Accidentally building an LJ

Shreddinlettuce said:
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Motobilt Jeep TJ / LJ / YJ Front Half Frame Kit | Rock Crawler Parts

Motobilt’s Front Half Frame Kit for Jeep TJ, LJ, and YJ is a weld-on steel upgrade that replaces your front frame for off-road strength and durability.
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That’s what’s twisted and broken on the front of it right now. It may end up getting replaced with a fresh one before it’s all back together. Most of the damage is on the driver side frame rail right in front of the transmission skid. Link mount shoved the rail up, in, and back.

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Rnuovrcj5 said:
That’s what’s twisted and broken on the front of it right now. It may end up getting replaced with a fresh one before it’s all back together. Most of the damage is on the driver side frame rail right in front of the transmission skid. Link mount shoved the rail up, in, and back.

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I know throttle down kustoms will sell you just the rails in thicker tubing or a whole frame for that matter
 
Shreddinlettuce said:
I know throttle down kustoms will sell you just the rails in thicker tubing or a whole frame for that matter
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I looked into them but they’re pretty proud of their stuff and I’d have to ship it from Montana. A buddy of mine found me a good tj frame that’s cut off a little in front of where you cut for the Motobilt stuff. I’m planning on cutting the driver rail out where it’s already spliced into the LJ back half and either cutting the rail out of the Motobilt one or just replacing the Motobilt stuff altogether. I’m pretty happy with how the front stuff all worked out so it’ll likely get copied over to the new front kit if I end up going that route.

Without going into too much detail, there’s some damage on the Motobilt stuff that really shouldn’t have happened with the way the jeep hit. I’ve talked to them about it and they’re going to take care of me so I’m not going to put it out there for the interwebs to run with. It probably saved the passenger rail from getting messed up with what happened and isn’t a major fix to deal with.
 
I used sschassisworx to bend me up some rear frame rails for my Tacoma to my specs out of a single piece of square tube. Probably wouldn't hurt to reach out and see what they can bend up for you. Sschassisworx

They are local, kind of down by URE in Norwood.
 
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