So the other day I was just minding my own business when my irate neighbor was all like ‘hey didn’t you used to have that bitching cherokee? What happened to it?’ And I was all like ‘ ummm no? Oh. The shitbox? I still have it, can’t seem to find a buyer with cash, and never find time to work on it. I’m trying to make my kids lives better.’ He was all like ‘you should like get it together and we can go out some time.’ So I told him ‘yeah, umm it’s not me. It’s you.’ He didn’t listen to my words and said he wanted me to call him so we could go out some time. Apparently he has the Jeep aids
Bumper on. I hope the bolts Smittybuilt included are strong high quality bolts. It slipped over the Ruffstuff plating pretty okay. I no longer use the extension plates they had that acted sort of like a steering box brace.
Winch HALF mounted. I need different square nuts/bolts. Actually I need to figure out what I need first. Two bolts work so I need two more of those.
Track bar in and torqued.
Brace in and torqued. I was actually doing this when my irate neighbor who’s been stalking me wanted to know how my shitbox is.
I also relocated the Ming black vacuum canister thing’ from behind the front bumper to above the shock tower. I don’t know if this is smart or not. It just never had a real home in the bumper anymore, and all the vacuum lines lead back to the firewall. I couldn’t jam it under the overflow tank.
One day I might get an overflow bottle for my coolant reservoir tank. It just sprays hot coolant over my engine at this point in time.
Pictures
I had some help on the bumper install. It’s kind of annoying doing this alone. He usually has flip flops like ProjecTwin.
Track bar and brace.
Bumper finally on and bolts tightened. The winch fairlead is broken from when I had to use it to repair the trackbar bracket half a year ago.
It’s a little methy in here
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You can’t see it but the upper shock bolt isn’t torqued. The nut is just on the bolt keeping me from losing either of them.
How it’s sitting now.
This doesn’t show my leaking coilover.
Warm xdi9000 half bolted in. The hardware is probably high quality smittybuilt stuff. I don’t know if the size of the winch will hurt my cooling or not. It’s actually so close to the winch fairlead bolts I almost had to trim them down. Apparently Smittybuilt doesn’t build their stuff to really work with ANY winch. I probably should just be more of a fanboy and buy the Ruffstuff bumper st their next sale.