porkymcchode

hello everyone, new to the site here, seen alot of nice yotas on here so im gonna make a thread on my runner build. got this thing about 5 monthes ago. traded a nice CJ5 for it (i know, i just dont care for jeeps that much) had about 2500 in the jeep so seemed like a pretty fair trade.

porkymcchode

as you can see from this pic, it needs alot of body work, but already i have 2 new doors and a tailgate. also so far i have put a new transmission in it due to the old one getting stuck in 3rd gear all the time. the odo reads a whopping 370xxx miles on original tranny so the fact that i was still driving around on it was pretty good. the 3.0 motor was replaced not long ago and has about 100k on it. future plans are:
fix all body work
new paint
new seats
diamond plate door panels/rear panels
fab up a soft top out of an old pickup tonneu cover
cut down on the lift, previous owner said it has a total of 11'' of lift. i know it has 3" body lift so that would mean it has 8" suspension lift. not sure of that maybe a 5" and it looks like it has some kind of aluminum spacers in the from too so i dont know. i plan on just cutting the body lift blocks down to 1".
replacing current 35"s with something more aggressive
5.29 gears front and rear

i want to try to get all this done before summer and still have it drivable during the winter incase of unexpected east tennessee snow storms. i will try to update with pics often. any info, comments, suggestions will be appriciated.

porkymcchode

yeah just found the appropriate place for this thread, sorry
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f199.../#post51826496