Nate's 2002 TJ, Not so simple anymore by gst95dsm

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Just wanted to follow up on some of my impressions on the Swag Tailgate kit. I've had a chance to show it to several friends now, most had never seen or heard of the kit. Well they all think it's pretty cool. And a few of them who have more experience than me using self tapping hardware said that the self tappers are very legit and will hold up just fine. I just wanted to clear that up since I was pretty hard on them in my initial reaction post. So now my only real gripe is that I think the tub hinge mount should be a solid plate all the way across, as you can see some flexing on the hinge area with weight on the gate. I'm pretty sure I'll be hitting up Troy for the aluminum solid plate he offers. Overall it's growing on me.

5-6-2012

Opened up a big can of worms tonight.  

I've wanted to line the inside of my tub since I bought the jeep but never have because the previous owner actually redid the rear carpet and sprayed ADHESIVE!! down to keep it in place....... I've just left it for years but finally have had enough and just want it nice and clean inside there. So anyways prep began tonight. I got my son in on it too..... lots of tedious sanding ahead of us. I've decided the Raptor liner is gonna work good, and plan to be spraying next Saturday, so i've got a week to get it ready..... we made good progress tonight i thought!  

Wow, if you thought your prep took a while.... imagine this~!

My helper, great kid!

Well we got it cleaned up a bit and made some good progress on the rear area.





Should be able to put in a couple hours tomorrow also.

Well my prep is about 90% complete. Mostly done sanding, just have to clean it, and sand it a bit here and there. Feels good to be this far, getting through all that glue and fuzz was no fun.