The black jeep - 1 ton XJ

KungFooMASTA said:
I know it’s completely different tires but I run around 4lbs. Curtis runs 2 or 3 lbs. but he does not mind folding his tires over. Both single beadlocks but the KMCs have knurling on beads. None of us have ever lost an inner bead with these wheels.

What does your rig weigh? Im right at 4000 I dont know what the other guys rigs weigh.
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I would guess 5500+lbs. I did 2 wraps of gorilla tape on the inner beads.
 
Cut out tube, welded interlocking tube clamps and made that whole section removable. Brand new non-cracked windshield :flipoff2:
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Did another trip to Hot Springs. Jeep does so much better on the stickies, it just crawls everything:smokin: we ran every 5 rated trail in the park along with a few 6s, Quicksand and Bent Pine. Jeep did awesome! Not a single issue all week! Few pics and a video.
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Went to SMORR with Kansas Mark, he just got 43 Mickey stickies on his rig. It was wet and muddy but my SXs are working amazing! Did some 6 rated trails and made em look easy:flipoff2: The SXs are quite a bit taller than the Mickies but other than that we both did all the same trails. Nice wheelin in colder weather with all the heat coming off the trans tunnel! jeep worked great :smokin:

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Got a little “body” damage:lmao:
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Looks like a good time! Seems the 43" Mickey's are more like 40" tall due to their overall width and lack of air pressure.
 
ridered3 said:
Looks like a good time! Seems the 43" Mickey's are more like 40" tall due to their overall width and lack of air pressure.
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He is at 11psi and I’m at 6psi. He came from the same tire but DOT and they measured true. For whatever reason the stickie version are much shorter.
 
Mike Honcho said:
He is at 11psi and I’m at 6psi. He came from the same tire but DOT and they measured true. For whatever reason the stickie version are much shorter.
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Makes sense there but was just meaning that most tire mfg's claim a tire to be X height at Y PSI, but we get nowhere close to their measurements for PSI which throws off the height measurement some (or a lot for the Mickey's) too.
 
As some of you know the 4.0 started to let go, it was making metal but still running okay. I decided to do a full rebuild with pistons, metal HG, all bearings, high flow melling oil pump and APR head studs. I am planning to add a turbo this winter.
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All back together and it runs!
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Also got rid of the Chinese corvette fuel filter/ pressure regulator that were constantly failing on me and replaced it with a nice aeromotive unit! The rig is finally ready for some wheeling.
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Is this the motor that you freshened up without pulling or do you have another XJ?
 
Mike Honcho said:
That was the green jeep. This engine was original to this black XJ.


FYI, the green XJ has about 15K miles since the rebuild and is running great!
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Got it, I remember seeing that but wasn’t sure if that one had bitten the dust already. Good to hear.

Turbo will be cool, also cool you’re keeping the 4.0 in it.
 
This was the perfect time to LS Swap everything and redo the parts you don't like so we can see more amazing skill.
 
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