2006 Unlimited

[CharlesC83]

Let's post my my Jeep stuff on CK5. Seems like a good idea. Ill just go heavy with pics and some words and explanation, I know the average reading level here. So, in your best sponge bob voice.....Are ya ready Kids!!!

Also feel free to give your opinions, even if you hate this Rig. I mean it's a Jeep. Not a Toyota, where you must Fly fish and drink IPA's and tell everybody about your favorited IPA then go home and comb in your beard straightener and iron your vintage Toyota flat bill hat even flatter.

This thing is already sort of built over the last four years by myself. It's been smashed into at a stop light 3 weeks after buying it, then repaired. Had a freeze plug style block heater that was on it when I bought it eject itself on the highway fly out and destroy the engine. And it's still around. So here we go. I'll list basics and then start adding the pics in pornological order and add more pics after I catch it up. So grab some organic pop corn and your fav IPA or Kombucha and sit down.

I know it's referred to as an "LJ" unofficially. You can call it sugar tits if you like.

2006 Jeep TJL
4.0 Hay bailer Engine
42RLE dodge caravan automatic
Rubicrawler doubler
NP231 with SSYE
Dana 44 rear
Dana 30 front with the Ford ranger warn hubs kit from Yukon

Here's a few of the first lift by Zone off road and a shot of the dead 4.0 haymiester.

 

[CharlesC83]

Next I regeared it to 5.13 and a Detroit locker in the rear and Aussie locker in the Front. These were a mistake and I wish I have ARB air lockers. I'm basically gonna do air lockers soon. These lockers work great, but selectable would be better IMO. And I ordered the Rubicralwer at this point. And added currie double adjustable control arms.

 

[centexk5]

Needs an LS and tons. But I like it.

 

[CharlesC83]

Chromoly shafts And the warn Hubs kit. And a Ruger wrangler on the Wrangler.

 

[CharlesC83]

Needs an LS and tons. But I like it.

I know. But my K10 has an LS and Tons. But I agree with your thought train.

 

[centexk5]

What’s better than one vehicle with an LS and tons? Two vehicles with LS and tons.

I do enjoy a good build regardless of the make.

 

[CharlesC83]

Last one for the evening. But ill keep adding them till we traverse to present day. Rubicrawler install pics. A shot of my Dog when she was new. That steering wheel cover too WTF, I don't even drink IPA or at all anymore. That intermediate shaft on these transmissions is a f$%ker to get off that snap ring sticks bad. I just forced it off.View attachment 450228

 

[CharlesC83]

I added a regular SYE kit and still ran the plastic speedometer gear. I had to run the largest gear they make to correct the MPH and it just won't sit in the housing against the metal output shaft straight and it apple cores out pretty quickly and the speedometer will stop working.

I tried 3 plastic gears. and then said f this and changed to a Super SYE with the digital speedometer setup. Problem solved. Would have added a Rocktrack Rubicon transfer case but they are insanely priced because anything that says Rubicon is gold plated specialness. It was cheaper to buy an SSYE and change the driveshaft, again .

Literally should have done and LS and tons at this point. But I'll stay with the Fork lift engine and minivan transmish because I love mediocrity.

 

[CharlesC83]

 

[nvrenuf]

Nice Jeep!

 

[TerryD]

Man I've wanted a TJU forever. Really nice build man!

 

[CharlesC83]

Man I've wanted a TJU forever. Really nice build man!

Thank you. Most of the older pics are on my work computer. I’ll keep adding throughout the day tomorrow and so on. I still have parts to put on it and have begun to take it out wheeling.

These Jeeps are cool the 10 inch longer wheelbase is nice.

 

[nvrenuf]

These Jeeps are cool the 10 inch longer wheelbase is nice.

It makes such a difference. The LJ back seat is still small but I couldn’t imagine trying to haul little kids around in a TJ.

 

[CharlesC83]

It makes such a difference. The LJ back seat is still small but I couldn’t imagine trying to haul little kids around in a TJ.

I hear ya. I don’t even run the back seat nobody wants to sit back there. Ha

I’m moving my spare in there and switching to a drop down rail gate, spoiler alert I guess. I’ve hit the spare several times now when out wheeling. And the swing out gate get annoying wheeling and opening it off camber.

 

[nvrenuf]

Ours worked well until our girls were early teens then it got pretty small.

I don’t mind the tailgate too much but having a separate tire carrier bumper was a pita when opening it. I bought a HD tire carrier and put it back on the tailgate.

 

[CharlesC83]

Ours worked well until our girls were early teens then it got pretty small.

I don’t mind the tailgate too much but having a separate tire carrier bumper was a pita when opening it. I bought a HD tire carrier and put it back on the tailgate.

That’s the same route I went, swing out carrier first. it’s on the tail gate currently with the moryde hd kit. But it hangs low and I’ve hit the tire fairly hard and if I open the gate when not level it’s a pita.

So I bought swag off road drop down kit with the aluminum skin.

 

[nvrenuf]

Yeah, the Moryde kit is what is on ours too. It works so much better than a separate bumper carrier, my wife is real happy with it (it’s her Jeep). We’ve never hit the tire on anything but it she quit wheeling years ago when it was on 33’s (35’s now).

The drop down gate has a cool old school feel to it.

 

[cheavyk10]

LJ's are so much cooler than JL's and JK's. It was like the golden moment before Jeeps became the bedazzled jeans of the world.
That being said, I still pine for my long lost '79 CJ5.

 

[CharlesC83]

Yeah, the Moryde kit is what is on ours too. It works so much better than a separate bumper carrier, my wife is real happy with it (it’s her Jeep). We’ve never hit the tire on anything but it she quit wheeling years ago when it was on 33’s (35’s now).

The drop down gate has a cool old school feel to it.

I really like the moryde kit as well and it improves visibility out of the rear. I took my Jeep to wild bill up near kalispell MT a few weeks ago and contacted the tire and crunched a rear panel a little. It mildly tweaked the gate. But I’m ok with it.

 

[CharlesC83]

LJ's are so much cooler than JL's and JK's. It was like the golden moment before Jeeps became the bedazzled jeans of the world.
That being said, I still pine for my long lost '79 CJ5.

I agree fully. I really wish this was a CJ8. I’ve contemplated and contacted Chris Durham of Durham motor sports about his CJ hood and grille for TJ. But I held off.