Welcome!! Glad to have ya 🤙🏻 it’s nice to have someone not dissing me for staying leafs lol 😂 although I’ve had more support for them than I thought. That’s good to know you have good experiences with that leaf set up, that’s making me feel better about it. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🍻

larkin kelly I actually already have the front as far forward as I can get it with offset perches. Those front fenders are not staying for the final build. They are just my factory fenders I wanted to throw on to see how it looked all together. My plan is to make custom highline fenders as build gets closer to being finished.

Justin Bertellotti that’s awesome! I’m glad I can help lol thank you very much for watching 🍻

Thank you very much! 🤙🏻🍻

Christopher Macias thank you hahaha me too

Thank you for the kind words and supporting our channels. I can speak for Sam and myself that we are happy to hear we can provide motivation and inspiration. It’s definitely the best way to learn so definitely just get out there and try. I’ll keep trying my best to get as much content out as I can. Thanks again🍻🤙🏼

Thank you! I hope so at least. Good luck with your build, I love hearing about more and more YJ projects getting started 👍🏻

Same here got it about a month ago needs a fuel pump an batterie.. orders the fp new headlights an leds for instruments. It’s a 94 hunter green metallic hardtop 2.5

Danny Wiley thank you very much, I enjoy seeing it come together as well 😂 I have more videos coming I just need make time to finish editing and upload them. I kinda have a parts list going for the main parts I’m using but not broken down to every nut and bolt. As it gets closer to being complete I’ll try and post a complete parts list or make another video similar to this one. I have no clue what I’m doing when it comes to LS swapping so you’ll probably see things I mess up on so I’m open to suggestions or advice haha, I’m literally learning as I go and hope I don’t mess up to bad lol

Thank you Kevin! I’m not as far as I hoped to be but I have made a good bit more progress. Come spring time I want to do another walk around of everything to give a update for everyone

Mark Mcgee thanks for that info! I’m going to have to take a look at the SJ springs. Do you know if the OEM SJ springs are the same length and height as the OEM YJ? I’ll be doing a different fender option so I’m not as concerned about that but I for sure would love any more stretch I could get. Main reason I wanted to use OEM YJ leafs all around was because I heard they have some of the best flex.

@@altered_life I've measured them and I believe they're the same length just the center pins offset we're on the YJ they're dead center I'm at work otherwise I'd measure them up for you.

Mark Mcgee no worries, I appreciate the reply. I’m going to sit down and do some research into them, it seems like if I’d switch to front waggy springs all the way around I’d get an additional 3-4 inches overall stretch. My only concern is I don’t want it much taller than it is now, so I hope the SJ springs wouldn’t add much height. From your experience how is the flex with those springs?

@@altered_life they seem to flex well I use sliders instead of shackles and as far as your right height you might get a little more out of it but mine lay pretty flat if you want to look up sliders liquid iron builds them and sells them which sliders you get a lot more travel than with shackles

Mark Mcgee all good to know, I’ve seen the sliders but I’ll probably keep the shackles for now and see how it performs but maybe in the future If I feel the need for them

Hey Kevin, so that’s a good question and honestly since I don’t have any first hand experience with it I went off of information from some industry professionals. The thought process behind it is the shorter leaf (compared to XJ) will be prone to less axle wrap even though I’ll still run a antiwrap bar. Second thing I was told was that OEM YJ leafs flex the best for factory leaf springs and final though is that if all my leafs are the same, having one spare back at camp would work on any corner of the Jeep incase I bent or busted one. Again I don’t really know much about it but I’m going to test it out and see how it performs haha

Unpopular Patriot hahahhaha I know 😅when I originally started with these axles in mind I had no clue I would get this deep into it. Fortunately for what I paid for the axles I have about half of what I’d be into 1 tons after the lockers, gears, and what not. With these axles I already have all of that and I just need to upgrade the shafts and I should be good. RCV warranties up to a 40” tire so we will see how they hold up lol. Thanks for the kind words and thank you for watching!

