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MaybeSomeday's 98 Build

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MaybeSomeday
I got some new parts yesterday so I figured it was time to start a build thread to keep track of everything.

I got my 1998 Cherokee Sport completely stock in 2007 towards the end of my sophomore year in high school


Than I saved up and bought a Rusty's 6.5" lift


Looked pretty awesome like that :rofl: but I went ahead and bought some 33" Toyo A/Ts


It stayed like this for awhile with the exception of the front bumper my dad and I built


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CT99XJ
good start, dude.

if you haven't already, i'd suggest pulling the line off the dangling vacuum bottle feeding it back up into the engine bay, and stuffing the bottle behind the battery.
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Thats how it sat until this summer and I started doing a few smaller things to it. First I took the doors off :thumbsup:


Than I lifted the back end of the hood


And here's the spacer on the underneath side


Than I trimmed the fenders.. Cut and folded th Rears


Guess I don't have a picture of the fronts cut.. Taped off


And the inner pinch seem I cut and folded as well


The paint was chipping from the rear cuts so I went ahead and truck bed coated the 1/4 panels and rockers


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CT99XJ said:
good start, dude.

if you haven't already, i'd suggest pulling the line off the dangling vacuum bottle feeding it back up into the engine bay, and stuffing the bottle behind the battery.
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Yeah man I just pushed it up behind the bumper and screwed it to the fender support bracket. Its out of sight now :thumbsup:
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Oh and here's the parts that came yesterday






:bannana::bannana::bannana:
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mcatald
Man great looking transformation! Can't wait to see more.
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muddeprived
Nice.

What are the rod ends for?
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jakeWI
real nice looking jeep. great start you got there.
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Thanks guys. The rod ends are going to be for the new upper control arm. I'm in the process of building a front 3 link similar to the Rock Krawler kit.

Made up some brackets for the frame side lower control arms


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Well I got the Ruff Stuff Specialties frame stiffeners welded up and the front 3 link finished last night, and it works way better than I could have hoped for :thumbsup: The new lower control arms are ~30in long and I guess I forgot to measure the upper but I believe it's like 4-5in shorter. Anyways onto the pics...
Here it is looking at the passenger side

Looking from the axle back

Looking from back to front

Everything painted up
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And here is why it was worth it.. The pictures were taken right before the rear driver side tire lifted
BEFORE:




AFTER:


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jfxj67
Nice!!!
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Moore825
Awesome work
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mcatald
WOW...........Thats a butt load more flex. Really nice job!:thumbsup:
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Trailbound
nice work! looks good :cool: how does it drive down the road with the three link?
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Thanks guys I love how much better the flex is and the ride quality seems to have increased as well. Doesn't feel as much of a brick as it used to.

My rear shackle (still using the stock shackle) is completely vertical at ride height and gives for a crappy ride and no rear flex.. You guys got any ideas for improving that :dunno:
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mcatald
Muddeprived did a nice piece on shackle relocation brackets and they looked to work perfectly. Maybe he will see this and post the link.

That really looked like a good fix for that issue.
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mcatald said:
Muddeprived did a nice piece on shackle relocation brackets and they looked to work perfectly. Maybe he will see this and post the link.

That really looked like a good fix for that issue.
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Hey thanks man I did a little search and found this http://www.cherokeetalk.com/forum/f64/shackle-relocation-brackets-9684/ Looks like it would help out ALOT! I'm thinking that plus a longer shackle would work awesome... but than I might have to do something about my spring pack since I'm already sky high in the rear :unsure:
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Well I got bored today so I decided to build some rock sliders... but than I got lazy so I only did the the driver side :D
Mocked Up


Welded and Painted
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mcatald
Very nice. Should do the job nicely!!
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