It's been a while since I have done any substantial work on my Jeep. The body work needed some love, and it's got some issues offroad (and on) that I want to take care of.
I started this week on mostly cosmetic stuff.
Here is my Jeep last month... you can see some of the Renegade stuff is pretty beat up/falling off.
So Mike and I did a kind of weird flat fender, polyurethane morph structure. I've got some mixed opinions on the rad hoop, but honestly I just wanted to see if I could bend it on the first try
I did, and I personally like the way it looks.
On to the fenders. I wanted to do something that didn't look hack, stopped my problem with cracking the front of the fenders, but still kept the overall Renegade homo flair. I started cutting, and Mike came up with this idea.
We did what we could with the lines of the fenders and tube, I love most parts of what came out
Then I pulled off all the Rene flares, cleaned them up; cleaned my rock destroyed, rusty tub; and re-attached everything with coated button heads.
As far as performance stuff this week... not a ton. I finally installed and plumbed the fuel cell I have had sitting around for a year. But I still need to build some tank straps to secure it better for what we do. For the first time in 5 years I now have a working fuel gauge
I also Auto Armored the dash, cleaned and clear coated my killer shift knob (thanks for the Toy pinion Brian), and Mike made me a new GPS mount.
For the pig gig I replace my broken stub shaft, and rewelded my broken rear caliper mount.
Next week I will probably start the rear stretch (4-5") and I may center my rear 44 for some more street friendly driveline angles
September 13th, 2007, 02:33 PM
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