Ok so I figured I would start a build thread. I called it My AMPPE build because that is the name of the eye disease that I have. It is extremely rare so I figures that it would be unique. Now being 17 I rarely make any money so this is going to be a slow build but a gradual one. So I started with a 1999 Cherokee limited with 132,000 miles.

So the first mod was an Allview mirror. Now anyone who flies and has seen skymall knows exactly what I am talking about. I take a lot of crap from my friends but it is the one thing I recommend to everyone.


So I was driving to school and all of a sudden I couldn't see because my windshield got all foggy. I made to to school fine but on the way home I hit a car. Luckily I just slid into him and none was hurt and he was fine so no harm no foul.


I got into my accident on December 2 luckily a few days after Black Friday in which I had capitalized and ordered a Pre-runner winch bumper and a stage 1 rear from JCR.

 

So I started by doing my front bumper. Its the more noticeable of the two and the one I really wanted. I started by Priming it with Duplicolor self etching primer. However the primer doesn't work when its to cold so we had to heat my garage and the best way to do that was with a camping stove.

So we primed it and then painted it with Duplicolor bedliner.


Then came the install. We started to take it off by the end caps.


Then we pulled the rest of the bumper off.


We then tried to put the tie in brackets on but they wouldn't line up and it was a choice of grinding the brackets or drilling them. We chose to grind them so some sparks flew.

when all was said and done we took a lot of metal out.

We got the brackets on and trimmed and then it was time to cut off ome spalsh guard.


And when that was all done we mounted it and tightened everything down.

 

Looks real good so far. Im interested to see the back, as Im planning on doing a stage 2 rear

 

Nice start, how bad is the disease in the eyes? can you still drive good? or is that what caused the accident?

Sorry that was a bad joke

 

Don't worry about it the **** i take from my friends i have heard about everything. The disease isn't the problem, its the aftermath. Its like katrina. It hit and all hell broke loose but it slowly rebuilt, never to full capacity to to a point where it is manageable. i got into the accident because my heater core broke that was a 1000 bucks my dad wasn't to enthused to have to pay.

 

Ok good I like the fact you can take a joke with your forum name and all that

 

yey i lost my vision in 2 days i had a choice bend over or deal with it. As you can tell i dealt with it. i have a sick sense of humor people tell me but i am who i am. i can't drive at night but im driving

 

I like that attitude, I have better than 20/20 vision apparently so I do not have any problems luckily, all the best with that and your build

 

yey mt vision is 20/40 in m right eye and 10/60 in the left with glasses so i can see but not the best

 

here are some pics i took today.

 

Very nice! I like what I see so far!

 

good lookin jeep man, keep it up

 

Like the bumper, I got my rear similar to how you got the frt.one. I however was on the recieving end of the accident,LOL.

 

Ok so I have been having some eye problems so this is all from last weekend
we primed and painted the rear bumper




while we were painting we also removed the rear bumper.
the first thing we did was cut off the end caps. I didn't want to screw it up so I left myself plenty of room so I could trim it to the right length


Then I removed the strip between the bumper and the car.



Then we undid the bolts at the bottom of the bumper and this took no time. However the bolts on the top were another story. They are hard to get to but you can see it in this picture.


Once the top bolt comes off the bumper just comes right off. Then after two days of work half a can of pb-blaster and a breaker bar I was able to take my hitch off. However since it took so long I forgot to take pictures. I will try to take a pic of the back of my car without anything on it tomorrow.

Big question do I spend the time to clean up the hitch, which is rusted beyond belief, and paint it or do I say to hell with it and just put the bumper on without it. I don't tow often and my dad has a big f-150 if I ever really need to tow anything. I am leaning towards paining it but I want your opinion.

 

Ok so the drug they gave me to help my eyes has made me photosensitive to sunlight and halogen bulbs so that is why the pictures appear darker, we had to cover all the windows.

Last night we prepped primed and painted the hitch.





Then this morning we installed the hitch and bumper.
here is a picture of the car without anything one the rear

Then we trimmed the end caps to their exact point

Then we put the hitch on

Then the rear bumper


So now the rear end is all finished up. We decided not to use the tie-in brackets because they weren't aligned right and I realized that if I ever need to be pulled from the rear I will use the hitch over the bumper.