Now heres the meat of the build, everybody sees the lift first and the Jeep won’t get very far if it doesn’t have any axles. I started out with the front axle, removed my old one, swapped the old knuckles, brakes, and steering over, and put the new one in. As I was doing so I cut off the OEM lower control arm mounts and installed the TNT Y-Link arms, Tomken 4″ coils, and Daystar 1.75″ spacers.

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The next weekend I installed the rear axle and slipped the extra leaves in my pack. One of the first things I had to figure out was the brake lines on the axle. The truss that Ron built for me ended up being the perfect place to put the brake lines and as an added benefit gave me about 2″ of extra length in my rubber line because of how I mounted the junction block!

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Well, just about ready for JV. Can’t wait!

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