Hey everyone, so yesterday we cut out the upper mounts for the CO's, and i put the front and rear axle together finally. Next weekend we well be doing the welding for the LCO mounts on the axle. Also once the axle is sitting in the right place for the coilovers to work properly, we well check the steering. Right now we can some degrees to play with since we are using a JK box. Well update next saturday

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2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon TJ- Impact Orange
4'' RK LA, 35's KM2's, Warn front bumper, Warn rear bumper with tire swing, Warn gas skid, Nth oil skid, 4.88's, Alloy axles shafts F&R, Rokmen Corner armor with led's, and Rokmen sliders, custom back-up lights from gen-right, piaa 510's, IPF green glow fatboy's up front.

Thanks for the update

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2008 KK Liberty Sport NIGHT OPS EDITION + GILLS
OEM & Custom Skids - Factory Tow Package - Rock Lizard Skink Super Sliders
Prototype JBA 4 Inch Lift - JBA UCA's - Flowmaster Super 44 OR - Whacked Resonator
Jet Stage 2 - RL Gecko Basket Rack - Custom Winch Bumper - Recon 10.5K Winch

Shazam dude, I can't wait to see this barn born SFA....

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Curious on how the build is going?

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2006 KJ CRD Black
2009 JK Rubicon Blue
2013 JK Rubicon Brown

The build is going slowly. just lost are welder, so atm trying to find a new welder(a person lol) to help us finish.

As well, the military is keeping me very busy. I leave in May for a few months so the build has to be done soon or atleast close to be doing before i leave. So the mad rush for a welding guy is needed lol.

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2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon TJ- Impact Orange
4'' RK LA, 35's KM2's, Warn front bumper, Warn rear bumper with tire swing, Warn gas skid, Nth oil skid, 4.88's, Alloy axles shafts F&R, Rokmen Corner armor with led's, and Rokmen sliders, custom back-up lights from gen-right, piaa 510's, IPF green glow fatboy's up front.

Did you have ABS and ESP on your CRD? If so, are you planning on getting ABS ready axles or are you bypassing the ABS and ESP? It looksl ike I'll have to get rid of the ABS and ESP on my build that is currently underway in Phoenix. I'm planning on pulling the fuses and then the bulbs from the dash and then seeing about a BCM flash that won't contain the ABS and ESP programming. Just curious if you have had to think about this as well? Thanks and look forward to hearing more about your CRD build!!!

-Scott

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Had 2005 KJ Rocky Mnt. Edition (destroyed)
Had 2006 KJ Sport 4x4
Have 2007 JK 4-dr Sahara 4x4 (tow package so stock 4.10s!!)
AEV 3.5" RS Lift; Schrockworks FR bumper and Warn 9.5ti winch; Cobra 75 CB; Rigid 50" LED light bar; Adventure Trailers (AT Overland) JK Kitchen setup in the cargo area.
Southern L.O.S.T. # 236487

scott-

pulled the ABS and ESP fuses and bulbs already. Going to bypass. Got more work done today, well atleast rebuilt the t-case and tranny

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2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon TJ- Impact Orange
4'' RK LA, 35's KM2's, Warn front bumper, Warn rear bumper with tire swing, Warn gas skid, Nth oil skid, 4.88's, Alloy axles shafts F&R, Rokmen Corner armor with led's, and Rokmen sliders, custom back-up lights from gen-right, piaa 510's, IPF green glow fatboy's up front.

Cool deal, thanks for the reply and best of luck on your build!!

-Scott

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Had 2005 KJ Rocky Mnt. Edition (destroyed)
Had 2006 KJ Sport 4x4
Have 2007 JK 4-dr Sahara 4x4 (tow package so stock 4.10s!!)
AEV 3.5" RS Lift; Schrockworks FR bumper and Warn 9.5ti winch; Cobra 75 CB; Rigid 50" LED light bar; Adventure Trailers (AT Overland) JK Kitchen setup in the cargo area.
Southern L.O.S.T. # 236487

Your going to loose your speedo also since your ABS sensors operate your speedo in '06+ KJ's,not sure if my speedo fix would interface with the ABS system(highly doubt it).Not having a speedo can make things fun,and not talking about knowing how fast your going,many systems rely on the speedo to operate your vehicle(engine and trans are the big ones).

