Maybe I missed something. But you need a body lift to do that right?

While there are tummy tuck kits, like the tera flex belly up skid plate that will gain about 1 3/4" of ground clearance, to get this much ground clearance, yes, a body lift and engine/transmission lift is necessary. Because of the 4.7 V8 swap, we already had to raise the body and the engine/ transmission 3". This build is extreme. But lifting the body is easy, and lifting the motor mounts only takes a little bit of creative fabrication. Thanks for watching, Hope you enjoyed the video

Thank you, the results were outstanding, especially once we got it out on the trail. Thanks for watching! Hope to see you out on the trail 😎👍🏻

Thank you for the compliment, and thank you for watching! If you're not already subscribed, you're welcome to join us and we hope to see you out on the trail ! 😎👍🏻

Thank you! 😎👍🏻

Thank you! I had been wanting to do that to it for about a year now...steel prices were down, so just did it. Only $140.00 to do it 😎👍🏻 Thanks again for watching and please subscribe if you're not already!

Right?

I feel ya'...ours started with a shelled 2.5 L4...then a V8... Then two shelled axels and a transfer case...we always wheel keeping in mind we have to drive it home 👍🏻 So what are you working on with your Jeep project?

You're the first person to notice or mention it....no if you're referring to the extra structure in the roll bar, that's a light weight welded steel frame, wood and fiberglass subwoofer enclosure with a 12" infinity subwoofer and a pair of infinity 6" coaxial speakers, we couldn't part with the tiny little bit of room for camping and prospecting gear that the TJ has so we went up with the sound system. Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment Hope to see you out on the trail 😎👍🏻

​​ I meant using 1/4" plate underneath instead of the 1/2"? Yours is beefy 4 sure, but angle irons running parallel to the frame from the top could make thinner plate less likely to bend from rocks, maybe perpendicular where they fit. Airplanes use "stringers" the same way. Awesome work tho! Love your bolt head protection.

@ohane1 my decision to use 3/8 was based on a project from my real job. We had to move a scissor lift , and three large cabinets for an uninterrupted power supply into the UV treatment building of a waste water plant, had to move them across a three foot wide channel in the floor. The project engineer spec'd 3/8 plate, 3' wide to move a 5000 pound battery rack across without caving in...it didn't even flex moving that equipment across. Would take one hell of an impact to bend or dent it

@@Jeep_psychology_101 For sure, yours won't bend! Great work, if materials are free that's cool. I was saying if I was buying steel, I'd go lighter & thin then make strong reinforcing from the top. You have lot's of HP though, so weight matters less.

@@ohane1 the piece of steel was only $120.00...plus tax...I feel like it was a small price to pay for 3 more inches of clearance. In the middle of building sliders now. A bit more in them... will have @ $210.00 in them. Also because of the 4.7 I'm starting out a full 90 pounds lighter than if it was a 4.0 inline six