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This morning was productive! I did a little color fill in the Jeep grille on my radio mount, because red is rad.

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Rain is in the forecast tomorrow so I decided to throw the front inner liners on after all. They required minor modification to install. The rears also did not install as per the instructions. I'm happy with them but Paramount has some work to do on their hardware and paperwork. I also did some additional finish sanding on the flares and they're looking pretty good for a literal hack job!

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Rubber baby buggy bumpers from Energy Suspension are on. These were a turd to get in the tailgate! I ended up sanding the flanges down, lubing them up with lithium grease and using a 1" pipe with an end cap to get them to pop in.

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Also made a ghetto mount for my mini shovel on a whim and I'm actually pleased with how it turned out. For one of those random "I wonder if..." things that took about 10 minutes to sort out and install, it's clean and solid. Of course, I also had to paint it red for... reasons.

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Also, I'm just curious, what are you doing for front blinkers with the fender chop?
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#BaofengGang

Also, I'm just curious, what are you doing for front blinkers with the fender chop?
That's actually one of the projects I'm (hopefully) tackling this weekend. I ordered some smoked amber LEDs that nest inside 3/4" rubber grommets like the ones truckers use for clearance lights and such... I'm going to run one through the outside lip of each front flare for DRL markers and two out the front near the grille for the turn signals, and just wire accordingly. The "turn signal out" message only appeared on the dash the first time I used the signal for each side and it's never popped back up since then, so I may still have hyperflashing but it honestly doesn't bother me much since the bulb out warning doesn't reappear constantly.
 

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That's actually one of the projects I'm (hopefully) tackling this weekend. I ordered some smoked amber LEDs that nest inside 3/4" rubber grommets like the ones truckers use for clearance lights and such... I'm going to run one through the outside lip of each front flare for DRL markers and two out the front near the grille for the turn signals, and just wire accordingly. The "turn signal out" message only appeared on the dash the first time I used the signal for each side and it's never popped back up since then, so I may still have hyperflashing but it honestly doesn't bother me much since the bulb out warning doesn't reappear constantly.
Nice 👌

I believe the Tazer JL mini can adjust the expected resistance for the turn signals to solve any error codes or hyper flash. If your build plan is 35s anyway it will allow you to calibrate the speedo when you do. As well as a whole bunch of other features. I particularly like the turn cam, it activates the back up camera when you turn on the blinkers. Works great as a “mirror” when your running naked.
 
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Nice 👌

I believe the Tazer JL mini can adjust the expected resistance for the turn signals to solve any error codes or hyper flash. If your build plan is 35s anyway it will allow you to calibrate the speedo when you do. As well as a whole bunch of other features. I particularly like the turn cam, it activates the back up camera when you turn on the blinkers. Works great as a “mirror” when your running naked.
I've read that also and it sure would be a nice tool to have. The 35s are sitting in my garage just waiting for the replacement spare and my preordered wheels to come in, but I'm planning to get the Superchips tune and their F5 unit supposedly does all the things that the Tazer does, which would kill two birds with one stone. Only problem is, I'm not 100% sold on doing a PCM swap with 33,000 miles worth of warranty left on the Jeep, so I may end up with a Tazer Mini anyways and just sell it when I'm ready to do the tune.
 
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Spare tire(s) still missing. Methinks someone at FedEx needed a couple of 35" pizza cutters because not one, but two of my tires have mysteriously gone "missing" at the same FedEx hub in as many weeks... UPS also "lost" my LEDs, and I have several other shipments severely delayed.

On the bright side, Trail Snail has been out making memories rather than getting worked on over the past week. I even managed to get my mom out on a trail with the kiddo and I - no small feat.

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This all escalated quickly!

Love what you've done so far. Everything looks great! Hope to see you on the trails when I get some armor on. My Sting Grey needs to see some dirt.
 
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This all escalated quickly!

Love what you've done so far. Everything looks great! Hope to see you on the trails when I get some armor on. My Sting Grey needs to see some dirt.
Thank you, and likewise! We should get a little JLWF trail run together sometime with @JL MADDOG and any other locals on here who may want to tag along.

(And hopefully my wheels and tires will be on by then! :CWL: )
 
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These are fun. They didn't turn out completely perfect, but they certainly are unique! They're 3D printed lock plate covers and the "turbo snail" is actually a separate colored plastic inlay, not paint or a decal. 😎

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Just stumbled across your thread. I have a rubicon on order and one of the first things I want to do is chop those front flares. What did you use? Is there a pattern or guide?
 
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Just stumbled across your thread. I have a rubicon on order and one of the first things I want to do is chop those front flares. What did you use? Is there a pattern or guide?
I did mine freehand with a Dremel, but the Rubicon flares are different and much easier to do. Search the forums for "split fenders" and you should come up with some DIYs for Rubi fenders in the results.

In other news, today was productive and Trail Snail went fully topless for the first time 😍

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Snail update... Wheels finally shipped, but my second spare (replacement for the first one they lost) is also missing. This makes two tires FedEx has "lost" in a month. I'm over it.

Racking up the miles big time, I absolutely love driving this thing.

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Tailgate makes a great shooting rest as I've found out.

















In other news, I have a fridge now so I'm thinking about getting some white framed sunglasses, growing a man bun and putting #OAF decals all over the Snail to fit in with the broverlanders, but they wouldn't be my friends anyways because it's not an ARB or Dometic so I'm still not cool I guess.

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Made it a whole week topless before having to put the roof back on and I hate it. I think I'll get a job working from home so I never have to put the roof on again.

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@Jeepeto the turn signals and marker lights came out as clean as I'd hoped. They're not wired yet, but only because I didn't feel like pulling the liners tonight.

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Also, my replacement spare FINALLY arrived so I can get the wheels and tires on whenever I want now.

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It's really starting to come together now! The Snail is looking jacked with 35s on the stock Sport springs :muscle:

You'll have to forgive the mall crawling pics, it's Monday.

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