How to Build a Jeep Wrangler TJ
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- This video will take you deep inside the mechanical and operational upgrades on my 2002 Jeep Wrangler TJ, the one known as the Generic Jeep. Basic specs: 4.0L in-line six, NV3550 trans, Rubicon 4:1 transfer case, Dynatrac ProRock 44 and 60 with 4.88s and Air Lockers. The suspension uses 4-inch coils, Currie control arms and track bars, and Bilstein shocks. The 1-inch body lift and trimmed flares clear 35x12.50-15 Cooper S/T Maxx tires on 15x10 steel wheels.
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My favorite mod is the LED light bar delete.
KevinM Seriously. I’m self-conscious about even the small round lights.
@@TheDavidFreiburger lol don't be they look perfect and have a clear purpose and add to the Jeep. btw your rig is way way better then i think you give it credit for and is better then 90% or more of the jeeps out there and us common folk are quite impressed.
Don’t know why all these people are driving on tails at night
Headles Norseman they’re so you can see the Orange Julius stand from Section A3.
I have lots of offroad lights but then again they are a necessity for me and a life saver out here in the dusty mid Arizona desert.
Two uploads in two days? Sweet!
I quite like these plain-and-simple short videos. Less fluff and more detail than the shows.
Could we please see more stuff like this, Mr. Freiburger?
You don't need the high production of a multi-person crew to have a good video.
trying hard to promote that bullshit app with a pay wall. Just subscribe to Finnegans Garage its way better
Thank you Mr. Frieburger. I’ve been following you for about 20 years. I’ve always had 4wd trucks. Just bought a 97 TJ. Respect from Canada.
Freiburger: "This thing is built to be bulletproof and will never fail on the trail with how we use it!"
Also Freiburger: "We stopped because the transfer case shifter fell apart."
😂😂😂
I'm pretty sure he meant like a proper breakdown that would result in the car being unfixable on the spot and/or require towing.
That's what happens when you talk about being unbreakable. It breaks.
AstronomyToday get a Suzuki , get there, watch all the jeeps have fun and actually wheel, go home and be sad. 😂
AstronomyToday haven’t heard that one before, lol that’s actually pretty funny 😄😂😂
Dave can't build anything that doesn't fail - it would break the universe.
Roadkill is now exclusive to MotorTrend, but Freidburger talking about the nuances of the vehicles he owns is TH-cam ready. Very interesting, ready for more.
Your experience really shines through, great video. You talked about everything I wanted to know about, and nothing I didn't.
I love your fraze. "I have a scrambler for that."
I know it doesn't pay the bills, but the no production value video is nice from time to time. Thanks for sharing.
Gotta love those 4.0Ls man! My 97 XJ is on 265K and truckin! Daily Driving a lifted XJ is the life
Yeah I have daily driven my 92 xj for nearly 10 years now with bare minimum maintenance on it and it has served me very well as a broke-ass college student. ~200k miles on it.
My 04 rod knocks at 140,thousand ish. 5.9 magnum for the fix
Man I love this Jeep. I have JK with 60’s on 40’s and sometimes wish I just had a TJ with this setup. Killer job building a stout rig.
Really glad you are getting back on youtube!! Keep it up man, Love the content!
Cool setup. I remember in a earlier video you were having issues with the shocks, glad to see you figured out what length you needed.
I love the 4WOFFROAD license plate, a humble nod to the magazine I'm guessing.
Hanson Schmid Yup, Ive had that plate since Inwas the editor
David your TJ is awesome. My first Jeep was 1987 XJ cherokee and it had a stock Dana 30 in the front and a stock Dana 44 in the rear which was only offered for this year only. Awesome Jeep and was very dependable. Then I advanced from there! Happy Jeepin!
Good to see you back on youtube. I met you a few yrs ago at dragweek, 131 dragway in Martin Michigan and you signed my vette kart.... I used to watch everything you put out untill roadkill went to motortrend. I tried it for a month , but I'm not giving them money every month for very limited content, when there is so much free quality content available on youtube.
I have a similer TJ minus the pro rocks and stock motor. I run a 4.6 stroker , 8.8 rear and , and mildly built dana 30 while I save for a RCVs and dana 44 swap.
david, been a huge fan for years. mikes channel is awesome, i hope you build this one up like he did. all the best my dude
I really like these videos where you show your cars and explain what you've done to them. Very cool
Thanks for the tour; sweet rig, man! I have an '01 lightly modded daily driver (it's not even NEAR the tank you built). Love it.
It’s must be soo nice to work and build up jeeps that are not rusty like we get here... 2002 TJ here in northern Ontario Canada are all rusted out.
