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What I did to my TJ today

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Here is the first pic. I will get some more eventually. I need to plan the lift and tires, but I think I need a hard top and full doors to get though the winter. Any thoughts?
My thoughts...
My half doors and soft top have been in the MA winter for a couple of seasons now... Two windows [drivers door and small triangle drivers side] have cracked or shattered. Drivers door was my fault as i tried to fold my window in to adjust my mirror and i bent it too sharp for the cold.. but the little triangle, i just tapped it with a snow brush to shake snow off it and the brush went right through it. My point is... i've learned to start my jeep early and just melt any frost or snow off instead of making any contact with the cold plastic window. Mine have been patched for 2 years with packaging tape - my hooptie solution until the spring. I will be getting sliders next time i get uppers.

I took my TJ legit off road for the first time today :cool:
 
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tonight:

1.) took temp dealer paper plate off and put new KY metal plate on
2.) removed some of the dealership crappy sticker crap, but couldn't find my bottle of goof-off, going to lowes tomorrow to get goofoff and complete that procedure. can't stand that those ahos do that. my favorite guitar dealer does this too, i once returned a $2,000 guitar to them because their idiot sticker ruined the nitro finish - they adamantly denied their stickers damage guitar faces.
3.) replaced 3 wipers
4.) installed correct bolts&nuts to hold the hardtop on -- can you believe the dealer sent me on the road with a hardtop that wasn't even bolted down? i learned this the 2nd day driving it and quickly put some generic bolts on until they sent me the right ones. i told them to send the msg up the chain of the liability bullet they just dodged, imagine if i were on the highway, hit a bump, the hardtop flew off and crashed into a car behind me, imagine if it had caused a death; this would've been all on them.
5.) other small misc. crap; found my multi-torx tool is too wide-shouldered to be used anywhere at all on the jeep; will buy some proper torx tools tomorrow.


rec'd: ccdw box by tuffy, seat risers by buchannan. dying to get all that in, tomorrow hopefully.
 
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I am trying to get down to thinking a 3" lift and 33s being ok. I am still thinking I want to go to 35s. My last truck I lifted as high as I could with the independant front sus. and could only get 33s.
It looks like I will need a few more parts to go that big. gears, slip yoke, and drive shaft. I too new to know anything yet, I am going to try and learn before I jump in.
Found a hard top for $1400 at a junk yard. New one for $1600. HMMMM!
Maybe it's just me, but that seems super pricey for a hard top.

Seems like I see them on CL all the time for like $600 - $800.
 
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What I did to my jeep today

Scraped the inch thick ice off the body and lights. Also tightened my wiper arm and changed my blades. Cleaned the windows and now it doesn't have all the road de-icer on. it finally. Still want to fully clean it though once the sun comes back out.
 
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