Alabama thread!

It's cool man, no hard feelings. Even though I'm as much a fan of some dark humor that borders on particularly offensive as the next guy, there are just a few spots where I draw the line, particularly when it's on the interwebs and tough to tell how it comes across.

I will say some of the guys in the group would be pretty impressed with your XJ, regardless of who makes the thing. Lots of them have been wheeling for years, and just happen to own Toyotas at this point in time.

 

hahahahaha shit's crazy

 

I understand. Looking forward to hanging out and wheeling with yall sometime.

 

one last ditch effort to get these alcan add a leafs out of my garage. 30 dollars takes them. noone buys them theyre going to the city dump next week

 

DON'T TAKE THEM TO THE DUMP!!!!!

 

Hmmm, *waves hand in front of you like a Jedi knight* "You will bring those parts to me"

 

why thank you. After I get these bumpers and slip yoke eliminator installed, I have a feeling my next step will be to start breaking things (i.e. dana 30 front axle most likely). Axle work is gonna suck. Too bad Jeep hasn't put tough front axles in their vehicles since the 80's. Even the dana 44 in the rubicon sucks. It's a LP D30 with a D44 pumpkin.

 

I am curious about something I have noticed recently about my sig. When I look at it on my profile, as well as when I look at the post when "preview" is selected, you can see the entire animated gif. However on all of my actual posts, the bottom....oh centimeter or so is cut off....any ideas as to why?

 

dont believe they would work properly for you bill..... could be wrong though but pretty sure its a totally dif size of leaf

 

"These aren't the Tacomas you are looking for"

 

^^^^

 

Wow, I didn't know that about the Rubicon. That's pretty shitty of them, particularly on a truck that comes stock fully locked on 33's. I bet the folks that do 37's on them toast them real quick.

 

yep. I was considering long term upgrades for the xj and thought:

rubi's have 4:1 xcases, dana 44's, lockers w/4:10 gearing. All of this is bolt on to an xj minus the rear axle (leaf vs coil).

Why not pick up a totaled rubi for under 5k and you have over 5k in drive train part value, not to mention no fab time. After researching it, turns out only the rear is a true 44. Like I said, the front 44 is a 30 w/ a 44 pumpkin. Sure you have a bigger r&p making it stronger, but its a LP so it really isn't any better than the HP D30 I have right now.

New rubi's are a rip off. The only thing you are getting out of them is the convenience of it being prebuilt and a pretty damn good xfer case. All JK's have a 44 rear and 30 front. So for 10k more, you get a front 44 axle you are going to end up breaking if you wheel hard, 4:10's that still aren't quite enough for 33-35's (although the 4:1 helps), and mediocre lockers. Oh yeah, forgot to mention an automatic sway bar disconnet (quick disco's = 30 bucks, you're not going to run sway bars while wheeling anyways.)

 

how is the roof rack installed?? i like it.

what you gonna do with them..

 

it knows to only show the important part

 

The roof rack is installed be the q tower/clip system. Extremely easy to do. and thanks im really happy with it. And if noone local wants then ill try craigslist but really hate using craigslist. Then if they ddont sell ill just trash them

 

You can Trash them at my house if you want! HAHA!

 

update of my truck. heres how she sat when i first saw her.


and heres how she sits now. after some killer deals on everything I got she's gettin there! my toytec lift is sitting in a fedex truck in nashville and will be here tomorrow to be installed next week sometime and my rear dif breather stuff should be close behind it.

heres a few pics of how it is now. ill make a build thread eventually.





total for everything ive done is wait for it...... about 1000 bucks!!! yakima roof rack system 320, tool box 250, snoboard552 custom lightbar 160 bucks, TRD OffRoad alloys 125 bucks, clear corners 30 bucks, lamin-x 20 bucks, huskys 60 bucks, in channel window vents 70 bucks. and after i sold my old wheels for 200 bucks the other day it made things great! Only a few things left that I want ie. line-x, sound system, new tires. whatcha think guys?

 

Here do this......
Tons