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muddysub's JHF buggy
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Done messing with leaf springs and bodies, time to commit.
Hell yeah Scott. I’ve been watching this bad boy come together. I’ve got the yj in the garage I’m going to “buggy” out. Going to use the Motobilt 4-link center that Is on JHF ride. Look forward to the updates. Stay warm brother!
Lets start with some photos of the chassis going together. I built a rectangular base to build the chassis off of per GB's instructions and used 4 Sumner jack stands to level it. The frame rails are tacked to the base and the fixture kit locates everything from there. As mentioned, I wouldn't do this without that fixture kit, it helps a ton! The fitment of all the tubes in this kit is awesome! It even says in the instructions that if you have to grind a tube to fit, you're doing it wrong. Everything is CNC cut & bent for a perfect fit. The chassis is mostly 1.75" .120 wall tube with pieces of 1.5" in non structural places and .188 wall for the sliders, the subframe is 1.5" .188 square tube. The interior panels and roof panel are aluminum and the winch mount is 1/4" steel.
Kain
3/4 ton status
Nice
Looks good.
Level up.
David
David
That s insane fitment of those tubes. The fixture kit is a nice add. Obviously, it is quality.
So not a lot has happened lately, it’s been super cold and I’m waiting on a lot of big parts. I started in on my axle housings a while back so we’ll post that. As mentioned above I’m running an 05 sd60 and a late model 14 bolt. The gears and lockers are on a shelf in the garage, I haven’t ordered the front shafts yet and I’m still trying to decide what I’m doing about rear shafts. I might keep the stock 14b shafts in there, not sure if chromos are worth it.
On the front I’m using a Motobilt truss/hydro steer mount. It’s a beefy unit that provides tons of structure and has a couple cool features built in. I’m combining that with a Barnes4WD cover to round out the armor package for the front axle. As you all (probably) know, these superduty 60s require a lot of trimming to be useful. I did most of that at work where we have an 85a plasma cutter and a forklift. It took about 6hrs to trim the front housing. The 14bolt got a Barnes 13 bolt cover, pro series short truss and a pinion guard/bridge that doesn’t come close to working with the truss that it’s supposed to work with. I’ll probably trim it down to a regular pinion guard and order an Artec backbone truss. That accomplishes two goals, 1; it ties the diff housing to the tubes just like a pinion guard bridge, 2; it looks racecar as hell. The rear just needed to have the oem shock mounts, spring perches and parking brake parts removed, no big deal. After trimming I had them both sandblasted at Twinstick off road just down the road.
So that’s where the axles are at for now. Once I get a few things welded on and I get a bunch of expensive bolts in the mail I’ll toss these things under the chassis and start setting up links. Stay tuned!
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On the front I’m using a Motobilt truss/hydro steer mount. It’s a beefy unit that provides tons of structure and has a couple cool features built in. I’m combining that with a Barnes4WD cover to round out the armor package for the front axle. As you all (probably) know, these superduty 60s require a lot of trimming to be useful. I did most of that at work where we have an 85a plasma cutter and a forklift. It took about 6hrs to trim the front housing. The 14bolt got a Barnes 13 bolt cover, pro series short truss and a pinion guard/bridge that doesn’t come close to working with the truss that it’s supposed to work with. I’ll probably trim it down to a regular pinion guard and order an Artec backbone truss. That accomplishes two goals, 1; it ties the diff housing to the tubes just like a pinion guard bridge, 2; it looks racecar as hell. The rear just needed to have the oem shock mounts, spring perches and parking brake parts removed, no big deal. After trimming I had them both sandblasted at Twinstick off road just down the road.
So that’s where the axles are at for now. Once I get a few things welded on and I get a bunch of expensive bolts in the mail I’ll toss these things under the chassis and start setting up links. Stay tuned!
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Top notch dude. I’ll stop complaining about the “cold weather” here in my town.
David
David
Sweet man. What joints are you going to run on your links?
Ruffstuff chromoly heims, 1.25” lowers, 7/8” uppers. I’d like to do aluminum links but I’m sure I’ll start out with DOM steel.
Right on. I’m trying to decide what I’m going to do on mine. I would think heims with high misalignment spacers would have more angle limit than say a Johnny joint right?
Yeah they do. Johnny joints are a better choice of it’s going to be street driven as they’re quieter but heims offer more angle.
They make 2 different misalignment spacers. The long version is really high angle. I went with the long ones, was told I would be breaking bolts with the longer length. After 16 years of mild use, not one broken bolt.
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Damn Nice Welds and work overall!!!
Triangulated.
Thanks man, there are a few spots I plan on going back and “fixing” where the welds don’t look as nice as I’d like. I’m trying to push myself to be better on this build. I’m excited to get into things like drivetrain, radiator and fuel cell mounting.
What did you do with the drain plug on the bottom of the 14 bolt housing?
welded it up.
I have the same cover but still haven't gotten as far as cutting the housing yet.
