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I think I'll leave them black, they have a nice coating on the fenders and liners. But I'll have to see how it looks on. Eventually I'll have flak armor on the sides so other than that they'll look a lot like my MCEs do now.
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35s for the forseeable future, but I anticipate doing 37s eventually.
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As an example of one thing I didn't know until too late, both my drive shafts have boots. I shredded one last summer and have been needing to fix it. However for rock crawling they recommend the X style (bootless).
Converting is pretty simple, you get the new dust cap and have to drill a new zerk. Be sure to mark the shaft first to not turn it at all while reinstalling, messing up the balance.
I'll get to the rear shaft eventually too.
Converting is pretty simple, you get the new dust cap and have to drill a new zerk. Be sure to mark the shaft first to not turn it at all while reinstalling, messing up the balance.
I'll get to the rear shaft eventually too.
Why did the Genright mini boatsides win you over? If you had the choice again, which would you choose?
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They seemed like a good deal locally, new never installed. The boat side portion really is great, however to leverage that I'm going to have to hack them up because the bars/step are too far out and too low. They're too expensive to need to be modified after the fact.
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Agree. I've been looking at them pretty hard. I think they'd be better if there were no bar at all (and less expensive).
They weren't supposed to have a step. GR added it because of public pressure that thinks there needs to be a step.
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I'm debating what I'm going to do with mine, either no bar or a smaller tighter bar (maybe a semicircle) toward the top.
I would still run a bar along the top of the slider panel to pivot on and keep the door way away from rocks. I’d think about doing aluminum flat bar like this if it was mine.
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Midwest steel supply has great pricing on aluminum flat bar. I bet 1” X 2” bar would be great
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Someone DMed me for the MCEs I was planning to remove, pushing my timeline along. Last look with the uncut hood. As an aside, it's been nice enough to drop the doors for a few more days.
I tried to convince them to send me ones that the bar hadn't been welded on yet. No dice. I'm going to run it as is for now. If they get hung up too often, (and I doubt they will) its trivial to cut them off.
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I don't know what you run, but mine definitely have been hung up pretty regularly. They'll be coming off when I finish the fender swap, since the bar will be in the way of where I need to cut for the new back wall of my fender.