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How difficult was the fuel door? I heard you have to remove the tail light to install?
Very easy. It took less than 10 minutes. Check YouTube for a detailed step by step video.

My only warning is to cover the hole where the gas goes into while you're installing. After I was done mine, I realized my check engine light showed up and I was freaking out. Called my dealership and booked an appt to see what was going on. They just told me I let too much air into the system, and they just had to reset it.
 

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Very easy. It took less than 10 minutes. Check YouTube for a detailed step by step video.

My only warning is to cover the hole where the gas goes into while you're installing. After I was done mine, I realized my check engine light showed up and I was freaking out. Called my dealership and booked an appt to see what was going on. They just told me I let too much air into the system, and they just had to reset it.
Thanks for the heads up!
 

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Whew! Rock Slide Engineering Power Slide Steps are installed!

The main issues I had:
You're supposed to slide the front middle and back brackets between the body bolt and washer for each of the three body mounts on the drivers and passenger side of the Jeep. Here are some pictures ***FROM ROCK SLIDE ENGINEERING'S WEBSITE

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From the pictures there as well as from the video tutorial Rock Slide Engineering has, these brackets should just slide in there between the bolt head and the washer, that didn't happen for me. The washer wouldn't move up the bolt. The threads for the bolt were in the way - almost as if the washer was placed on the bolt before they even threaded it. I had a fraction of the space that is there and boy was it a PITA getting the bracket on there. It was a combination of grading down a layer of the bracket's coating and wailing on it with a dead blow hammer. I'm not sure if anyone else had this issue. On to the next issue.

Once the brackets and sliders are installed it's time to wire them up. There are holes in the rear passenger and rear driver's footwells (these are NOT the drain holes in the front passenger and driver wells). On either side you need to feed the power actuator and lighting wires into the respective sides. As you can see from the next picture ***ALSO FROM FROCK SLIDE ENGINEERING'S WEBSITE you can see the top left picture is the hole on the driver's side, notice how large it is. It accommodates both wires easily. The bottom right picture is the passenger hole and neither wire would fit by itself, let alone with two wires. I was in a pickle here, there is nothing in the instructions about this and nothing I could find on this forum - so I just used a bastard file and made the hole a bit larger to accommodate the wires. You can even see the hole in the picture looks a bit jagged like they did it themselves which is also weird why it isn't mentioned at all....

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Well that was really all I could think of, other than breaking a ratchet extension off while trying to torque the body bolts to 80 ft. lbs and a couple other banged knuckles and bloody boo boos the steps are installed and they're fantastic!

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This was a busy weekend, I also installed the Maximus 3 Stinger

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What kind of rear view light is that?
On the spare? Rigid Industries driving beam w smoke cover
 

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At first I wondered why your lights are so high on there brackets(I have same lights)...just letting you know bud your brackets are backwards. Looks good though-paint the bracket black fck it
What do you mean "backwards"? Are you talking about the rough country brackets? They only fit one way, no?
 

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Installed new track bars!
 

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What do you mean "backwards"? Are you talking about the rough country brackets? They only fit one way, no?
You have the curvature of the bracket facing the wrong way. Take light off rotate the bracket 180 and reinstall. The housing to the light has a curved groove/track for the bracket. Maybe bracket can be used both ways though I'm not sure.
 
 







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