Bruno's Lapis Blue build - Page 2

**brunosplace** · 04-01-2009, 05:14 PM

And a quick pic of the skid mounted during the test fitting process:

Hopefully more to come tomorrow, as I am headed out now to go do more to it. If all goes well, we will be done tonight!!

billbanshee · 04-01-2009, 07:17 PM

nice work

i hope to do this soon.you should look into por15 or something looks a lil hurtin under there with all that rust

Squeeky · 04-01-2009, 08:15 PM

You got some nasty rust man! Better get under there and give it some tlc with a sander and a can of rustoleum..

**Knuckelhead** · 04-01-2009, 08:15 PM

Have you thought about adding a site tube to the TC and an external filter to the tranny?...

**brunosplace** · 04-02-2009, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billbanshee

nice work

i hope to do this soon.you should look into por15 or something looks a lil hurtin under there with all that rust

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squeeky

You got some nasty rust man! Better get under there and give it some tlc with a sander and a can of rustoleum..

The joys of the Great State of Michigan and Millions of tons of road salt every winter, along with the fact that the Jeep is used for snowplowing all winter.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knuckelhead

Have you thought about adding a site tube to the TC and an external filter to the tranny?...

Where did you find the sight tube and filter set-up?

**brunosplace** · 04-02-2009, 12:36 PM

Well it's not finished, the exhaust is giving me fits.

It is hitting the trackbar, and the rear edge of the skid, we have two inches of clearance at the front edge, but the way it hangs, the pipe is resting on the rear edge of the skid.

We cut off all of the hangars last night, and are re-making them to move to move it around.

We stopped at 1:30 this morning and are taking a few days off from it, before we decide to fix it with a proper application of high explosives!!

(Not that the wife and family would mind that, right about now. Considering the amount of time this "little" project has consumed lately.

)

Some clearer pics of the skid mounted:

**brunosplace** · 04-06-2009, 03:20 PM

All done, except I am waiting on UPS for my new driveshaft. A front wheel drive Jeep SUCKS in a blizzard.

After we finished it up last night I drove it home, a trip that is normally 25 minutes took 1 hour and 45 minutes. About 4-5 inches of very wet heavy slushy type snow, it was coming down so fast and hard I could see better with the headlights off.

Anyhow here are more pics.

Snow still packed into the undercarriage 12 hours later:

Snow and a good view of the trans temp sensor in the pan.

The new deep trans pan (part #P4007886AB) (Re-usable pan Gasket, part # 429587AC) :

One more unforeseen complication was that the deep trans pan would not clear the original mount location on the new skid, because of the low mount that I used for this. The solution we came up with was to cut out the forward inch of it slightly wider than the pan and flip the cut out piece back in and weld it so there was no lose of strength. In this pic you can see where the OEM mount bolts would go through the beveled section, we cut into that area in the center of the forward bolt holes and cut out the lower welds to remove the section.

From underneath, you can see where we moved the reinforcement to.

**brunosplace** · 04-06-2009, 03:23 PM

Now the Actual Clearance Gain:

Before:

After:

12" at the low point to start, and ending at 14.75" all the way across when done. Not a bad increase in clearance considering that No body lift was used for this.

**brunosplace** · 04-07-2009, 09:36 PM

Got the new drive shaft from Coast Driveline installed tonight. Ended up at 17 degrees with the pinion set at 16 degrees. NO vibes,, YAY!!!

pics coming soon:

**brunosplace** · 04-08-2009, 05:26 PM

New drive shaft:

**Zeep** · 04-08-2009, 08:23 PM

Simply Marvulous

**brunosplace** · 04-08-2009, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeep

Simply Marvulous

Thanks, it took a while, but I think it turned out well.

**brunosplace** · 04-10-2009, 05:03 PM

More before & after

before:

after:

before:

after:

As you can see in the last two, the skid is almost level with where the t-case drop was before

I am glad I did this mod!!

**ductape1000** · 04-10-2009, 10:09 PM

Looks great!! A TT is on my list for future mods for sure!!

WildBlue · 04-11-2009, 01:48 AM

Nice color

....here is mine...it's changed a bit from when this picture was taken...no more MTRs back to BFGs and it has an antirock now...

Trey

04-01-2009, 07:17 PM	#17
billbanshee Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: springfield il Posts: 332 Profile Gallery Classifieds My Jeeps	nice work i hope to do this soon.you should look into por15 or something looks a lil hurtin under there with all that rust __________________ 98 tj sahara re4.5sf,bfg 33 12.50mt d30arb/d44 detroit 456 gears bulletproof bumpers/tomken skids/tor roll cage warn 9000i