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Im not a firm believer in the term build thread. I'm not building anything, and if i were i'd be posting a "build thread" on pirate. I, like most people am just bolting crap on, no need to try and church it up. With that being said, I figured i'd start a post of the crap I've done, and am doing to my jeep, and doing on the cheap.
I bought my 92 yj islander in march of 2011, drove 7 hours each way to get it. When i bought it it had no bumpers, transmission was getting stuck in 4th gear, and wouldn't release, had worn out STTs on it, an 8.8 rear, d30 front with solid passenger side shaft, ARB and 3.73's, set up for SOA, crappy lift springs and a shackle lift, had a few other things as well..
I wheeled it a bit and found quickly where it needed improvement, if memory serves me this is what i replaced or did to it in somewhat chronological order:
New steering stabilizer
Fixed exhaust, and threw a flowmaster muffler on, with new tail pipe
Bought pro comp rear bumper, and xrc style knock off front bumper
threw an amp and sub i had from my car in
Experimented with new springs for the rear, ended up throwing a tundra add-a-leaf in a set of stock yj springs to bring the rear up to match the front
got rock rails and welded them to the frame
got a crappy center console
threw in a cobra cb
tj door tops for my hard half doors to fit the hard top
replaced my crappy rear 6x9s with some kenwoods
made a hand throttle
got 35x1250r15 km2s
replaced the motor with a '99 long block
sold old rear bumper, and got a much cooler one with an air tank plumbed in, and swing out arm. looks similar to one made by bodyarmor now, but the company that made mine is no longer in business
got an engo 10000lb w/synthetic
warn winch plate
another set of daylighters
swapped in wagoneer springs front and rear
new front speaker pods that go in front of the shifter, with another set of kenwoods this time 5.25's
new speaker enclosures that go between the roll cage and the wheel wells, threw my 6x9s in them
new corbeau baja rs front seats
new besttop trailmax ii rear seat
5.5" tj fender flares
dodge durango steering box
so that pretty much brings me up to a week or so ago, now the bolt-on on the super cheap starts, i've already accomplished some of this, but the bulk of it should be done by the end of the month hopefully. In the end i'll only be out of pocket a few bucks for some misc things here and there.
Already done:
ARB Dexluxe winch bull bar bumper
Warn XD9000i, threw my synthetic rope on it, im not a fan of cable
Schroth Racing AutoControl II harness system, with release switch added
Steering box brace
Planned to do in the next 2 weeks:
Seatbelts
Seat brackets (mine suck)
Safari top with tonneau cover
Tuffy glove box safe
Exhaust including header, high flow cat, gibson catback
Rebuilt AX15
Swap in np231 equipped with TeraLow 4:1 w/JB Conversions SYE
Front driveshaft
HP Ford D44 with superwinch hubs, moser 30 spline axle shafts, detroit locker
Ford 9 inch with TrueHi9 3rd member, currie 35 spline axle shafts, detroit locker
Both axles narrowed to 64.5" WMS to WMS
4.56:1 gear ratio
New set of wheels 5 on 5.5
Then within the next few months I plan on adding a few more things:
Reid racing knuckles, high steer arms, crossover 1ton+ steering linkage, hydraulic ram assist
Build on board air out of AC compressor
I'm sure i'm forgetting some things, namely pictures, but i have them on my phone so those will have to wait for now, i suppose now i'll have a place to upload them when i take them..
I bought my 92 yj islander in march of 2011, drove 7 hours each way to get it. When i bought it it had no bumpers, transmission was getting stuck in 4th gear, and wouldn't release, had worn out STTs on it, an 8.8 rear, d30 front with solid passenger side shaft, ARB and 3.73's, set up for SOA, crappy lift springs and a shackle lift, had a few other things as well..
I wheeled it a bit and found quickly where it needed improvement, if memory serves me this is what i replaced or did to it in somewhat chronological order:
New steering stabilizer
Fixed exhaust, and threw a flowmaster muffler on, with new tail pipe
Bought pro comp rear bumper, and xrc style knock off front bumper
threw an amp and sub i had from my car in
Experimented with new springs for the rear, ended up throwing a tundra add-a-leaf in a set of stock yj springs to bring the rear up to match the front
got rock rails and welded them to the frame
got a crappy center console
threw in a cobra cb
tj door tops for my hard half doors to fit the hard top
replaced my crappy rear 6x9s with some kenwoods
made a hand throttle
got 35x1250r15 km2s
replaced the motor with a '99 long block
sold old rear bumper, and got a much cooler one with an air tank plumbed in, and swing out arm. looks similar to one made by bodyarmor now, but the company that made mine is no longer in business
got an engo 10000lb w/synthetic
warn winch plate
another set of daylighters
swapped in wagoneer springs front and rear
new front speaker pods that go in front of the shifter, with another set of kenwoods this time 5.25's
new speaker enclosures that go between the roll cage and the wheel wells, threw my 6x9s in them
new corbeau baja rs front seats
new besttop trailmax ii rear seat
5.5" tj fender flares
dodge durango steering box
so that pretty much brings me up to a week or so ago, now the bolt-on on the super cheap starts, i've already accomplished some of this, but the bulk of it should be done by the end of the month hopefully. In the end i'll only be out of pocket a few bucks for some misc things here and there.
Already done:
ARB Dexluxe winch bull bar bumper
Warn XD9000i, threw my synthetic rope on it, im not a fan of cable
Schroth Racing AutoControl II harness system, with release switch added
Steering box brace
Planned to do in the next 2 weeks:
Seatbelts
Seat brackets (mine suck)
Safari top with tonneau cover
Tuffy glove box safe
Exhaust including header, high flow cat, gibson catback
Rebuilt AX15
Swap in np231 equipped with TeraLow 4:1 w/JB Conversions SYE
Front driveshaft
HP Ford D44 with superwinch hubs, moser 30 spline axle shafts, detroit locker
Ford 9 inch with TrueHi9 3rd member, currie 35 spline axle shafts, detroit locker
Both axles narrowed to 64.5" WMS to WMS
4.56:1 gear ratio
New set of wheels 5 on 5.5
Then within the next few months I plan on adding a few more things:
Reid racing knuckles, high steer arms, crossover 1ton+ steering linkage, hydraulic ram assist
Build on board air out of AC compressor
I'm sure i'm forgetting some things, namely pictures, but i have them on my phone so those will have to wait for now, i suppose now i'll have a place to upload them when i take them..
I think i'll be the only person in Spokane with a truehi9 under a DD wrangler..