Appreciate it and I love the LJs. It’s hard to say my total budget with out sitting down and looking through receipts. I want to say I’m about 14k-15k total in the Jeep so far. Still a bunch to do but hopefully it’ll be under 20k lol

Currently it’s on OEM YJ leafs all the way around (5 leaf pack). I had to move my rear spring hangers back on the frame to accommodate the 6” stretch. My goal is to keep it as low as I can while doing spring over but I may need to add a leaf or rework the spring pack once the final weight is on the chassis.

Thank you! Hopefully I can give you some ideas. The body moves so much because it’s only the leaf springs supporting it. The factory YJ leafs are pretty flexy and without shocks to dampen it the move pretty easy.

I have Dana 44’s out of a 2018 Jeep JL Rubicon

Justin Elliott hey man! Yep I actually have three videos worth of footage filmed I just have to get the time to sit down and edit them together. Work has been a little crazy now that the Covid stuff is lifting I’ve been swamped. I appreciate you checking in and I’ll try to get a new video out in the next week. Thanks for the support brother 🤙🏻

Yes sir! Actually currently working on the cage as we speak. The first video on it should be out in the next couple weeks I hope.

It’s a 1995 sport, nothing special but it will be one day

Justin Elliott hahaha yeah, honestly I didn’t plan for the build to get to this level (at least this quick). Everything kinda snowballed pretty fast and now I’m here lol. I already had the money invested in the leaf springs components and those parts installed. also running leafs for now will allow me to finish the Jeep a little faster due to budget. I’ll get to experience it on leafs for a little while, learn how to wheel it and hopefully prove that leafs can still hang with the big boys but I will eventually save up and go to a linked suspension with probably ORI’s. Again I really appreciate you sharing the post, I noticed that as well and that is a huge help. Thank you for sharing and thank you for watching!

@@altered_life I get it. get the rig to a point that it can be driven and had fun with instead of taking 10 years due to budget and time. I did the same with my YJ when i built and installed a 350. years later now that i have had a ton of fun with it and upgrading axles and so on, i'm thinking it may be time to go EFI with an LS like you and many others did. seeing your moab trip and the things you want to get into, i also see the point of start saving now for the coilovers. hopefully those axles hold up for you. sucks breaking down on the trail. great build none the less. square head light rule! interested to see how long of rear driveshaft you'll end up with.

martin bochenek exactly haha I’m itching just to drive it and experience the difference coming from pretty much stock. It will for sure be a life time build that is forever evolving. I don’t see myself getting rid of it because it was my first Jeep. I’m hoping the axles hold up too lol, the one thing that gives me hope is that RVC warranties their shafts up to a 40” tire. So my though process is that if they are willing to warranty them with the weight of a 4 door JL on them then they should hold up decently as long as I don’t treat them like one tons. I’ll for sure keep posting specs, I’m curious about driveshafts as well. Thanks for watching and thanks for the support!

Yep, it’s part of the full width conversion kit. I talk about it at 7:45 in the video. I also have a whole separate video on the full install of it if you’d like to check it out. Thanks for watching!

@@altered_life Gotcha I was watching at work and missed that. Killer build!👍

Thomas Hensley awesome hahah thank you for the kind words. I can’t wait to get this done so I can finally wheel it. Thanks for the support 🍻

Do they make a kit that isn't shackle reversal?

As for a full width conversion non shackle reversal I don’t think they do. They do make similar bumpers that keep the original shackle location but that’s about all I know.

No problem at all, I’m glad that the info was helpful! I’ll for sure check out your build here soon. Like I said I like to see other people’s projects to help give me ideas and possibly remind me of things I forget haha. Thank you for watching!

I unfortunately do not know the part number, I tried looking them up and everyone I’ve seen is out of stock. It is also dependent on what transmission you have (auto or manual). Good luck with getting the Jeep fixed

@@altered_life Manual

The BSE brand is showing a part number of EM3896 or 56027526 for the manual transmission. I hope that helps although I’m not sure of availability especially in Bosnia but good luck!

@@altered_life PCM 56027398 I FOUND THAT PCM IF IT CAN BE DRIVE ON IT