Interesting, cause I pulled my fuse (#38) and have had no problems with my speedo.

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Apatosaurus, Jurassic Park Edition

That is for the ABS pump,the brain box is still reading and reporting wheel speed to the BCM and PCM.Only for '06+ KJ's.

oh gottcha

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Apatosaurus, Jurassic Park Edition

we have found another way to get around this. we will have a working speedo.

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2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon TJ- Impact Orange
4'' RK LA, 35's KM2's, Warn front bumper, Warn rear bumper with tire swing, Warn gas skid, Nth oil skid, 4.88's, Alloy axles shafts F&R, Rokmen Corner armor with led's, and Rokmen sliders, custom back-up lights from gen-right, piaa 510's, IPF green glow fatboy's up front.

When my speedo quit working after swamping it a couple weeks ago I didn't have any problems with anything except for knowing how fast I was going and no cruise.

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SOLD!!!
2005 Liberty Renegade
STT CustomSTUFF
4" Stump Lift.
JBA UCA's
245/75/16 GOODYEAR DURA TRACS


Thanks for throwing me under the bus Evil... Just remember this when you decide to turn yours back in to a... Real Jeep.

We're doing a re-wire from the t-case to the back of the speedo so then the speed sensor will read properly without trying to interface with the ABS sensors (since they'll be gone). I forget what the methodology was that I had discussed with the guys at Kevin's Offroad but they had it pretty much figured out since they have done it before on ZJs, WJs and WKs. So I reckon we'll see what happens from there...???

I'll keep you informed as we progress through the build. Or rather they progress through it since i'm in Utah...

-Scott

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Had 2005 KJ Rocky Mnt. Edition (destroyed)
Had 2006 KJ Sport 4x4
Have 2007 JK 4-dr Sahara 4x4 (tow package so stock 4.10s!!)
AEV 3.5" RS Lift; Schrockworks FR bumper and Warn 9.5ti winch; Cobra 75 CB; Rigid 50" LED light bar; Adventure Trailers (AT Overland) JK Kitchen setup in the cargo area.
Southern L.O.S.T. # 236487

That is about what were doing. We are using a sensor from a Rubicon t-case.

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2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon TJ- Impact Orange
4'' RK LA, 35's KM2's, Warn front bumper, Warn rear bumper with tire swing, Warn gas skid, Nth oil skid, 4.88's, Alloy axles shafts F&R, Rokmen Corner armor with led's, and Rokmen sliders, custom back-up lights from gen-right, piaa 510's, IPF green glow fatboy's up front.

Promised pic's. Nothing far past this point. I rebuilt Both front and rear axle, and the T-case. T-case is now attached to the Tranny, and the rear axle is going in here shortly. the unibody metal is getting welded up here very very soon.

Here ya go.
D44 with 4.56's and ARB air locker, Riddle diff Cover, and disc brake upgrade



D30 Front with 4.56's open diff. PS upgraded steering. Riddle diff cover.

Pile lol-Its way cleaned up now.

And yes the Steering box is in and ya.,..

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2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon TJ- Impact Orange
4'' RK LA, 35's KM2's, Warn front bumper, Warn rear bumper with tire swing, Warn gas skid, Nth oil skid, 4.88's, Alloy axles shafts F&R, Rokmen Corner armor with led's, and Rokmen sliders, custom back-up lights from gen-right, piaa 510's, IPF green glow fatboy's up front.

Went through cleaned it up and put a short input shaft in. Its all done now but the girl has the pics on her camera

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2005 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon TJ- Impact Orange
4'' RK LA, 35's KM2's, Warn front bumper, Warn rear bumper with tire swing, Warn gas skid, Nth oil skid, 4.88's, Alloy axles shafts F&R, Rokmen Corner armor with led's, and Rokmen sliders, custom back-up lights from gen-right, piaa 510's, IPF green glow fatboy's up front.

Progress pictures

Did that JK steering box work?

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2008 KK Liberty Sport NIGHT OPS EDITION + GILLS
OEM & Custom Skids - Factory Tow Package - Rock Lizard Skink Super Sliders
Prototype JBA 4 Inch Lift - JBA UCA's - Flowmaster Super 44 OR - Whacked Resonator
Jet Stage 2 - RL Gecko Basket Rack - Custom Winch Bumper - Recon 10.5K Winch

These are exciting pictures!

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