Indian-family KJ - The preparation

indian-family · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:43 am

Voilà the pics of my kj prepared

It misses just the boulder bars.
They are to be posed (pics to come)
I take it this evening

Ed · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:42 am

WOW!

That looks awesome. Reminds me of something, like a stripped down off-road racer or something. I love the mean-ness of the black rims and agressive tyres juxtaposed against the bling-ness of the chrome grille and roof rails.

The skids are a work of art! Are the custom made, or available to the public?

For some reason though, I have a pathological hatred of the grey plastic wheel cover thing that you Europeans (and we Aussies) get. I think it would look better without that; less cluttered, more stripped out and ready for "business".

But apart from that, great job! Now lets see some proper wheelin' pictures!

dog_party · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:47 am

That is beautiful! Just enough oil filter clearance. How hard is it to change out the filter now?

indian-family · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:10 am

Ed wrote:

WOW!

That looks awesome. Reminds me of something, like a stripped down off-road racer or something. I love the mean-ness of the black rims and agressive tyres juxtaposed against the bling-ness of the chrome grille and roof rails.

The skids are a work of art! Are the custom made, or available to the public?

For some reason though, I have a pathological hatred of the grey plastic wheel cover thing that you Europeans (and we Aussies) get. I think it would look better without that; less cluttered, more stripped out and ready for "business".

But apart from that, great job! Now lets see some proper wheelin' pictures!

Thanks ed

Thanks for you tips for the hated cover

We move forward also because the tires its big and put some piece of metal to just move a little bit forward

N'alain, on french forum move away, with theirs BFG no way
http://www.forum4x4.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44152&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Go down t osee the pics
I'm thinking to move away this cover. I hate too

But the next thing, i think, its the arb from you country

The skids is available to the public, its asfir
http://www.asfir.com

Very great products.
I just think its a 04 skids and i'm on contact with this company to see if its ok with the white oil filter. My dealer and the importers says its for the 05 but on the asfir web site there is just the 04.
But its not a problem, i'm on contact with my jeep dealer also to remove up the white oil filter because i'm thinking its very to close the skids.

Next > outting

indian-family · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:13 am

dog_party wrote:

That is beautiful! Just enough oil filter clearance. How hard is it to change out the filter now?

Thanks

I'm thinking to move up this oil filter.
Its very close the skids

I'm do a thread on a crd part forum and apparently its possible.
I'm waiting and see

zeero · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:08 pm

Quote:

the bling-ness

The bling-ness :lol:

Good looking KJ man :wink:

chemguy · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:51 pm

Where did you get those skid plates?

Guyute1210 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:00 pm

Where did you get those wheels? What brand and Style are they? Backspacing?

ManicMechanicJoe · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:22 pm

i wouldn't be surprised if you made a folks on here jealous. Nice KJ-looks like it was well put together.

dog_party · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:26 pm

I saw your post in the CRD section right after I posted that question about the filter. Oops. Keep us posted on what you learn about relocating the filter. That would be a GREAT off-road upgrade for the CRDs!

Chemguy...

indian-family wrote:

The skids is available to the public, its asfir
http://www.asfir.com

Very great products.
I just think its a 04 skids and i'm on contact with this company to see if its ok with the white oil filter. My dealer and the importers says its for the 05 but on the asfir web site there is just the 04.
But its not a problem, i'm on contact with my jeep dealer also to remove up the white oil filter because i'm thinking its very to close the skids.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:42 pm

I'll bet urban folks would like that spare tire cover. Make it harder to steal the spare. Not prevent, just make it harder.

kickit_in4wheel · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:04 pm

I atually like the tire cover. Very nice looking Liberty, indian-family. I will be looking into getting some skids from ASFIR for sure.

Rick

PitViper · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:05 pm

Nice skids...

0311_DoC · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:22 pm

I cant wait to get my KJ to look like that. that is 1 nice lookin Jeep........

chemguy · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:30 pm

I wonder how much freight from Israel would be?

ManicMechanicJoe · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:50 am

why would freight from israel matter? they have an office in Arizona...

chemguy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:12 am

This I did not know.

kickit_in4wheel · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:50 am

I checked out their website too. Yes, they have an office in AZ, but I'm not sure if it's a warehouse. No prices or ordering information was listed online, so I'm guessing you'd have to contact the AZ office and ask how it's done. Another interesting piece of info from the ASFIR website: the Liberty skids are 6mm thick aluminum. Not sure how well that would hold up on the rocks, 6mm thick or not. They sure look very cool and beefy though.

Rick

UKKJ · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:44 am

Sweet looking KJ..can't beleive you got that MT under the wheel cover...nice

World Rally cars use Aluminium skid plates, but are about 15mm thick and are classed as a consumable item.

What you have to be very careful of, and has caught out a few teams is....

If you get stones sandwiched between the sump (filter etc...) and the aluminium deflects, it can punch a hole through it.

WRC cars combat this by fitting High Density foam between the guard and sump, this prevents stones getting in there in the first place.

They used to use titanium for the guards (some maybe still do) but it proved better to have the 'malleability' of the Aluminium, they just need to be careful that the amount of aluminium scrubbed off does not put them underweight (they run that close!!!)

So in short, if you do a lot of rock crawling, you will need to replace aluminium items regularly...but they look awesome.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:46 am

We need someone to repro that front skid in steel, that thing looks killer. The uppr half could stay aluminum though as I doubt it would get hit very often if ever.

Great looking Jeep BTW.

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