dude front digs look sick... and the jeep looks much better with the cut and fold

 

Thanks man, I think they will definately look good once I figure out the whole corner gaurd and bumper setup. I am leaning more towards the THOR corner gaurds actually- I think they look better than the JCR ones.

Thanks! And yea front digs are pretty freeking sweet. I still need to practice it some more, but it has already been fairly usefull on a couple trails. The 7:1 gear though in addition to my 2.7:1 stock transfercase gearing is really what I like best about this setup when going up obstacles, the jeep just crawls right up it when others are sliding all over the place. Oh and since my front is locked, rear low is nice also since it allows me to turn easier when I really just need a lower gear and not 4x4.

 

Hmm those are spiffy. Like the way the taillights are done.

 

I ordered my THOR offroad Rear Quarter Panel Gaurds. Cant wait to get them next week!

Here are what they look like:




For anyone interested in buying anything from "THOR" 4x4: Their website is kind of old, so I was a little worried about ordering, but I contacted them and they got right back to me letting me know they have these quarter gaurds in stock ready to ship. So feel confident buying from them.

 

I finished installing my thor corner guards today and they turned out pretty sweet.

Took me all week in my time after work to get them done.

I decided to go with flat black paint and it gave it a bed lined type of look. I like it.







Here are the LED brake lights and back lights I bought at a local semi truck shop.





I put down a bead of rtv to seal the inner part from water.



Then I drilled the holes and bolted them on. Here they are all installed.



I painted the lower corner that is cut and folded black to match the guards.





I drilled holes for and put the rear section of my my bushwackers back on tonight also I'll take some pictures of the final product tomorrow.

 

Here are the pictures of it all installed with the flares back on.













Now I just need to finish getting the wiring down which is a huge pain using the LEDs and wiring the brake lights as turn lights. Didn't help that two of my marker lights in the front were burned out too which I didn't realize were making my turn signals act funny.

What do you guys think?

 

I think it came out great, love the look of em too

 

Thanks man I think they kind of give it a terminator look with the red lights haha. I am trying to decide now what to do about the orange markers in the front. They don't really match the red and white so I'm thinking I'll either get some white ones or tint the current ones to look black.

I also gotta decide on the rear bumper. I was planning on buy an aftermarket bumper/tire carrier, I'm moving to Japan for a few years in August. The military is gonna pay for long term storage for my jeep since U.S. cars don't meet emissions laws in Japan so I'm thinking of just getting some pre 97 bumper caps just to cap off the corners of the bumpers for now since its not like I'll get much use out of a new bumper for awhile.

 

Id go with aftermarket bumpers and get that tire carrier, mine will be hoing in my roof rack soon. Also id try to find new lenses for the turn signals up front, i know they sell them just havent found them yet , thats also what i plan to do. And finally while your over there try to buy one of the cherokees from 02-05 and try to get it shipped back home!!

 

Quarter panels look awesome, I was just looking at some on JCR and considering an addition for mine - bummer about having to put the Jeep on blocks while in Japan but you'll probably ride out the worst of the gas price craziness. That or they'll have figured out some insane power cell that you pop in your engine.

Ditto on the 02-05 Cherokees. Let's take a collection and buy one for a forum raffle!

 

I almost bought a rigidco rear bumper meant for a tuck and fold mod with a tire carrier that held the tire up pretty high. They said it would take at least four weeks before they would start and an additional couple weeks before it would be made and shipped, so I held off on buying it. Maybe if I can find someone to make me one similar to theirs I would get it.

Haha and ya the Cherokees would be right hand drive though. If they had newer ones there I would consider it. I thought they were in china though. I am thinking about buying a skyline though I hear they are cheap there. Also their junkyards are like treasure chests with cheap almost new engines I hear because they junk cars after like 50k miles due to emissions so maybe I'll start selling engines who knows haha.

 

Yeah the JCR ones are nice but I didn't like the style of lights they made them to use and they already came with pre-drilled holes for the other light's screws. Also I didn't care for the side marker light so I paid a little more for the THOR ones.

It does suck I won't have my jeep in Japan. I considered maybe selling my jeep but there is no way I'll get more than maybe 11 K for it and I have more than twice that in it and all the upgrades are in the last year or so. So I figure I'll just keep it in storage since it only has 90k miles on it and I will probably get another 10 years out of this jeep.

 

Ehh could be, i thought it was asia

 

Ya I'll definitely look for them though that would be sweet if I could find one.

 

Those turned out great.