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The Homebrew Jeep Mod Thread

Old 07-25-2012, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by mrfajita
Sheet aluminum wheel well covers. No more mud filling the door jambs since I have no inner wheel wells (and dirt flying in your face with the doors off)
awesome... are they tack-welded or how did you install them?
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Drilled holes and bolted them up with the same bolts that hold the fender on. Its generally difficult to weld aluminum to steel
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Originally Posted by Basslicks

awesome... are they tack-welded or how did you install them?
He did some holes and attached where the fender brackets attach to the body
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Originally Posted by mrfajita
Drilled holes and bolted them up with the same bolts that hold the fender on. Its generally difficult to weld aluminum to steel
duh... I'm an idiot... just ignore me
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lol its cool man i've spent too much time on the denver bs thread on here where we all give each other **** for fun.
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haha... I guess I needed to get more sleep today... didn't even cross my mind that I was asking about tack welding aluminum to steel. Ugh... that's a good mod though. I'm definitely going to do this soon.
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Well even though I have been selling them here since early 2010, I built my first one in 09. Big amount of sound coming from a small space. This is my own current setup. It's insane.

Actual sealed box. Most of the box fits into the cubby so the cargo space is still usable. My current box is way louder than when I had my Kicker setup. But the sub is a 20 pound monster from one of the top names going.

I have a vid of what the kicker setup would do.


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Not sure if this would be homebrew but I bet there is not another one quite like it. I got a Aluminum bezel from ebay. I then powdered it Red to match my XJ. I done a black Biohazard logo in the center. Love it.


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Lots of homebrew mods coming soon when I get the time. Work is busy and my Jeep needs a new rear end. It never ends.



I also done a cool little mod when lifting the XJ. Normally people trash the rear sway bar as with it rubbing the tires and such. I tow a trailer a lot so I wanted to keep it.

I had some spacers I pressed out of the 2012 JK shocks I used for my lift that spaced the bracket up that holds the track bar.

I will snap a pic when I change the rear diff. It is pretty cool. No where near my tires and I am running 16" moab wheels with 245/75/16's.
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Home brew light bar with some harbor freight lights ( cheapo's ) im gonna make it removable if i need to haul it in the enclose trailer to moab and garden trim fender flairs
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Originally Posted by Basslicks
Just make sure and get Yakov Smirnoff out of there before ya do anything... lol

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Unfortunately he's in Branson Missouri.
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i have the harbor freight lights on mine also - well worth the money, even if they look cheap they're bright as ****!
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Originally Posted by dukie564
i have the harbor freight lights on mine also - well worth the money, even if they look cheap they're bright as ****!
Are they really that bright?? I've always wondered
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Are they really that bright?? I've always wondered
brighter than my H4 conversion high beams, so yes, they are
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Originally Posted by dukie564
brighter than my H4 conversion high beams, so yes, they are
Are they really? you have HIDs and there brighter?? My hella 500s with all 4 on arnt even brighter then my headlights on low beam!!!! haha
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Originally Posted by dukie564

brighter than my H4 conversion high beams, so yes, they are
Which harbor freight lights are we talking about here?? Did you have to put in a 100 watt bulb or anything?
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Originally Posted by dukie564
i have the harbor freight lights on mine also - well worth the money, even if they look cheap they're bright as ****!
And the best part is, if you break one, you go pay like 10 bucks and you get two more

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