What did you do to your TJ today?

New mod alert! Cuz I’m getting old😔

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Fouledplugs said:
Any more pics? Were you able to hit most of the trails there?
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We spent the day hitting the 3 Jeep Badge of Honor trails, and the trails that got us to them. It was MEGA dusty and dry, and I prefer top down, doors off Jeeping, so the missus and I were covered in trail dust. Only TJ in the group, one YJ, a few JK(U)s and one JL Rubi. Man that JL Rubi was nice. ;) I highly recommend two days at Windrock to see it all. This was our 3rd trip there and we knew we wanted to go hunt out the Train Tunnel.

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Today (now yesterday) I finished getting my new Rusty's springs and Bilstein shocks with the Teraflex bar pin eliminators on the front end, I'll have to do a little backtracking once I decide what I'm going to do about bump stops, but at least it's getting closer to being drive-able! And no need to worry, I finished adding on the nut on top of the shock after photos were taken.
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(You can see my mostly painted 5.9L Magnum in the background that is mostly painted and getting ready for install soon)

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Love that lil bit of Mopar madness in the background...looking forward to seeing it installed (not as much as you are though ) haha
 
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Installed the Rugged Ridge multi-mount.

For the $29 that it costs, I actually find the storage really useful, and it holds my iPhone tight in place.

Just wish they did a little better job on the dash contour.

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Took the full doors off my TJ and put my Father's Day present on... a new pair of SRC gen1 tube doors for the summer. Pulled the back and sides off and packed them in the bikini top. Then devised a way to make my Rampage soft top into a sun roof using some old Bestop parts I had from a previous top. Put a new locking billet on the gas and got a lock for the hood as well. (Jeep show had some real good prices.)
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It took me about an hour and a half because I was super careful
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about getting the correct torque gradually and evenly across the ring. I used some Xtra Seal bead sealer on the ring side and used some 3M Super 77 spray adhesive on the inside bead right before I seated it (old Superbike racing trick we used at high speed racetracks to try to prevent tires from spinning on wheels; probably useless on a Jeep beadlock but I had it right above my toolbox, so why not...)
 
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Fixed my foglights which had become demonically possessed with a life of their own by pulling the multifunction switch, taking it apart and building up the worn area on the foglight switch "finger". There's a couple of good write ups here in the How To section on this.

Nothing like using a piece of aluminum out of the side of a soda can to save a couple of hundred bucks or playing the chinese parts roulette. That and I got a free education on how the MFS works while sorting out the pieces.

It was hotter than hell out in the shop, so I set up at my computer desk in the bed room where it's air conditioned. That way I could refer to the How To pics write up pics as needed.
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afmoto said:
It took me about an hour and a half because I was super carefulView attachment 102215 about getting the correct torque gradually and evenly across the ring. I used some Xtra Seal bead sealer on the ring side and used some 3M Super 77 spray adhesive on the inside bead right before I seated it (old Superbike racing trick we used at high speed racetracks to try to prevent tires from spinning on wheels; probably useless on a Jeep beadlock but I had it right above my toolbox, so why not...)
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did you remember to use anti-seize on the bolts?
 
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I removed my back seat and unbolted my hard top. I tried to remove the hard top myself, but I couldn't do it alone, so I put the bolts back in and tightened them down. :(
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Borrow a buddy for 5 mins. Give him a beer for his time. Once you get it tucked away and off the LJ just wave goodbye to it, because you will never want to put it back on. Seriously
 
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DrDmoney said:
did you remember to use anti-seize on the bolts?
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Negative. Raceline did not recommend the use of anti seize in their instructions (or video tutorial) and they give you ‘dry mounting’ torque specs (16-18 lb/ft) but no ‘wet mounting’ specs (anti-seize would change torque specs afaik). Besides, their construction does not allow any steel on aluminum contact since you have grade 8 hardware going into steel inserts in the aluminum wheel.

btw, found these 15” wheels for just under $300, shipped to my door.
 
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afmoto said:
Negative. Raceline did not recommend the use of anti seize in their instructions (or video tutorial) and they give you ‘dry mounting’ torque specs (16-18 lb/ft) but no ‘wet mounting’ specs (anti-seize would change torque specs afaik). Besides, their construction does not allow any steel on aluminum contact since you have grade 8 hardware going into steel inserts in the aluminum wheel.

btw, found these 15” wheels for just under $300, shipped to my door.
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Nice I did not know that about the race lines. That’s a very nice looking wheel and that sounds like a great deal. I’m still cleaning anti-seize off my ATX slabs
 
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