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oddball · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2009 9:21 pm

My daughter borrowed my camera. I'll get it back tomorrow (Saturday) and post images (most likely) on Sunday.

Guest · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2009 9:47 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

oddball wrote:

Over 1,200 people applied. :shock:

I don't envy whoever has to weed out the right person for the job though...

ThunderbirdJunkie does! Bet there's lots of HOT CHICKS!

oddball · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 6:17 pm

Not the best images, but you get the idea. For the record, all my decals are "Brushed Silver" in color.

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat May 02, 2009 11:30 pm

oddball wrote:

Not the best images, but you get the idea. For the record, all my decals are "Brushed Silver" in color.

nice place for the ORT decal same place I put mine a year ago :wink:

STINGN · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 4:26 am

hey oddball...your mobile me thing, is that your drag car??? cause you would get along with my neighbor, Tony Shumacher

oddball · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 10:06 am

Yes. I am involved in a partnership running that Outlaw Pro Mod. Money is tight this year but we hope to run the car a few times before we sell it. As for your neighbor, I've met him. I am friends with a guy who runs a nitro fuel altered that was driven by Austin Coil's wife. If you don't know who Austin Coil is, he's the Crew Chief of John Force, and also a native of our area. Coil was part owner and tuner in the legendary Chi-town Hustler funny car from the glory days of drag racing. My partner is married to Pat Minick's daughter. Minick drove the Chi-town Hustler funny car.

oddball · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 10:49 am

yellocoyote wrote:

I like it!

Probably ordering mine on Monday... I have a space reserved on the rear glass for it already.

Me too. Don really outdid himself, again.

STINGN · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 7:11 pm

oddball wrote:

Yes. I am involved in a partnership running that Outlaw Pro Mod. Money is tight this year but we hope to run the car a few times before we sell it. As for your neighbor, I've met him. I am friends with a guy who runs a nitro fuel altered that was driven by Austin Coil's wife. If you don't know who Austin Coil is, he's the Crew Chief of John Force, and also a native of our area. Coil was part owner and tuner in the legendary Chi-town Hustler funny car from the glory days of drag racing. My partner is married to Pat Minick's daughter. Minick drove the Chi-town Hustler funny car.

Yes I have, i follow the NHRA and the (pro alcohol drag racing circuit, or w/e its called) and its funny, me and my brother with our lifted trucks got him to buy a 07 H3 with 35s and rancho lift

tan's2002kjlimited · **Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 9:45 pm

Got the OK to order a Standard Frankenlift I (as long as it gets installed and doesn't
sit in the garage collecting dust).
I'm guessing it would be advisable to get Als Upper A-arms at the same time
so both can be installed at the same time too. (Why do the work twice).
My question is, are the Als Upper A-arms necessary, will they save me headaches
further on down the road? I'm looking at close to $1500.

http://www.boulderbars.com/frankenlift.htm
http://jeepinbyal.com/prod-Als_Upper_A_ ... y_s-2.aspx

Wifey told me this is the vehicle for the next 6-8 years, so I'm thinking
it's a good investment.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 11:43 am

Thats one of those things if you have the extra money OK if not its easy to do it later ( install the arms)
Matter of fact I installed mine (UCAs) without removing the battery just the airbox. Mine's been torn apart so many times trying new things on the lift that its only a few minutes job at most anyways.
I ran my lift for over 70,000 miles and did not have the arms, tires wore great and the arms are still good if that helps any.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 12:08 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

tommudd wrote:

Matter of fact I installed mine (UCAs) without removing the battery

Are you a contortionist? :shock:

It was such a PITA to do with the battery tray out, so I can't imagine how much FUN it was to do with it in. :roll:

You're my hero.

no just too lazy that day to remove it, and its only one small little bolt to remove :wink:

I was ready to give someone 50 bucks just to do that one dang bolt, but wasn't anyone else around to help me !! :lol:

callaway · **Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 12:15 pm

how the hell did you do that w/o taking the tray out ? ???

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Tue May 05, 2009 2:54 am

keep handin me beer and i'll spend all day turning an impossible to get to bolt 1/64th of a turn at a time until the crap is out

took me like 30 mins to get one of the bolts out of either my friends wrangler or his wifes VW i don't remember which

after about 5 minutes i sent him in the house to get a straw so that i could drink my beer while working with my forehead resting against the rubber piece on the firewall

:lol:

i have an odd amount of patience for such things

oddball · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2009 7:36 pm

Well today I installed my Firestik mount. The screws you get suck. I used slightly longer / larger (phillips) flathead stainless. Thanks to Jayme for showing me how easy it is to run the coax inside the 'snap-together' KJ interior! :smile:

Btw; Jayme I had a hole covered with a black patch behind my RR t/s assbly. I just peeled it back and was able to run the coax into the interior. I had thought you said I'd have to drill a hole? Maybe not, maybe I misunderstood.

Thanks again to yellocoyote & jeepfrog for the bracket mounting tips!

Now all that remains to install is the CB. I bought a Cobra 75 WX ST (tuned & peaked) from a CB shop on ebay stores, and I am thinking I will mount it inside the center console, running the radio/mic out thru the e-brake handle slot? We'll see... Still waiting for the CB to arrive. Maybe tomorrow?

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2009 9:59 pm

i hope you have better luck fitting your cobra in the console, there was no way in hell my galaxy was going to fit in there

oddball · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 7:20 am

yellocoyote wrote:

Looks good - glad to see you avoided the minor ding in the tailgate that I got.

You might want to replace the bolts that adjust the angle of the antenna with stainless...

Do you plan to run a spring with it?

Yeah that was another factor in my decision to use flathead screws.

I'll have to replace those too with stainless.

I was thinking a spring might be in order here.

JeepinJarhead03 wrote:

i hope you have better luck fitting your cobra in the console, there was no way in hell my galaxy was going to fit in there

I went with the Cobra 75WX ST

STINGN · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 8:08 pm

i got my replacement basket today due to the other one collapsing in from a MOAB rim, and fixed my rails on trunk for gerry can to mount on (shipped)

also painted my shackles

What the MOABs would look like

tread (why i dont run them)

What do you guys think about me running the MOAB's with that tread, remember, i got no $ till october for rubber

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 10:01 pm

if the rims are the same size just hit up walmart or somethin, don't remember what they charge but it's pretty cheep for swappin tires on rims ?

STINGN · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 4:58 pm

yea rims are same size but i want bigger tires if i get new ones, dont want to waste 100 on swaping when it can go towards new tires

STINGN · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 7:44 pm

i might, although my brother told me a few days ago that he will only let me use them if i get super swampers (cause he said its not a jeep till you got super swampers, where me and him wheel u need them)

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