Upgrade your steering and track bar, then do the ball joints. The stock setup is awful and lifted it will handle pretty badly

 

pulled out the headliner to re-fabric it but now i am wondering if i even want to keep it in.

 

New valve cover gasket. The old one was put in within the last year and it was the Felpro rubber/metal brown colored one but it was leaking after install of reworked cylinder head. Oil was leaking down from the back of the valve cover onto the cylinder head.

Got the new Felpro gasket today, and the gasket was blue and it had new rubber grommets to replace the old ones that go around the metal piece the bolts go through. The old one did not come with the grommets.
After seeing the inserts, I looked closely at the old ones and it looked like oil was leaking around the old grommets. Appears that the leaks are gone now.

See lower right of pic for rubber grommets.

 

I told myself I was gonna put it back in.. 4 months ago haha I don't mind it out.

 

Won't handle to bad with just a 3 inch lift. I only noticed slight handle improvement when upgrading my tie rod. My jeep handles good IMO. Sway bars will help handling too I'm sure lolol

 

If money wasn't a concern, I would have done it proper.

 

Well doing it really proper would include brown dog brackets for the motor side too...

 

True true

 

I can't argue there. I've had an eye on that kit for a while, it just wasn't practical right now

 

My jeep was a bit too loud road noise wise without it. Plus it was a lot colder in the morning.

Re-doing the fabric is tricky. I've done it twice with great results, 3 times overall. Needs to be a warm day, and the adhesive needs to set correctly. Costs me about 80 bucks and 2-3 hours of labor to do it.

I've got my rig to do it on soon, maybe this weekend if its warm enough. There's a storm brewing offshore so we might actually see some scrappy weather in sunny califor-ny-ay.

 

Getting new tires and wheels installed as we speak.

 

You know ppl are just gonna ask what kind and pics.

So...

 

General Grabber AT2's on some new Pro Comp wheels with 3.75 bs. Pics coming later.

 

Slapped a coat of paint on my little bumper project. I hope to finish it up and bolt it on sometime this weekend. It'll eventually have a winch mounted on the back side of it.

Ignore the redneck hobo looking shop/thing that I have to work in.

 

Looks good. Also, looks like you brew some moonshine in that shack of yours lol.