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97 Wrangler TJ 5.3L

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#1 ·
I brought this jeep home about a year and a half ago completely stock with 55k on it. Today it sits a whole new rig.

-5.3L V8
-CAI
-Dual exhaust with Thrush glasspacks
-Custom Tune
-Ax15 5 speed Manual
-Ford 8.8 with 4.10 Gears
-3" Rusty's Offroad springs with a 1" spacer up front
-Homeade front bumper
-4 fog lights, 2 windshield mounted and 2 bumper
-33x10.5 BFG All terrains
-Kicker 12" shallow sub with Kenwood 1000 watt amp

Im sure I missed a few things but currently I am working on building tube fenders and I have been playing around with the 4 link calculator. I plan on putting it in storage this winter to finish at least the tube fenders and possibly the 4 link as well. I also have a 1949 jeep willys pickup that I am restoring which takes up quite a bit of my time
 
#172 ·
Had a productive night last night and got the first 3 bars of the cage welded in and the axle tube re welded. I also finished up a toolbox to hold fluids and tools. If you look closely at some of my pictures from the badlands you will see tools and quarts of oil in mid air flying out of the bin I was previously using.
 
#173 ·
Pit trash shootout was awesome today, but I had the worst luck haha. Before leaving I did a once over of everything and everything was good to go. I get to the Bundy parking lot come to find out I lost a u joint cap and the ear was ovaled out. Threw another cap in and got it tack welded in place with a jump pack and some flux core wire haha. I got through the first half of the course pretty quick and everything was feeling solid and then on the hill climb I twisted an outer stub shaft and was unable to finish. I still got to watch all the buggies go so I wasn't too mad. We left fairly early and on my way home I blew a drive shaft so I had to 1 wheel drive it about a half mile back to my house. (Somewhere in here I snapped my Novak cable shifter too) I can't call today a complete loss though the jeep made it to the comp and back home under its own power still, and I had a blast watching the rest of the competition.
 
#196 ·
Superior servos instead of corvette, that's what Visser runs and he loves it, its even firmer. Also talk to Visser's buddy with hp tuners, he can bump up your line pressures and mess with shift points in the computer or whatever you could possibly want

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#200 ·
Transmission is coming out next week, throw out bearing is way to loud and annoying to drive. As soon as it is pulled I will have every part you need to run an nv3550/ax15 behind an ls motor for sale minus a bad throw out bearing.
My plan is as follows:
4l60e (need to decide if I build one or just throw one in to get me by til winter)
Np231c/j hybrid with the adapter on the transmission machined for vss.
 
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