ramlebliberty wrote:
From what I've seen, make sure you are reinforcing areas where the links, and track bar(s), and steering box are. A lot of the XJ guys use .122 frame stiffeners, this is around the tune to 1/8" I saw a guy on here that had 1/4" ones and they were cool, def. beef, but probably added an extra 140 lbs to his jeep lol. When I get around to it, I'm going to use 1/8" all the way down the frame rails where i can, and add some 3/16's in the critical areas.
They have a lot of radius arm/ 4 link set ups for wranglers that would work, they're getting pretty cheap too. You can get long arm kit for a little over $1k, and if you call the vendor and negotiate they might be able to cut you a deal since you wont be using some of the brackets that the TJ's kits have. Other than that look into ballistic fab, poly performance, and other companies for your brackets, links, joints, etc. The more you can supply and do yourself the cheaper and in my opinion based on your fabrication abilities better your build will be.
Am I the guy with the cool stiffeners? 1/4" with Ballistic Fab Skulls.
The whole Uni-Frame is done now front to back.
I agree with the cheap TJ Long arm kit it cut the cost way down, I bought a Rough Country 6" Long Arm upgrade kit which is just the arms and all hardware (800$) I sold the TJ LA frame bracket for 100$ to a guy building custom arms so really cost me 700$. The problem is sure they are longer arms but they are more of a mid arm on a Libby than what you normally see on a SAS'd Libby, Mine flex amazing sitting in the shop tho so hopefully they translate well into the real world. Definitely build it overkill the first time, fixing a uni-body that's all torn apart sucks.