Mark

Along with the Rock bumper...

and XRC fenders I love this set up for this jeep...

The bat now rides on the High lift jack...

I think I monsta Lined them in Black...

Maybe not I cant remember and they are currently in storage and the jeep just had its engine replaced with a jasper in OKC...

I got her missing the hardtop as sold...

This is a common practice of all people in the know who sell jeeps... A good hard top can easily bring 1000 adding to the price of the jeep or taking away as so many do to sell on the side its cheaper to install a soft top or sell the one that comes with the jeep than to get a hardtop so many dealers split it to make the added 1000 or 1500 and then sell they jeep as is to you missing the hard top...

A lot of private sellers also do the same...

If your selling your jeep sell it with the soft top and sell the hardtop elsewhere...

You will make more money.

I love the Hardtop for security and traveling for work...

But I really love the trek Top best one I even owned...

I like it even better than my JLs two tops...

I am currently and have been now a Certified Welding inspector by the American Welding Society of America...

CWI for short. In most weld failures the weakest section of the steel is the base metal directly next to the weld the weld becomes the strongest part of the assembly and the base metal beside the weld the weakest due to the sudden heat input to the steel...to correct this flaw you have to heat up the part above 1400 degrees and then gradually cool it back down to ambient over the course of hours which is called Stress relieving or normalizing the steel Process....

Some how the bottom curved section probably because it was bent using heat... stayed in tack even though clearly there is less metal to rely on and in the radius of a bend You see how it cracked the 4" section above that was Heat affected zone from welding and not normalizing afterwards...

Steel is what I do so This stuff I understand.

Here is a perfect example of why...

I had 33s do this and I increased to 35s I went heavy duty tire carrier after seeing 33s do this.

Like a Cave and you get used to driving with limo in about a week or two max... and if its that bad roll your damn window down back up and roll it back up, better than hitting something... I even do it when entering or crossing a major intersection...

I enjoy the windows that dark and it ads protection of my laptop and electronics inside the jeep...

Just like the Cops say...

Plus Im a field inspector keeps folks wondering...

30% entire front glass... then limo strip 4% across top edge...Double legal permitted...

look for ASC line thats the line where tint should stop...

wont stop any sun except maybe high noon....lol

Single Limo on both front passenger and driver door...

Double limo across the rear section including both back passenger windows...

Entire hatch and lift glass...

FYI Sky Jackers Suck...

I changed springs Track bar drag link sway bars removed rear one on both of my jeeps the JKU and the JLUR

Always run Falcon Steering Stabilizers never a complaint I have had two fail and they always send me a free replacement I opt instead to pay for a new one get it on the way then send the bad one back and get a refund that way I get it done in half the time and they always say No Problem they do want the broken ones back so they can research why and how it failed...

Black Bear Pass...

Threw a couple others in...

Various places...

That plating worked...

The Fender Worked as designed also...

We used a come along and pulled the rear fender back to where it went welded the front section then pressed the back in line and welded it in...

Free Welder at work liked my jeeps...always gave me shit about them but told me they were pretty bad ass...

Pookipsiee Gutch...

LOL My dumbass thinks I got this after all I am invincible...

Pookipsie Gultch 1=

Lucille =0

Nothing happened on Blackbear  pass this was repairs to another jeep while at the summit ...

Ended up coming down in pitch black darkness missing some of the most scenic views during a pretty day you may ever see...

I went back the next yr and saw it again first hand ...

I undid the top bolt that connects to the sway bars... to re mount half bracket wise the Track bar and removed the stabilizer until I could get things repaired...

Cliff Hanger in Moab...

You also will see many pictures when I move to locations of trails across the US...sections...

This time the Track bar snapped right down when the stabilizer bolt snapped and was dangling down in front of the jeep I removed it then I had to find a Bolt to use in its place and with only the backside bracket to support the weight and I was at least a mile still inside of Cliffhanger trail and it was at that time the most challenging trail I ever ha ventured onto and all alone in 100 plus heat figured trail would take maybe 6 hrs max I was out in that heat 12 hours and at one point I laid under the jeep in the shade on the coolness of the shaded rocks and luckily a Wind vortex or some crap occurred and I was able to feel the wind at about 15 mph which greatly helped I waited a while for the heat of the day to slowly drop slightly then started back at it, I was able to get to motel and had it at the garage another 6 miles first thing in the am two days later jeep was ready and I headed to Top of the world... making it to the last obstacle and scrubbing due to not wanting to snap the new bracket and end up with death wobble on a jeep front end I knew had maybe a month left in fact I started at this time getting death wobble around 45 mph... through like 58 or so then it would stop...

I drove all the way back to Wisconsin non stop the only part that was a bit rough... getting up to 70 on the on ramps and traffic on the way in city that thought 49 mph was perfect I fought it for an hour until I got through the traffic...

I would still do the trail again...

There are three paths you can go when your on Cliffhanger one takes you to the front side cliff as you see my feet ots approx 800-1000 feet straight down...

awesome view then the backside of the cliff which dead ends on a cliff your looking to the basin below this time its as though your on the side of a mountain plateau...

again with the floor at about 800-1000 feet straight down one bad mistake = Game over...

I do recommend side by sides and at least one have a winch also... The end of the trail could be hiked... we went up and over till we could go no more then we had to pile up rocks for a ramp up to get on top of a particularly difficult section at the end ...

You can also get to the basin after you first get on the trail I would estimate about 30 minutes in...

and ride the bottom section in fact once I was good and lost I went there to see if I could spot a way to get back on the right trail as it hooks around to the right to get back to the initial drop in from the road... I drove straight up the side of the mountain...it was bumpy and rocky but jeep did it with out issue... and then I was able to get to the trail that leads out I want to say I went up over two paths to end up on the third one which winded me out...

Had it not been for the Steering Stabilizer...

I wouldnt have been able to drive the jeep... it was the only thing making it still steerable from 11 to 1 on the wheel that was it any more I stood a risk of snapping it and 14 MPH = death wobble I drove 12 or less happy to be moving...at all...

16 miles or so...

Luckily I was able at 7:30 pm on a sat night to pay a garage welder guy 125 bucks to weld fabricate me a new bracket to get me home and until I had another issue under the front end to repair...

Windrock Pics this day was a bit costly...

Absolutely the Best Off Road Park I have visited in the US to date...

Sure Moab is a lot of fun but its mountains and spread out over a very wide area and it could take forever to drive every road there and trail. Some will not be jeepable and many are high rated trails with a lot of obstacles...

Colorado is by far the most scenic...

However only two trails even pose any challenge at all lets say The Holy Cross Trail is a monster and you should Better have at least one other jeep with you...

Good spotters and winches all work and you may suffer some trail damage its that much of a challenge...

Then Pookipsie Gultch took a small bite out of lucilles right side as shown in next slides...