Wisconsin is nearly the same! I know the struggle and was drooling over how clean his is
@@j_mars_carsMost in florida are rust free!
y2kxj they are no better in southern Ontario.. go ahead and try to find me a YJ with floors in it lol
Tell me about it - was working on my 97tj today. Fixing a rusty frame at the pax/rear/ upper link at the frame. Couple other minor body rust spots need tending to as well. Recently bought it knowing it needed a few repairs. Gotta love the 🇨🇦 east coast salt.
Cheers
capitalD D safe t caps.
frame repair is easier with prefabbed parts. my .02.
That is a nicely built TJ. Great walkaround video sir!
Scott
This is good content! No begging for merch sales... nice Jeep. 4.0 fave motor from them.
Quite impressed. Nice jeep. Very practical instead of extreme to max.
Thanks for the tour, now lets see it in action!
I love your Jeep so much because it looks very close to what I want to do to mine. I have a 2005 Stone White TJ with a 3.25 lift and 33s.
Never woulda thought youd have a TJ. Good shit!
Thank you all of the great information on the Jeep!
Awesome video Brother, like the custom set up was well thought out and insightful...enjoy the 4 wheelin and be safe..
Dave, I've been a loyal fan of yours since you were at the helm of Car Craft in the '90's and will continue to be for as long as you put out your specific brand of content, but you are killing me with the sporadic sound quality.
Nice, simple, and clean. I love it!
Nice little rig ! Dig the storage deal out back... Great days to you !
I like it, I took my kids 4-wheelin when they were young and now my son does the same with his kids. I miss my CJ-7 sometimes.
Great tour!!!!
I run the Terra 2 low in my YJ. I made a shift rod for it using heim joints, and bolted it to the shift of lever and T-case arm. And it worked great for a couple years now.
Love the Jeep! I'm going almost the same route as this with my FJ Cruiser. I'm going to put S/T Maxx on it and a custom shelf at the back as well! The shelf will make the roomy space at the back be more efficient in carrying tools, camping gear, and bags. I wanted to have Bilstein shocks installed as well. I'm planning on putting 6112 on the front and 5160 at the back. I'm sure it'll look pretty close to a stock FJ but will perform great on trails when going camping just like your Generic Jeep. (And hey! I also have a Viair pump! I guess I chose well. LOL!)
Thank you for showing the Jeep
Miss you bud keep it up. Currently out of the states and am looking for ideas/projects and I think you gave me a couple!
Don't know much about jeeps but that one is really a beautiful machine.
Great video. Fantastic rig
Amazing to see one of the roadkill guys without having to go through a paywall
Thanks for sharing this David, it couldn't have been posted at a better time as I'm actually looking at a 02 tj tomorrow.
Loved the video. Very nice TJ.
Thanks for the video, David.
I like using motorcycle chain wax for exposed lubrication points. If it dries in a dust free environment I has almost no sticky tack to it and it is totally waterproof. I like Maxima chain wax.
Amsoil "Metal Protector HD" dries waxy too. I use on all kinds of outdoor stuff like trailer hitches etc and it does a great job as well.
Freiburger, with a surprise Dana 60 in that little TJ. Nice!
Nice Jeep...did that same trail 4 days ago. Just a little suggestion (u may have and i missed them), but a foldable shovel and a fire extinguisher. Stay safe & have fun exploring!
I’m with you on the air box. I’m surprised though that you’re not running the greatest feature of a wrangler... the soft top, down of course. Highway noise be damned!. Love the rear shelf. Very nice TJ
The Wrangler and 2011-2022 current WK2 Grand Cherokee's must have the most built of all Jeeps and the most abundant parts available yet!
Love the TJ vids. Come to all-4-fun!
i have a solution to noisy and none insulated soft top on my 2005 TJ. I have the sun screen top for when i have the top down, so when the top is up i put pillows between the screen and the soft top. This fills the void preventing flopping of the top and also gives it like 3 inches of insulation from the pillow fluff. I have a couple of throw pillows and a Batman body pillow i use! It is super quiet and gets completly warm in winter and if the top is up, the A/C get it very cold. Simple trick!
scott reynolds haha that’s a awesome idea mate, 100% going to try that tomorrow
Every time you post this Jeep I want one.
Cool points for the KaBar !
Please do a crusher Impala video
Good to see you guys are ok after the earthquake,
I miss u guys so bad.
Love this rig. Id love one some day set up just like yours.
Thanks!
