Well we bought our 2010 JKU as a daily driver and family rig, I have a 81 chevy crewcab crawler as the toy, so this build was designed around street life. We live were the snow get 3+ feet deep not plowed for days, we drive a lot average 20k a year- freeway,steep hills,city, forest roads.

The Jeep came with 2in spring only lift nice highway manners, 373 gears and 285/70R17 couldn't use OD not enough power to pull hills and the MPG sucked 10-12.



Stage 1 A little visual upgrade.
Upgraded the bumpers to Smitybilt XRC front and the XRC Atlas rear. MRL lighting LED pods on the front. Rugged Ridge wind defectors.

 

Stage 2 The tons
*1990 Ford HP Dana 60
*2004 GM 14Bolt 10.5 AAM factory disc brake
*ABS tone rings from Dynatrac still need to do the front to make abs, esp work and turn off lights
*5.38 G2 gears, stock govlock in rear, open front
*Artec Industries One Ton Swap kit front and rear
*Stock 1310 cv mid 80s Chevy drive line front
* Cut down mid 80s Chevy 1350 drive line rear
*Np 205 rear tcase yoke and Np208 front tcase yoke
* 37x12.5x16.5 Goodyear military tires-very cheap. on old school 16.5 wheels
* Brakes are stock one ton- calipers, rotors, pads, and ebrake. Master cylinder was upgrades to a 2010 Dodge Nitro 1 1/16 bore and yes the 1/16 helps.
*Steering One ton tie rod ends and 1 1/2" DOM from Ruffstuff Specialties

The axle housings welded up


Front axle painted I cant find the pic of the rear



Front axle test fitted

 

More of the front axle


Rear hubs and tone rings

Rear brakes

 

Rear axle in the jeep



Its close

Stock rear output yoke compared to a np205 yoke

Machined and ready for use. uses OEM seal. Front stock NP208 yoke uses the seal fron the NP208 front out

 

Tie rod and draglink. I swaped the draglink under the steering arm and it steers great no bump steer.


Flexed checking clearance on 33s

 

The only issue when flexing, it just rubs nothing major and it only has 2in of lift


And it finally done on 37s




So all in all I have about $2500 into the swap. It lifted the jeep about 2 inches more so a total of 4 inches of lift. The 538s and 37s are perfect it has power, I know its a 3.8 but it moves, we use OD all the time and milage is about 15-18.

 

This is the first full swap I've seen using the Artec kit. Whats your take on it?

Great work by the way. I really dig the purple bits

 

Great work man. Done cheap and looks awesome, what are you plans in the future for it ?

 

Thanks. The purple is a 2 part spray paint called metal cast.
Artec trusses are super nice and easy to assemble, everything is keyed so no guess work or measuring just follow the instructions. Hands down a great product from a great company.

 

Thanks as for the future I'm not sure. I get bored and start thinking of new things to change. Maybe a GM 5.3 swap. We have 3 vehicles and all are modded. 99 Chevy crew cab dually sas'd powered by a 03 Cummins. 2010 Jk and my toy 81 Chevy crew cab crawler. So only time will tell.