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05-01-2012, 07:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cedar Springs, MI
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Here's my '05 LJ ( build thread HERE). It's the only vehicle I have ever purchased new, and it's been stored every winter to keep it out of the nasty Michigan salt. It currently has 53K miles on it.
Stock.
Budget boost & 31s.
How it looks today (it's back from the paint shop tomorrow). It's close to being driveable after a year of work.
Specs:
My stock Dana 30/Dana 44 axles, along with the OEM Ravine wheels & 31" KM2s will end up in my 11-year-old daugher Mira's 1993 XJ 2-dr. project, which was also featured in the January 2012 Jp Magazine ( article HERE). Here's what the reworked LJ Dana 44 rear axle ended up looking. 
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05-01-2012, 07:25 PM
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#5492
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Southern MD
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05-01-2012, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 129
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That's all good. But it must be an old pic. No way that many LJ's are on a truck together now a days
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05-01-2012, 08:52 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Lockport, IL
Posts: 893
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Looks like a JKU on the right though.
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1997 TJ Sport 4.0
Dark Montego Blue
AX-15
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05-01-2012, 11:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Germany
Posts: 141
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Originally Posted by -MJK-
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 what has happend to them? They look all lowered! 
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Proud member of the LJ-Family :) => 2005 LJ Rubicon - YES!
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05-02-2012, 07:55 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Toronto
Posts: 33
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Here's mine:
I'm sorry no offroading shots yet (usually just me on a detour) but I did crawl every page in this thread and there's way too much chatter, way too few photos so I'm undermining the required 'off road' shot and adding a picture from a parking lot...sry.
I've got a 60+ mi/ day commute so a little 3" lift and 31's is all I want to plow down the road with. Oh and don't get on me about the chrome, I've only had her for 8 months and the 52" Hanson front bumper is in the garage, going on this weekend!!!
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0IIII0 Got Mud?
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05-02-2012, 07:56 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Toronto
Posts: 33
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shoot, any links as to the proper size for replies....sorry about ^^^^
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05-02-2012, 11:13 AM
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Watching Big Brother?
Join Date: May 2009
Location: 34*24'N, 119*42'W, SoCal
Posts: 3,893
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Originally Posted by 2kmperhr
Oh and don't get on me about the chrome, I've only had her for 8 months and the 52" Hanson front bumper is in the garage, going on this weekend!!!
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I was biting my tongue as I saw the pics.  I love my Hanson.
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Gear-Calculator Stu Can Help You Part Names and Numbers Dealer Supplied Parts and ask for "Jeep Club" Prices
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Originally Posted by Ron Paul
“Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.”
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"Did you exchange your walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
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05-02-2012, 11:33 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 341
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[QUOTE=flying_bosun;13504738]I was biting my tongue as I saw the pics. I love my Hanson.
Your LJ is bad@ss. What springs are you putting in place of the OME springs.
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05-02-2012, 12:01 PM
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Watching Big Brother?
Join Date: May 2009
Location: 34*24'N, 119*42'W, SoCal
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Your LJ is bad@ss. What springs are you putting in place of the OME springs?
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Thanks. Still haven't made up my mind about springs. I'm trialing some 4" Curries up front at the moment, and while I like them so far, I'm inclined to drop an inch down to 3". My dilemma is that it sits perfectly level now with the 4" Curries in front and 2.5" OME949s in the back  the 949s also have a spring rate of 216 lbs, and I'm concerned about getting coils that aren't heavy enough to adequately handle all the extra weight in the rear. It really had my mind in a bind for the last couple of weeks. 
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Gear-Calculator Stu Can Help You Part Names and Numbers Dealer Supplied Parts and ask for "Jeep Club" Prices
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Originally Posted by Ron Paul
“Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.”
― Ron Paul
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"Did you exchange your walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
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05-02-2012, 12:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 341
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Originally Posted by flying_bosun
Thanks. Still haven't made up my mind about springs. I'm trialing some 4" Curries up front at the moment, and while I like them so far, I'm inclined to drop an inch down to 3". My dilemma is that it sits perfectly level now with the 4" Curries in front and 2.5" OME949s in the back the 949s also have a spring rate of 216 lbs, and I'm concerned about getting coils that aren't heavy enough to adequately handle all the extra weight in the rear. It really had my mind in a bind for the last couple of weeks. |
Mine sits about 3/4" low in front with OME 934/949. If I had it to do over again I would buy AEV 3".
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05-02-2012, 12:24 PM
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Watching Big Brother?
Join Date: May 2009
Location: 34*24'N, 119*42'W, SoCal
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Originally Posted by dreed
Mine sits about 3/4" low in front with OME 934/949. If I had it to do over again I would buy AEV 3".
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It's between AEV and Currie for me. There's lots of great reviews of both and while I like the unsprung length of the Curries, I'm skeptical that the lower spring rate 3"s in the rear would handle my LJ with the swing away spare carrier and/or if I ever put the expedition rack on again. Decisions, decisions....Ugh!
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Gear-Calculator Stu Can Help You Part Names and Numbers Dealer Supplied Parts and ask for "Jeep Club" Prices
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Originally Posted by Ron Paul
“Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.”
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"Did you exchange your walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"
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05-02-2012, 02:20 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Bristol, va
Posts: 823
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A local small car lot had three. He actively looked for the LJ's but the lot has since closed. I often wonder what happened to those LJ's.
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05-02-2012, 03:37 PM
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#5504
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Web Wheeler
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 1,335
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05-02-2012, 04:48 PM
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Rock Bound
Join Date: May 2009
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,219
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Need some wheelin pics!
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