Chop top XJ..with Exo cage... End to an Era..

Well all 4 tires are now double beadlocked..

hope to have ball joints and tie rod ends done this weekend and then put it all back together for next weekends URE ride..
 
Well Jeep is getting back together finally..

Got rear tires on
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found what the noise was last time at the flats :) oops
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I also took out air bags so my son can ride in front seat with me.
I also added a cool little item into place where air bad was.. now I can see my rear axle with out getting out of jeep :
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Ok the cam/screen is pretty awesome... then again so is the whole jeep...
 
Nice looking XJ! I just started building on with a full cage and softtop. bet you dont hear that to often with an XJ. How hard was it to do your exo cage?
 
i really wanna do that to my x cause of rolling it because i think it would look really cool liek that
 
SC Unlimited said:
Nice looking XJ! I just started building on with a full cage and softtop. bet you dont hear that to often with an XJ. How hard was it to do your exo cage?
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it was not that bad but I did have a bunch of cage experience before we did mine
 
orange150 said:
Are you going to do anything to protect that camera? It looks too exposed.
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it is about 3" back from the edge of the skid plate.. totally protected.
 
Decided I need to update a few things..

list of stuff I am doing:
Suspension seats - front and rear
5 pt harness
finish exo cage and B pillar
move fuel tank
new shocks front and rear
and maybe some sort of a door or door bar..

Here is what I got done last night.. more to come over next few weeks
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did a little more work..

added passenger seat
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took off rear bumper and gas tank skid plate
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pic showing rear with no tank
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temp location of gas tank
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and put rear seat to see how it looks with front seats in
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well after pricing out the fittings for the fuel cell I decide for the time being to just modify the stock tank location and gain some clearance.

I cut the floor so the skid plate would drop down in between the frame rails. then place skid plate in place welded it in, dropped tank into skid plate and used stock hold downs just on top of the tank instead of on the bottom.. I gained almost 5" of clearance.

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When are you going to come race that thing?
 
C Class in a Cherocar? Fawk yeah
 
more progress

upgraded the winch and I am going to wire in cab controls
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gas tank cover and spare tire mount
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with tire and high lift in new location
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rear bumper still furthest point back
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and I still have visibilty out the rear over tire
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got a little more done today

added a second roof bar so I could tie in X support bars
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added B pillar bars
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also added bar for harness and to tie B pillars together
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covered fuel tank/spare tire frame
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looking in thru back
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