TJ: Army Barbie

[Army Barbie]

Hello
I'm Georgina. Some of you may remember me from a while ago and some of you may have seen my Jeep around Brissy/Goldy/Sunny coast..

I bought my TJ in Nov 2008. It was stock aside from 31" all terrains.


I then went for a 2" OME suspension lift and 31" Bighorns


Since then I went to 33s for a while and then stepped up to 35s. This is my Jeep now..




Current "mods" are
- Colour change from 'Steel Blue' to a Lamborghini orange pearl
- 35" Bighorns
- 2" springs with 3" Billstein shocks
- ARB Front and rear air lockers
- Chromo axles all round
- Genright hood louvers
- RE swaybar quick disconnects
- DBOR flares
- Stainless steel snorkel
- Warn front bar
- Warn x8000i winch
- Bud's Customs rear bar
- Full set of Rocky Road Outfitter's adjustable control arms w/ superflex joints
- Got rid of the rear tyre carrier
- Rear corner guards
- ARB rockrails
- '05 front seats (should have kept the original '01 seats!)
- Rocklights
- 2way
- 50" light bar
- ADRAD Copper and brass radiator
- And I did a high fender lift using the original bonnet, fenders etc.

I'm not happy with my suspension setup but it does the job for now.
My plans for it have gone from social wheeler, to Tuff Truck, back to social so I have no idea. I guess I'll just keep throwing money at it and see where it ends up.

My to do list is as follows:
- Roll cage
- Harnessess - sick of the stock seat belts locking up when off road
- Corbeau JP seats
- Rear Rock Jock D60 (waiting for it to arrive)
- Custom fuel tank to give extra clearance for rear D60

That'll all be done before Coffs 2014

Then I'll do..
- Front D60 to match
- 4 link rear
- stretch front and rear
- most likely coilovers front and rear
- mod plate diffs and coilovers

[Onslow]

Very nice, like it a lot!

[jtb007]

cool jeep...can i ask why you would want to go Jk diffs? big difference to a d60......

what suspension mods are you gonna do?

i think i saw on another forum somewhere someone with the sam user name saying that they were gonna build a tj sounding similar to yours, atlas etc etc........ wasnt you was it?

i cant remember the forum though.....

[Sontssonts]

great paint job! can you tell me a little about the snorkel?

[vin18u]

honestly what is so good about a JK diff compared to a TJ diff and how can you even compare Jk Diffs to D60's

[Army Barbie]

Originally Posted by Onslow

Very nice, like it a lot!

Thanks

Originally Posted by jtb007

cool jeep...can i ask why you would want to go Jk diffs? big difference to a d60......

what suspension mods are you gonna do?

i think i saw on another forum somewhere someone with the sam user name saying that they were gonna build a tj sounding similar to yours, atlas etc etc........ wasnt you was it?

i cant remember the forum though.....

Yep, that'd be me.
Suspension wise I have no idea. The aim is to keep it as low as possible and I'm guessing coilovers but aside from that, no idea :P

Originally Posted by Sontssonts

great paint job! can you tell me a little about the snorkel?

Thanks. Umm I can't remember who made it, I vaguely remember someone saying only a few were made. I bought it off a friend who bought it off the guy who made it.

Originally Posted by vin18u

honestly what is so good about a JK diff compared to a TJ diff and how can you even compare Jk Diffs to D60's

I'm not comparing the two. obviously D60s are a hell of a lot stronger but when I get to that stage, I'll be re-evaluating what my plans for it will be. At this stage it's D60s but if having children happens first, I won't be going that extreme. As I said, I've only just started considering JK diffs.

[Tassie Jeeper]

hey barbie nice to see how it progressed to what it is now (was starting to wonder what had happened to it) do u think a long arm kit might be in the works?