Meet Frank - '87 Samurai 'buggy' :)

We took a little time off from getting ready for OSCAR and swapped in my old gas tank because the original one was rusty and had a ton of crud in it. Then went for a little ride.

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shocks still need to be properly charged and the rear needs to be welded, but it works really well for what it is.
 
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Got some work done this weekend. We stretched it 3-4 inches using stock CJ springs in the front. Also added front shocks, and it's now winch ready. Tripp has the rear shocks off to get them charged. Plan is to take it to Toys for Tots next weekend.
 
Twilliamson said:
92 inches I believe. Its 1.5 inches short of being a stock tj

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so its 12 inches longer than stock now...interesting haha. When I took it for the test drive saturday night there was a noticeable ride improvement with the softer springs.
 
Yeah, rear was 8" stretch to use stock front driveshafts in both ends. We were planning to extend the front shaft but found one laying around that fit perfectly.
 
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LBarr2002 said:
Yeah, rear was 8" stretch to use stockk front driveshafts in both ends. We were planning to extend the front shaft but found one laying around that fit perfectly.
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Just to make it clear, the majority of modifications that happen on Frank are due to "something laying around" this time it just happened to be longer leafs, last time it was fox air shocks....

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Twilliamson said:
Just to make it clear, the majority of modifications that happen on Frank are due to "something laying around" this time it just happened to be longer leafs, last time it was fox air shocks....

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Tripp never updates this, so the latest "it was laying around" mod was power steering. Tripp took the Friday before the Gulches tennis ball event off work and spent the day at my house putting the box and pump off of the Sidekick that my engine came out of on Frank. It's much more fun to drive now, but I guess I'll have to come up with a new arm workout.
 
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