Poorboy Rockhopper

My soon to be wife picked up this 94 yj about 2 months ago and asked me to start building it so we could go wheeling this coming year. She named it Rockhopper. I had a 95 YJ I built last year but go mad and sold it...its the red caged one pictured. This one sat way to high on coil springs front and rear and both 4 links were thrown together. I cut the backhalf of the jeep off and tubed it out and build a cage. I just finished redoing the rear 4 link with 16" dual rate coilovers and used 2" .250 dom tubing for lower links and 1.5" .250 upper links. both use 7/8" heims. I am getting ready to tear the front 4 link apart and redo it and add 14" dual rate coilovers. Also adding hydo steering and building some beadlocks for the 42's

jeep specs
94 yj
350 Crate motor with TBI ordered for 87 truck
TBI mod for max fuel pressure
Taurus electric fan
new aluminum radiator
Chevy dana 60 front with 4.56 gears, spool, and 3/4 ton front calipers to clear 15" wheels
14 bolt rear with 4.56, detroit locker, and disc kit
TH350 auto transmission
NP203/300 doubler
Smittybuilt XRC8000 winch
4 link front and rear
5 point harness

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added some color. and waiting on the new coilover springs to arrive so it will sit a few inches lower. then gona start tearing the front apart

Looks good. Much mo better. What and how did you add color

just spray bombed it.....figured it is gona get scratched up pretty quick and wanted something easy to touch up. it was kinda hard finding the color though

Better hurry up and marry her.............................looks good, keep the pics commin....L

ontherun said:

Better hurry up and marry her.............................looks good, keep the pics commin....L

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Getting married in May at Southern Shine Crawl in Harlan KY at Mason Jar overlook

highrolrcustoms said:

Getting married in May at Southern Shine Crawl in Harlan KY at Mason Jar overlook

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thats cool my wife wanted to get married at golden mountain at the gazebo thing on the hill but we ended up at the beach. Good luck sounds like a keeper

seats, harnesses, coilovers, fuel cell, rear suck down winch all mounted. now time to turn it around and start tearing the front apart

changed the rear coilover mounts a little and got a nice low stance now. started tearing the front apart to redo 4 link set up and swap from coil to coilovers. Also got all the TBI nightmare worked out. ended up having to swap to shorty headers to clear upper link mounts.

Build is coming along quite nicely!

dang where'd the yj go? good looking tube work man

Coilover mounts built and coilovers tacked in place. Wanted a different look so added some upper braces from coilover mounts to radiator mount. Gona trim hood to fit around them

I am working on a yj front 4 link right now as well any pics of the upper mounts and any issues to look out for

ill get you some pics of the upper mounts tomorrow. my red yj on top of page was a 3 link so I could set it a lot lower than with this 4 link set up. ive run into header clearance issues with upper link frame mounts. had to swap to s10 v8 conversion headers. Next I had a v8 bolt in saddle mount from advance adapters and the upper links contacted it so I had to swap to weld in motor mounts... only other issue I see is I need to swap to a mini starter because the header almost touches the starter and figure it will burn it up pretty quick. as far as the link mount on the passenger side it is about 3/8" from the link mount.... its a tight fit!!!

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I just got started on the rear 4 link on my YJ & hoping to get it a little lower. At ride height its 49" to the top of the tub right behind the doors sitting on 39.5s. I'm shooting for 115" WB
Am I in the right ballpark?

Nice build

got tires mounted on beadlocks, installed drive flanges, painted front tubing. going to install coilovers tomorrow!! then on to the hydraulic steering. if all goes well ill drive it out of the garage this weekend!!