I just traded my tj for a xj a few weeks ago and I am getting around to building it up a bit. It came pretty well equipped with a 4.5" rubicon express short arm lift, and maybe some mixed matched leafs and shackles in the rear. I dk haven't figured it out yet but rides good and has been up and over anything I point it at, so I love it so far.

Here my old tj:




And black betty




I kept a couple of things off my tj to sweeten up the trade, the winch, roof rack, my 33x10.50 on tj canyons

I started just organizing everything and loving my new found space in the rear. I had an old fire extinguisher laying and round and mounted it on the old spare tire mount in the rear.

looks good man, i almost bought a wrangler, but i also enjoy the space of my xj

Absolutely, I drive my jeep a lot and I just couldn't handle being beat to death down the road and no room what so ever

I picked up an old style jcr winch bumper of the Craig's list for 300 bucks with the prerunner hoops... I'm not a fan of that look but I do want to mount some ipf's on it so I got to cutting on the outside kickers












It's off to get sandblasted and and powder coated hopefully by the end of the week. I can't decide to match it to the color of the jeep, high gloss black, or maybe a silver/ gray... Haven't seen that done much but I think it might look good, what y'all think?

Got the bumper back from the powdercoater. Turned out great. I used my ole xrc8 I kept off my tj and put cb antenna and cb in with it

Looks good so far!!

Didn't like the added weight up front, it was nose diving so I picked up some 3/4" RE coil spring spacers. Also found some old kc's in the garage I forgot about and put them on but I'm going with some rectangle ipf's later.... The spacers were the best 30 bucks I have spent in a long time, got it sitting back close to level.