Newbies Post Up Here - Rig Specs & Info Thread

Ethann · Nov 23, 2013

Member from Australia

Half built a couple rigs, got fed up with being in the garage on all my days off from work, I decided to part all my stuff out and just buy a rig :dblthumb:

Fj45 skinned buggy
Solid axle industries dana 60s
3.9 v8, auto, modded Lt230 with F+R dissconects
Fox coilovers/bumps
39 Krawlers

Have changed a few things around to suit me, but really enjoying it so far

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Phantom 309 · Nov 27, 2013

Checking in from WA State. Hardline Crawlers popped up on another board that I'm on and wanted to check it out. Nice forum!

Up until last week I wheeled a clapped out Yota pickup with all the standard goodies.

Sunday I picked up a new ride (needed something more family friendly.) YJ w/60's, doubler, hydro, blah blah blah. A new cage is on the agenda after Xmas.

TacomaJD · Nov 27, 2013

Welcome to HL! :drinkers:

afd516 · Nov 27, 2013

Sam from Texas
I started wheeling in an 89 2 door cherokee. Back in 2002 My brother owed me 3k for a car he was paying me payments for and then he wrecked it. He quit making payments. I took his Cherokee. We are even. It started out as nothing more than a red xj with a 4.5 lift on 33's.

This is pretty much what it looked like when I decided to part it out because I wanted more than it could handle.

After 2 years of mowing lawns on my days off from the FD, I had collected the parts I needed and saved enough to hire a guy to build my chassis and give me a roller. I need to get out more. Kids have slowed that down. I am waiting for my 7 mo son to get old enough to hit the trails more often again.

Fuel injected 5.0, c4 2200 stall, atlas 4 speed 10:1
Spidertrax front with a hi-9 5:13 spool
Spidertrax rear with strange lp 5:13 spool
PSC steering
4 seater

I prefer to not promote the chassis builder. After owning and wheeling it for some time now, I realize that I could have made a better decision on a builder. Time has really showed in the builders short comings. I had a **** ton of bugs to work out that I should never have had issues with being that this was built by a "professional". In the end, I am super happy with the build, parts list and design after the relentless task of dialing it in. It has better wheeling capabilities than I do driving capabilities. Probably has everything to do with the fact that I don't want to beat it up, roll it, break it. I prefer to wheel it, come home, wash it and set it to the side ready for the next trip. Not fix it because I tried to force it.

Recently my wife and I traded in her Acura tsx for a 2010 Rubicon JKU.

It will get a set of 37's and some Walkers under a 3.5 MetalCloak lift. My first for it purchase was a set of Shrockworks sliders. A front stubby will be next. It already has a winch. A full compliment of skids will be installed as well. When the motor runs its course a LS swap will be in its future.

Intended use will be daily transportation for my wife to go back and forth to work and a kid taxi. The added advantage is its potential for great family fun and ability to haul camping supplies, tow a small trailer and travel the unbeaten path.

I don't have any pics of it yet.

bee513 · Nov 30, 2013

4.3l/th350/d300
toy alxes

STROKERYOTA · Dec 10, 2013

welcome

TacomaJD · Dec 10, 2013

afd516 said:
Sam from Texas
I started wheeling in an 89 2 door cherokee. Back in 2002 My brother owed me 3k for a car he was paying me payments for and then he wrecked it. He quit making payments. I took his Cherokee. We are even. It started out as nothing more than a red xj with a 4.5 lift on 33's.

This is pretty much what it looked like when I decided to part it out because I wanted more than it could handle.

After 2 years of mowing lawns on my days off from the FD, I had collected the parts I needed and saved enough to hire a guy to build my chassis and give me a roller. I need to get out more. Kids have slowed that down. I am waiting for my 7 mo son to get old enough to hit the trails more often again.

Fuel injected 5.0, c4 2200 stall, atlas 4 speed 10:1
Spidertrax front with a hi-9 5:13 spool
Spidertrax rear with strange lp 5:13 spool
PSC steering
4 seater

I prefer to not promote the chassis builder. After owning and wheeling it for some time now, I realize that I could have made a better decision on a builder. Time has really showed in the builders short comings. I had a **** ton of bugs to work out that I should never have had issues with being that this was built by a "professional". In the end, I am super happy with the build, parts list and design after the relentless task of dialing it in. It has better wheeling capabilities than I do driving capabilities. Probably has everything to do with the fact that I don't want to beat it up, roll it, break it. I prefer to wheel it, come home, wash it and set it to the side ready for the next trip. Not fix it because I tried to force it.

Recently my wife and I traded in her Acura tsx for a 2010 Rubicon JKU.

It will get a set of 37's and some Walkers under a 3.5 MetalCloak lift. My first for it purchase was a set of Shrockworks sliders. A front stubby will be next. It already has a winch. A full compliment of skids will be installed as well. When the motor runs its course a LS swap will be in its future.

