What have you done to your JK today?

Gave her a nice wash yesterday, just to get rained on today.

 

A pretty day here in SE Texas, so I gave the Silver Fox a bath. I’m happy!

ORB

 

Put these on last night. Took about 5min total for all 5 drill/installs.

Love how they match my hood latch too!

Before:

After:

 

Don't think I ever did a before and after for my hood latches now that I think about it. So here they are.

Before:

After:

 

Well you asked if Ive done some items to my JKU? Well here's some of them.
35BFG's
Wired Internal/Cab LED lights
Wired Winch (X-BULL)
Added more lights Front and installed(as a relocation for the winch install)a LED Light bar with 'X' Clamps.
Added rock lights
Placed inserts in front grill to protect Radiator
Placed a hood lock for better security.
Rewired the front Lights cause I added LED Halo lights - Signal LED/TAIL LED
Quick disconnect for Swaybar. (installing the sway bar was a hoot, some modification to the cross bar needed to be done)
Added a Raging Eagle on my side q-panels.
Much more to come... water pump for rear bumper - (I have AEV front & back bumpers)
Check out the pictures.

 

I did an oil change and tire rotation on my rig today. It was thoroughly enjoyed to work on it for a while. Needless to say but my rig has been kinda neglected lately lol.

 

Nice looking EXPO rig man!! Start up a thread and introduce yourself to the forum. Maybe even do a build thread for what you've accomplished so far

 

Changed my oil again today.

I do need to give her another wash, these lovebugs are crazy down here!

Will do it on the weekend after I pressure wash the gutters on the house.

 

LOVE BUGS!!!!!. I don't consider anything that decides to throw it's self at my Jeep knowing full well I'm gonna spend an hour cleaning its guts off my windshield.....a LOVE BUG. Grrrrrr. I think not.....

 

I actually call them "ScrewBugs" but didn't think you guys would know what that was lol.

 

Huh??? We get bugs here in NJ. And the bad ones splatter like fricking paint balls. And just as much a pain in the ass to clean. Grrrrr.

 

Added some back to black to my fenders this weekend. Hoping that makes it fade less.

Then today a got some water drops coming inside from the top so will need to look at adding more window seal this weekend......ugh!

 

Finally a nice mid range rear bumper.
Solid D Ring mounts. Reverse light mounts. One of the nicest rear bumpers I've seen yet. Hence....why I bought it..

 

What bumper is it? And how much did it set you back? Install time?

 

Also, to say I did something to the Jeep this week I added coaster rings to the cup holders. Install time was 5min only because I had to trim the 2 front ones to fit.

 

Quadratecs. With my discount. Less than 250. If you remove stock bumper, all it's hardware, and tow hook. 5 minutes. Seriously.....slides right in. And no pun intended...... Solid steel. Welded mounts. I really like it.

 

Looking at a lift. How hard would the install be to do on my own?

Would I need to get new shocks as well?

Considering the 2.5" Rough Country lift

 

More than likely you would need longer shocks just to keep from over extending the stock shocks when you are off road or even on a shitty highway like we have in ohio lol. I've heard of numerous people who are mechanically inclined tackling their own lift install in their driveway. I'm sure you can get it done with some other mechanically inclined friends and beer in no time at all

 

Concur with the recommendation for new longer shocks. My recommendation is to buy a more complete 2.5 lift kit with shocks that match the spring rate design and other components. Look beyond RC as this is not a project you want to repeat anytime soon. Check offerings from RK, RE, TF etc

 

What 2.5" lift kit would you guys recommend that's similar in price to Rough Country or won't break the bank.....?

I just really like the inner RC fenders. Any rule against getting RC inners with different lift? Would that look stupid? Lol