Blake's SE - The boiling frog syndrome

My brother knew I really liked the gravity pro 6 light bar but neither of us can justify spending nearly that much on lights so he got me a 10 pack of these led lights for Christmas that my grandpa and I used to build a light bar.

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I damaged my factory tailgate by being stupid when I had my swing out tire carrier. I forgot to close up the back and with the tailgate being down and the tire carrier swinging I really bent up the edge. I am an absolute sucker from aluminum, it looks really good and it’s light. I replaced my tailgate with an aluminum tailgate blank from outtahand fabrication.

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I managed to destroy my prebuilt box for my single 12 and this is the road to one of the coolest and most stupid things I have ever done to my jeep. I haven’t had a backseat for at least a year and I wanted to do something unique. My dad used to make custom subwoofer setups so with his help, we squeezed 4 10in subwoofers in a custom box in the back of the jeep. This thing would rattle your teeth and mirrors. This thing was absolutely awesome but so impractical.

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My taillight was lackluster to say the least. I was having issues with them and then they just completely stopped working so I replaced them with Metacloak Plastic taillights. I understand that they were highly inspired by Savvy's products but they were good in price and they work for me.

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For graduation, my parents bought me a genright Boulder front bumper with grill guard, this has been the bumper that I’ve always wanted but I never would have dropped the money on, I’m really picky about what I put on my jeep and I’ve gone through 3 different bumpers to get to how I like it now.

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I also purchased some Baja design squadron sports. These are super bright and made in America and I have no regrets purchasing them.
 
Okay, So now we are close to the present day. This is when I realized that I have to deal with the choices I made earlier. A couple of things to note, I have a very distinct build plan, There's a Jeep that Blaine Likes to drop every once in a while and whenever someone mentions the genright mini sliders. I intend to try to make a very similar jeep. I also am a college student which means I have to do this one step at a time due to financial limitations.
 
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This is the Jeep I was referencing, Things I will have to do differently, I am staying on 35s and stock width axles. Coilovers are not in the forseable future as they are very difficult and expensive to use on stock-width axles. Since this is my daily driver, I will have to use the 4-in version of the genright fenders. I am aware of the risks. this brings but Idaho state police have been known to really crack down on people without fenders.

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Anyways enough daydreaming, I got a dana 44 from a local shop for super cheap, I originally was planning on doing a super 35 but for the price, it just worked out for me. I didn't take a lot of photos of the swap but the axle is from a 2005 lj so it has the factory limited-slip.

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Blake Stamper said:
For graduation, my parents bought me a genright Boulder front bumper with grill guard, this has been the bumper that I’ve always wanted but I never would have dropped the money on, I’m really picky about what I put on my jeep and I’ve gone through 3 different bumpers to get to how I like it now.

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Schweet. That's the front bumper I run.
 
Over this thanksgiving break, I finally decided that it was time to lose the heavy sub box so I built a new box into the back seat and put it back in, I have no clue how much it weighs, but I do know that it is substantially lighter than my old setup and looks a lot cleaner too. Fold and tumble works still, but the seat itself is terribly uncomfortable because I wasn't able to reuse much of the foam, I built it around one of the 10s I had from the old box so the mounting depth was. the biggest concern, It. Definitely could be done a lot more comfortably with a low profile 10 I just did this without spending any money. just reusing parts I had.

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Anyways we are now up to date on the Jeep, thank you to the people that have read it this far and I will do my best to keep it up to date.
 
Also big things ahead, after some talking with my local jeep shop, My gears finally came in and I am scheduled to drop the jeep off to get it regeared!!

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