jimsmith29841's 2004 Jeep Wrangler Sport

jimsmith29841 · Jan 28, 2019

2004 Jeep TJ
1.75" lift
H&R coil springs
Bilstein Shocks
32" Hankook A/T
K&N cold air intake
RC TB Spacer
Smittybilt 9500 Winch

lowranger · Jan 28, 2019

Did you just buy your Jeep? I see you are from South Carolina and your Jeep has the old style California plates on it. Good looking TJ.

jimsmith29841 · Jan 28, 2019

I bought it back in August last year,,,,friends of mine from Cali made me an honorary Californian because "of the way I am" so thats the thing about the plates....my wife and I are buddhist and a bit on the liberal side....a little out of place here in SC, but we get along with everyone around us and they don't seem to mind.
Just here in the South until I retire from my job.

thanks for the compliment on the Jeep.

jimsmith29841 · Jan 28, 2019

BTW,,My wife and I love California.
Love your Red Jeep too.

Chris · Jan 28, 2019

Classy color, I dig it!

LilWaylontheTJ · Jan 28, 2019

Sweet ride. Like the half doors.

jimsmith29841 · Jan 29, 2019

LilWaylontheTJ said:
Sweet ride. Like the half doors.

Thanks man, Love the half doors in the summer but wish I had full doors like yours in the winter.

KimsJeep · Jan 29, 2019

I like how you put the winch on the stock bumper. I am kinda wanting to keep my stock bumper and add stuff to it as I get the money to do so. It's nice to know I can eventually get a winch for it.

Your Jeep looks great!!

Hammer24 · Jan 29, 2019

KimsJeep said:
I like how you put the winch on the stock bumper. I am kinda wanting to keep my stock bumper and add stuff to it as I get the money to do so. It's nice to know I can eventually get a winch for it.

Your Jeep looks great!!

I think the stock bumper with a winch even looks really good! Especially on this Jeep.

jimsmith29841 · Jan 30, 2019

Yea, I mulled over buying a new bumper for a while but decided to go with the lighter OEM and pull off the plastic milk jugs. I like the look. Painted it up with some textured paint from the local Auto store.
Keeping the rear bumper also, just have to remove and repaint it also.
It came with the tow hitch mounted to the frame and I attached a tow hook on each side, I will post pics of that tonight after work.
Thanks for the nice compliments guys and gals.

KimsJeep · Jan 30, 2019

jimsmith29841 said:
Yea, I mulled over buying a new bumper for a while but decided to go with the lighter OEM and pull off the plastic milk jugs. I like the look. Painted it up with some textured paint from the local Auto store.
Keeping the rear bumper also, just have to remove and repaint it also.
It came with the tow hitch mounted to the frame and I attached a tow hook on each side, I will post pics of that tonight after work.
Thanks for the nice compliments guys and gals.

Please do post some pics of the back. I too plan on keeping my stock rear bumper. I just haven't made up my mind if I want to remove the jugs from it. In my opinion it doesn't look bad with them, not like the front did anyway. Yah, my front jugs are gone too.

jimsmith29841 · Jan 31, 2019

KimsJeep said:
Please do post some pics of the back. I too plan on keeping my stock rear bumper. I just haven't made up my mind if I want to remove the jugs from it. In my opinion it doesn't look bad with them, not like the front did anyway. Yah, my front jugs are gone too.

Didn't quite get to the pics of the back bumper with tow hooks....will try again tonight.
Was busy installing my new exhaust from dual cats to tail.

Drove her to work this morning,,it sounds good, but not crazy about hearing the rumble in the cab.
I ordered some sound dampening to put on my floors. I have been wanting to do that anyway, so the new pipes just pushed me ahead of schedule.
I am not saying it is obnoxiously loud, just not to my taste.

jimsmith29841 · Jan 31, 2019

Here are the pics of the rear bumper and placement of tow hooks.
Decided to drill into the tow hitch instead of my pristine frame,,turned out well, but took about 2 hours to install the hooks because drilling into that thick steel was a pita.

KimsJeep · Jan 31, 2019

Thanks for sharing the pics. I like that, looks great.

I haven't installed my hitch yet, so this may be the time to drill some holes.

jimsmith29841 · Feb 1, 2019

KimsJeep said:
Thanks for sharing the pics. I like that, looks great. I haven't installed my hitch yet, so this may be the time to drill some holes.

Oh yea. It would have been so much easier to put my hitch in a vise and drill holes. I like having the 3 recovery points in the rear.
My front still has the original 2 recovery points also.

jazngab · Feb 1, 2019

jimsmith29841 said:
Here are the pics of the rear bumper and placement of tow hooks.
Decided to drill into the tow hitch instead of my pristine frame,,turned out well, but took about 2 hours to install the hooks because drilling into that thick steel was a pita.

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I did the same thing. Drilled holes into the hitch instead of the frame and yea, it was a HUGE pita. Ugh.

jimsmith29841 · Feb 6, 2019

Here are pics of the sound dampening. Posted on the other thread "what have you done to your TJ today"
In case anyone missed it.

jimsmith29841 · Apr 17, 2019

Finally catching up on my work updating and upgrading my TJ.
Things completed:
New ball joints.
New zj tie rod
Rubi xpress disconnects
Synthetic rope
Aluminum fairlead.
Powertrax noslip
Underhood light upgrade.