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

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Well my windshield spreader bar turned into a real nightmare! Upon re fitting I realized that although I welded my bar in level, the A pillar bars were off 1/2 an inch and square up when you actually put the bolts in to tighten them down to the firewall. This meant I had to cut the bar out again, clean it up and reweld it!!!!!!!!! Holy crap talk about frustration. Then after all that drama the paint started acting up! Spider web cracking in several areas! So I had to spend a bunch of time sanding and painting. It was pretty terrible! Well I finally got to an F-it point with it and said good enough! I got the cage back installed and am calling the project DONE! The kicker is that I don't even like the bar there. I think I should have used 1.5 tubing instead of 1.75 and maybe even cut the plastic in the gauge cluster cover to recess the bar down lower. UHG.... my son got in the jeep (he's 12) and said all he can see is bar now..... good one dad. HAHA! We'll see if I just get used to it. I hear you do.....  

9-16-2012

Went wheeling yesterday! Good times on Bald Mountain. Hit all the usual obstacles, V-rock, Hollywood, Posi, Bumper Buster. Had a good time as usual. Nice short day but relaxing. Here's a few pics I thought came out alright.









Posi Hill Sequence... this is a fun spot, you can tell by how the dirt looks and the black on the rocks this is a popular play area. It was very tore up!

















The Jeep performed awesome for me. Can't really say I NEED to change anything right now. There's a few "wants" but definately no needs. As this wheeling season winds down I'm going to start putting together my winter plan for some minor tweaks.... rear shock outboard, coil bucket relocate, and maybe new frame side control arm brackets from UCF.  

Really starting to enjoy my picture collection. For anyone interested in starting their own..... a lot of these are cell phone pics (granted my phone takes good pics) but they are simply uploaded to Costco photo and enlarged to 12x18 for $3!!!. Then I get a 6 dollar frame at Target. So $9 get's you a nice memento of whatever cool pic you get and they look cool hanging in the garage.