The Butters JK Build

[WJCO]

Nice work. :thumb:

 

[Stotch]

Sweet

Nice work. :thumb:

Thanks guys :thankyou:

 

[Stotch]

Started on these earlier; more on that later...

 

[Stotch]

Got the driver's side gussets cleaned up and installed.

 

[VeruGE*144]

Got the driver's side gussets cleaned up and installed.
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Looks good[emoji106], welds look good too. Were you careful around the upper balljoints, not to heat them up to much?

 

[Stotch]

Looks good[emoji106], welds look good too. Were you careful around the upper balljoints, not to heat them up to much?

Thanks! Yeah, I put wet towels on it and alternated top/bottom small sections at a time. Hopefully I was patient enough not to damage them felt like it took forever though!

 

[Stotch]

All ready for Flat Nasty in the morning!

 

[Stotch]

Shox and Fenders

Did a couple of things this past week.
Fender Chop:

Fox Shox 2.0 Performance Series (+ EVO Mini Liners, 'cause why not)

 

[BananaJeep]

Lookin good! How was Flat Nasty? I want to get down there one of these days.

 

[Stotch]

Lookin good! How was Flat Nasty? I want to get down there one of these days.

Thanks!

It was a good time. Not a real large park and about half of the park is out of my league, but definitely worth going to for a one day visit. If you had a purpose built crawler/rock bouncer you trailer-ed there it looks like it'd be a blast! This is a photo of "Get it Billy!" and as you can kind of see the rocks are as big as my Jeep and the grade got crazy steep toward the end, not to mention ground level would be well above your head.

 

[Clutch]

Did a couple of things this past week.
Fender Chop:
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Fox Shox 2.0 Performance Series (+ EVO Mini Liners, 'cause why not)
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Awesome, I was wondering if you were going to chop your fenders. Looks great!


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[Stotch]

Awesome, I was wondering if you were going to chop your fenders. Looks great!

Thanks! Seeing yours in person again helped me pull the trigger.

 

[Clutch]

Thanks! Seeing yours in person again helped me pull the trigger.

Glad I could be a good influence!


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[Stotch]

License plate relocate:

 

[notnalc68]

License plate relocate:
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Looks good. Which light kit is that?


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[Stotch]

Looks good. Which light kit is that?


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Thanks, it's the JKS kit. Really bright light for a little LED.

 

[BananaJeep]

We have the same license plate bracket. We're basically brothers now :blush:

 

[Stotch]

We have the same license plate bracket. We're basically brothers now :blush:

Well OK, but you're the little brother. :bleh:

 

[Stotch]

Had some leaking on the rear differential after Flat Nasty at the bottom of the cover and I've been having some seepage on the passenger side plug weld too. So I drained it:

Cleaned it, scraped it and the cover looked fine, so I put it back on with some new The Right Stuff gasket maker.

Cleaned up the leaky plug weld and took a look.

Filled it in as best I could, then ground it down flush-ish.

Then sprayed some high heat flat black paint on it.

Two days so far and no more leaks!

 

[WJCO]

Hope it works for you.