What did you do TO your Jeep JL today?

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Crisp air, snow's coming - installed Rhino-Rack Vortex SG59 rails for snow junk. Easy-peasy ( < 30 mins, by myself, in driveway.)

But... Truthin? I spent more @#$%@#$% hours diggin and reading forums about (1) racking up to the fiberglass hardtop on its rain gutters, and then (2) figgerin' if I could move it to the back, instead of over the front panels. What I discovered was way too many folks lawyerin' about possible damage, et cetera, et cetera.

In the end, Rhino-Rack updated their own install instructions for rear mount option - (move front rail to rear position), so they must've checked and are okay with it.

So, if fretting over this, don't. They are a nice, snug (yes, a good thing), clean install. Quiet as death on the highway - Thule Snowpack Extenders fit perfectly, no issues. Bring on the thunder-snow.

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I pushed the bumper out slightly bu putting the backing plates between the bumper and the frame (should be the same as the Warn winch plate). I made a couple of (ugly) brackets from some aluminum angle I had for the bottom connection. I figured they really only keep it in place and didn’t need to be real strong.

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@ATXRubican i need more info on your fenders, liners etc. Can you PM me the details and some extra pics. Looks awesome.
Me too! That looks awesome.
He used the AAL (American Adventure Labs) highline fender braces with integrated sequential LEDs and the Artec inner liners.

I installed the same braces/lights and the same companies inner fender liners front and back. These lights require chopping of the front fenders.
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@Headbarcode
  1. On the stock fenders you have to just remove the inner plastic section, correct? Was that hard?
  2. I have watched the YT video of WAL doing the turn signals so I think I can accomplish that
  3. Are the fender liners bolt on or do they take some work with rivets and riv nuts like the other ones?
 

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@Headbarcode
  1. On the stock fenders you have to just remove the inner plastic section, correct? Was that hard?
  2. I have watched the YT video of WAL doing the turn signals so I think I can accomplish that
  3. Are the fender liners bolt on or do they take some work with rivets and riv nuts like the other ones?
1. Yes, the upper fender gets split from the lower half. They are plastic welded together. Wasn’t hard at all.
2. Go towards the bottom of the highline LEDs product page on the American Adventure Labs site. It's the best video I've come across.
3. Each liner comes with 4 mounting brackets that replace specific factory white fender clips along the main mounting flange on the body. They come with pre-installed nutcerts and stainless Allen button head machine screws. I chose to replace all the white clips to utilize the fender retention hardware kits. I purchased a nutcert tool to install them.

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@Headbarcode
  1. On the stock fenders you have to just remove the inner plastic section, correct? Was that hard?
  2. I have watched the YT video of WAL doing the turn signals so I think I can accomplish that
  3. Are the fender liners bolt on or do they take some work with rivets and riv nuts like the other ones?
Just an FYI. @Xtremetj has a new set of rear liners he is selling for a good price.
 
 
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