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Well I guess I'll start from the beginning I got this jeep about 9 months ago it's a 2001 cherokee sport with 86,000 miles on it some minor rust problems and needed a water pump break lines and other misc. stuff that the mechanic did before I learned how to work on this thing

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About two weeks in I got bored skipped out of school early got a can of plastidip and some new headlights and slapped on some angry eyes

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Week after that I was feeling creative and I had seen where someone had smoked "jeep" onto their taillights so knocking of that I wanted XJ and being on my phone I can only post one pic at a time so I'll post three more after this of the final coat then the finished product and then it lit up at night

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Second coat

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Finished day shot

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Finished night shot

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I don't have a picture of them but after that I put on an "undisclosed exhaust modification" and a flowmaster super 40 then I did the mustang 5.0 injector swap and I could totally tell the difference this pic is in the shop after the injectors with my now ex girlfriend scowling at me just out of frame

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Ok fast forward about 3-4 months of buying and piecing together a lift kit consisting of
Rubicon express; Leafs, springs, double shear adj track bar, track bar drop bracket
Bilstein shocks 5100 series
IRO adj control arms
Fat bobs garage drop pitman arm
And RC nitro 2.0 steering stabilizer and sway bar quick disconnects
And this picture is the day before I got my tires put on

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Picking her up from the tire shop and holy god does she rub everywhere with these 33x12.5x15 General grabber AT2s

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Been using Rotella T and I must say it's great! Put some new coolant in and while doing all of this I found that I had no break fluid which was quickly diagnosed as a bad wheel cylinder in my driver side drum great

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3 hours lots of cursing and two guys with busted fingers later and a six pack later I've got a new wheel cylinder and an increased hatred for drum breaks

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Looks like that hill was a little too big to flex on this is from a couple of days ago and got fixed this after noon the bolt just unthreaded and popped off

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Project list for the day
Fix sway bar
Fix shock that decided to come off its chassis mount
Remove all fenders and wheel liners

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I was really hoping that all of these bolts would just snap off but only about 6 did out of the like 24 on the jeep so me and my buddy got a forearm workout

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And we're all up to date now I'll hopefully be taking an angle grinder to the fenders tomorrow to do a cut and fold and eventually bushwhacks when I get to my A school in Pensacola in February