A friend's 93 YJ on 38's.

Tacoma747

Tacoma747

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Been busy on this lately, he did most of the work himself. I did the bumpers, sliders, cage, and rear shock hoops, as well as various help with the other stuff on it. D44/D60, 5.38 gears, locked, 38" SX's. He needs to lengthen the front driveshaft, and make some bumpstops for the front and rear. We also need to finish the cage and mount his new seats. He got Corbeau Baja SS's, we have to make the mounts for the seats (will be tied into cage), and put an X-brace in the main bar to mount the harnesses to, a couple more tubes will be added diagonally over the drivers/passengers head, and gussets will be welded in before the cage is complete. The rear shocks hit the tire when fully stuffed, but once he gets deeper offset wheels that will solve the problem, I wanted them vertical and as far out as possible because that is where they are most efficent (sp?). Here are the pics:
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Thanks, and as for suspension, I think they are waggy 44044's in the front, obviously no shackle reversal. In the rear it has skyjacker 5" lift springs for an XJ (what he took the axles out of), they were WAY too tall with a spring over, so he did a spring under. It seems to ride pretty well (except for the tires), and flex is decent, but not spectacular, it might flex a little more once he gets deeper offset wheels, but not a ton.
 
by looking at how the front flexed i didnt think they were waggy's..... thought they were jsut lift YJ packs....

my CJ has been SOA for 5 or 6 years now........but im just finishing up a 1 ton swap and I used waggies in the front and they flex like mad....... but im gonna add a leaf into the pack to level it up to the rear which is jsut lift CJ packs..........gonna run between a 38-40 on H1's
 
It looks like it might get 1" more uptravel or so, and a couple inches of downtravel. THat is judged by how much the shocks have left on them. His draglink would hit the tierod if it flexed much more though, so he may need to get a shorter one(pitman arm that is). Plus, he had to stop there because the rear tire was rubbing something on the body pretty bad, once he gets deeper wheels we should be able to do a real flex test.

No build-up thread is complete without a picture of before it went under the knife, so here it is, stock axles and 31's, no lockers. Big jump, straight to full-width's and 38's.
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