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me too....I'm still waiting for my shocks and that is driving me insane! I want this thing lifted already! I have a couple friends with crawlers that haven't been out for a while and now they are talking about starting to wheel again so this may take a big turn if I can afford it lol. I know I cant keep up with one of them and his Tacoma though, its a 12 Tacoma that is in the process of a solid axle swap with a lot of very trick one off parts, the other is a stretched cj7 on 42's with Dana 60's and an atlas twin stick t-case. now that I think about it, i cant afford to keep up with these guys but it will be fun to try!

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holy shit!!!! I still don't have my shocks from RK, if I had known it was going to take this long I would have just ordered the fox's I wanted in the beginning! Too bad I already used that money to buy a kayak

but on a good note I got my new MC from TRS and will be able to reinstall my retrofits this weekend.

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So I need to get me jeep to this level...... It can go further, it will actually go all the way up the ramp but gets a little sketchy, we didn't want some one to lean on it and it flip.

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This is my poor attempt in a stock jeep!

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While trying to rid the jeep of a vibration at highway speed by changing shocks (rubicon take offs that I had laying around) and retorquing the wheel spacers I found this. I guess it could be the cause of vibration, will change it later today and put in a procomp dual stabilizer kit I bought cheap.

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still have a shake, going to take it to 4wp and have them pull the tires off the wheels and make sure I don't have a bent wheel and re balance them. also it looks like I might have my shocks today or tomorrow so hopefully this weekend the lift goes on!

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I bought another hood to replace mine that was haul damaged and got it put on yesterday to find out that my old hood had 1 washer nozzle and the new one has 2 so I looked around online and found a kit to switch from 1 to 2 and ordered it,I know I could have made it myself with some hose and another nozzle but this was just too easy so I will hope I don't need to wash my windshield until it gets here lol.

I also found out that the fog light bulbs were changed sometime between 07 and 13 I ordered hid bulbs that were supposed to fit an 08 (h10/9145) to find out they don't fit

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Few things have started to change, I put a pair of rigid duallys on the a pillar, I had the light already and will replace them with something with more distance in the future. I also bought a smittybilt xrc bumper with tire carrier for cheap. It's 5 months old and I paid $400 for, was hoping to pick it up yesterday so I pulled the factory bumper,hitch and spare tire carrier, didn't get to pick the bumper up but will get it tonight. Also ran a power wire for some rear facing lights, haven't decided if I will do 2 6" led bars or 2 duallys mounted to the bumper.

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Bumper on!

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so everyone does something stupid even when they are told not to do it every now and then, well i found my stupid thing today. i have been trying to find a vibration in the jeep since shortly after i put the tires on. i installed spidertrax wheel spacers and didnt listen to everyone about the little washers that go on the studs for what ever reason they are there, and i also over torqued the spacers with an impact well tonight i decided to pull all 4 wheels and spacers and try it the way i was told to do it (minus loctite but i will fix that later) and aside from a minor vibration that is tire balance related for sure its 10x better. one problem i ran into was i broke a stud on the front hub i didnt have time to fix it because its getting dark so tomorrow i will drop it off at a buddies shop to get it fixed since i wont have time for a few days due to work and being a front stud i dont want to put too many miles on it that way.

Lesson learned today: ALWAYS FOLLOW PROPER TORQUING INSTRUCTIONS WHEN INSTALLING WHEEL SPACERS!!!!