We can agree to disagree, it's his Jeep you are using pictures of his Jeep with out his permission. You are using them to sell your work with out his permission. This is just a bad practice not to ask first. You said you have done the swaps since why not use pictures from customers that are satisfied with the work? It would only make since..............

..Not taking sides here, just playing 'devils advocate', but the photo rights belong to whomever takes them, regardless of who or what appears in them.
..If he had been asked not to photograph the Jeep, then it would be another story.

agree with that.

Ok I'm the owner of Performance Innovations, the shop that did the solid axle swap on the black liberty in the picture. Someone sent me the link to this
discussion and I figured I might as well join in, there are 2 sides to every story right?
I'm not trying to start internet fights or anything here(i have better things to do than argue on internet forums), I'm just trying to get the facts out and promote my business.
I had done alot of work to the black liberty previously to the SAS, I replaced and regeared the front diff and rearend, added a locker, fabricated some stuff (that he took credit for WTF?)blah blah.

Well next up was the SAS, James wanted to do the swap for as cheap as possible(first problem and I should have turned it away right then), hence all the BUDGET BUILD this and budget that, well I'm sorry to burst everyones' bubble but you get what you pay for. This was the first Liberty Solid axle swap i had done (he was aware of that) and I knew there would be some problems that would need to be fixed after it was all said and done. Another problem we had was the time frame, I underquoted the time and labor for this project, and then to top it off my plasma cutter broke when I first started working on this jeep and it took 2 or 3 weeks to get the parts in to fix it. I had scheduled the time frame to work on this jeep because I was very busy and when it got bumped back 2 weeks it threw all my other projects off and just wasn't a really good experience for both of us. As far as fixing problems that exsisted after I did the work... I ALWAYS fix things that aren't right after doing work, there are always little issues when doing these type of projects(especially when its the first one!) and I am always more than willing to fix them on my dime to make it right.....

But james's situation was a little different, I'll just give one example because I'm not wanting to argue on internet forums, The coilovers were rubbing the side of the body because the upper mounts needed to be moved outboards about a 1/2". He wanted me to do them the morning I was leaving for MY vacation and I said I couldn't because it wouldn't be a 5 min ordeal, So james went on to get all pissy like a little girl and do a big burnout in my parking lot, throwing rocks and gravel all over my other customers cars, that was the last time i heard from him and he decided to go to the other shop in town and pay twice as much for everything to get redone so he could bad mouth me any time he could. Thats cool and all but I am always more than willing to make everything right if I work on it. So lessons learned here: 1 You get what you pay for, and 2 don't be a dickhead. I work on ALOT of high dollar builds and vehicles, most projects are at least 2-6 months and usually $20,000 and up. I did James' for so cheap because it was the first one, a learning experience and I was helping him out because I did a bunch of other work for him before and he was also supposedly going to become a cop in town and everyone likes having a cop friend(i get my share of speeding tickets)

Now on to the details of my service's and the liberty SAS conversion.
I have done another Liberty solid axle swap since the black one and things are fabricated and setup slightly differently in each one. I believe I have a pretty bullet proof plan and setup

Also everyone has bad experiences at shops, or any other type of business, no one is perfect and you can't please everyone. I'm not about to bad mouth the other shop that "re-did" all my work, but he definatly isn't perfect either, NO ONE IS PERFECT!! My shop was a little unorganized a few months ago because it was ME doing everything, I couldn't find any skilled/reliable employees to I was left to do everything so it would get done right. I have finally found a very proficent employee, allowing us to get projects done faster and more efficent. We are now turning and buring the projects out, I really like the Liberty solid front axle conversion because they are unique and you don't see them being wheeled around everywhere like wranglers and every other jeep.

Getting ready to a SFA conversion myself soon(yes it will be soon) I'd have to say from his explanations you'd never get a SFA KJ done for $6000,it's just a sucker price to get you in the door and comited,

Oh and the reason the rear driveshaft is "still " long enough is becuase he must not be re-centering the rear diff,rubbing issues right there.

egearing lower then 4.10's is a must unless you plan on not going over 32" tires.Then why do a SFA swap and keep 32" tires anyway? Then not adding lockers does not make much sense either as is keeping the rear slipyoke

So basically you'll be dumping another $3000-$4000 to get offroad worthy.

Why use a astro van steering box? A '90-'91 F-series steering gear is stronger and requires no adapters to fit the OEM steering shaft.

I also remember a recall on liberty's where ball joints were breaking allowing the tire to fall off,(doesn't sound very safe) ....another reason to swap out the front suspension for a solid axle.

he OEM shaft isn't long enough to reach the new steering box location, so i used an adapter because the shaft had to be lengthened.

But i didn't know about that steering box, thats a great suggestion and I will look into when I start on the next conversion, thanks

I don't know what you are talking about when you say ""recenter" the diff, and I don't think you know either.

Actually 4.10s are pretty much ideal for a automatic transmission, 33" tired vehicle that is to be daily driven and wheeled, it also keeps a decent fuel mileage. If it was a offroad rig only, or a manual transmission i would recommend a little more gearing, but face it most of you spend 98% on the road 2% off

So you haven't actually done one yet? Then you really don't know whats involved other than reading internet forums and talking to people about it, its alot different when you actuall DO the work and DO one yourself.

I also have to say, dam my welds look good in person and over the internet
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg23 ... ure008.jpg

The OEM shaft isn't long enough to reach the new steering box location, so i used an adapter because the shaft had to be lengthened.

But i didn't know about that steering box, thats a great suggestion and I will look into when I start on the next conversion, thanks

I'm not trying to start internet fights or anything here(i have better things to do than argue on internet forum.

Why is this guy on here. Does he think he is going to convince us to have him do a conversion for us. This guy needs to fall down on a saw.