Front bumper mocked up I gotta modify the brackets since the jeep was in a wreck. LEDs are mounted on it, winch coming, rear bumper is on and all 4 beadlocks mounted with tubes in the tires

 

just read your whole build thread very cool.

 

Thanks man

I got the front bumper on and all lights wired up. Hopefully winch goes on tomorrow

Oh and this happened..



IRO warrantied it















I painted the light buckets black now so it will look better

 

Seeing a pic of your jeep with the stubby ors is what made me want a stubby so I built one.Your jeep is one of my favs great job

 

I liked my stubby bumper but I couldnt get it into free spool cause the lever was jammed against the steering box.

I got my new winch on. Wired it up the way the manual said, was working fine spooling in but spooled it out for 5 sec and the whole jeep shut off lights and all. Put the charger on it and the charger went ape **** not sure what happened. Wouldnt charge the batt so I swapped the batt out of my brothers jeep and it fired and ran just fine. I am gonna call the manufacturer monday and pick up a new batt tomorrow

Oh and I painted my headlight buckets black





New long arm

 

Those lights look good with those buckets black!

 

i now so want a 4x4 xj!

 

Converting yours to 4x4 is not that hard. Suspension is the same front and rear. Swap the front axle, transmission, transfer case, and driveshafts - of course you'll need a couple odds n ends like linkages and the shift gate - but it really is an easy swap and it doesn't cost that much.

 

Nice build. Xj looks great

 

Thanks guys yeah the 4WD swap wasnt bad at all. Just got done doing it on a friends rig. I almost picked up a super clean 2WD for my gf but I passed since we just bought a house lol

 

Got back sunday from the Crawl 4 the Cure, it was a blast, got some decent wheeling in. In all honesty, we wheeled alot less than we normally do. Mainly because we got the most bad *** camp site in the park that backed up to the lake so we relaxed alot all weekend. My buddy blew his radiator the first day we got there too in his zj. My gf drove the jeep more than I did. I picked up an ATV last month so I took that out and bombed around while my gf drove the jeep. It worked out great because she loves wheeling it, she wants her own soon too

some pics

our campsite



picked up a straggler in our convoy too haha







girlfriend wheeling, she did really good, on one of the trails called high voltage, there is a log climb at the end some buggys dont make it up. She ambled on up then the last log is an undercut and she bumped it, launched the front off the ground and bumper the back and right on up! Really wish I got it on video











this was the only pic I got right before she bumped it. You can see the bumper slide over while the tires dropped and hooked



backyard of our camp site

 

this is a trail called shoot for the moon which is usually pretty easy with 36s and locked but it was washed out and I slid off my line and landed on this rock while backing up and my rear bumper got wedged.

Effin rock smashed my exhaust between my tranny pan and "frame".







dub did the same thing except the rock actually took out his tranny pan. It smashed it and was pissing fluid everywhere

 

they also have a ladies run, my gf really wanted the tshirt you get so she did it. Usually we just go off in our own small group



























stopped for lunch

 

friend ripped off his LCA bracket



I also won a track bar flex end kit at the raffle



loaded up headed home

 

The trip was awesome, my parents came up again and they had alot of fun. It was more relaxing than anything which is what I really wanted. A month from now is IRO's customer appreciation so now its time to get ready for that!