What did you do TO your Jeep JL today?

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Nice! Love those Fuels too— Vapor? What’s the offset and how far out do they stick from the fender?
They are indeed Vapor D560. I have no idea what the offset is. They stick out about 3 inches. Regret getting 20's though. Next time I'll pick a different wheel in 17s (although I like the vapors).
 

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Yeah, still looks good though. Did you sand it at all or use anything to rough up the surface before painting? Did you use model paint or something else?
Yes I did sand the surface. Used my wife's nail file to be honest, it was perfect for the job as is somewhat solid unlike sand paper. Just rest the nail file on top of the raised lettering and sanded the surface in circled motions instead of just up and down or left and right. Makes for a better surface prep.

Used a silver paint pen. Used both fine tip and blunt for diff areas.

Make sure you have a small piece of cardboard with you while your doing it to compress the tip of paint pen. You dont want to be compressing it for paint flow on the letters themselves. To much paint comes out at once.

Let dry, then go back and lightly scrap whatever paint may have gotten in places it shouldn't have. Use some kind of plastic pointed instrument to do the scraping.

Easy does it and take your time.

I ended up applying 3 coats...next is a final clear coat.

Good luck if doing
 

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Installed the Sunluway rear cargo rack cover and the GPCA Tie Down Anchors to mount it. It's a decent cheap upgrade and makes me feel better about leaving stuff in the back in an otherwise good neighborhood. It's totally not secure and there's no illusions about that but it's on there tight and difficult to unsnap and keeps things out of sight so there is that.

This mounts on the bolts which hold down a hard top.

It doesn't say anything about not supporting soft tops but there is an issue. The way it's designed, it requires access to a screw hole that's covered by the soft top frame. So I bought some M8 x 1.75mm short bolts and mounted it from the bottom of the frame.

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Installed the JKS quick disconnects. I'm to old to be crawling around on the ground. I'm going to feel it tomorrow
 
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Wish me all the luck!
Well that’s greedy. Other people might want some. ;)

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