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jeepfrog · **Posted:** Tue May 25, 2010 11:09 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

jeepfrog wrote:

Renny's under the knife today...

Jan got to meet Troy today and saw the "Gila Monster" in the flesh....er, I mean sheet metal... :rockon:

Nice.

Yup - he says (and I quote) "the paint job is sweeeeet...looks wicked with the half and half"

My Jeep will be ready tomorrow. Daryl's bumper should be ready too... :BANANA:

I can't wait to see how it looks...

STINGN · **Posted:** Tue May 25, 2010 11:32 pm

Luckyyyy...if only an ARB were affordable :wink:

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 7:31 am

STINGN wrote:

Luckyyyy...if only an ARB were affordable :wink:

It's all in the planning...I have been socking money in the Jeep 'slush fund' for a while. The timing was just right with RL's bumper being available.

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 10:10 pm

Jeep may not be as ready as I want it to be for Sunday...

STINGN · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 10:14 pm

will it be here? cause im sure we can install it

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 10:31 pm

I'll call it Jeep anomaly...he test fitted the bumper on another '02. It fit beautifully - the angles were all right, etc. It was all welded together - solid. Come time to fit it on mine - angles are wrong. He had to cut the welds (admittedly, he says he should have just spot welded until he was sure) and rework it some. Bottom line is, estimated another 3 hours - to be done tonight. This puts Jan on the road back home a day later than expected. Wanted to get tires mounted - not sure there will be time to do that now. Oh well...better to be done right than half-donkeyed...

That being said - it's better that we are not doing the install ourselves.

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 10:49 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

jeepfrog wrote:

it's better that we are not doing the install ourselves.

Yeah, you're probably right. I don't think any of us have the means to correct those kinds of issues.

Hope the rest of it goes well. I'm excited to see it.

Hope Daryl's turns out better...

I hope so, too. FWIW, since mine is taking longer than expected, he will be shipping Daryl's @ no charge.

STINGN · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 10:54 pm

Good to know daryl will still get it

501 · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 10:57 pm

jeepfrog wrote:

I hope so, too. FWIW, since mine is taking longer than expected, he will be shipping Daryl's @ no charge.

WOW As much as I appreciate the free shipping, I hope I don't run into the same problems he's having installing yours. I wouldn't be able to fix the problem and have a expensive piece of junk metal!

Now I wish he'd just send me my money back and forget the bumper.

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:06 pm

501 wrote:

Now I wish he'd just send me my money back and forget the bumper.

That's your call, Daryl.

501 · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:09 pm

I'm going to email him and see if he will do that. I can't afford to have someone fix it if it don't fit and shouldn't have to.

STINGN · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:10 pm

Heck if it don't end up fitting on yours ill buy it off ya if you decide to get it still

501 · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:17 pm

STINGN wrote:

Heck if it don't end up fitting on yours ill buy it off ya if you decide to get it still

What worries me is taking everything off, cutting flares and then finding out things don't work. Then my OEM bumper would look really retarded with the cut flares.

501 · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:24 pm

yellocoyote wrote:

I was thinking about offering you the same as Steve's... but your reasoning is the same reason that I wouldn't do it. I think if it were me, I would try to get a refund. That's too much money to invest for it NOT to work.

I pm'd him to see what he want's to do and if he send me the bumper, then what kind of guarantee he's giving that it will work.

STINGN · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:25 pm

501 wrote:

STINGN wrote:

Heck if it don't end up fitting on yours ill buy it off ya if you decide to get it still

What worries me is taking everything off, cutting flares and then finding out things don't work. Then my OEM bumper would look really retarded with the cut flares.

Who says you need to cut the fllares...just take them off to mount it, then if it works, then cut them

501 · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:28 pm

STINGN wrote:

Who says you need to cut the fllares...just take them off to mount it, then if it works, then cut them

This is true, but if it don't fit then who would pay to have it 'adjusted' till it does fit. I'm no welder and wouldn't want to try and learn on the new bumper.

STINGN · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:31 pm

Can't he just get another 02-04 liberty there to sacrafice themselves to see if yours will fit, they got troy, he has tokyojoe, and doesn't he own a 02-04?

501 · **Posted:** Wed May 26, 2010 11:40 pm

STINGN wrote:

Can't he just get another 02-04 liberty there to sacrafice themselves to see if yours will fit, they got troy, he has tokyojoe, and doesn't he own a 02-04?

Not sure, Vicki say's her fit great on the one he test fitted it to but didn't work on hers, so I wonder if I'll have the same problems. I'll just have to wait and see what he say's and go from there I guess.

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu May 27, 2010 6:55 am

Wonder how much it was actually off, can't even think there would be that much difference unless one had been wrecked even then it should be close. I would not sweat it Daryl. If you come this way to have it done we have access to a welder that is top notch. :wink:

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:36 am

From what Jan was telling me last night it was off by an inch on both sides. I'm still going ot chalk it up to subtle differences between not only the different model types (sport, limited, renegade), but when they were built (even for the same model year).

Marty's doing all he can to make it fit right and still look good. Just frustrating on all sides, because no one expected this to take more than a day to install.

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