Yeah, I just need basic tunes.

I used the same coat hanger technique as I used on the door. The wire runs down behind the HVAC controls towards the floorboard and behind the carpet and pedals around to the kick panel. I secrued it with a couple zip ties to keep it in place. You can't really see any of the wiring, for the most part it's pretty clean.

 

The builds looking good. What's next on the project list?

 

yeah, what he said ^

 

Already in the process guys....

 

Thanks for the detailed post - I've got the reverse problem you had, dead driver side and shorted passenger. This looks way easier than the rep at Crutchfield made it sound. I've even got a soldering iron...

 

Get a gun... youll want it when doing speaker wire.

 

Im still drooling over your front bumper... so clean.
Throw the winch plate on and a winch.

 

Excellent build and great pictures! I will use this as a guide if I ever get to lifting mine!

 

Good luck with the project, glad my write-up could be of assistance

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Yeah, the simple, clean look is what I was going for up front. I'm not a huge fan of hoops, stingers and bars and stuff. Trying to keep it streamlined and slick and maintain good approach angles. Thanks for the comments!

I do eventually plan to install a winch and plate, just haven't gotten to that part of my list.

Once you start, there's no turning back. Thanks for checking out the build.

 

A soldering gun instead of a wimpy iron.

Wimpy wimpy wimpy





Hefty hefty hefty

 

Man I am loving the thread. I just read the whole thing, and was very impressed with the detail and amount of pics. Love the rig man keep it up.

 

are you going to put coil spacers on your jeep?

 

Oh, I see. Yeah, I need to learn how to use one of those.


I should have some more updates by this weekend. Been real busy with work this week...

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Yeah, eventually I'm going to be putting some spacers up front to level out the suspension. Just haven't gotten around to deciding how much I'm going to need. Plus, I figured I'd let the suspension settle out a bit in case it affects the size of spacer required.

 

Gun is for jobs that require the wattage and high heat of guns. Irons are for small jobs such as connecting speaker wire etc.

 

Well, I decided to have a little fun with the XJ this weekend. Since I've been doing some work on the sound system, it occurred to me that even basic tunes require a little "low-end fill". The XJ's cabin is rather big for a couple little 5.25'' speakers all by themselves. And even though there was a night and day difference between the stock set-up, it was still sounding a bit "tinny".

I liked the idea of a subwoofer but didn't want to lose the cargo space of a box or give anyone another reason to break into my Jeep AGAIN. The XJ-pod is ok, it preserves some cargo space but is a little expensive and looks kind of cheap. Additionally, 8'' subs are less readily available than 10''. Also, I like the concept of a factory look. I searched around and stumbled upon a write-up on jeepforum. Pretty sneaky idea.

I started with the typical, useless, wasted space known as the "cubby hole":


I removed the cubby hole panel by removing several screws and lifting it out of the way.


I unseated the wiring harnesses from their locations to make them more mobile.


Then I busted out the cardboard and got to making a template for the speaker to mount too. I trimmed it to fit and even ran a couple screws through it to mark the bolt holes for drilling:




Template complete:


In the picture below, I marked all the bolt holes with blue tape. I had not drilled anything yet as I wanted to use as many factory holes for bolting locations as possible to reduce the amount of drilling I would have to do. The only one that required drilling was the upper-left hole.