okay so most of you all know my White KJ Limited and my wife's blue KJ Sport:
Well my wife no longer wanted the KJ and here was newer and had a bunch less miles than hers so I sold mine to buy her an XJ but not before stripping off just about everything of value (I did leave the Daystar Lift and the Renegade lights on though):
So then I was left with a pile of parts and the stock (well mostly) Sport which had only seen very minor off road action before:
but before we get into that lets go back to the beginning. I bought the KJ from Carmax on November 30th 2010 and the very first thing I did was order and install the MOPAR fog lamp kit to get rid of those horrible grilles in the bumper (also added the clear bumper lights and hood T-bra from my first KJ):
and my wife drove it for a year and a half like that with no other mods except a cheap ebay grille/brush guard and a K&N Intake and then we woke up one morning and found this:
Insurance paid to fix it so I upgraded to Duratracs and installed a Renegade Light bar:
So that pretty much brings us to the point at which I sold the white one and started to build this one:
The first thing I did was install the Renegade roof basket, then I bought some 2 inch wheel spacers and installed the wheels and 245/75 MT/Rs from the white one (Front flares had to be removed for the tires to fit):
Then I Plasti-dipped the grille and removed all of the plastic so I could do the same:
Installed my ARB bumper and decided to Plasti-Dip the rockers as well:
Installed the Snorkel and fake sliders from the White one and then started looking at lifts I knew I was not going to go back to a Spacer lift and after talking in extent to daspes I decided to go with the Frankenlift II with extra 1/2 inch spacers in the rear (spacers installed after this picture):
then I swapped the plastic rene rack for a cheap basket to get the spare off of the roof and took it out last week to test out the knew lift with a buddy and his CRD:
and as she sits now all clean:
