yjrockcrawler
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Its a jeep thing, and i still don't understand!
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Post by yjrockcrawler on Dec 11, 2003 1:58:36 GMT -5
and it looks so sweet lol, ok how bout this for a ? my dad has a t bucket and drives it every day on the streets in the summer and his tire stick out too and he has not been stoped for that in 6 years hum whats going on ? lol
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Post by Lifted94XLT on Dec 11, 2003 2:04:55 GMT -5
well.... it may have to do with the tires he has, and the fact that it is not a Truck or SUV
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Post by ksuyellowtj on Dec 11, 2003 2:06:01 GMT -5
Maybe the fact that his T bucket isn't this huge, a big mean Jeep comeing down the road with 38s or bigger is hard to miss. The tires stick out a lot more on that YJ than your dads T bucket I'm sure. Those axles are like 65" wide at least and the tires are 38x14.5 and its on a 15x10 wheel. Thats really wide but very cool looking.
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Post by bluexj89 on Dec 11, 2003 6:48:33 GMT -5
Tbucket have no fenders! Good point! Might make a good arguement! I will have to ask the cop neighbor of mine and see exactly how the law is stated.
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Post by bluexj89 on Dec 11, 2003 6:54:32 GMT -5
You could use Bronco axles like Mark did, they are only maybe a 1" or so wider, I'm sure Mark will post if I'm not right. F/S Bronco axles are 6" wider. EB front axles are about the same width as stock, couple that with an 8.8 and that is a fairly strong setup. But there is nothing wrong with full width!
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yjrockcrawler
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Its a jeep thing, and i still don't understand!
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Post by yjrockcrawler on Dec 11, 2003 8:17:48 GMT -5
ok eb axles?
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Post by Lifted94XLT on Dec 11, 2003 12:13:08 GMT -5
Early Bronco.... 68-79 I believe.
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Post by Pdaddy on Dec 11, 2003 16:16:15 GMT -5
Johnson County doesnt mess with you for big trucks with tires that stick out, THEY ARE EVERYWERE HERE! Dont even sweat that unless your doing something to catch there attention your fine (i.e. stupid lol)
Steering is simple as a dropped pitman arm, and a crossover draglink on flat top knuckles
And if its properly setup you wont lose ANY steering radius.
IF you plan to use this as a wheeling rig, go fullwidth youll be very happy with the gained stability and not having to worry about the axles snapping with the larger tires. EB axles if you want to build a linked setup with those Ford Radius arms other wise youll spend alot of time tryin to clear all the casted BS on that front end, same with the older 1/2 Ford F150s its a radius arm setup as well and has the castings on it accordingly. Ideal for YJ (IE spring perch width that matches your YJ) You want a F250 thats leaf sprung and has either a HP 44 or HP 60 both measure at 31.ish center to center spring pads and BOLT RIGHT TO YOUR SPRINGS....but its going to have pads for spring over so if you wanted to stay under youll have to spend another 25-40 on spring perches and weld them under the axle, no biggie. Some of the older F250s have low pinion 44s as well, just make sure you dont get one with drum brakes or even worse closed knuckles.
Waggys are a good swap too for YJs BUT the also have a funky casted pad and youll have to address that accordingly with your spring over spring under situation. They arent as wide as fullwidths and arent as narrow as YJ stockers, but most have an offset rear D44. No biggy if ya have a CV rear shaft or what not but its something to consider. Also if ya dont use the offset, then youll either have an axle wider or narrower that the front unless you pay to barely narrow a rear axle or come up with some way of wheel spacers or diffrent offset wheels.
There are a million ways to do it, the easiest, cheap fast way is the late 77-79 F250 with the leaf sprung HP44 or HP60 rear FF60 combo. Matching donor axles to start from is a nice way to go for simplicitys sake.
*I ran YJ axles in my S10 originally then went to axles from a 78 F250 so I reasearched this ALOT.
theres more to it but this is what I typed quickly.
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Post by andyr354 on Dec 11, 2003 16:41:29 GMT -5
only the old origional quadratrack waggys have offset rear pumpkins.
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Post by Pdaddy on Dec 11, 2003 16:46:19 GMT -5
Whats your idea of old? I have an 88 with an offset D44 rear axle in front of my house as we speak.
The older FSJ's mostly had AMC20's I believe too, guy here at work has an early eightys one he DD's and its a AMC of some sort rearend.
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4x4junk
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Post by 4x4junk on Dec 11, 2003 21:11:57 GMT -5
I'd go with ford axles spring over and go back to your stock springs for more flex. Keep the body lift if you need it. I have a spring over and 2" body lift and clear 36's on my CJ5.
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yjrockcrawler
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Its a jeep thing, and i still don't understand!
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Post by yjrockcrawler on Dec 11, 2003 21:26:53 GMT -5
well for rear ends i dono still maby keep what i have in the front and do an 8.8 in the rear? but i have been looking at the 1/4 elliptic spring kit on the rear i looooooove it hella flex ummmmm now i just need to get an every day drive to build it now anyone got a cheep truck?
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Post by rob83cj8 on Dec 11, 2003 21:26:55 GMT -5
If you look around you can find a good deal on an entire truck with the axles you want, a couple years ago I passed on a deal(now I kick myself : , a '78 F250, 351M, T18, NP205, HP D60 front , FF D60 rear, that ran great, but was a little rusty for $850! It's long since been sold(I've checked) but that just gives you an idea of what can be found if you take the time to look.
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Post by bill1986K5 on Dec 11, 2003 21:50:13 GMT -5
ok i will take the dumb axx award Its ok mark ill forgive this time ;D
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Post by bluexj89 on Dec 11, 2003 22:20:32 GMT -5
Well thank you some time my fingers run faster than my brain. and if you knew how slow I tyoed that is a scarry thought!
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