Inc's SFA KJ Build...

Inc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:01 pm

If everything goes according to plan. My jeep will be ready by next week and on Friday Oct. 2nd and I will be running the Rubicon.

I plan and hope on getting a run in before the Con so I can be sure everything is squared away. It will be just a short but fairly difficuly trail run the night I get the jeep back on the same trail that dented my passenger side door this spring. So hopefully by the weekend after this one, there will be trail pics of my jeep wheeling and not just sitting on a forklift.

STINGN · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:30 pm

Inc wrote:

If everything goes according to plan. My jeep will be ready by next week and on Friday Oct. 2nd and I will be running the Rubicon.

AND GO TO ZOMBIELAND LATER!

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:41 pm

INC: How about measuring from the ground to the bottom of the door. I need to find out if I can get these legs up into the Jeep before I go to the $$$ of doing the SAS.

Terry

Inc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:35 pm

Fulltimer wrote:

INC: How about measuring from the ground to the bottom of the door. I need to find out if I can get these legs up into the Jeep before I go to the $$$ of doing the SAS.

Terry

Well, the jeep is still at the shop, but I do have a measurement from earlier on to the bottom of the rock rails which are 2" from the bottom of the door.

26" from ground to outer edge of rock rails, so it would be 28" from the door to the ground. It is up there.

Neatus · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:42 pm

Can you maybe get a picture of you running over a car for reference purposes.

Inc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:02 pm

Neatus wrote:

Can you maybe get a picture of you running over a car for reference purposes.

I'll do my best... :wink:

ridenby · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:31 am

INC,you where putting some led lights on front,3-wire round,you got at truck stop I think,did these work.

Inc · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:44 am

ridenby wrote:

INC,you where putting some led lights on front,3-wire round,you got at truck stop I think,did these work.

These are the LED turn signals I picked up. I got them off ebay. All the truck stops didn't have exactly what I wanted, but these worked out perfectly.

ohv_kj · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:19 am

those LED's look falmiailar :wink:

icarl · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:27 pm

stumpjumper_09 wrote:

feeling a little dumb right now......... what is a sra? solid right axle? what about the left?

Inc wrote:

solid rear axle = sra

The front will not flex as much as the rear. 12" of travel vs 10"

stumpjumper_09 wrote:

WOW I really feel like a genious now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those of us who are bummed out because we don't have a sfa, we need to start looking on the bright side. Repeat after me - 'My KJ has a solid rear axle (sra). No one can take that fact away from me. My glass is half full.' :lol:

icarl · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:37 pm

Inc wrote:

The front will not flex as much as the rear. 12" of travel vs 10"

That makes me feel a little better. At least I got the better half.

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:03 pm

Inc wrote:

Fulltimer wrote:

INC: How about measuring from the ground to the bottom of the door. I need to find out if I can get these legs up into the Jeep before I go to the $$$ of doing the SAS.

Terry

Well, the jeep is still at the shop, but I do have a measurement from earlier on to the bottom of the rock rails which are 2" from the bottom of the door.

26" from ground to outer edge of rock rails, so it would be 28" from the door to the ground. It is up there.

Oh my! That would be at the bottom of my side chrome strip! I'm not sure I can do that high. I need to actually try it I guess. Hmm, maybe a L O N G road trip is in order! :lol:

Thanks for the info!

Terry

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:34 pm

only another 4 1/2 inches or so, you can stretch that much can't you Terry? :lol:

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:39 pm

Fulltimer wrote:

Oh my! That would be at the bottom of my side chrome strip! I'm not sure I can do that high. I need to actually try it I guess.

Terry

I would pay good money just to watch you try to get in. :lol:

KJ 119 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:41 pm

tommudd wrote:

only another 4 1/2 inches or so, you can stretch that much can't you Terry? :lol:

NOPE

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:47 pm

Even if someone .....goosed him :lol:

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:38 pm

tommudd wrote:

Even if someone .....goosed him :lol:

You are starting to sound like your into the male posterior end Tom! :shock:

The problem is my knees don't bend very well. I'll check with a couple of friends of mine with lifted Wranglers and see if they are close to the same height. Of course the grab points would be different.

Terry

Inc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:59 pm

I picked up the front and rear drivelines today. Headed down tomorrow. SYE and brakes are finalized tomorrow. Then exhaust on Wednesday, gears on Thursday. Done...ish

Then I need to fab the belly skid and I want to make some rear bumper changes. Not sure if I'll make the Rubicon this weekend like I planned.

Inc · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:09 pm

Everything got pushed back another day.

I was down at the shop today. The guy doing my build has the flu but they are still going to finish their part of the jeep tomorrow. Then Thursday it is getting towed to exhaust and then Friday the rear gears go in. I still need some skids made up though and can't do those until the exhaust is done.

The AA SYE kit I bought was a pain as well. I talked to several people that said it was perfect and the thing still didn't just bolt right in. The fluid pump gear ring out of my 231 was way too small and the spline count was off so it didn't fit over the new output shaft. So I had to scramble to find one locally, but luckily the guys that did my drivelines, had one in stock that was perfect.

I finished wiring the lights today which was kind of a mini nightmare. Apparently the wire colors don't mean anything on the lights I bought or on the jeep. The stock turn signals/running lights are 3 wire and so were the lights I bought. Red Black and White. Match them up easy enough right? Or they could connect in a totally random and annoying way that took me forever to figure out. It was like white to black, red to white, red to black or something retarded and they are different on each side of the jeep, but they work now. They still blink fast unless they are on in hazard mode, but the speed doesn't bug me. I may buy an LED flash plug to fix it, but doubt it.

I installed the seat covers I bought off of a member on here and they are going work out great. The extra cargo pockets on the back, sides and a few other places will be nice to store more gear. I also painted the rear gas skid black and installed the rear shocks.

Jeep is so close to done...

2006 KJ · **Posted:** Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:30 pm

nice progress!! cant wait for finished photos.. or better yet finished VIDEOS'! the fix for that blinking fast in an inline resistor.. i added an LED integrated tailight to my ninja and had to install 2 resistors inline between the stock turn signal wire and the turn signal wire coming from the LED tail light. i'm not sure where to get them.. but i'm sure you can find them cheap online somewhere if it bugs you.

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