OK well ive been on this forum since i picked up my jeep. which was about 2 years go.

it was sitting in my neighbors yard for 3 years. i ran into it on a snowy day. literally walked into it. therefore named Sno_Blynd. i asked him about it one day and he said if i could fix it i could have it. so i spent $100 on a radiator and it ran like new. had 160,xxx when i got it. its a 2000 sport.

 

well i drove it like that until i found this site and realized i could lift it....so i bugged my stepdad and promised to work off every dime he spent. well 2 weeks later he decided that 2 weeks of yard work and be his wheeling buddy and hes buy the lift. well we paid for a rubicon 3.5" lift and rough country shocks.

well rubicon somehow messed up the order and we got a 5" lift and shocks. we called rubicon about it just to be nice and said that they had the order mixed up and sent the lift to the wrong person and they had called the day before and said it was too much lift for them and we got the 5" for the price of a 3.5"

 

heres what it looked like during and after the lift.

 

that was my cherikeeno for the day. and here is my helper jeb and his attempt to crush our friend joe

and this is me being excited

and this is the "helper" chatting it up while i work

and this is 9.5" of lift on 35's vs my stock with 31's

 

heres the finished product. and suprisingly i didnt have any broken/stripped shock bolts. i had sprayed pb blaster on them for the past 3 days....




and heres me flexing on a tiny hill. (i was eager)

 

i had forgotten to mention that i also got some lights for my bday (thanks to that pretty girl behind my cherikeno. haha and some bfg a/t 31's as a graduation present from my folks.
here it is after the new tires at a local park at sunset. at stock height.

heres a pic of the lights along with the first mod i had ever done to it. bend that tab that makes the fogs go off when the brights are on.

also before the lift i painted the grille and put on some fog horns haha

heres after the lift head on

 

well first off heres a mock up bumper that i had made using measurements and mounthing brackets found on here. with my own little twists of course. i added to this after but i dodnt take pics. but it had a push bar and square tubing that came back into the fenders

and a zj gas tank skid that i got out of the local jy for $20


sanded it down and clean all the rust and painted it.
i have a tow hitch too and full length roof rails but i dont have pics and i havnt put any of this on

 

so during the summer i had the great idea to go doorless

then when i got the doors back on i read on here about a trip up to shoe creek and was extremely happy i could make it
ill post pics in my reply

 

also before the trip i painted my bumper caps and fender flares black. used alot of sand paper, masking tape, and news paper haha but the pics are in the shoe creek pics. so here they are. sorry Tural for being a year late....

 

more pics

 

and the painted fender flares.

 

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still more

 

and more pics