A Story of Indecision and Frivolous Spending
- Thread starter Chris
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Where in IN are you? You’re welcome to drive my TJ. It’s geared to 5.13 with 33” tires.
OP
$700 for the hood and cowl. $240 the paint, the rest was labor. Consider that this guy is just painting of the booth in his garage. He’s retired and he’s my next door neighbor, so I think he gave me a deal!
OP
5k sounds about right for a whole TJ. That’s a really nice quality paint job though.
Starrs
TJ Guru
I think when I jump to 35s that’s what I’m going to do. I’m in Jasper home of Scott Rolen lol
That’s close to the Hoosier national forest, right? I hear that’s some awesome mountain biking.
Honestly, if I had a Rubicon, I would have gone to 5.38 instead of the 5.13. Even for 33’s.
Starrs
TJ Guru
Starrs
TJ Guru
Yep that would be Bedford IN. Beautiful area, I’ve never biked it but there’s lots of nice terrain I’m sure.
OP
Got the Rugged Ridge tire carrier installed today. There's no way you are running this tire carrier on a factory Moab wheel with 285s and stock tire bumpers @Starrs.
Look at how much mine still sticks out from the stock tire bumpers. The good thing is it will be easy to extend the bumpers, but still, you said you didn't have to extend the bumpers at all? Not sure how that's possible if you're running the same setup as I am.
Look at how much mine still sticks out from the stock tire bumpers. The good thing is it will be easy to extend the bumpers, but still, you said you didn't have to extend the bumpers at all? Not sure how that's possible if you're running the same setup as I am.
Starrs
TJ Guru
Yea I misunderstood what you were asking originally I guess. Mine looks the same, but it doesn’t rattle around. I haven’t wheeled mine yet so I’m not too worried about it. Take some hockey pucks and stack them until you reach the tire. I did that on my last JK worked pretty well.
OP
I'm just going to take a spare set of the stock bumpers, cut the curved part off the top, then add them to the ones already on there. I measured and that will be enough for them to contact the spare tire. I don't wheel very crazy so I probably don't have to worry about it too much, but with the poor quality of roads in some of the cities around here, that's enough to make me worry!
Either way, the spare tire carrier works great!
That is what I did for mine, cut down a second set. Looks cleaner than other solutions, IMO.
OP
Yes, this is exactly what I had planned to do as mentioned above. If I cut down a second set and stack them, it will work perfectly, and end up looking just like yours. Did you glue them together or just stack them and tighten down?
Starrs
TJ Guru
Just stacked them up. I did buy longer screws. The only thing I could find at the time was a philips head screw which worked fine.
OP
I've got philips heads screws in there now, so I'll just have to find longer ones at ACE.
I figured I wouldn't, just had to be sure.
ToddL
TJ Enthusiast
Sorry I didn’t see this sooner. I used the Hyline heavy duty tire mount and it pulled the 285s right up against the snubbers. I did have to only space out the bottom one.
OP
I am. But you will need a tire carrier mount. The Exogate just reinforces the tailgate itself from the added weight of the tire.