....big Tires required on these roads.

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    Add flat tends to it a few weeks ago.
    I like the look for sure.
    But we sling crap all over the mirrors now.
    All good in the grand scheme of things.

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    You say'n bigger mud flaps are needed? Big difference to the vehicle behind that traveled the same roads - but had wider flaps...


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    Yup we look a bit like that when the weather goes bad.

    But we like them the look good and are far stronger than the plastic ones we just busted up!

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    So a Quadratec 2.t"lift has made its way into my hands.
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    It was fairly easy to install.
    The front want on well and easy.
    The rear axle not so much.
    The tracker bracket is of poor design to say the least.
    After you install it with the factory track at bolt.
    Drill 1/2" hole for a side bolt.
    Now here is the issue.
    You must now in not the long factory bolt to tighten the new bolt....what the hell!
    Instead of stagering the hight of side bolt it is right in line with the factory bolt.
    Thus take apart what you just put together....stupid engineering to say the least.
    Then there is the factory farm side shock bolts, wow really 2 Tinny bolts with 120k miles worth of dirt and dust. Snap!
    Out come the drill, oh wait you can get close Enoch to the frame to drill it straight.
    So out comes the air hammer to bust the welded nut lose.

    So a 4-6 hour install turned into 8 crap to say the least.

    So after all the work I come to find out that my jeep was stock hight.

    I now have the clearance I needed for my tires, am rid of my work out saggy coils and shocks.
    The ride is stiffer and much more level, even without the sway bar.

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    ok picture time now that we got a new computer!

    well once I figure out why the upload is failing I will post pics

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    so I had to resize pics for the uploads to work but here they are.

    flat fender, seat, and lift
                

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    holly crap now I got 2 that are up side down....dam it

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    dieseldoc previously posted:
    "holly crap now I got 2 that are up side down....dam it"

    That's from standing on your head while taking the pic, or from holding the camera upside down. Lol
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    Tom previously posted:
    "That's from standing on your head while taking the pic"

    Gets my vote!

    Looking good Brandon!
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    Cell phone sideways.

    Thanks all.

    So the front want up 1.5 inch and the rear want up 3.o inch.
    2 inch leveling kit is all it had to clear the 33's.
    It rides better now and not near as tippy.
    Factory springs were waisted.

    Some adjustable rear upper links are on the list now, got a slight vibration in the drive shaft.
    Picking up the rock Trac case next month woo hoo 4:1 and slip eliminated from the rear of the case.

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    Will be ordering these soon as they will lend to getting the vibration ok it of the rear end and help with shifting the rear back under the spring buckets
    http://core4x4.lunasoft.com/core4x4....s-w-rubber.php

    I will be cutting the powers from My Sami to make powers for the jeep.
    Curently they are way to long.

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    deathe wobble can bugger off!

    So we have been batling death wobble for some time now.
    The factory track bar bolt is dam small.
    And the bushing is an issue as well.
    I upgraded the axle side bushing to a synergy one with the 16mm bolt hole.
    This will fix the hole on the frame sid ethat is now egg shaped from the small factory bolt that just can seem to stay tight no matter how hard I wrench it down.
    So after carefully enlarging this hole to keep it round and strieght there is now a 16mm bolt in a hole that had a 7/16 or something tinny like that.
    this is now using a stover lock nut as well, and the flat of the nut fit tight against the factory steel so no goofy tab needed.

    The next thing that was torn up was the factory Mercades steering box.
    wow these things are expencive if you can even find one.
    I spent 3 days calling around to find a steering box.
    NAPA cant even get one as their builder has not a one in the building
    Same thign from all the other parts houses
    Calle Red Head steering and they want near $700 for a reman box.....wow for a stock box so not happening.

    So I ordered me a AGR sagnaw steering box last week, these are upgrades as they have a higher presure setting and a variable ratio in them 13/16:1
    As well as the cool cap that they install
    The install was a bit of work to say the least.
    As my bugit is still very tight with Therse still not working.
    It is recomended to replace the lower steering shaft, this will come as funds allow.
    The 03-06 shaft is longer after the lower joint so the shaft hits the over flow tank
    The colapsable side hast to get shorter by 2 1/4" this was the easy part.
    Spent some extra time and greesed the bearing in the carrier for the shaft
    Had to go buy the high pressure hose for the pump to steering box as the 04 hose will not work no matter how you try.
    The return side was a bit fo work to get to clear the lower part of the grill assembly
    The good thing was the pitman arm fit just fine

    So in all the steering got upgraded and the track bar up graded as well.

    Things are tight and right again
    The steering is faster by a full turn now
    Th steering box will turn 1 finger on pavment at idle with the 33s so inprovement there as well

    Now for the all important PICS
             

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    did you consider the durango steering box upgrade? probably cheaper than the AGR...

    J.

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    Ya, the Darango box was cheeper, but the ratio in it fixed.
    The one I got is variable.
    And it's new not a reman, the Darango boxes are reman

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