Hey Dave, I sent you a photo which you published, of Jamey Anderson and his son, which I took in Chattanooga the day before he died in that horrible accident in Alabama. I follow you and Finnegan and all the Hot Rod shows you do on Motor Trend and love what you guys do. I recently purchased a 2002 TJ. I tow it behind my motorhome and do some trail riding with it. Currently visiting Arizona and then off to Kanab and Moab Utah. I’ve got a winch bumper, Smitty Bilt 9k lb winch and a 17” LED light bar, rock sliders, similar rear bumper and spare tire carrier with a Hi Lift Jack attached. It has 32” BFG All Terrain tires, Rancho 9000 shocks. It has 1-1/2” spring spacers on the front. The axles and suspension are still stock at this point. I have the Sahara interior, tan and green.
beautiful jeep
Try the stienyager cable kit for the tcase..works amazing
Have you considered fitting a Safari snorkel? They're not just for water, they're good for getting the intake above the dirt and stuff when in convoy. And in really dusty conditions you can fit a pre-filter which works extremely well.
Really sweet TJ
I always wondered about your private owned vehicle.
Cool to see it.
Nice, so well prepared. I missed where you have your fire extinguisher mounted. I keep hoping to see the best place to mount one near the driver.
Keep the Jeep content coming.
Cool video and cool jeep
Nicely equipped Jeep!
Nice Jeep. I recently just bought my first 1997 TJ. Unfortunately mine is automatic with the 4 cyl. I love watching RoadKill Garage!
RIP Bika! I bet she's puking on people up in heaven!
Trenching?!!! Serial killer!!! Haha. Nice vid man. Like the setup. I bet it took a while to tweak, who we kidding. We never finish do we!!!
**obligatory complaint about MTOD** Love ya Freiburger! :)
Great job I love these little videos about your vehicles keep up the good work, also ordering a disgusting T-shirt sometime today
I like that jeep, looks tough
Absolutely sick looking tj mate, love how the factory 4l motor
Nice jeep Dave. I have a silver 2005 TJ.
Love the Ka-Bar under the seat! 😁
I love my KaBar.
That's one sweet Jeep my man.
Really solid jeep! Nice
Finally a good DF video
Great "simple" car. Perfect.
Nice video. I'd like to see more low tech, blue collar Jeeps.
Nice Jeep, but Wow! I just checked out those axles- $17K. I'm going to have to break a lot of axles before I'm motivated enough to switch them out.
Yes more content thanks david
Nice machine
Generic Jeep is a pretty solid rig!
hey drill holes on the driver and passenger side on the underside of the body directly inline with the rear of the door seam. there is a sealed space there and water works its way in rusting out the under the doors
I got a used VIAIR pump on eBay once with a busted connected and some messed up wiring, which I rebuilt, and omg, that thing was a monster. It'd pump up my tires almost as fast as a gas station pump would.
Nice short to the point video. Thank you.
Does the motortrend streaming service work in Canada now?
I bought mine new in 1997. Today, she has 408,000 miles and climbing. Every year in autumn, since the first winter, I would scrape, prime, and paint the frame, even before I found out about the issues with the TJs have with frames. It should be a recall. Every spring, I would sand and paint. We survived and conquered death wobble / death rattle together from 2017 to 2018. All upgrades, repairs, and maintenance have been done by me. Nobody has ever touched her with a wrench, save me. The many years have been wonderful. However, this year, during the yearly autumn frame preparation for winter, I found a rust hole big enough to put a spoon through it. Last year, I did not prepare the frame for winter but did not drive my beloved at all through winter. I had surgery and could not drive for almost a year. I did not think the ravenous rust disease would start devouring my beloved. I will be honest, when I got under there and my finger pushed through the hideous brown spot, I paused and saw all my wheeling adventures, all my incidents, all my long beautiful trips, all my late night outings, the day I started my life with her so many years ago, our first trip home, and I cried for awhile. I am tearing up right now thinking about it. I imagine this is how it feels when you find out a dear friend has cancer. We went out for a long winter ride and enjoyed some snow covered fields tonight. She was wonderful. But I know what is happening. Today, I stuck a vacuum cleaner in the rust hole. I put a filter in line of the vacuum hose. After vacuuming the inside of the hole until things got quiet from no more debris coming out, I opened the homemade filter. It was horrible. Many thick rust chips were inside the filter. The outside of the frame looks pristine. But obviously, there are hideous things going on inside. She is suffering greatly but hides it well. Replacement Jeep frames are very expensive, even if I install them myself. Right now, comfort and quality time together are the focus. I am saving for the very expensive frame. The shipping is very expensive as well. 2020 may be the twilight year for my beautiful Windi, my beloved TJ. The end may be very near. However, the next payday, I am going to buy new LED headlights, wash and wax her, give her a tank of fuel, change the oil to the best, and get her the rear dented bumper exchanged for a new one. She may be dying. But she is alive now. I am going to miss her horribly. I will likely keep the remains at the time the frame breaks resting on my property. I can not part with her after all these years.
