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Bruised LJ

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#1 ·
Growing up my dad had an '89 XJ lifted and locked on 33s that we would always take out. I got the jeep bug early with that, and I was hooked. When he lost his Jeep due to an electrical fire, he was done with the crawling thing and wanted a more comfortable ride to take him hunting and camping. Ever since then I wanted my own Jeep. In January of '09 I picked up a clean, stock, never wheeled '06 LJ with 12,500 miles for $17k.


I knew I wanted to build my Jeep up to be able to handle some of California's toughest trails, while still being a daily driver. I started wheeling it stock and had a lot of fun. I quickly learned that I hated mud

and loved more technical crawling.

 
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#219 ·
Gotta love living so close to Poly Performance. About 24 hours later and I have my parts.

Rear outboard kit and lower shock mounts on top, internal sleeves on bottom.


Internal sleeve for the long side.


Rear shock tower. Beefy.


And lower shock mounts.


Still waiting on the front JJ kit. Heard its possibly back ordered.. Hope it shows up in time for the Mojave trip mid March.
 
#294 ·
Justin what did you end up doing for front shock mounts? I have purchased the same Poly rear kit and am getting the final parts together before I install my Savvy 4" lift. I am using 12" Fox Resy shocks in all corners and was thinking about using a pair of the Ford towers in the front.
 
#235 ·
That looks really nice! Now you've got me considering the same thing since I'm in the middle of an HPD30 build at the moment... With the inner axle tube set up is there an axle tube seal kit that will work with that? I purchased the Alloy USA tube seals for mine, but looking at them and the inner sleave on yours there's no way they would work. I've seen some nasty stuff inside of unsealed axle tubes on one of my Jeep club members D30 when he pulled out his shafts to replace the u-joints, and I wouldn't want any of that stuff inside mine.
 
#239 ·
Thanks! I think those would do what I was thinking, but if they were welded on the ends like yours are then I'd venture a guess that seal would melt unless it's removable... I guess I'll just run what I have for now, and if I have problems with the housing or tubes bending then I might look into a truss and inner sleeves.
 
#247 ·
You probably have more pics than I do!

Big day today. Got the JJ kit installed on the 30, and it got a coat of flat black paint. Rear coil buckets were relocated on the frame. And the outboard kit was installed. Don't have the 7100s in yet though, gotta get a couple shims to make them fit in the mounts.

Coil bucket cut off


Coil bucket relocated, with outboarded shock tower next to it.


HP30 all painted up with nice new Johnny Joints. You can also see the gussets on the C's.
 
#250 ·
Got the Bilstein 7100s in today. They're a bit stiff bit we'll see how they do next week in Mojave. Didn't have time to get the rear Prothanes in though.

Also got the front axle in. Huge thank you to Kevin (tjdualsport) for all the help. I can't thank you enough bud!

Pics tomorrow of my resi's zip tied/duct taped in place for now :laugh:
 
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