Now for the front of our project!

After removing the front housing from our Jeep, we are ready to start our tear down and fabrication on the front suspension.

First the front fenders and old shock towers must be removed. We then prep the rails by grinding paint from frame so that our fabrication can be done.

We prep our new housing from our donor vehicle by taking off the radius arms. We will need to cut these and add a piece of 1 1/2” x 3” x .188 rectangular tubing. We cut ours in our horizontal band saw. Cutting the stock radius arms off and adding to the stock radius arm mount, allow us to increase wheel travel and pinion angle.

Reinstall cut radius arms to new housing. We will figure out length of tubing to add later when we align new housing.

Time to install new front housing. Once we slide front housing under our Jeep, we square and center with our plumb bob to find correct location of housing.

Once squared, we now figure new wheel base. Wow - we have stretched our Jeep by 7”.

Now that we have installed our front housing we can now measure how much we need to extend our radius arms we had cut earlier.

We extended factory panhard rod and added heim joint. As you can tell, we are really beefing up the front for some serious rock crawling capabilities.