A couple questions:
Did you put the tow hooks on yourself? If yes what kind are there?

Did the Skid plate bolt right to the axle or did you have to mod?

What kind of roof basket is that?

 

Surely, once I get back from Green Bay lol

Yes I mounted the hooks myself. They came off my dad's K5 so I have no idea what brand they are but the brackets came from Rugged Ridge. Any tow hook that style pretty much works.

The skid plate mounts to the unibody where a hitch would mount. I just had to add a couple of holes to match it up with the ones on the unibody. The width was right on though.

The roof basket is a Rage basket from discountramps.com. I think it was just over ~$140.

 

Thanks for all the info! Im looking at getting all three of these

stingray or blackwidow for roof basket?

 

It's actually this one: http://www.discountramps.com/roof-cargo-basket.htm the stingray wasn't available when I was looking but that one looks pretty cool.

 

ok thanks, yeah i think i might go for the black widow or stingray

 

I know the black widow has an extention too but I'm not sure about the other one. That would be my selling point if I knew I was going to need more room you would always have that option.

 

very true. good point. i dont feel like paying 300 dollars for a thule or yakima.

 

great looking xj like what you done to it so far i will be following keep up the good work

 

My feelings exactly. Why buy so over priced when there are great products out there for so much less!!

Thanks a lot!!

 

Just seafoamed it today and it worked great. Improved idle and it picks up a little better too. Smoked a hell of a lot though. Definitely worth ten bucks.

 

Here they are hope it helps out some.


Here is an over all pic.






The bottom was a torx head bolt that I just threaded into the fender being that it was able to rotate inside the rod end.



This was the rod end from the top. You can see how the bolt would move inside the end.



I actually pounded this our so I could but a regular bolt through it for the hood bracket support.



This is the bolt for the top end of the support.




Here's the other side. I used a nylock nut to make sure it didn't go anywhere.

Hope this helps out any questions just give a holler.

 

I'll get some of the whole hood popped open today I ran out of time yesterday.

 

those struts for your hood. where did they come from? like from what part of the zj?

 

They were lift gate supports. Used them because the rods were bigger than the XJ's. Just one works extremely well. You can get them from any parts store, but I just went the junkyard route just to try them out.

 

kk. ima get 2 sets. cuz the ones in my gate r goin out as well.