Found sone more cherios under the seat carpet. P/0 must have had some munchkins 
What did you do to your TJ today?
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MountaineerTom
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Do you have enough for breakfast yet ? you just need to find some milk the P/O left behind heheFound sone more cherios under the seat carpet. P/0 must have had some munchkins
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xxdabroxx
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Finished up my air compressor install with the switch, added some poly fill behind the front speakers, and installed the mic for my head unit I left out originally. Also rescued my wife and sister in law who went out for a hike and overheated her Toyota Sequoia. Poor thing was out of coolant.
Airing back up is going to be so much nicer now.
Airing back up is going to be so much nicer now.
Beautiful Jeeps
But what i wanna know is: how do you see into the top drawers of those tool boxes..
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Beautiful Jeeps
But what i wanna know is: how do you see into the top drawers of those tool boxes..
Simple: I climb onto the bottom drawers.
(There's actually nothing in the top drawers.)
Took mine off last summer, had the same rusted torx bolt problem. I can’t remember the exact number of them but if there were 12 between the 4 jugs, I probably broke 7 of them. I decided screw it and didn’t want to waste too much time so I chose effort instead and just started manhandling them off. Ripped them off by tearing the plastic, I wasn’t going to reuse them anyway since they were so faded and the PO damaged one of them anyway. Something so simple just changes the look instantly.
DustinfromOhio
TJ Enthusiast
Ole girl got some new shoes! Wasn’t really in the market but couldn’t pass on a good deal
Denverdean1
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Gave her a bath today! We have had so much rain this year, weatherman said 10 inches already! Two weeks ago a tornado touched down about a mile away! More rain tomorrow
Changed the oil, and lubed all 486 (guesstimate) zerk fittings. You know with Currie control arms, and Currie steering and such. Also one on my swing out tire carrier. I even have them on my front track bar. Anyways, I have so many I felt I earned a chance to post about my LOF today.
Today I installed the Rugged Ridge Sparticus Tire Carrier. It consists of replacement hinges for the tailgate and a beefy steel mounting plate to replace the factory one.
When I bought my TJ, it had a cheap tire carrier bumper from amazon. I am not a fan of tire carrier bumpers because of the extra work required to access the trunk. Even so, I initially repainted the bumper because I though I'd keep it, shown below.
But that didn't last long. Recently I changed the bumper out for a Dirtworx bumper I rattle canned. I ran the Jeep without a tire carrier for a while like below. Love the Dirtworx bumper (haven't really used it yet though). I like that it has additional bolts in the rear crossmember.
A lot of people on this forum recommend the Exogate for a door mounted tire carrier. The Exogate uses the factory tire carrier, which I didn't have. I'm also not really a fan of how it looks. For the same price, I found the Rugged Ridge Sparticus, which includes a tire carrier. I decided to go that route because I like how it looks and reviews suggested it was pretty well made. I got the tire carrier today while I was replacing my leaking trans pan gasket. Once I wrapped that up I started work on the tire carrier.
That's when the nightmare began.
The torx bolts holding down the factory hinges are practically welded to the door. There is some chemical process that occurs between the bolt head and the countersunk surface of the hinge (outlined by another member here) which seizes the bolt head. I basically destroyed every torx head that I had, then went to home depot and bought some impact torx bits, broke both of those with my 1/4" impact and still had 2 of 6 bolts left to remove. I went back to home depot and bought a hardened 5/16ths drill bit and drilled out the bolts. What a headache. The picture below gives you a good idea. With the heads of the bolts removed, the shaft was easily removed with pliers. The head of the bolt is the part that seizes.
ANYWAYS, once I finally got them out, the hinges and carrier installed with ease. Below you can see it installed without the tire.
And with the tire.
I think it looks SWEET. I am super happy with how it looks and I'm happy to have it installed as things were looking pretty grim earlier in the day. I will be heading back to Harbor Freight to replace my ICON Torx Sockets. Interestingly enough, the ICON socket didn't shear, but bent. I guess it's softer, not sure if I applied more or less torque with it before failure compared to the other stuff.
When I bought my TJ, it had a cheap tire carrier bumper from amazon. I am not a fan of tire carrier bumpers because of the extra work required to access the trunk. Even so, I initially repainted the bumper because I though I'd keep it, shown below.
But that didn't last long. Recently I changed the bumper out for a Dirtworx bumper I rattle canned. I ran the Jeep without a tire carrier for a while like below. Love the Dirtworx bumper (haven't really used it yet though). I like that it has additional bolts in the rear crossmember.
A lot of people on this forum recommend the Exogate for a door mounted tire carrier. The Exogate uses the factory tire carrier, which I didn't have. I'm also not really a fan of how it looks. For the same price, I found the Rugged Ridge Sparticus, which includes a tire carrier. I decided to go that route because I like how it looks and reviews suggested it was pretty well made. I got the tire carrier today while I was replacing my leaking trans pan gasket. Once I wrapped that up I started work on the tire carrier.
That's when the nightmare began.
The torx bolts holding down the factory hinges are practically welded to the door. There is some chemical process that occurs between the bolt head and the countersunk surface of the hinge (outlined by another member here) which seizes the bolt head. I basically destroyed every torx head that I had, then went to home depot and bought some impact torx bits, broke both of those with my 1/4" impact and still had 2 of 6 bolts left to remove. I went back to home depot and bought a hardened 5/16ths drill bit and drilled out the bolts. What a headache. The picture below gives you a good idea. With the heads of the bolts removed, the shaft was easily removed with pliers. The head of the bolt is the part that seizes.
ANYWAYS, once I finally got them out, the hinges and carrier installed with ease. Below you can see it installed without the tire.
And with the tire.
I think it looks SWEET. I am super happy with how it looks and I'm happy to have it installed as things were looking pretty grim earlier in the day. I will be heading back to Harbor Freight to replace my ICON Torx Sockets. Interestingly enough, the ICON socket didn't shear, but bent. I guess it's softer, not sure if I applied more or less torque with it before failure compared to the other stuff.
Jim King
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It is nice up here in Northern California. I do like having the 4 seasons too.
Brian83
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DustinfromOhio
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I’m digging those trail grapplers! One of the best looking tires on the market imho.