I wanna make my jeep mud ready!

This sounds like either someone trolling, or some young newbie. I bite and go with young newbie.

First thing you want to do is research and learn. The next thing is to do is a get a big hammer bust open your piggy bank and count your pennies. You will need quite a few. If you have $5-10k to toss at your jeep , for sure you can go big. I suspect just getting your Jeep right will cost enough.

NP transfer case should be fairly easy to get, trans might cost you $500 or so plus clutch. New rear driveshaft, you might find one used, or get yours rebuilt right. Or go new. Get it fixed first.

Then go wheeling. Learn what you can do, go rock crawling on a club run. Take your time and really figure out what you want to do. Not many of us do mud. It will pretty much trash your Jeep.

Ask anyone who has built a big jeep on the board. It take a lot of time and money and even more learning.

Good luck on your quest young one.

Start with this: http://www.delawareja.com/forum/index.php?topic=38737.0

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This sounds like either someone trolling, or some young newbie. I bite and go with young newbie.

First thing you want to do is research and learn. The next thing is to do is a get a big hammer bust open your piggy bank and count your pennies. You will need quite a few. If you have $5-10k to toss at your jeep , for sure you can go big. I suspect just getting your Jeep right will cost enough.

NP transfer case should be fairly easy to get, trans might cost you $500 or so plus clutch. New rear driveshaft, you might find one used, or get yours rebuilt right. Or go new. Get it fixed first.

Then go wheeling. Learn what you can do, go rock crawling on a club run. Take your time and really figure out what you want to do. Not many of us do mud. It will pretty much trash your Jeep.

Ask anyone who has built a big jeep on the board. It take a lot of time and money and even more learning.

Good luck on your quest young one.

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yeah i agree with deadfeat its better to read up on what you want and get the jeep running sound first before doing any upgrades to it. but vlp29 just come down to my house if you have a question havent pointed you in the wrong direction yet.

If you truly plan to run 40+" tires, I'd worry about axles first.

They will die before the engine/tranny/transfer case.

Axles, brakes, suspension, steering, driveshafts..... Pretty much everything needs upgraded. I'd say $10k is on the cheap side.

I have a 91 yj and will say this drive train alone I got about 4k into it thats including sye lift lockers driveshaft and etc. Also a axle swap which is being done this week.... look at atleast 400-500$ a tire for good mud tires I know.guys who wheel in the barrens and thats a mud pit like no other. Also plan on a regear which will run you 600$ roughly just for.install kits and r&p... anything above a 35 on a dana 30 your gonna want chromolly shafts... and that dana 35 trust me from seeing it with my own eyes at the barrens when they break they.break there aint.no getting home. Seriously 10k is light I can say including jeep I got about 11k tied up so far. And mine is.no where near.built like some of.the other poster in this topic. Dig deep son.

4Ds at stock height.

Just do it.

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Axles, brakes, suspension, steering, driveshafts..... Pretty much everything needs upgraded. I'd say $10k is on the cheap side.

Lol $10k for just the axles and drivetrain to be proper...

What you'll want to do is look to source your parts by buying parts vehicles. Grab the parts you want (drive train parts mostly) and then part out what's left of the parts vehicles to get as much of your investment back that you can. I've done that with a few parts vehicles. With some careful shopping you can get lucky.

For mudding and 40" tires I'd probably look at full size trucks to grab Dana 60s or something.

There is no such thing as "mud ready", believe me I speak from experience and have a couple members here that can back me up ....lol...the deeper the mud, the more sh*t you are going to be replacing.....3 1/2 months after doing some serious mud I finally almost have my jeep back to 100 percent operational with almost no problems left.

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There is no such thing as "mud ready", believe me I speak from experience and have a couple members here that can back me up ....lol...the deeper the mud, the more sh*t you are going to be replacing.....3 1/2 months after doing some serious mud I finally almost have my jeep back to 100 percent operational with almost no problems left.

You will just mess it up again!

[youtube]pmIm87u6VEQ[/youtube]

Quote from hookedonthebay

There is no such thing as "mud ready", believe me I speak from experience and have a couple members here that can back me up ....lol...the deeper the mud, the more sh*t you are going to be replacing.....3 1/2 months after doing some serious mud I finally almost have my jeep back to 100 percent operational with almost no problems left.

.....almost 6 months for me! Hoping to get it all buttoned up with the warm weather the next few days.

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You will just mess it up again!

[youtube]pmIm87u6VEQ[/youtube]

Steve unfortunately that video clip is very very mild compared to what happened later in the summer. No mud got in to the tub in your video. At Ocean city jeep week I flooded the entire Jeep Almost knee deep in mud and water, As of today I still have dried mud and twigs drop out from under the dashboard everytime I hit a bump

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