nyzj2k

Sorry didn't post first time.

Bluebyu

Nice man. I'll keep and eye out for ya.

Trimmed my front bumper yesterday because it looks cleaner and more clearance for urban crawling loading docks and stuff lol. Came out great.

Here's before


Here's with the bumper end caps off


I trimmed it by just heating up a knife with a lighter. It cut through it like butter.one on the left is trimmed one on the right is stock


Cut them both an slapped em on.


A free mod is a good mod

Bluebyu

And here's a little sound.clip.of the new exhaust which is a 2011 challenger resonator where the muffler was

Bluebyu

Had some fun with vht today.. no sure if I love it or hate it.... the headlights have plastidip as the eyelids so I can peel it off if I'm not feeling it in a few days

Bluebyu

Froze my *** off after work today and installed hella black magic lights the girlfriend got me as a Christmas present. I love the look of them and they weren't to bad to install.. I utilized the stock wiring for my fog lights that no longer exist. They were 55wats and the hellas are 50wats so I don't see a problem using the wiring. That saved me a lot if time there. I drilled into my bumper and put the mounting bracket on spliced all the wires together...aimed the lights and wallah...

I love em

Bluebyu

Picked up this Yakima load warrior yesterday. I saw.it for sale in a group on facebook. It was originally 300bucks plus the 80 tire carrier adapter. I got it all for 150 from some guy in Shirley all brand new. What's cool about it too is that I can mount my snowboard rack on it so I don't have to take it off when I go boarding. I eventually want to have some fun and throw my tire up there but I need to paint my spare wheel black. Would look funny having a different colored rim on the roof. This thing is cool though and I'm glad I grabbed it.






Next on the list is install my lift.. I'm really trying to wait for a freaky warm day because this cold is brutal to work in. I also have my tow hooks from rusty's sitting here that I need to install. Wish I would of know I needed to take off the bumper before I mounted the lights there.

Bluebyu

If anyone ever asked me to help them with leaf springs I might just punch them in the face lol. Yesterday started putting my new 3.5" leaf packs on the jeep and only I would be the crazy **** to do so in 30 degree weather. The passenger side went pretty smoothly. Did it in about an hour and half, including a new passenger shock. Go to do the driver side. The u bolts give me a little bit of a hard time but come out. The shackle bolt..little bit of a hard time but comes out. Now I get to the front eye bolt and this thing will not move. I spray it with some pb blaster let it sit for a few. Come back with two breaker bars attached to one another and jump on the thing and it starts to turn.

So I back the bolt out and it comes a good ways and just stops and keeps spinning.

So I say screw it guess I got to cut the bolt. Get a sawzawll cut the bolt.. thing still won't come out because half of the bolt is still in the uniboddy. Go to cut the other side of the bolt and the blade catches something and the sawzawll comes slamming down on my finger between the concrete. I think it might be fractured or something because it still hurts like hell

Go to ace hardware buy a 4.5" grinder cut the leaf spring off the truck. At this point I'm fuming. Start cutting into the eye of the leaf and rubber is just burning up in my face from the bushing. Get a small crow bar pry the bushing and metal from the leaf off the bolt and cut that *****.

Go to ace get a new bolt.. come back put the leaf and shock in throw the sway bar in the garbage. Clean up the 120 tools I took out.

Started at 2pm didn't finish until 1030pm

Screw leaf springs!

Today I have to do the front of the truck. Coils and shocks. I'm assuming this will go much smoother. But knock on wood.

I.also have to put.in a transfer case drop kit because I have some slight vibrations now

Hers how she sits now lol

Bluebyu

Well as you know yesterday I tackled the rear leafs and shocks....it was awful..

I thought today would go a lot smoother doing the front...I thought wrong lol. Lower control arms were frozen.. took a lot of time getting those bolts off. I took off the track bar because I was replacing it with an adjustable one that was a nightmare to get off too. The new adjustable one wacked me in my face pretty good lol. Shocks and springs came out easy.. the rough country springs were a pain to get in but not that bad. The spring retaining hole in the axle that you mount the bracket too stripped out. Had to tap it... My sway bar bolts were all frozen too.. lol for a jeep with minimal body rust everything was pretty stuck.

Put everything back together and here are my problems now that will be tackled tomorrow. I need to do the transfer case drop kit...getting lots of drive train vibes..my steering wheel is now upside down lol and I need to pull off the adjustable track bar and make it smaller because my spring on the driver side is slightly rubbing on the bracket.

Other then that the jeep looks the way it should..


I have never been so sore and if I knew what I know now...hate to say this but I would of paid someone.

bhennessee1

When I finished my lift i said the same thing about paying someone. Mine was a nightmare.

KevMez

I've put two lifts on my Jeep. Both times after I was all done I said I would never do it again, I'll pay someone. But I guarantee when it's time to do another lift, I'll do it and say the same thing. Funny how that works.

Bluebyu

Yeah I hear ya.. its hard for me to hand someone a ton of money when I know if I work my *** off I can get it for.free lol

Bluebyu

Here are some pics I took this morning

XJGrason

looking good man! im thinking about trimming my bumper like you did, i have a 99 classic and it doesnt have fogs either. idk though

Bluebyu

Do it.. I took the end caps off and did them with a lighter and box cutter

XJGrason

alright ill use that if i do it