Rear mounts under roll bar were nothing but holes:

Week of 01/20/03
I took off the tub in sections (I got sawzall happy):

01/28/03
Yanked out the engine and got the rest of the tub off:

Got the frame off (yea, that was easier to leave everything else there AND hooked up):

Drilled some new holes for the shock towers (this is a 79 frame):

And got a friend to help me to rest the YJ tub on the frame:

01/29/03
That is not a body lift. It's sitting on 4x4's right now.
Also, I still need to cut out the gas filler.

02/04/03

pic of the shackle inversion kit that was already on the frame when I bought it:

starting to look like a Jeep again:

this is how you get stripped bolts off:

I had some 3" body lift pucks that I cut in half:

this is with 4" spring lift, 1.5" shackle lift, & 1.5" body lift (33's are looking kind of small now)
I still have to drill and tap for the body mounts on the rear crossmember and the tub will be completely mounted:

02/15/03
so far: