Ha!!! You must have been at Bob Moore on Expressway? I was there the other day and found myself drooling over the $109k viper. And that silver JK with the doors off in the show room is where my steering stabilizer came from.

 

Well, it's official, I have C-gussets

A fellow forum member (speak up if you want credit, otherwise I wouldn't want to unncessily send people your way ) welded them for me on Tuesday evening. Took us about 4 hours, we took it nice and slow and plently of breaks to talk Jeep.

Well today I finally removed some of the surface rust, and welder flack and applied spray on Rustoleum undercoating. It is now officially done.

I still have the sleeves to do, but I am waiting until I can get some welder practice in and can at least help, if not do all of, the welding. That will probably be a November or December task.

 

Awesome. Did you go with the ORE C Gussets or the Teraflex ones? Pics?

EDIT: Nvm. I guess if I'd paid attention long enough to your signature, I would've seen that it was TF Gussets

 

Yeah, it's the TeraFlex ones. For $135 from Northridge I picked up the Sleeve & Gusset kit. That didn't seem like a bad deal at all.

I don't have any pictures. This evening when all the kids are in bed, I'll see if I can get good enough lighting to take some pics.

 

Well awesome!!! Did Steve weld them up for you?

 

No, our schedules didn't line up the best. I've been insanely busy at work, and in need of a vehicle, and it would be several weeks before my schedule cleared up enough so that I could get it to him.

Someone else actually fell in my lap and we were able to do it during the evening, which worked out a lot better for my schedule.

 

Rough Country 4" , I will be fabbing up some long arms in the future to use with the JKS acos along with some other goodies.

 

That area will rattle your teeth loose

 

Again, thanks. I really appreciate it. A little bit of undercoating and those welds don't look nearly as bad as you'd think.

I'm sure they'll hold up well, but next weekend at SMORR will tell. I'll let everybody behind me know to be on the lookout for a gusset should it decide to fall off

When I get back from SMORR we can start talking about the sleeves. It may be November before I'll have time in my schedule.

P.S., the brake line is also holding up well

 

Here is a picture of my gussets.



The welding actually came out really nice, don't let the picture fool you. The reason they look all lumpy in the picture is because of the spray on undercoating I applied, it is supposed to have a "rubberizing" texture for sound deadening purposes. Not that sound deadening matters to my axles, but its undercoating and a rust blocker, thats all that matters