Well…I guess I will start off to say that I’m a relative of Greg (southerncrusier62). I have just started a new build-up so I figured that I would share it with you and hopefully once I’m done I can come out and wheel with you guys. I guess I will start out with how it all started. I have been wheeling for some time now with my jeep Cherokee, which started with just a 3 inch lift, then went to a 4.5 inch lift, and then to the custom suspension that is had under it until a couple of months ago. I did a lot of work to the Cherokee and took it wheeling to callalantee in Mountain City, TN. I was going on the trail called upper Armor-all, where I broke the front driver axle shaft and then tried to back it down and popped the bead on the driver front tire. Then one of the other rigs there tried to winch me up the trail which is where the steering bound up so much it pushed the draglink into the steering box and broke the steering box off the unibody while also bending and cracking the unibody. This of course happened because I did not reinforce anything on the Cherokee which is pretty much a necessity. I did not feel like having to deal with the unibody anymore so I bought a FJ-40 chassis from Chase (EastCoastGearSupply) and now I’m switching over everything from the jeep to the FJ-40 chassis.
Here is a picture of the jeep cherokee in the first stages:
Also here is another picture of the jeep in the first stages:
Now here are some pictures of the jeep at the ending stages:
And now Here is a picture of the chassis the first day that I picked it up (the axles were there just so that I could get the chassis to the house):
And after having the pizza delivery guy help push the thing in the garage here it is sitting in the garage:
Next was getting the axles out of the jeep and into the Jeeyota (only got the rear axle in so far because I need to get the engine in before I do the front four link suspension.
Now I got the engine out of the jeep and got the heads and everything checked out:
And that brings me up to date so far with getting the engine mounts fabbed up today and hopefully getting the engine mounted in the next couple of days.
Here are some pictures of the sad looking jeep now too:
Here is a picture of the jeep cherokee in the first stages:
Also here is another picture of the jeep in the first stages:
Now here are some pictures of the jeep at the ending stages:
And now Here is a picture of the chassis the first day that I picked it up (the axles were there just so that I could get the chassis to the house):
And after having the pizza delivery guy help push the thing in the garage here it is sitting in the garage:
Next was getting the axles out of the jeep and into the Jeeyota (only got the rear axle in so far because I need to get the engine in before I do the front four link suspension.
Now I got the engine out of the jeep and got the heads and everything checked out:
And that brings me up to date so far with getting the engine mounts fabbed up today and hopefully getting the engine mounted in the next couple of days.
Here are some pictures of the sad looking jeep now too:
