What was done to your rig this week?

Finally got around to trimming my fenders. Thanks to Chris for the extra set!

Cut with an angle grinder and cleaned up with a sanding wheel. Took about 5 min per fender... taping took by far the longest.

Warning... you will get hot plastic on you... so wear gloves or dont be a wuss haha.

What did you use for the edges it looks awesome, I've got painted flares and am leery of cutting them
 
Finally got around to trimming my fenders. Thanks to Chris for the extra set!

Cut with an angle grinder and cleaned up with a sanding wheel. Took about 5 min per fender... taping took by far the longest.

Warning... you will get hot plastic on you... so wear gloves or dont be a wuss haha.

That came out looking real good. 👍
 
What did you use for the edges it looks awesome, I've got painted flares and am leery of cutting them

Nothing on the edges. Just cut them with the angle grinder, then put the sanding disk on the grinder with 125 grit disk and smoothed it out. NOT a flap disk... an actual sanding disk...
 

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Synergy Drag Link and TeraFlex Forged Track Bar. Fun project (after I went out and got a ball joint separator... ) Tie Rod was done a couple weeks prior (also Synergy) and all courtesy of Northridge :)
 
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I've only recently come to appreciate the virtues of a bottle jack on the trail, and so this weekend I finally put one in the Jeep after making a stabilizing plate and axle cradle for it. I wonder if I’ll ever use my Hi-Lift again.

The cradle is just a couple of pieces of tube and a (rather large) universal leaf spring perch:

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The stabilizer plate is a 10" by 10" square of 1/4" stock:

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It works!

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I've only recently come to appreciate the virtues of a bottle jack on the trail, and so this weekend I finally put one in the Jeep after making a stabilizing plate and axle cradle for it. I wonder if I’ll ever use my Hi-Lift again.

The cradle is just a couple of pieces of tube and a (rather large) universal leaf spring perch:

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The stabilizer plate is a 10" by 10" square of 1/4" stock:

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It works!

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You should sell that. To me lol. Looks great.
 
Added the EVO ProTek oil pan skid.1419972069503.jpg Them put on some new shoes - 35/12.50/17 Toyo Open Country M/T around some ATX rims!1419972084889.jpg
 
I've only recently come to appreciate the virtues of a bottle jack on the trail, and so this weekend I finally put one in the Jeep after making a stabilizing plate and axle cradle for it. I wonder if I’ll ever use my Hi-Lift again.

The cradle is just a couple of pieces of tube and a (rather large) universal leaf spring perch:

The stabilizer plate is a 10" by 10" square of 1/4" stock:

It works!

WOW!!! great idea! i might have to look into stealing this
 
You should sell that. To me lol. Looks great.

WOW!!! great idea! i might have to look into stealing this


Thanks fellas. I stole the idea from a company called Bogert Manufacturing. They sell bottle jack kits on their website for over $200 (yes, you read that right), but I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for something so simple. What you see in my pictures is about $35 worth of steel at retail prices.
 
Thanks fellas. I stole the idea from a company called Bogert Manufacturing. They sell bottle jack kits on their website for over $200 (yes, you read that right), but I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for something so simple. What you see in my pictures is about $35 worth of steel at retail prices.

Nice job!!!

You bogarted the Bogert haha
 
I finally got these lights on, big thanks to Cripplepety for hooking me up with a nice light bracket! 👍 these pia lights were a gift from my brother shortly before he passed, he gave them to me for my dodge 4x4 I had before the jeep when I traded in the truck I kept them for my jeep, so happy to finally get these on :)ImageUploadedByWAYALIFE1419997553.862445.jpgImageUploadedByWAYALIFE1419997569.096960.jpg
 
I finally got these lights on, big thanks to Cripplepety for hooking me up with a nice light bracket! 👍 these pia lights were a gift from my brother shortly before he passed, he gave them to me for my dodge 4x4 I had before the jeep when I traded in the truck I kept them for my jeep, so happy to finally get these on :)View attachment 117052View attachment 117053

I love that look. Your rig looks great, it's come a long way.
 
I finally got these lights on, big thanks to Cripplepety for hooking me up with a nice light bracket! 👍 these pia lights were a gift from my brother shortly before he passed, he gave them to me for my dodge 4x4 I had before the jeep when I traded in the truck I kept them for my jeep, so happy to finally get these on :)View attachment 117052View attachment 117053

Damn those are bright. I've got that "Lee in the headlight" look now. ImageUploadedByWAYALIFE1419998262.799003.jpg
 
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