Slow poke build "The Black Bandit"
 

Ok so just to let everybody know this is to keep track of my build. parts will be put on whenever i have the cash to do them or find a good deal.


all the pics to follow are form the day i got my jeep to present so here we go

this is what it looked like the day i got it home
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this was one of the first things i did was to take the stock flairs off and see if i like it this way didnt know that it would be about a year untill i acutualy got a set big enough to acutualy trim them

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then i got bord with the overheating issue i had and made a lovered hood and it acutualy turned out pretty good i think

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my high tech tools in use

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finished product

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this was taken for a compairsin shot of my fender trimming but i could use it for my paint also

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when i started trimming my fenders i used this

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and found out real fast that i need to get something bigger to do this (this was about 4 disks and about 20 min of work):brickwall:

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talked to a friend at work and came up with this

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the first pic was a shot to show how i was doing it and the second shot is the finished product both fronts took about 30 to 45 min total

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this is what i had left over when i was done

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inner fender anyone had to remove

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after all this i needed to paint i started with the upper body line to see if i would even like it
the stuff i used is in the first pic and then some of the process and then the finished product

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here is what it looks like up close

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so i like how this stuff looks and i decided to go over board and here is what i came up with

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all finished for now so here so a poser shot more to come

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Hurray for spraying over dirt! Haha
I like the budget hood vents actually. Any difference in temp?

not setting still but when you get to moving drops faster than with out them
and i know i sprayed over dirt i was in a hurry when i did the rest i took my time

update had to replace my starter in the middle of Chedders parking lot with people all dressed up watching was quite funny.
if anybody hasent done it, it is very easy tool all of about an hour

like the vents, alittle redneck method but it works lol

another up date finaly pulled the front bumper to finish cutting my fender to get ready for my winch bumper the little tab on the front is my cam mount that i made
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Well here it is my finish fenders

just put on my new to me wheels and tires they are goodyear wrangler mt/r with less than 200 miles on them

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so now i have 2 extra sets of wheels and tires

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ok so here it is the lift install and what it looks like lifted i do have some shakles to put on cause the back sets low this is a 3 inch lift
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ok folks here it is the finished lift

put my fix for the rear on today less than 40 bux

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and this is what i ended up with

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Added a winch bumper the other day RLC Welding and Fab check them out rlcweldfab.com I think

Finally got to flex out my lift 84" of flex and a RTI score of 2407

yeaaaaaaah you might wanna check your math on that number

Finally took my doors off .

I actually did it the hard way because I didn't have a dremal but I did have a cut off wheel