jeeper jason

Mind if I PM you instead, I never check my emails and I am a full time student and have a full time job so things might go slow

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A friend edited a badass picture of my jeep, I like it l

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Just realized There are a few things I never mentioned in the thread:

Painted all the light housings and speaker guards black




Also awhile ago I found a junkyard a couple of hours away that had a set of factory tow hooks and a second visor I sold to a friend for extremely cheap







Installed the recovery points after I took off the surface rust and repainted them, ended up welding them to the subframe back where the brackets extended back, I'm hoping aftermarket bumpers use the same mounting points cause these brackets are pretty stout







Also here's an update on the roofrack



Base is welded, this was a pic of it laid out, I ended up adding two more cross members

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Found a cheap way to get some steel grate for my roof-rack:



The screens In cargo vans behind the driver and passenger seats, pulled a few from the junkyard for 10$, my frame for my rack is in the fore ground

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Got my tcase skid on and met up with some fellow jeepers

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attached my stock transfer case skid I pulled from a junkyard, had to get a little creative on the mounting because my jeep did not have the stock mounting points. I took some plate and welded nuts to it and welded that over the holes to bolt it on. Only draw back is the lip it created that looks like it might get hung up kind of easy, might fix it with some plate

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Hey everyone, I know it's been awhile but things have been slow these last couple weeks. I just got a free stock JK bumper



It's the stock basic one but it's free, I have some pretty wild plans for it so we'll see how it turns out, if it goes good I'll make a thread on it but so far it's off to a slow start. Like most of the things I do this project has already had some complications, my stock extended brackets for my tow hooks had the bumper brackets welded on so I need to remove them, which is difficult, after that I need to start gapping the bumper I have so it fits properly then I need to creat the mounting points. I'm going to base my mounts off of this thread by Stormitecture:
https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f59/dr...24/?styleid=16

I might cut to square holes in the jk bumper and weld two D-ring tabs to the Square tube if I think they can handle it, I'll also use some plate with a similar thickness to my extended bracket so I know they can handle the recovery. Also thinking about adding a brush bar, then later maybe adding a winch plate to the steel tube that my bumper is mounted too, we'll see what happens, fist thing is first, I have to make my bumper mounts removable.

(Some things I pulled to get them out of the way for now)

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Figured out how to handle my bracket issue, basically cut all the lips off of it so it was flat, then I took my old bumper brackets and reattached them

ruralgold

Great looking build. I'm enjoying the whole process.

jeeper jason

Thanks, it's got a long way to go, hopefully i'll get this front bumper done soon and finish the roof rack as well

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After doing some pricing and research I am considering dumping the jk bumper and just either spending a few extra bucks and making a tube bumper or go big and buy something complete for once, not sure which directions I'm gonna go yet, the jk bumper isn't gonna save me as much money as I wanted so that probably won't be the direction I go, until I decide I think I'm gonna refocus on the roofrack and hopefully make some progress this weekend, thanks for the patience!!!

FreddyD'Apice

Damn dude. You got some real luck with junk yards. Mine is always a disappointment. Last time I went I got excited because a new 2000 came in and I went the first day it was there and it was a stripper 2wd 2.5 liter. I was pissed. The thing was basically worthless. Another 2000 came in so I'm gonna see if I get any luck. I want some skids. My best jy catch is a ****ing v8 zj tie rod

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I can't find a ZJ let alone a v8 for my life, and I've only taken a few of the things I've found, I'd sell them but the junkyards want about what they are worth because some of the quality isn't the best, but yeah I spend a lot of time in the junkyards, I'm on a budget haha... I actually just found another set of skids and tow hooks (even has a rear tow hook but it's been tacked on by the owner and it's pretty rusted) but I'm gonna try and pull and sell them

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Bumper is on stand still till I decide what I want to do, waiting to get an angle grinder of my own so I can start working more on the rack, so in the meantime I'm painting the underside of my jeep to keep busy

Her's an artists idea of what it might look like when it's finished:



And last night I started with the steering:

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Steering stabilizer done