I consider myself somewhat handy. Not useless at least...lol But I have never, ever worked on vehicles before. So this project scares me! We'll see how much I can actually do myself.
I looked at my list of parts and foolishly thought, heck lets start with the body lift. I mean how hard is it too loosen 11 bolts and slide in some spacers. I'm sure you are all laughing at this point. Well, that is when I found out why I have never worked on cars before. The first bolt came out without any issues. I'm thinking, piece of cake. Then I snapped the heads off the next 7 in a row. I left 3 in tact, figuring maybe that was enough to drive it somewhere to have someone else more capable than me finish it. I went to a few shops around me and nobody wanted to touch it. At that point I was discouraged.
I finally had a shop near me say that would help, but it would be a few weeks before they could work me in. So I turned my attention towards the Metalcloak fenders. It never went too smoothly, but I managed to install front and rear fenders along with the front and rear bumpers as seen in the pictures above. I had my tires mounted on the rims. I know the Jeep is not capable of running them right now, but I couldn't help myself with wanting to see how they would look. So my son talked me into mounting them.