The heavy fab work should be finished now.
I thought that turning around the stock cj shackle hangers and moving them to the most rearward hole was a pretty good idea. Here is what the shackle angle looked like by doing that. 4" long shackles. It looked pretty close.
This is what the shock angle will look like if I run them in the stock upper mount. Pretty angled; which will decrease their dampening ability. I'll run it like that for a while after I check shock travel, otherwise I will have to fab some upper mounts up.
All finished up with the shackle hangers recessed into the crossmember/bumper. Body mounts as gussets for the frame tie in brackets.
And on the jeep for the last time. I ended up pushing the shackle mounts an additional 1/2" back to make the shackle angle a bit more vertical. It now will be pretty close to the angle it was before which was a good combo of compression and extension.
Still have shocks/d-shaft/anti-wrap bar to finish things up. The d-shaft will need to be extended 5" as well as the anti-wrap bar. It looks like the 52"s are going to run a bit higher then the front bastard pack. I will put the RE 1.5" SOA springs in the front that were in the rear to level it out.
Making progress.
Originally Posted by jerryg79
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