Better Late Than Never - A tale of addiction and poor money management.

[gek]

P.S.A. The stock scissor jack is not made to jack up your buddies Tesla Model S. I had to use it to lift it high enough to get a hydraulic jack under it when he blew a tire and they don't come with a jack or a spare.

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[gek]

The fairlead that came with my Badlands winch started to corrode, so I replaced it with the Grimm Offroad black anodized hawse fairlead.

 

[gek]

Wait, a large box has arrived. I wonder what could be inside.

 

[gek]

It's LED Rubicon fenders!

Passenger Rear Before

Passenger Rear After

Passenger Front Before

Passenger Front After

 

[gek]

Before I put on the driver's side fender I decided to mount my ARB single air compressor.

I am using the Motobilt mount to mount it under the brake booster.
I added some extra heat shielding to not only block some heat, but hopefully to block some road grime that gets behind the fender liner.

Modifying a bracket to mount the intake and the chuck under the hood.

Ignore the wiring. this pic was taken during testing to make sure the unit was functioning correctly.

Clearance with the new fender and flare in place.

After testing I was able to air up all 4 of my 315/70/r17s from 18 to 37 psi in around 2 minutes 30 seconds each. It took me a bit over 10 minutes

 

[gek]

All the new fenders are mounted. I found some instructions in this post https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/fo...mming-led-rubicon-fenders-to-my-willys.51490/ on how to use JScan to enable all LED fender functionality.

 

[fresh air 1]

Hotheads Headliners Skyliner.

Only one issue with this. The corners on the front attachment keep coming unstuck. I reached out to them and they have updated that piece and sent me a new one. I have not installed the new piece yet.

I have the same too and love it! But the corners will not stay stuck, on my second Velcro strip… had to use a little super glue and holds nice now

 

[gek]

And now we are all caught up ...



... until tomorrow when my new clutch is supposed to arrive and then I am expecting a rear bumper in the next few weeks.

 

[gek]

I have the same too and love it! But the corners will not stay stuck, on my second Velcro strip… had to use a little super glue and holds nice now

The new one that they sent me is a lot wider than my original one. I reached out to them and supplied my original order number and they had the new version sent out within a day.

 

[fresh air 1]

The new one that they sent me is a lot wider than my original one. I reached out to them and supplied my original order number and they had the new version sent out within a day.

Definitely looks taller probably has a little more give when closed and has some tension on it. Nice build

 

[gek]

Definitely looks taller probably has a little more give when closed and has some tension on it. Nice build

Thank you, I think it is supposed to slide up behind something to help hold it.

 

[gek]

Clutch has arrived

 

[Krondor]

Clutch has arrived

 

[Pig-Pen]

Im failing to see any evidence of poor money management.

jeeps looking great

 

[gek]

Im failing to see any evidence of poor money management.

jeeps looking great

Haha, well my wife might have noticed. I have tripled the budget I gave myself for this year. Hopefully I don't find a manual rocktrac transfer case and @Krondor doesn't decide to sell his Method wheels.

On a positive note my new fence came out way under budget. Still not enough to make up the difference.

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