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#1 · (Edited)
Some of you might know me, Collin, I've been to a handful of events in the last year or so riding along with @Ryanw10 or @BLZR. Well I decided to finally bring a build thread over here...I don't feel like posting all of my rebuild progress from when I totaled it until now but if you have any questions just ask...

It was stock when I totaled it and this is what it looks like now





I'm currently 8 lug rear 5 lug front. I should be 8 lug front and rear by the time I head up to Drummond on Oct 22nd. Last night I just picked up some Corbeau Baja JP Wide seats and threw them in, just gotta make a harness bar and get the 4pt's installed.





I've done all the work myself or with the help of friends so I can answer any questions you might have...for some reason there aren't a lot of JK build threads on GL4x4 :sonicjay:
 
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#793 ·
I'm currently selling:

Warn Evo 12S winch with wired and wireless remote
Warn wireless module and remote (bought for a Evo 12S, not sure what else it fits)
Two 9500lb smitty synthetic winches wired for dash control, no remotes
Warn Evo 8S with wired controller
Pile of used heims from last season, 3/4", 7/8", 1.25", LH and RH
(4) Staun inner air locks with 5 inner tubes
Corbeau Baja JP Wide (pair) from my Jeep. Not in great shape, but still functional.
(4) ATX Slabs 17" 8x6.5" BP
Axles out of my Jeep

Text me if you're interested 5174140503

Axle info:
Front
2005 superduty dana 60
Narrowed 4” to run Chevy kingpin 60 inner shaft
1.5” wheel adapters bring it back to 1” narrower than stock and 8x6.5 BP
RCV 4340 shafts
Spare u joint shafts
Branik drive slugs and flanges
Yukon 5.13s
Yukon spool
2.5” x 8” ram
Artec high steer arms
Ballistic diff cover
1410 flanged yoke

Rear
2005 Chevy 14b
Stock width
Spare shafts
Yukon 5.13s
Yukon Grizzly locker
Full shave including machined ring gear
1350 yoke
8x6.5 BP
 
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#794 ·
Well I took the Jeep to Drummond this past weekend...Absolute riot. By the time we were done I snapped the yoke off the rear axle, broke all 4 front axle shafts, ripped the fuel tank out, and broke the fuel line. Everything worked out perfectly and I dropped it off at the new owners place on the way home.

The rzr is also working out great. It's got a couple hundred miles on it in the last 3 weeks. We took it to Rush for the U4 race and pre ran 4-5 laps around the course, 3 days later loaded it up and went up north to Black Lake for some trail riding the day before heading to Drummond with it. No complaints yet. I've got a bunch of Rugged Radio's stuff inbound for it and we're building a new cage hopefully in the next couple weeks. Memorial day we're headed to Houghton Lake / St. Helen area to do some riding for hopefully 4 days.
 
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#796 · (Edited)
Lol. I told myself if I was going to drop that much cash on a toy it was going to get used. Plus, the wife loves it. My buddies and I hop on bikes and she rips the rzr around. We all use the ride command app and with the group ride feature she can see where we're at so we can go ride 50" trails, and she just rides ORV trails until we meet up again then all go from there.
 
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#798 ·
Well...I ordered a chassis gusset kit, and suspension mounts gusset kit, a dual rate spring kit for my shocks, pumper, radio and intercom mounts, and picked up some tubing to make a new roll cage this weekend. Maybe this thing isn't going to stay "as is" for as long as I originally thought....Lol. Wheels showed up last week, hopefully tires will show up this week or next. After the Mickey's show up, my next upgrade will probably have to be the front diff and axle shafts.
 
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#810 ·
Plato2k5 said:
I give it... first burnout off the trailer before boom.

What radio system did you go with? After riding my bike with a Sena system.... I realllly would like something for the jeep. Didn't know how amazing that stuff was till I drank the Kool-Aid
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Almost like you've seen me do that before.....Lol.

I have a full Rugged Radios set up, old stuff from the racecar for the most part. I have one of their bluetooth intercoms, a 60 watt race radio, and associated mounts. I already have a couple of the high end Rugged headsets that Steph wears when running pit comms at the races. Another perk of running all the Rugged stuff is when we pre run at the races, our helmets will plug right in so we don't have to yell back and forth.
 
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#811 ·
Well cage is almost done...My schedule got F'd at work with travel and training so I'm not going to be able to install everything I planned on before Visions...Worst case I'll have the pumper, comms, and the new cage finished. Hopefully we'll have a roof by then too. That being said, if anyone in West Michigan has a 48" x 48" piece of 1/8" aluminum, let me know....Otherwise I'm going to buy a full sheet at Harbor
 
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#813 ·
I’m also building an ammo can base radio from a spare Motorola radio one of our sponsors gave us. It will have the ability of running off of a 20v Dewalt battery, a cigarette lighter, or a little set of jumper cables directly on any 12v battery. According to my math on a 6ah 20v Dewalt battery on a full charge it’ll last on standby for 33hr 19min, actively receive for 13hr 19min, or transmit for 1hr 3 min. AKA a full 6ah battery will last thru a race in pits no problem.


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#816 ·
mtnbiker995 said:
I’m also building an ammo can base radio from a spare Motorola radio one of our sponsors gave us. It will have the ability of running off of a 20v Dewalt battery, a cigarette lighter, or a little set of jumper cables directly on any 12v battery. According to my math on a 6ah 20v Dewalt battery on a full charge it’ll last on standby for 33hr 19min, actively receive for 13hr 19min, or transmit for 1hr 3 min. AKA a full 6ah battery will last thru a race in pits no problem.


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So far this has worked absolutely amazing. We fire this thing up anytime one of our cars goes out on course and have had great luck with it
 
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#815 ·
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Pile of springs for sale.

For a 2.5” body coilover:
King 3.0 x 18 x 150
Eibach 3.0 x 14 x 200
Eibach 3.0 x 16 x 200
PAC 3.0 x 16 x 150

For a 2.0” body coilover:
PAC 2.5 x 16 x 125
PAC 2.5 x 16 x 150
PAC 2.5 x 14 x 175
PAC 2.5 x 18 x 200
Eibach 2.5 x 14 x 225

$125 per pair for the 2.5” diameter springs
$150 per pair for the 3” diameter springs
Buy multiple sets and we can talk prices.


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#823 ·
Anyone interest in a couple of 6.0 blocks? One has a good rotating assembly and might need a quote hone / scotchbrite scrub from sitting for a couple years in my garage. Garage is climate controlled, but a little bit of surface rust still popped up.

I also have a bare 6.0 block that should be sent out to a machine shop before reassembly to have surfaces checked, etc. Good starting point for a full engine build.
 
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