Thanks for the replies! I'm probably just going to go the "zip-tie-the-window-to-the-guide rod" option, zip ties are cheap enough and a replacement side window won't match the faded one, and the channel will more than likely do the same on the new one as the old.
Anyone else have problems with the top channel of their JL Sport soft top side windows popping off of the guide rod for no apparent reason? Seems I'm having to redo the right side window at least twice a week. Never had a single issue with the left one.
For me, it would be the wheel spacers. Seeing as the spacers extend past the end of the axle hub and all the vehicle weight rests solely on the wheel studs, I no longer trust that something worse than the lug nuts shearing off won't happen.
I wonder what the reasoning was for Jeep to go away from the traditional flat bar with the cross hatched "Add" and "Full" markings to the spiral wire type with the round dowel end oil dipstick?
Got the 3" bull bar from XT put on today.
To me, the passenger side looks like it's about 1/2" lower than the driver's side, but maybe it's just my OCD so *meh*...
Well, picked up the Harbor Freight 8 ton jack, ordering the Jack Buddy axle adapter, and putting one of my 3T Jack stands in the back as well. I've got a big rubber bin in the back so the bottle jack will be upright.
I checked the HF 4T bottle jack, and it looks good for the price. However, I think I'll go with the 8 ton version for $15 more that has a max height of 17 5/8 inches. The 4T goes up to 14" which is only an inch more than the 13" from the ground to the axle bottom on my Jeep.
And yea, the jack...
I said hell with it and just got these. I'm not paying anywhere from $10 - $18 for a single OEM Jeep hex nut when I can get a set of 20 locking nuts with the spline tool for $40.
I'm extremely gunshy now of any spacers that appear to have the same material silver studs as the ones on Crown's spacers. I think I could only go with spacers that have steel studs.
Went to jack up the Jeep to put a jack stand underneath to remove those verdammt wheel spacers, and it shifted and fell of the jack (only a few inches).
However, it was enough that the base of the jack got torqued and the "teeth" on the base got pushed out of whack as seen below.
I tried...
Well, provided I can get the remaining 18 off the spacer studs without them snapping, I was just going to pick up a set of four locking lug nuts so each wheel could have 4 OEM and 1 locking nut each.