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Hi-lift mounted on rollcage

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Many jeepers are looking for ways to mount their hi-lift jack on their Jeep. I decided that I wanted to keep mine as far away from Mother Nature as possible, especially with all the salt that goes on our streets in the winter time.

So with that in mind, I found out that many were mounting it behind the backseat on the rollcage. Found a few write-ups and went on from there. Notably one found on JonFund.com with a few modifications since I didn’t have a welder.

Here’s what it looks like:

What you’ll need:

  • 2 x 2″ Heavy Duty Muffler clamps
  • Drill
  • Grinder
  • Wrenches
  • Lock
  • Wing nuts
  • Railing from garage door – this is what I used instead of the 1/16″ Steel L Bracket since I don’t have a welder

Let’s get started

Check the base of your jack. You’ll see that there are 3 holes in it in a form of a triangle. I used the 2 bottom ones to fix it to the clamp.

Now for the other side

We drilled 2 holes in the railing so that we could fix it to the clamps. When it was installed and tightened, we used a grinder to make the U-bolt flush with the nuts. A hacksaw will do the same. Drilled another hole at the bottom of the railing, rested the jack on it and attached the lock… and voilà!

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Tires sticking out of the Jeep flares

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

The SAAQ clearly states in their special documents for modified vehicles that:

“La partie supérieure de chaque roue doit être recouverte d’une aile sur toute la largeur de la bande de roulement.”

In english that would translate to

“The higher part of each wheel must be covered with a wing over all the bandwidth of bearing.”

(If that made sense, thank the AltaVista’s Babelfish translating system. If not, thank the AltaVista’s Babelfish translating system hehe)

As you can see from this picture, my tires stick out at about 1″ to 1 1/2″

Last year I got pulled over because of this and I basically just thought it was some kid cop that had a really boring afternoon and needed to fill is ticket pot or something but then last Sunday, I got pulled over again *sigh* for the same reasons so … I need to do something about it.

If you are in the same shoes as me and you live in the province of Quebec, you might want to fix that because they are really looking at getting everyone.

Finding a solution

At the beginning, I was looking at 2 choices: 1) Get extended Jeep flares and 2) get 33×10.50 tires which immediately meant new shocks, springs, wheels and since I’m running a gear ratio of 3.07 *sigh* new axles. Needless to say that option #2 quickly went out the window unfortunately. As much as I would have LOVED to change my current setup to this one, money-wise, it’s just not feasible.

Solution: New Jeep flares

There are quite a few extended Jeep flares kit out there and it’s all a matter of durability. Before doing anything to my Jeep, I literally spend days researching everything by reading on various jeep forums out there. After said research, the choices were:

Decision: Xenon Flat Flares

After looking through pages and pages of info, reviews and testimonials from other Jeepers I decided to go with the Xenon Flat Flares because of:

1) The price: Alltough still expensive, they are cheaper than the Warn and Bushwackers flares.

2) The durability: From the countless testimonials, they seems to be very durable

3) The look/shape: I really like the shape of these. Many jeepers tend to do something similar to the original sahara flares in order to get more flex. I’m not one for off-roading in really rocky situations and I don’t go every week-end, but at least, they’ll cover my tires and if I ever do get to do more and need the flexing space, I’ll have it.

So they’ve been ordered. Not sure when they’ll get it but let’s hope it’s soon.

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Re-painting the Jeep flares

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

black jeep flares loking more like like light grey

Are your Jeep flares loosing their luster? Black looks more like washed-up gray?

There’s a really easy fix for that. It’s called Krylon Fusion paint cans. Seriously!

What you’ll need:

  1. 3 cans of Krylon Fusion Black Satin paint cans
  2. Very light sand paper

Step 1 – Sand off the residue

Take the light sand paper and rub gently on the flares. This is just to remove the debris and old paint that was there so the new paint will stick better to the plastic. When you’re done sanding, just take soapy water and clean the flares.

Step 2 – Tape of the Jeep

To paint the flares you have 2 options: 1) remove the flares completely 2) tape off the jeep.

I went with option #2 as it pretty easy and less knuckle scraping.

Step 3 – Start spaying

When you Jeep is nicely covered, start spraying. Like any spray paint job, you need to spray evenly across the surface in a horizontal manner. From left to right and right to left, etc…

Apply 3 generous coats, the third being the coat that makes sure you got every inch of flare painted and your done.

For more pictures, check out my Re-painting jeep flares set in my flickr account.

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Reviving old blog entries

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I actually started blogging more seriously back in 2003 or around that time. I had a few Jeep write-ups then which I found out through WP.com stats that I’m still getting referrers from various Jeeps forums so… with that in mind I decided to “revive” some of my old posts (there’s still in the database collecting dust).

Now I need to find all the pictures that were associated with all those write-ups and put them up on flickr so I can reference them again.

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