Well I have done a lot to my Liberty, just have been too busy and too lazy to do a write up on it. Where do I start first?
First...
I went fenderless with the plans of making my own custom flat fender flares. Not metal like KJWildman, but made out of a plastic material. If someone beats me to it, oh well. Still would like to do plastic flat fender flares someday.
Then came the problem of, "Where do I put my turn signals?" I came up with the idea of "hiding" them in the Jeep. So when the front flares went bye-bye, so did the turn signals. No problem, I am creative. I came up with the idea of using the factory fog light housing for the turn signals. My friend took the fog light housing and honed them out so the turn signal bulbs could fit in them. Moved the wiring around, hooked them back up and TA-DA, I had turn signals. Perfectly legal here in Kentucky to go fenderless.
So then I had no fog lights. What was I to do? Oh, I know! Wire the Hella fog lights to work with the factory fog light wiring/switch. That is exactly what I did. My friend helped me splice the factory fog light wiring and wired up to the Hella fog lights. It works just fine. (Going to get pictures...do not have any avaliable)
Taking the fenders off made me cautious about rust. The inner fender lining is still in the rear wheel wells. Just not up front. I had some Herculine and used it up in the front fender wells. Turned out pretty nice. I still have some touch up work to do.
Using the Herculine, I bedlined the bottom half of my doors, places where fenders were missing, roof, roof rails, grill cover, t-case/tranny skids, mirrors, fuel door and Hella fog light covers.
As some of you know I took a trip to Wales this past March. It was a good trip and brought home a worthy sticker to put on the Jeep. This can only be found in Wales. I also had the idea of placing the 3.7L lettering under the sticker.
Then I got the idea of putting my Jeep letters back on from where I debadged the Liberty about 2 years ago. All that was needed for this was scissors, 3M double sided tape and "IMAGINATION".
Jeep back on the hood
Used the smaller Jeep lettering on the rear hatch glass.
A LOST member was so kind enough to buy me a LOST Trailrated badge. I painted it and placed the 4x4 lettering under it.
My Jeep was rear ended really hard March 16th. I was injured, but I am doing better and still have ocassional neck pain. The wreck caused me to get a concussion which really had me out of whack for several days. All the Jeep needs is tailgate from junk/wrecking yard, alignment, have the tires flipped out/balanced/rotated, new u-joints, spark plugs, both pulleys replaced, new serp belt and it will be good to go. The Jeep is nearing 80,000 miles and I plan on changing the fuel filter.
Some mods I plan on doing:
-having a competition style stinger fabbed up
-buy a backbone winch plate from Detours Offroad
-buying a winch (which will be needed at ECS 2012)
-clevis lift and extra upper rear isos for more lift and leveling the Jeep out
-getting a light bar worked out
-finishing my Herculine job
-rock rails and gas tank skid
Some little things here and there, but nothing big. The Jeep WILL be ready for ECS 2012. I plan on purchasing my Lifetime Membership soon.
Now that I have wenched on the Jeep myself, some, I feel more comfortable doing more things to it myself. Maybe tackling the rack and pinion but I will need help with that.
I will use this as my official build thread and will update it when I put new things on the Jeep or do thing to it. Really itching to do more to the Jeep...but $$$ is the problem. Isn't that all of us on here?
List of things in order of what has been done:
Current Mods
-2.5" Daystar LiftKit (09/20/2010)
-SkyJacker 7000 Rearshocks (09/20/10)
-Hella 500FF FogLights (08/2010)
-Flowmaster Super 40 Muffler (08/2010)
-Cobra CB Radio (08/2010)
-Window Tint all around (09/10/2010)
-Trailer Hitch (02/01/11)
-Rhino line fenders, front and rear bumpers, side moldings (10/06/10)
-D-Ring Hitch Receiver (02/01/2011)
-Sony X-PLODE CD Player (10/04/10)
-Blacked-out indicators, 3rd brake light and brake lights (11/04/10)
-FRAM air filter (11/09/2010)
-Front Windshield Tint strip (11/11/10)
-Firestick CB antenna (rear bumper mount) (12/12/10)
-BFG KM2's on Renegade Wheels (01/31/11)
-NKG Spark Plugs (02/01/11)
-Trimmed Front Bumper (02/02/2011)
-Trimmed Rear Bumper (02/12/2011)
-Removal of Carpet (02/24/2011)
-Removed Rear Tire Carrier (03/22/2011)
-Pinch Welds Pounded Down (06/23/2011)
-Removed Bedliner from Jeep (07/07/2011)
-15" Cragar Steel wheels (09/24/2011)
-31x10.5x15 Interco Trxus MTs (09/24/2011)
-Engine and Transmission Skids (09/25/2011)
-TJ Bumper Mod (10/04/2011)
-4 foot Firestik CB Antenna (10/08/2011)
-Firestik CB mounted to front bumper (10/13/2011)
-Painted front bumper (rear TJ bumper) (11/13/2011)
-Painted rear bumper (front TJ bumper) (11/14/2011)
-Removed all Fender Flares (12/27/2011)
-Rubberized coating on a wheel wells (12/27/2011)
-Turn Signal bulbs in factory fog light housings (12/27/2011)
-Hella foglights wired to factory fog light switch (12/30/2011)
-Herculine (bedline) Project (03/2012)
-New pulleys, serp belt and Champion Spark Plugs (04/02/2012)
-HiLift Jack/mounted under back seat (04/03/2012)
-Mounted CB on dashboard (04/04/2012)
-Front DIY tow points (04/05/2012)
-Clevis lift (04/06/2012)
-Extra rear upper isos (04/06/2012)
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