Build of my JKU

MericaMade said:
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Yeah a couple of posts up I commented on this. When I first put them in I had to find a way to put the bolt in from the inside while keeping the coilover compressed Like this:
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This weekend I swapped the arm around and it went in normally with clearance all the way from droop to stuff. Like this...

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Here's a pic of the frame side.

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KevinG said:
Yeah a couple of posts up I commented on this. When I first put them in I had to find a way to put the bolt in from the inside while keeping the coilover compressed Like this:
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This weekend I swapped the arm around and it went in normally with clearance all the way from droop to stuff. Like this...

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Here's a pic of the frame side.

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Yeah that’s not how they are supposed to be mounted.


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KevinG said:
Easy enough to switch back. I was looking at it last night and it seemed easy enough to do. How come it's a bad idea?
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I can’t remember exactly what evo said but I thought there was a reason. One reason would be you can’t adjust them so the adjusters are pointless but I thought there was another reason.


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MericaMade said:
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wjtstudios said:
Flex the axle up and the bolt should clear, bring it in from the other direction.

Probably need a shorter bolt too [emoji6]


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Now that I see the pic, turn the pinch bolt around, and then unbolt the control arm so you can drop it down and put the coilovers bolt in the other way from how it is.
The two end up head to head, and should be close, but not rubbing. If they run, grind the head of the pinch bolt some, so it clears.
 
MericaMade said:
I like what Kevin did but it would worry me the part of the arms dragging the most is not replaceable like the Johnny Joint end.

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That would be the other reason that overlander is searching for right now I'm sure. I am going to switch it around tonight. I was pretty beat last night and thought I had struck gold. I even looked back at the instructions for the long arm and saw where the back should have the adjuster axle end, but the front didn't mention it. Sorry to lead you a bad way.

jdofmemi said:
Now that I see the pic, turn the pinch bolt around, and then unbolt the control arm so you can drop it down and put the coilovers bolt in the other way from how it is.
The two end up head to head, and should be close, but not rubbing. If they run, grind the head of the pinch bolt some, so it clears.
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If you run the bolt through from the inside, the bolt head clears the pinch bolt head. No grinding necessary. It's just a pain to get it all of the way in.
 
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KevinG said:
That would be the other reason that overlander is searching for right now I'm sure. I am going to switch it around tonight. I was pretty beat last night and thought I had struck gold. I even looked back at the instructions for the long arm and saw where the back should have the adjuster axle end, but the front didn't mention it. Sorry to lead you a bad way.



If you run the bolt through from the inside, the bolt head clears the pinch bolt head. No grinding necessary. It's just a pain to get it all of the way in.
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Yeah running the bolt the opposite way is going to be hard with the load of the Coilovers on it. I'll mess with it Friday. I just wanted to get them out of crate and ready to work on tonight so that task has been accomplished.

Having the short arms makes the angle a little more drastic and more jacking of the axel is needed to create a gap between the bolts.

Kevin can you post pictures of the rear Rockstars as well. I want to verify what I need to cut off.

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MericaMade said:
Kevin can you post pictures of the rear Rockstars as well. I want to verify what I need to cut off.

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yup!
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At this point I was able to tap it in to place, but it wasn't going on far enough to get the bolts in, so I did some grading on the eve bracket until it matched up with the weld on the axle tube.
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From there weld it everywhere you can. I'll spare the horror of mine. The high clearance brackets are in a box waiting to go on.:rock:
 
KevinG said:
yup!
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At this point I was able to tap it in to place, but it wasn't going on far enough to get the bolts in, so I did some grading on the eve bracket until it matched up with the weld on the axle tube.
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From there weld it everywhere you can. I'll spare the horror of mine. The high clearance brackets are in a box waiting to go on.:rock:
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Sweet, Internet High five. Thank you!!!!

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Looks good.

If you haven't got some already, go by the welding supply and get some good anti splatter spray, and coat everything around where you are welding.

It makes clean up a lot easier.
 
jdofmemi said:
Looks good.

If you haven't got some already, go by the welding supply and get some good anti splatter spray, and coat everything around where you are welding.

It makes clean up a lot easier.
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I use that spray.. for flux core wire... do you need it if running gas?
 
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