I did the stretch on this when the `rona first took off. This is just a copy/paste of the thread I put up on colorado4x4.org, which used to be a great resource, but has been killed by modern social media. I cut the rig in April of 2020 and drove it in June, so that went fairly quickly. Since...
Dragging this build thread from P4x4....
Its now going back under the knife for rear stretch w/ trailing arms, upping the 5.3 to a chop cam'd L86 6.2.
I bought this jeep when I was 15 and have been steadily hacking it up
Old thread starts below -
About a year ago, I convinced my wife that we needed a jeep in our life again. Hunted around and found this beauty:
1988 YJ
GM LQ9
700r4 Tranny
Atlas II 4.3:1
D60 Front
14B rear
ARBs
37s
lots of holes everywhere
Sketchy wiring
etc.
The original goal was to some somehow stretch the wheelbase...