Time to update the profile.
when I bought my jeep it was far from stock and far from Perfect. It was missing more than a few parts (rear bumper, rear sway bar, rear tow points third break light) and many many screws. It was fairly built but not maintained. Im not sure even the most leanient instpection staion would have passed me with the state it was in.
I sorted thru a lot of those issues and had more than a few parts donated to me and lent so I could finally pass inspection and get on to the trail. A few of you may have even noticed slight squeaking from my rig a time or to.
Well along the way I made a few upgrades, some cosmetic some functional. Cosmetic being the ARB bull bar, fuctional being ball joints, u-joints, unit bearings a lockright locker in the front and my Currie HD steering upgrade a lot of this was done with the help of YOU good folks (thanks again!) This definately made things better but still there was that slight squeak some of you noticed. My heep came with the much sought after D30/d35 combo in 3.07 gearing and one of the POs had thrown an Eaton E locker in the rear. For some reason i choose not to hook that up. Id read the joy of the D35 and didnt want to be "that guy" being draged off the trail with a high lift holding the tire in after detonating the rear, so I started looking for a decent D44 for the back end. Well after 9months of looking I finally found a pair of Rubi Axles on the NEOW forum. Only "problem" was the rear had been trussed for the Rock Krawler 6" LA Kit.
the shafts were Superior Alloy and it came with heavy duty diff covers.... what to do what to do...
So what the hell I went for it. Tony (HeyZipyourfly) of NewEngland Jeepers agreed to install the full Rock Krawler LA kit along with the axles for a fairly reasonable price. He kindly documented the upgrade for me as well.
First he plucked all the low hanging fruit... needless to say all the old bushings were shot and wallowed out.
One of the issues he ran into early was that a couple of the skid plate bolts had seperated from the frame. He could have easily just welded in a plate but instead insisited on doing things right. First he cleaned a little mud from the frame.
then he oredered a upgrade kit from RockKrawler.
next he started installing the LA kit.
the rear 4 link was set up
next the front 3 link.
when all was said and done I had a heep with 4.10s and somehow an accurate spedo for the first time. The heep had a moderate death wobble and Tony did his best to correct it for the ride home, but sometimes the string method can only take you so far.
I had the front DS shortened a few inches by Brookline Machine in Andover MA and they also replaced the front yoke with a D44 so I can avoid at least one combo u-joint, they also gave the DS a nice high speed paint job. Nice work there!
Brought the heep to my freind and neighbor Ken of Superior Auto in Westford. Ken put it up on the lift and corrected some minor geometry issues (without even having take it for a ride
) managed to correct a fairly good dw issue- at 30-40mph there was significant hop
but sailed along great on the highway at 65mph (thanks again Chris for follwing me home and shaging me out there.) Ken also mounted my old 33 SS TSL radials to some new Basset rims which are actually a TJ bolt pattern that I had found for a good price on Jeepforum. soo glad to get rid of the spider traxx spacers...
I still need to hook up the air lockers but have the pump and switches. Just need some time and airlines now. Didnt have any issues on the trail ride yesterday and am LOVING 4.10s on 33s. With the 3.07s the thing was never moving at a good speed off road in 1st or 2nd. 1st is nice and torqey now...
and best of all Ive been desqueaked.
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i know i know i was just poken fun 
i like jeffs rig because if hes like a mile away on the trail you can always hear him coming "squeaky squeaky" 
