5.2 Magnum Swap Part 22: Brakes and Wiring

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Welcome to part 22 of our 5.2 magnum swap, follow along as we swap a 5.2 magnum from a 1993 ZJ into our 2004 4.0 TTB WJ. With the long Thanksgiving weekend quickly approaching we have been spending some long nights in the shop getting it ready to finally go out. Read The Rest Part […]

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5.2 Magnum Swap Part 20: Still Assembling

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The days of mocks up are gone, from this point forward everything we bolt in is considered final assembly and is being covered in lock-tight and torqued to spec. Five months into the swap and we are getting very close to being able to turn it over and see how it all comes together.

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Tierra Del Sol 2015

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The Tierra Del Sol Desert Safari, TDS for short, is always one of our favorite weekends. Not only is it one of our last trips before the heat of summer but this weekend bring thousands of people and rigs from all over the Southwest and packs them all into a few square miles of what […]

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Halloween 2014

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Halloween is normally the first trip of the winter. Summer is typically too hot for any real desert trips so we devote our summers to building and upgrades. This summer, along with switching from 33’s to 35’s, building a new rear tire carrier and bumper, and raising the ride height about an inch we completed […]

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Tuff Trucks 2014

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The San Diego County Fair, known to the locals as the Del Mar Fair, is a staple of summer time in San Diego, California. Along with the endless supply of fried food, vendors, and carnival rides the fair offers a number of offroad events including monster trucks, a demolition derby and Tuff Trucks. We have […]

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