Full Tube backhalf and cage rework; everything from the firewall back and floorboard up is getting replaced (except for rear axle) with tubework from the boys at Fairview Fab (the guys formerly known as Willow Street Fab).

After the rear build, the front end will be reworked - narrowed front profile, new tubework (tucked tight) and long-arm converted.


















The Hired help:


[Edited on August 30, 2009 at 8:50 PM. Reason : -]

8/30/2009 8:49:48 PM

Driveway build extraordinaire.

8/30/2009 8:51:11 PM

what a shame, hacking up such a clean truck.

8/30/2009 9:07:34 PM

this is so awesome. u guys win! can't wait to c updates!

8/30/2009 9:12:29 PM

^^ This is the truck sometime in earlyish 2008




but yeah, i halfway expect some MJ purist to bitch and moan about cutting one up, LOL.

[Edited on August 30, 2009 at 9:26 PM. Reason : a]

8/30/2009 9:25:10 PM

so what the fuck happened to it in a year?

8/30/2009 10:05:55 PM

he probably drove it like it was meant to be driven

8/30/2009 10:08:03 PM

HAHA

more like what happened with about 3 wheeling trips and a foot full of throttle

someone post a pic of BROKEASS4RUNNER

8/30/2009 10:09:49 PM

Actually 2008 was a good year for wheeling....... maybe 6-7 trips... 2009 hasnt been so good. Hasn't left my yard since january.

8/30/2009 10:13:45 PM

^^here's a vid of southern4x4 doing some rock humping with it... can't really call it rock crawling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kziwcvPOjFU

[Edited on August 30, 2009 at 10:39 PM. Reason : i think it looks even worse now]

8/30/2009 10:39:14 PM

yeah, i got some real good looks at it at harlan last fall... that thing is epic. love the exhaust note too boot

8/30/2009 10:46:43 PM

yeah, it sounds fuckin mean for a 6. at idle/lower rpm's it could easily be mistaken for a 302 or something...

8/30/2009 10:50:58 PM

Quote :

"^^here's a vid of southern4x4 doing some rock humping with it... can't really call it rock crawling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kziwcvPOjFU"

It was sloppy out that day.

I think this happened after that video and from there it hasn't changed too much, at least not enough to notice except a lot more black spray paint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGO5eINhNs

8/30/2009 10:54:01 PM

Quote :

"so what the fuck happened to it in a year? "

some of this:


this:


and a little of this:

8/31/2009 7:53:18 AM

hahaha, that's pretty awesome

really wish i had gotten into shit like that

8/31/2009 8:13:21 AM

Quote :

"so what the fuck happened to it in a year?"

Can Opener.

8/31/2009 9:10:31 AM

i will never forget the flapping tool box lids @ harlan

8/31/2009 10:11:37 AM

flapping my wings for that extra boost.

8/31/2009 10:47:56 AM

daaaaang

8/31/2009 11:31:26 AM

DAAAAANG

LOL...Joey on the bucket is hilarious.

[Edited on August 31, 2009 at 2:28 PM. Reason : d]

8/31/2009 2:25:10 PM

i just wanted to add that I too love your daaaaanng plate holler if you need some help or help drinking beer

8/31/2009 8:35:42 PM

we gonna need to plan a weekend where we can team up and get some shit done on the truck, and drink plenty of cooler beer.

8/31/2009 8:44:34 PM

cooler beer? i'm in. i make a good supervisor, too

8/31/2009 8:49:35 PM

hmmmmm y'all know i'm in lexington, no?


we gonna do this. i will go ahead and say free cooler beer and burgers. need to figure out when.

8/31/2009 9:16:52 PM

plan a weekend out and lemme know.

8/31/2009 10:03:46 PM

Should have left the stinger on.

8/31/2009 10:17:27 PM

2 bolts, and it could be back on. it is only installed when i got some creepin' to do

8/31/2009 10:20:10 PM

I am available this weekend tentatively on friday and saturday night

8/31/2009 11:35:54 PM

prob not this weekend, but one soon.

9/1/2009 7:31:53 AM

adam where are you in Lexington? I'm up that way most weekends.


I learned to drive stick in a Comanche, 86 or 87 i think. I would still have it but it was only 2WD.

