What did you do to your Grand today (ZJ/WJ)?

[Grippy]

Well I put a hid kit in my high beams this arvo after work, I have never really been happy with the output. Now though, wow, tons of light!
I'm sticking with the candles in the main beam as to not be the driver that blinds everyone. The passenger side light isn't sitting properly though, can't get the little clip thingo on the ball to go back in the socket, little mongrel of a thing it is, I swear I heard it snap after I had my way with it.

[Grippy]

My stock suspension is totally shagged, so I picked up a set of Rubicon shocks cheap, they are a couple of inches longer and much fatter than the WJ shocks.
I put the fronts in tonight, a little bit of dicking around, bang a bolt out of WJ bar pin, bang the bar pin out, cut off the bushing (it's stuck on like glue) clean it up, press out the steel collar in bottom of JK shock, bang in WJ bar pin and install into car.
The thing rides beautiful now, and that's only the front.
I will tackle the rears tomorrow (day off-report writing day), looks like I just need to press out the JK bar pin, press out WJ collar and bang that into the JK bushing and it should bolt up.
Then I need to sort out springs

[Grippy]

Alright, JK rear shocks are in, was a bit of a pain in the ass to get the stupid bar pins out of the tops of the JK shocks. Had to grind the sleeve on the lower mount and massage the mount a little for them to fit.
The bloke gave me a set of JK springs too, I've been reading a few posts on yank sites about people using these so I thought I'd give it a crack, JK's are slightly heavier and have very similar spring rate which are slightly taller too. Only looked at the rears so far, I cut the pigtails off the top, the spring then ends like the WJ spring. The bottoms wouldn't fit in the mushed up isolator, but one side was gone anyway so I sat them in without them, they fit perfectly and it now rides a hair higher. All bolted together and took it for a whirl, rides like a dream now with these shocks and rear springs.
Don't know if I'll do the fronts or not, I'll see how the rears go for now but I can't see any problems with them, they seat as they should.

[Grippy]

I chucked on the JK steering stabilizer this morning, my original one was totally shagged, pretty much bolted straight on, just had to make a spacer for the drivers side so it sat the same as the WG one with that weird looking bolt it had on there. The JK one is much larger than the tiny little WG stabilizer, the bloke pretty much lifted his Wrangler when he bought it, so all of these components have done bugger all k's which works out to a nice cheap upgrade for me

[polyarkos]

Originally Posted by Grippy

My stock suspension is totally shagged, so I picked up a set of Rubicon shocks cheap, they are a couple of inches longer and much fatter than the WJ shocks.
I put the fronts in tonight, a little bit of dicking around, bang a bolt out of WJ bar pin, bang the bar pin out, cut off the bushing (it's stuck on like glue) clean it up, press out the steel collar in bottom of JK shock, bang in WJ bar pin and install into car.
The thing rides beautiful now, and that's only the front.
I will tackle the rears tomorrow (day off-report writing day), looks like I just need to press out the JK bar pin, press out WJ collar and bang that into the JK bushing and it should bolt up.
Then I need to sort out springs

Originally Posted by Grippy

Alright, JK rear shocks are in, was a bit of a pain in the ass to get the stupid bar pins out of the tops of the JK shocks. Had to grind the sleeve on the lower mount and massage the mount a little for them to fit.
The bloke gave me a set of JK springs too, I've been reading a few posts on yank sites about people using these so I thought I'd give it a crack, JK's are slightly heavier and have very similar spring rate which are slightly taller too. Only looked at the rears so far, I cut the pigtails off the top, the spring then ends like the WJ spring. The bottoms wouldn't fit in the mushed up isolator, but one side was gone anyway so I sat them in without them, they fit perfectly and it now rides a hair higher. All bolted together and took it for a whirl, rides like a dream now with these shocks and rear springs.
Don't know if I'll do the fronts or not, I'll see how the rears go for now but I can't see any problems with them, they seat as they should.

So am I reading that a JK stock setup will go into a WG/WJ to give it a lift? I'd be looking at a bar pin eliminator kit as an option too as I've seen some JK kits second hand for not much coin

[Tyvokka]

If you want new seconds JK shocks and springs, I have them. Sydney.

[polyarkos]

Originally Posted by Tyvokka

If you want new seconds JK shocks and springs, I have them. Sydney.

Thanks for the offer. I'd be keen if I wasn't in NZ - I'd imagine shipping could be costly