TJ: Richo's slow buildup

[Jeepin It]

Well ive had this car for about 5 months, the jeep bug has bitten hard. And getting friendly with more jeep enthusiasts just makes me wanna do more and more. For the most part everyone on here has been a great help and I probably wouldn't of done so much for so little without ausjeep and its members.But yeh i thought it was time for a build up thread

Atm it sits on a
2" OME lift,
RTC steering damper
RE SF rear upper control arms,
DC driveshaft and SYE,
Adjustable Trackbar,
Extended brakelines,
Home made Discos.
31" Procomp Xtreme mudterrains


It runs a Novak Thermo fan with a Killswitch and auto on for the A/C, also has a throttle body spacer, 2.5" straight through exhaust and a Snorkle. All this seems to make it flow alot better and it seems to have a much smoother revrange.



Ive also put alot of the Blackjack welding gear on it (site sponsor and a great guy) Ive got the rock sliders, Rear bar, steering box protector.




I installed a ARB compressor with a remote air intake( planning to run lockers and I didnt want water getting in if they were used on a water crossing)




It also has a tabor 9k winch, recently on a JOCWA outing it was used a few times to recover me and some toyotas and I bent the control box up. So I relocated the Control box into the Bay. I made a bracket up that mounted into some of the stock holes from the old radiator shroud and the wheel well.
Just need to figure out the switching and install a incab switch to control it.




Within the next month I plan on doing
33's on offset rims
7inch flares
Get the rear bar modified with a carrier and re-powdercoated
Rest of the adjustable control arms
Put my 50mm coil spacers in
Rear extended brake line
Put my Bikini top on
Buy some safari straps for the back
Build a rear drawer set up similar to Vic's

[Jimmyb]

So your where all the Ausjeep stickers being sent to WA are going lol. Looks good, nice and simple

[Jeepin It]

Originally Posted by Jimmyb

So your where all the Ausjeep stickers being sent to WA are going lol. Looks good, nice and simple

Yeh I want it to be simple, and really reliable. I want it to sit on a 3.5" RE springs and keep it a SA setup. But in a few years ill buy a brand new one and LA it straight away but ill always keep this car its taught me alot and been heaps of fun.

[crawl3r]

next month is gonna be a full transformation ahha

[Jeepin It]

well i went wheeling on the weekend and bend both front upper control arms, so i jumped on quadratec and bought the ramaining 6 RE SF arms, and a 1.25" JKS BL and a Daystar MML, so hopefully they will get here early next year, does anyone have much experience with quadratec whats their shipping times like ?? and also how do you measure castor angle ?

[brenttj]

what about a locker??

[Jeepin It]

Originally Posted by brenttj

what about a locker??

I'm doing air lockers when I do ratios and axles might goto a Dana 60 44 combo