Pirate 4x4 banner

Long Overdue 77FJ40 Build thread

120K views 434 replies 55 participants last post by  Jason M  
#1 · (Edited)
I could not think of any cool names for my build like a bunch of you guys have so owell. I started working on this project about a year ago I actually traded for it. Well I traded for a alum tub,frame,front clip,and a shit load off very sweet parts. It still needed a ton of work which I have been chipping away at. I did not touch it all last summer so I started on it this last winter around the first of the year. Here are some pictures...

A bunch of parts:
 

Attachments

#7 ·
Working witht he factory harness. I have sense bagged this and am using a painless because who ever took the motor out fucked the harness up worse than I have the skills to repair.
 

Attachments

#18 ·
39x13.5 on 17s oredering up some 17 inch TRs this week. And hope to have it running and moving around on its own within a couple weeks. I still want to make the links in the front double sheer insted of the way they are now.
Who sells long pieces of high psi braded fuel line witn AN fittings? Summit?
 

Attachments

#20 ·
ouibus said:
Looking sweet man!!!
Just curious though, wasn't the suspension already finished when you traded for that thing? I thought that Poison Spyder had already done the suspension? Just curious.

I wish I knew the whole story on what happened with this thing. It had the suspension "roughfed in" nothing welded, mounts broke off the crossmembers and axle from loading on trailers and unloading, the links have threaded inserts which were not weled and had pulled apart. mostly it was all mocked up but not nearly done. They did the math as far as figguring it out I did the labor of putting it together.
 
#22 ·
Wild! :smokin:

Interesting how the rear diff protector incorporates a link/brace mount. Is that diff protector w/top mount an off-the-shelf item or did you weld in the top piece?