The Diez build thread!

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I am so jealous of that you have no idea. Also just skimmed your build thread, love it :thumb:

I feel really bad reading about you having to wait so long. Used to be in Virginia and totally understand it took forever to get anything now and I order from Quadratec it takes forever for me to get it so I very rarely use them. I hope your brake lines show up soon
 
New skid and thanks to mackey a new crossmember.
 

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Decided to change things up a bit with the tire change
 

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Been wrenching on Diez all weekend, new shoes, changes the ring color, replaced a bent arm, spod, greased, cut the pinch seems a lot, and raised him a bit. Not sure on the height yet....
 

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Bobby,, that is a whole different animal than you were wheeling during the last Moab trip! It looks great, and I couldnt be more excited for you. good job!!!:thumb::beer:


PS. If memory serves,, you did just fine with the lesser rendition:clap2:
 
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Bobby,, that is a whole different animal than you were wheeling during the last Moab trip! It looks great, and I couldnt be more excited for you. good job!!!:thumb::beer:


PS. If memory serves,, you did just fine with the lesser rendition:clap2:

Thanks Dave! Can't wait to run it in Moab again. I had a blast on the budget boost and 35's but this is the icing on the cake for me!

I say keep the height. You'll have more go fast fun, and honestly it looks really good.

Thanks! Yeah, it settled a bit after the wife went and got groceries in it. I had a 1/2 rake but it's now gone. I'm gonna see how it looks after Browns Camp this weekend! Hopefully I took care of the tire rub issues on the pinch seams!
 
Been wrenching on Diez all weekend, new shoes, changes the ring color, replaced a bent arm, spod, greased, cut the pinch seems a lot, and raised him a bit. Not sure on the height yet....

Looks really good! Might have to go that route for mine! [emoji106]🏻[emoji482]
 
It's crazy how much the jeep can settle. I raised the coils up a 1/2" on the collars yesterday, I gave me over 1" of lift. I was gonna lower it but just measured and the jeep dropped almost 3/4". I drove it a bit after raising it around 20 miles down bumpy roads then pulled it in the garage and measured. Since then the wife drove it to school and back 5 miles and after sitting overnight it's settled almost 3/4". Not a bad thing just something I found interesting.
I spent the evening still trying to track down my cb issues, I think I have found a bad cobra 75 radio! Gonna run it by a cb shop on wed and verify.
 
I had to cut back the factory pinch seams a bit. The rears were easy, the fronts took some playing around with to get the clearance. I need to run a bolt back thru the front seams. I had to remove about 2" from them along with the factory seam bolts.
 

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It's crazy how much the jeep can settle. I raised the coils up a 1/2" on the collars yesterday, I gave me over 1" of lift. I was gonna lower it but just measured and the jeep dropped almost 3/4". I drove it a bit after raising it around 20 miles down bumpy roads then pulled it in the garage and measured. Since then the wife drove it to school and back 5 miles and after sitting overnight it's settled almost 3/4". Not a bad thing just something I found interesting.
I spent the evening still trying to track down my cb issues, I think I have found a bad cobra 75 radio! Gonna run it by a cb shop on wed and verify.

That doesn't make sense at all!! If you raise the collar 1/2", you should be 1/2" taller... Maybe it netted 1" because you had it jacked up and let the springs rest? Now they've settled back down?
 
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