Show off how you improved off the shelf products

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Show off all the ways you've improved off the shelf products! This can be things like customizing sliders, bumpers, mounts, you name it!

Here's a few ideas to start (none of these are original to me, they're all versions of things in @jjvw's thread).

1. Motobilt Stubby Bumper - it had a laser cutout M in it I never liked, and the deck height wasn't as deep as I wanted it.

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2. Next Venture Add a Hitch, because the off the shelf ones with a hitch weren't designed as well.

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3. Exogate: Raised and tucked the spare tire mount

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Do you have a link for those LEDs on your rear bumper? I'm looking for something just like that but haven't been able to find exactly that.
 
Do you have a finished picture of tire mount? You have me thinking about this. 35" tire I assume.
 
I did kinda the same with my front motobilt and rear harness bumper plate

Extended the winch plate toward the grill

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Used a barnes bumper plate and extended the ends to give a little tub protection and added a place for a center pull

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My JCR Crusader Sliders needed some work to sit properly on the tub and mount to the torque boxes vs through the torque box into the floor pan

Added some material to even up the fit to the door

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Added a bunch of nutserts and bolts to hold them tight to the torque box

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Added more fasteners to the sides to, to prevent peeling away from the fenders and to even up the pattern aesthetically

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I decided I didn't want single adjustable lower control arms anymore...so I drilled and tapped my Currie Lowers to accept some LH Thread JJ's

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Logo’d my Bartacts- That’s a real improvement to somebody as shallow as me- This is really a good thread topic and I’ll try to think of some things later that really are more in keeping with the thread- I like to tweak things , Even if it just makes me feel good.

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