54" LS2 JK Buggy Build

KPatterson · Apr 29, 2015

Been slacking on the updates while Jason has been pounding away

Temporary cut up old links while parts are on the way

Them notches :smoke:

Rear shock mounts

bjeep · Apr 30, 2015

Looking good. hitit

KPatterson · May 5, 2015

Rear suspension coming along

KPatterson · May 5, 2015

sparepartsdave · May 5, 2015

nice work Jason

KPatterson · May 14, 2015

Saw the buggy in person for the first time this past weekend. :woot:

KPatterson · May 24, 2015

Hit a new note when I saw the skins on it :****:

kushKrawlin · May 26, 2015

Man i tell Ya. Jduck ain't no joke on them welds. Holy ****. Prob the best work I have ever seen. I mean my god it looks like a machine did it. Kudos JDuck!! You sir are the MAN!!!! I can't get over them welds!! Someone gonna be HAPPY with this one!!! Congrats KPatterson !!! This will be one amazing build!

mdo817 · May 26, 2015

kushKrawlin said:
Man i tell Ya. Jduck ain't no joke on them welds. Holy ****. Prob the best work I have ever seen. I mean my god it looks like a machine did it. Kudos JDuck!!

JDuck is a machine, nice work Jason!

KPatterson · May 29, 2015

Front fenders tied in, grill hoop and winch mounted. Temp mounted some 42" Pitbulls to gauge size.

smbroady82 · May 29, 2015

that thing looks awesome!

Cant wait to see the finished product

kmcminn · May 29, 2015

Sir, you have an amazing buggy. This is something you may want to think about. The only reason I would have ever thought about this is cause the owner of a big shop pointed it out to me on a rig of mine. They fixed the problem when they redone my rear suspension. With your heims being mounted closer to the chunk on the rear lowers. It puts more strain on the heims and mounts when hitting a rock as opposed to being mounted further out(closer to the tire). It caused my heims to bend. I'm sure you will be running 1.25 heims but it may save you a headache later on. Again I love the buggy, just noticed this while lusting over your rig. Not trying to be a tech guru cause I am not one just something a real guru told me. If you want to know who told me about it pm me.

KPatterson · May 30, 2015

kmcminn said:
Sir, you have an amazing buggy. This is something you may want to think about. The only reason I would have ever thought about this is cause the owner of a big shop pointed it out to me on a rig of mine. They fixed the problem when they redone my rear suspension. With your heims being mounted closer to the chunk on the rear lowers. It puts more strain on the heims and mounts when hitting a rock as opposed to being mounted further out(closer to the tire). It caused my heims to bend. I'm sure you will be running 1.25 heims but it may save you a headache later on. Again I love the buggy, just noticed this while lusting over your rig. Not trying to be a tech guru cause I am not one just something a real guru told me. If you want to know who told me about it pm me.

They are 1.25", I`m not worried about them. If for whatever reason they bend, you can come back and tell me I told you so :flipoff1:

KPatterson · Jun 1, 2015

Some under the hood shots, still needs some bracing here and there.

kushKrawlin · Jun 2, 2015

kmcminn said:
Sir, you have an amazing buggy. This is something you may want to think about. The only reason I would have ever thought about this is cause the owner of a big shop pointed it out to me on a rig of mine. They fixed the problem when they redone my rear suspension. With your heims being mounted closer to the chunk on the rear lowers. It puts more strain on the heims and mounts when hitting a rock as opposed to being mounted further out(closer to the tire). It caused my heims to bend. I'm sure you will be running 1.25 heims but it may save you a headache later on. Again I love the buggy, just noticed this while lusting over your rig. Not trying to be a tech guru cause I am not one just something a real guru told me. If you want to know who told me about it pm me.

Holy moly. I just noticed that after reading this. Whats the reason they aren't spread out more? I'm Just curious, In no way insulting the Buggy or builder .. If I didn't ask it would bother me not knowin. Thanks. Looks aweosme

kmcminn · Jun 3, 2015

kushKrawlin said:
Holy moly. I just noticed that after reading this. Whats the reason they aren't spread out more? I'm Just curious, In no way insulting the Buggy or builder .. If I didn't ask it would bother me not knowin. Thanks. Looks aweosme

If you watch any videos from the bounty hill last weekend pause it when they are flipping. Everyone of the buggies has there links are moved out close to the hubs. It has to do with the leverage.

redneckengineered · Jun 3, 2015

Buggy looks awesome man. Only two things I would change now would be relocating the rear lowers further out on the axle and go ahead and sell that LP60. Other than that I think you've got a great rig going there.

Jduck · Jun 3, 2015

Thanks for the input guys, I'm gonna crunch some numbers in the link calculator and see what I can do to move them outward without throwing the geometry outta whack.