9/1/2009 4:31:13 PM

I'm on Fairview Drive, near lowes and Walmart. only house with half a comanche in the backyard Hurley and i should be working this weekend if you see us stop by. pm me if so.

9/1/2009 4:58:36 PM

I can lend a hand one weekend too.

I will leave a burger for someone else and head down the street for some BBQ. Eastern style FTMFW!

9/1/2009 9:04:14 PM

Saturday sep. 12...... any and all invited...... we will work/hang/eat/drink. plenty of hardwood flooring for drunks to crash if need be. more bbq within 2 miles than you can shake a stick at.

[Edited on September 1, 2009 at 9:53 PM. Reason : or any other damn weekend, it is just a matter of picking one that works. i will be here every weeke]

9/1/2009 9:47:29 PM

ill be there, lord willin' & hamburgers grillin'

9/1/2009 9:54:32 PM

sell the motor. the rest of it needs to join this thing

9/1/2009 10:15:17 PM

hide and watch.

9/1/2009 10:20:35 PM

No going back:


cat nappin' on my iredell county creeper.


clean slate:


New wheelbase, 108"?


There goes that crazy ass bucket riding motherfucker, doin' his thang.


[Edited on September 5, 2009 at 9:26 PM. Reason : s]

9/5/2009 9:23:10 PM

you niggas crazy

9/5/2009 9:28:38 PM

BigBlueRam That video was AWESOME. You guys will have to take me out one day when you guys go rock crawling/humping/busting. I would LOVE to experience that kind of shit in a passenger's seat.

9/5/2009 10:01:45 PM

Quote :

"It was sloppy out that day."

yeah, for real. i've seen conditions deteriorate in a real hurry on the trail before, especially at tellico, but that day might top them all in how fast it happened.

^will do. we usually post up about most trips. i'd like to go somewhere before i gets cold again.

9/6/2009 8:47:04 PM

where in Iredell? I went to the West Iredell schools grades 6-10, lived on the lake out off Buffalo Shoals

9/7/2009 3:16:11 PM

the build is in lexington, where adam lives. I live/work in west iredell @ Pneu-Mech Systems off of Old Mtn.

9/7/2009 3:39:53 PM

Update time. I think Hurley and I have spent 2 or 3 full days working on this thing since the last pictures.

Started by plating the frame rails with 3.5" angle, and more 1/4" plate on the inside, after this was taken. Notice the nuts welded inside, these are some of the nuts used to hold the rear link crossmember in.


Link crossmember, attached to the bottom and sides of framerails, also sits flush with bottom of frame. Originally I had planned for it to go below, but changed my mind.


Tabs for rear lowers and the start of the upper link mounts on axle. Lowers sit at the centerline of the axle tube.


Sleeved lower link material. All joints are ballistic joints, 3" wide with 3/4" bolts.




Lowers in, rear upper joint slid in place. This one is threaded to adjust pinion angle, lowers are fixed.


Links in, tacked in place. I am worried that when it flexes, the lowers could come in contact with the uppers? Joey doesn't think they will hit. I hope to flex it out in the next couple days to see. If so i will have to redo the uppers to make some more room.


There will be more bracing added in the upper link, once I am sure everything will clear.


I am glad i did the links like this. With a flat belly i will slide right off and onto my links, nothing will be hanging down at all. This is around 2" over ride height, i think.

9/27/2009 9:41:37 PM

looking good! Do you think the flex joint will flex out/limit travel at all?

9/27/2009 11:17:29 PM

damn good job on the welds. i could care less about the jeep but im falling in love with all the fab work(no homo)

9/27/2009 11:51:00 PM

When it flexes, The joint body should only move about ~1/4" in relation to the box it is sitting in. There is more clearance than it looks like in the pictures. Hope it works!

9/28/2009 7:52:17 AM

It's looking great and the links shouldn't come close to hitting each other during flexing

9/28/2009 9:59:45 PM

This pic has something RLY Wrong with it guys!

9/28/2009 10:47:54 PM

you worried about the driveshaft clearance?

9/28/2009 10:53:19 PM

NOPE keep looking. Very easy to see.

9/28/2009 10:55:15 PM