J4000 Build

[Gravy]

Oh please finish it! It's awesome.

 

[N-Smooth]

I support this build for two reasons

1. J-trucks are awesome
2. I can't imagine how awesome it'd be to see you wheel something you're not making a payment on. That's a mind grenade right there!

 

[TJDukit]

I support this build for two reasons

1. J-trucks are awesome
2. I can't imagine how awesome it'd be to see you wheel something you're not making a payment on. That's a mind grenade right there!

I guess after seeing me not worry when my door hinge rubbed the sandstone makes this understandable. And yes J-trucks are awesome.

 

[Cascadia]

I loved my j20 on 37's. wish it never got stolen.

 

[TJDukit]

Oh and my wife is not thrilled but right now It's just an "experiment" I've already removed an inner fender to look into narrowing the front almost 18".

 

[N-Smooth]

Absolutely. You treat your JK like it owes you money. I love it!

I love the idea of taking off the bed, shortening the wheelbase to like 105-110", throwing on some cheap 37's, welding up the diffs and just wheeling it.

I guess after seeing me not worry when my door hinge rubbed the sandstone makes this understandable. And yes J-trucks are awesome.

 

[TJDukit]

Absolutely. You treat your JK like it owes you money. I love it!

I love the idea of taking off the bed, shortening the wheelbase to like 105-110", throwing on some cheap 37's, welding up the diffs and just wheeling it.

It will be a little more in depth but that's sort of the idea.

 

[N-Smooth]

Yeah, I just like the idea of doing the easy stuff first, wheeling it and then deciding where to go with the project. J-trucks are awesome

 

[TJDukit]

Yeah, I just like the idea of doing the easy stuff first, wheeling it and then deciding where to go with the project. J-trucks are awesome

I've got mis-matched gears right now and it needs steering and drivelines and a bunch of other stuff

As of right now I've already started hacking on the front end to narrow it and it looks like it won't be too bad. It helps that it's good quality steel that built this truck.

 

[TRD270]

Schweeeeeet project

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[Kevin B.]

I support this build for two reasons

1. J-trucks are awesome
2. I can't imagine how awesome it'd be to see you wheel something you're not making a payment on. That's a mind grenade right there!

Yes and yes. I've wanted one of these trucks since I saw the one in Tremors.

Make it so.

 

[N-Smooth]

And with that I will officially be referring to the truck as The Graboid from this point on.

 

[TJDukit]

Don't get your hopes too high about progress this will be slow and I will not be investing any money so for a while it's just going to be sheet metal work.

 

[sixstringsteve]

which welder do you have? Are you set up for gas?

 

[TJDukit]

It's a Lincoln Pro-mig 140 and all I'm missing is the bottle and mig wire for my gas setup. This bottle should be taken care of in a couple weeks though.

 

[sixstringsteve]

sweet. That should do the trick. I have a friend who restores VW busses and sells them for $60k+ and that's the setup he uses.

 

[mesha]

Jeep J series trucks are dumb. You shouldn't build it, you should sell it....to me.

 

[Kevin B.]

Jeep J series trucks are dumb. You shouldn't build it, you should sell it....to me.

You already have one, I saw it. Don't be greedy.

 

[N-Smooth]

You already have one, I saw it. Don't be greedy.

F'real. Some people...

 

[TJDukit]

Jeep J series trucks are dumb. You shouldn't build it, you should sell it....to me.

You already have one, I saw it. Don't be greedy.

F'real. Some people...

I was actually going to sell it to Davy a couple years ago and just never got around to working it all out. Too late now, my mind is made up and I've already done some cutting on the front end.