Frame - $£3000
Shipping £1000
It was probably rust that formed from the inside out of the frame, awesome story
@@ShhhhHhhhh755 434.000 miles are on the odometer now, and climbing. I have resorted to filling the frame with automatic transmission fluid, every autumn. I fill it until it barely starts dripping. This will slow the oxydation tremendously. But I know the damage is still there. What really hurt my beloved was on the 8th of October of 2022. Returning to my rebuilt house for the first time after a fire destroyed it in January, my return home was a struggle. Every light on the instrument panel turned on and the indicator needles went flat. But the engine ran well. I continued on my 160 kilometer trip home. Upon reaching my driveway, I tried to turn off my dear Windi. The engine kept running and smoke started coming from under the barrel. I opened the bonnet and fire erupted. I took the emergency fire axe and cut the Burning wiring harness to the fuse box under the bonnet. The engine went off but the fire kept going. I was moving back into my home so I had five fire extinguishers in my beloved. I was not going to move back into my house without a fire extinguisher in each room. I ended up emptying two full extinguishers under the bonnet. She laid there so silent, so dark after the fire. The thought of laying her to rest so her parts could go to save other old Jeeps ran through my head. But we have been through so much together. She has been there when no person has been. Mid October I started the extensive repairs. The money for the frame went to get fenders a bonnet, complete wiring from front to back, an instrument panel, two seats, and all front facing lights, radiator, ignition rail, brake lines, radiator hoses, battery, many sensors, throttle body, and more. She only awoke from her catatonic state just three weeks ago. She lives once more and has been renamed, "Stargazer," because of her second life. It is great she travels with me, once again. However, in the back of my mind is always the small hole on the frame. But the miles keep climbing and our long journey together is not over yet. After all, she is so much more than just transportation to me now. She is my dear friend.
@@indridcold8433 sorry to hear
@@ShhhhHhhhh755 Our journey together is not yet over. There are many miles to go before our parting. We may not even part after she is no longer road worthy. She can retire as lawn art.
Thanks for allowing me to enjoy your TJ without trying to sell me on MTOD.
Only the best for Dave!
That looks like a Rock Hard TJ sport cage. Those collars they use look exactly like the ones found in my JK cage. I love your Jeep I am planning on upgrading my JK for similar purposes. Already been through the Rubicon at this point I want to make it a bulletproof moderate wheeling rig.
Brett Waldon I think you’re right, thanks
Very nice!
David, the "Trenching knife " is a USMC K-bar.
This is a nice jeep Dave. Good Job , guys on the TJ Wrangler forum would love to see this .
I have a Stone White 2003 Rubicon with 36000 miles .
Is that you Andy G?
@@tristanmiller7468 it is sir , are you on the forum??
@@andygullion5182 yes I am, as Tj starting!
@@tristanmiller7468 man that makes my day... Now is this your video or did we just bump into each other watching the same one.
@@andygullion5182 not my video, just saw your comment and wondered it was was the Andy I thought it was.
That's a rock hard roll bar
My mans beard coming back!
Sweet ride I may have to say perfect camping JEEP
I had no idea about the Teraflex 2L adapter. Thanks! Heck of a lot cheaper than an Atlas, and perfect for the incredibly long/slow Toledo Jeep Fest parade!
Do you know the price off the top of your head
Hunter Meier $300 teraflex.com/shop_items/528ffa7fead962f416e72ea2
My Dynatrac 60/80 combo is the single best thing I ever got for my Rubi. Should be standard:)
Solid TJ.
The complete opposite of a Roadkill car. Not much power and safety out the wazoo lol
and way overbuilt driveline. That axle combo is almost what I run for a supercharged 4.0 and a 5500lb LJ and I'm overbuilt as far as driveline. If he breaks his driveline or engine I'd be shocked.
I don't think people understand that the hackery on roadkill is the hackery because its meant to be funny and hilarious...they don't do stuff like that on their own cars
@@2bitmarketanarchist337 this build is literally the total opposite. Madness overkill (except steering). He'd be fine on aired down 37s bouncing rocks. This is basically the total opposite of roadkill.
@@jerseydevil7574 Thats what I'm saying. Roadkill is hackery because hackjobs are fun(in an ironic sense) and funny. They don't do stuff like that to their own cars.