JayneCobb

I'm pretty impressed with it. It's not what I would have picked (PO installed it) but but I've gone wheeling a few times and it never let me down. As you can see from the flex pics it performs pretty well.

rmoore1031

I like the black on black on black look. Also good to see another ZRV/ZAV

JayneCobb

It was a pretty productive weekend. On Friday I installed a Pioneer DEH-X9500BHS and 4 Polk Audio db651s speakers. So far I love the head unit, and the speakers are much better than the stock ones. However, in my haste to run RCAs and the auto turn on for the future sub amp I destroyed my PRNDL bezel. Guess I'll have to start searching ebay and cl for one.

Sunday, after a fellow Jeeper picked up my old tires and rims, my buddies and I took to finishing the install on my JCR front bumper. The reason we didn't finish it 2 weeks ago was the steering box bolts were rusted to the box so bad, that even after heat and copious amounts of PB blaster they would move. (the reason the steering box had to come off was to replace the busted, worthless, stock piece of crap excuse for a spacer was cracked in many little pieces. JCR sells a great replacement that is many times stronger.)

After PBing them twice a day for a week, we figured they should be good to come out. The first 2 came out with no problems. The third one, after I applied maybe 30% of my strength to loosen it, SNAP. Broke off about halfway down the bolt. Thank god my buddy realized that the threads were still in the broken box brace, and after a few tense monutes we were able to spin what was left out of the box using the brace as a grab point for the bolt. About an hour later, the bumper was all done and we celebrated with beer and zombie killing.

Hopefully we'll be going wheeling next weekend. I'd love to see how well the front receiver hitch acts as a recovery point (if necessary).

Dino's 99XJ

Going with spacers on the wheels, they look really far in from the pics (could just be the flares). Jeep looks fantastic, the BW's look really good on there. Keep it up.

ColdWarrior

I'm interested in seeing more about this setup. Any pics of install?

Thanks!
Dutch

JayneCobb

Thanks! It's just the pics, they are less than an inch inside the flares. I have been toying with the idea of spacers to bump them out a bit though.

EDIT: Those earlier pics are with the old tires, and they did sit pretty far in. The new rims and 32s are much better, more backspacing brought them out. I'll have to take more pics after I get her all cleaned up.

nygiants

nice rig! where in jersey are you located? im just south of trenton

JayneCobb

I don't have any pics of the install, but tomorrow I'll take some more pics during lunch. It's a pretty simple job though:

I have the positive battery terminal, that allows a 0 gauge and 2 4 gauge outputs. The 0 gauge goes through the firewall grommet, under the carpet and to the seat. That platform is just MDF cut to the space and carpeted. The nut is the stock one that held the bracket over the bottle jack, I just drilled a hole right over the threaded bracket of the body. Then I just screwed the distribution blocks and viola!

JayneCobb

I'm in Somerset, central NJ. Where do you go wheeling down there?

nygiants

You have the pines in Wharton which is 45 minutes south of me. Theres Colliers Mills right by New Egypt Speedway, Jackson/Freehold area. and theres Assunpink just north of 195 in allentown. Assunpink has mud and has nice puddles. We should hit the trails sometime, wharton is a ton of fun miles and miles of trails

JayneCobb

I've heard a lot about Wharton, but I don't want to go without someone who has been there before. I'd definitely be down to go with you!

nygiants

Im usually free on weekends, whartons alot of fun im stock on 30" A/ts right now waiting for my 2" lift install. Ive never had any problems with getting stuck down there but ive definitely been careful

JayneCobb

Here is another pic of the distribution block. Like I said, really not much to it. Just a piece of 1/4" MDF wrapped in carpet.

My buddy has the same setup, but much more attached to it. The bottom 3 pics are his setup before, during and after the install. He has a sub amp, a speaker amp and the IRO air compressor. He's horrible with wire management, and I have OCD, so I fixed it up for him.

ZombieResponseJeep

Follow the link in my sig and sign up for our Zombie club ID number. We gotta have the Honeybadger!

JayneCobb

My buddies and I went wheeling on Saturday in PA. It's a trail we've been to 3 or 4 times already, and it's starting to get "old", but 2-3 inches of heavy wet snow kept the whole day interesting. This was the first time out on my new tires, and I'm so glad I went with the chunky muds. The day was fun and eventful: my buddy in his stocker bottomed out in a mud hole, (Honeybadger to the rescue!) and she found her calling as an icebreaker. I have a video of that, I'll try to upload after work.

Just a few pics are below, no action shots. Also my dad came out with us for the first time... I think we may be adding another Cherokee to our little group in the future.