MountaineerTom's 2006 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited

Got the steering skid installed.
Nicely done with the bracket! One of the things I'm considering is drilling a drain hole where the circle is. When the skid bolt is installed in the existing hole, water and debris is captured in there. It will eventually drip out, but I've seen it sit in there for more than a week.

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Nicely done with the bracket! One of the things I'm considering is drilling a drain hole where the circle is. When the skid bolt is installed in the existing hole, water and debris is captured in there. It will eventually drip out, but I've seen it sit in there for more than a week.

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Thanks.

That’s a good point about holding water/debris. I may have to do the same. I’ve already drilled some drain holes in the frame so I might as well do that too.
 
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Put a early 90's Buick air box on in preparation for relocating the winch controller box under the hood. The later TJ's have a front CCV fitting running to the air box lid. I used a grommet that would fit over a Dorman 1/2'" to 1/2" hose connector and drilled a hole in the Buick lid to recreate the same setup. I got a replacement Crown hose off Amazon and had to cut a little off each end so it fit to my liking. Installed some 1/4-20 nutserts in the air box housing and used some 3/8" insulated cable clamps to hold it to the grill support rod. Got a 3-1/2" to 2-1/2" silicone coupler and some clamps from Amazon also. I went ahead and got a replacement OEM air tube from Daveysjeeps.com so I still have my unmolested OEM setup in case I ever need/want to go back to it. Some minor cutting and drilling of the Buick air box and the OEM tube required. Still working on an idea for the open end of the air box to make it similar to the OEM tube.

I might even have enough room to mount my compressor there too sometime in the future.

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Put a early 90's Buick air box on in preparation for relocating the winch controller box under the hood. The later TJ's have a front CCV fitting running to the air box lid. I used a grommet that would fit over a Dorman 1/2'" to 1/2" hose connector and drilled a hole in the Buick lid to recreate the same setup. I got a replacement Crown hose off Amazon and had to cut a little off each end so it fit to my liking. Installed some 1/4-20 nutserts in the air box housing and used some 3/8" insulated cable clamps to hold it to the grill support rod. Got a 3-1/2" to 2-1/2" silicone coupler and some clamps from Amazon also. I went ahead and got a replacement OEM air tube from Daveysjeeps.com so I still have my unmolested OEM setup in case I ever need/want to go back to it. Some minor cutting and drilling of the Buick air box and the OEM tube required. Still working on an idea for the open end of the air box to make it similar to the OEM tube.

I might even have enough room to mount my compressor there too sometime in the future.

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Very nicely done! Looks very clean.

Is your jeep ABS equipped? If not, the ABS tray on the right side is a perfect spot for a small-ish compressor like the ARB CKMA12. Mine sits there comfortably. I put a switch close to it as well, you can see in the photo.

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Nicely done! Any chance the stock air inlet tube could be cut and epoxied in place?
 
@psrivats , Thanks. No ABS on mine. I’ve thought about using that space under the master cylinder. After seeing all the empty space there now that the OEM air box is out of the way, it made me think I might be able to use that space for it with a home made bracket of some kind. My first priority is the winch controller box, then I’ll work around that to see what I might be able to fit there.

@Irun , thanks. The stock air tube end fits in there but where it attaches to the OEM air box (the locking tabs) don’t fit. I going to see what I can find in one of those silicone couplers and a smaller air tube to fit in the limited space. I could just end up with a silicone elbow and use that as the tube.
 
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Made a little progress on the winch control pack upgrade and relocation today. Replaced the winch rods with the new tie plate and swapped out the short cables with my longer ones from batterycablesusa.com. I added the colored heat shrink to the ends myself.

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Working on multiple projects at one time due to waiting on parts.

Got a Homelink transmitter off Ebay. After thinking for a while where to mount it, I decided to put in on the right side of the panel under the steering wheel after seeing @Viking Jeeper 's install.

Did a rough tracing on the holes of the faceplate on the back side of the panel. Drilled and filed the holes until the buttons fit through easily. I used a dremel tool to remove some of the ribbing on the back side to make room for the transmitter to sit where I wanted it. After seeing others having problems with the faceplate snapping back onto the transmitter due to the thickness of the dash panel, I came up with a plan. I used a grinding stone on the dremel tool and some sandpaper to take away some of the material on the back side of the panel, especially where the buttons and faceplate are, so they would snap back together securely. Used 3M double sided tape to to hold the transmitter in place. Hooked up a 9 volt battery to the transmitter to to make sure all the buttons were working after snapping it back together. They all worked, but took a pretty firm push to get it to light up. I found a round tire plug that's almost the same diameter of the buttons that I'm going to shave a few thin slices off of and glue to the ends of the buttons so they reach the switches easier inside the transmitter easier. No pics of that yet as I haven't got that far yet. I had some left over SEM Khaki color coat from painting my half door panels, so I sprayed a couple coats of adhesion promoter and five light coats of the Khaki and 1 coat of satin clear coat to the the faceplate. Realized I was out of small gauge wire so I'm on hold until I get some to wire it up. Will be wired to work with ignition on.

Happy with it so far, especially the paint.

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Got the Buick air box finished up.

I came across the intake tube from a Wrangler with the 2.4 and tried to get it to work. It was a little long and kept hitting the A/C tubing. I tried heating the area of the horn that was hitting and pushed it in for clearance. I never could get it to my liking, so I went to plan B.

I cut the end of the tube from the Buick down. It was almost the exact same diameter as the filter housing opening. I got another silicone coupler that was 3.25 inch and two more clamps. The coupler was 3 inches long, but I cut the width of the clamps off of each end of it so the tube didn't come close to the A/C tube again. The opening is almost 1/4 of an inch smaller than the original air box tube. It seemed to run good, but if for some reason it starts to not run good, I'll cut it until it matches the OEM tube,

Curious to see if there is any difference in how it runs drawing air from near the firewall when the hot/humid summertime hits. Using a scanner, they intake temps were still pretty high with the OEM setup.

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