Build Thread CJ5 to CJ6 stretch project. PIC's
I have a 1973 CJ5 Renegade that has been in my family since new. It started out as a AMC 304 T-15 model. I got hold of it in 1997 when I was 17 years old. I did a nut and bolt restoration back to stock. Then I got into wheeling and used it all over . Moab, Colorado, New Mexico, Missouri, Illinois...bla blah.
It ended up going through several iterations until it it was finally stretched with T18a 1 tons and 39.5 tsl's. We wheeled it for a long time. Then came life and it sat. My wife and I almost sold it but then wised up and decided to keep it and make it into a mild CJ6 since we have always wanted a CJ6 .
My original frame had been plated front to rear and had a later CJ7 suspension grafted onto it. It had been mothballed when I went to another frame. I drug this one out of the barn swung some CJ7 axles under it that I redid with one piece axles. I mounted the engine Transmission and case in it it and drove it with my bobbed CJ5 tub before we made the decision to stretch it out to CJ6 specs.
I have since cut the original tub up. Acquired a New Fiberglass CJ6 tub that some one had on Craigslist for cheap and now I am gearing up for the 20" Frame Stretch. I am stretching my original plated CJ5 tub with 2X4 1/4" wall tubing. Pics of those are below. The final product will be essentially a intermediate CJ5 stretched to CJ6 specs with 4" lift and 33's.
Pics below show it's transformations throughout the years. And where it is today. I'll update with pics as I go along.
It ended up going through several iterations until it it was finally stretched with T18a 1 tons and 39.5 tsl's. We wheeled it for a long time. Then came life and it sat. My wife and I almost sold it but then wised up and decided to keep it and make it into a mild CJ6 since we have always wanted a CJ6 .
My original frame had been plated front to rear and had a later CJ7 suspension grafted onto it. It had been mothballed when I went to another frame. I drug this one out of the barn swung some CJ7 axles under it that I redid with one piece axles. I mounted the engine Transmission and case in it it and drove it with my bobbed CJ5 tub before we made the decision to stretch it out to CJ6 specs.
I have since cut the original tub up. Acquired a New Fiberglass CJ6 tub that some one had on Craigslist for cheap and now I am gearing up for the 20" Frame Stretch. I am stretching my original plated CJ5 tub with 2X4 1/4" wall tubing. Pics of those are below. The final product will be essentially a intermediate CJ5 stretched to CJ6 specs with 4" lift and 33's.
Pics below show it's transformations throughout the years. And where it is today. I'll update with pics as I go along.