Receiver hitch grill

Built this a while back. It's proven itself quite useful during trips to the river.

Frame Stiffeners-Main Subframe

Grinding off the undercoating. We had to drop the transmition crossmember 2" to be able to slide the frame support in.


The long arm support that went here will be returned. It had to be slightly modified to accomodate the extra thickness of the subframe after adding the stiffeners.


Unlike the front and rear stiffeners, these cover both the side and the bottom. Lots of plug holes.


David behind the whip. He makes this job go a lot faster/smoother than I thought it would. Plus he has 20+ years of welding experience.


The gap between the front and side stiffeners on the driver's side.Weld it up, grind it down and you'll probably never see it again. These stiffeners were very well designed. On a side note, I have to grind down the lower control arm mounts. With the time/money being spent on the frame I def. need to clean it up a bit.

HD Offroad Engineering Frame Stiffeners-Front End

Finally we have begun to install these. David trailered the Jeep over to his garage, aka Skinny Pedal Racing. He pretty much started on it right away.

Front passenger side. The easy side, considering there was no track bar mount.


Front driver's side.


Driver's side bumper mount.


Driver's side where the two stiffeners will meet. I still have to grind down the stock lower contorl arm mounts.


Driver's side front.

Mountainside Offroad Park

What a great ride. Josh and I stayed at JJ and Angie's place. We had our own wing. We woke up saturday morning and cooked a great breakfast. People started showing up. Cliff, Ricky...familiar faces. We were already loaded up on the trailer from the day before. Josh's truck gleaming in the morning sun. That thing was amazing!
We headed to the park to meet RJ and friends. Parked the truck, headed up the hill, signed in, and proceeded to whip shitties within 5 mintues of being there. High banked turns, a race course, I was in heaven. Then we went on a trail ride around the 100 acre park. What a great place.
Carnage:
-Sliced lower radiator hose
-Sliced front right brake line
-Jammed the front bumper mounts downward from a hard landing on the ledge in the picture below.

FLEX!!

Lot D @ Of Land

We got a little cut-out on the highway that we frequent on our trails rides. Here it is. If your traveling route 65 south between Fieldstown and Walker Chapel it's on the right.

Sunset (Southern Style)

Thanks Traland!! Great Pics.

LED brake/tail lights

I haven't got the right side to work yet. I think I have to use a trailer connector.

Fuel Access

This was needed because we filled the hole on the JCR Offroad quarter panel. So Keith grabbed a neck out of his yard and Wayne did the rest of the work. I plan on wrapping the hoses with a dress up kit.

Start with removing fuel access door.

Remove tunnel.

Remove stock hoses and filler neck.

Aluminum mounting plate.

Goo'ed up to prevent leaking.

Clean install.

Using original tunnel.

I'll need to change that cap.

2 REALLY good pictures!

Filling in the fuel door

Decided to fill in the fuel door while the corners were off getting coffin rails. Of course that meant that the fuel access needed to be mounted somewhere else.

(Cough Cough) Rails

Wayne @ ORC installed these this week. .120 wall 1.5" DOM.

Cleaning up the shackle brackets

Welded some more to fill the gaps.

Trimmed down the bracket because the shackle was contacting it during compression.

Grind down the welds. Smear some body putty to fills the cracks.

Paint. Clear coat on the lower half. May not keep it this way. I just thought it looked good for now.