Intended use will be daily transportation for my wife to go back and forth to work and a kid taxi. The added advantage is its potential for great family fun and ability to haul camping supplies, tow a small trailer and travel the unbeaten path.

I don't have any pics of it yet.

Man that's a sharp buggy! and great story! :drinkers:

I'm the same type of wheeler, I don't baby my junk but I'm not gonna demolish it to try to get up something. I'd rather come home and not have to fawk with it until the next time I'm ready to load up and go wheel!.

09zkrankin · Dec 11, 2013

Re: Re: Newbies Post Up Here - Rig Specs & Info Thread

im new here from eastern ky so i thought I'd post up my rig. Do most of my wheelin at rush offroad in boyd co. So some of you may have saw me out.

I've got a 1996 xj I bought here locally, wanted to get into the sport cheap to see if I liked it and couldnt oass the deal up. It got the stock front axle with molly shafts and lock right, c8.25 rear welded with molys, 35's on d window wheels, 4.5" lift, 6" stretch and a lot of trimming. Custom bumpers, 9k winch. Just basic stuff. I've had it since aug and it has shown me that I love rock crawling and I need more rig. This one is setup great for a beginner but I have already started to push its limits so I have listed it for sale and if it doesn't go quick I'm going to build it up to what I want. And tye paint is gonna be one of the first things to go lol

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loudpyps · Dec 22, 2013

had an account for a while now, hope y'all aren't as rough as pirate, anyway here's my rig started life as a full size bronco now has almost all the goodies, hoping to have it wheelable soon, one thing I do have goin for me is I've done all the work myself and with 3 kids and no credit card!

STROKERYOTA · Dec 23, 2013

nothing like pirate, welcome to HL. :dblthumb:

Big David · Dec 23, 2013

Hey, all. My name is David, I am a addict........of Jeeps. I have owned 10. I currently have 3 XJ's. The white one I DD & the red one is a work in progress.

The day I brought Goliath (red) home. It had slick 38's sitting on a 8.5 in. long arm lift. Axles are non disco Dana 30 & 8.8 with 4.10's. It has a 4.0 & auto trans. & 4 wheel disc brakes.

After I replaced the coils with 4.5 in RE coils & pulled the lift shackles & 2 in. blocks. Sitting on 33's. He's getting some GY MTR Kevlar 35's in a few weeks.

purevil71 · Jan 1, 2014

Hey all, just wanted to post up and say hello.

New guy here my real name is Brent, but I've been involved with the sport since 1999 when I got my first real 4x4 that I just recently tore down to build my new bouncer out of. Right now I have a 1996 Geo Tracker that is our family wheeler and get's us all out in the woods, and we hope to have our bouncer done by early spring.

I also do a off road event held every year in July called ZookiMelt. The Melt has been around since 1999, but I have been over it the last 5 years. In the past the event was held at The Badlands in Attica, IN, but this past year we moved it to Dirty Turtle in Bedford, Ky. My wife and I are also looking forward to joining in on the fun of the SRRS and Ty's events as well with our new bouncer. We have already met some really awesome people involved in the bouncing scene, and look forward to meeting many more!

Tracker is just a modified stock rear suspension with TJ coils and 2" spacer, front sami axle with 5.12's and sami rear springs set up SPOA and 35" MTR's

Old buggy, but using the axles (maybe), wheels tires, seats shocks and a few other things off of it for the new build

MNC · Jan 3, 2014

Hi All,

Here is my Fj40 Landcruiser, coiled with 4 link rear and 3 link front, cable lockers in 60 series front and 80 series rear diff, 39.5" TSL's and boggers on custom beadlock rims. We do mostly mud work here in NZ so have added a FJ45 ute cab fitted round a 6 point roll cage.

dodgecrawler2011 · Jan 5, 2014

Better picture of mine.

twizt3dfuc · Jan 7, 2014

Re: Re: Newbies Post Up Here - Rig Specs & Info Thread

Got a new rig this weekend. Im still a newb so ill post here. Some of you may recognize it.

STROKERYOTA · Jan 7, 2014

Yep seen it b4 . welcome

mcmen0317 · Jan 24, 2014

New Rig:
88 4Runner 3.0 V6
SAS on 38 TSL Bias
Locked front an rear
5.29's

HIGHCOMPRESSION · Jan 28, 2014

Hola. Figured I would go ahead and join up and tell you guys a little bit about what I've got going on.
I'm currently building my first dedicated trail rig. It's a 1-ton YJ with a 4BT (hence the name). The rig is currently scattered out in my garage and I'm still in the parts-buying phase so I don't have any good pictures. It's coming together slowly but surely.

Looking forward to meeting you guys.