You'll bind the suspension if you do since the axle wants to shift to the side by an inch or so. Think about grinding the diff covers?

 

No sir, autozone did not have the differential covers. I was at a jeep festival in western Pennsylvania that day and bought those differential covers from 4 Wheel Parts.

The track bar bracket that you see was part of my lift kit, I have the Mopar 2 inch stage 2 lift kit that includes that bracket amongst others.

 

I did save $450 that I was quoted to put my new leather on. Total investment on a $1000+ option from Jeep: $450 for the covers and 5 hours of my time. I am VERY pleased!

 

How difficult was it to install the leather? I've heard that if you don't know what your doing, it's a nightmare of a job that will likely turn out less than good.

 

It was driven off of the lot this week

 

I had never done it before, but after looking at the covers I saw that they only had (for the most part) 3-4 hog rings per seat. Those were easy to replace with the proper tool. I spent $12 at Ace on hog ring pliers and the smallest rings they had. The factory leather was a perfect fit so that was not an issue...the hardest part was assembly and disassembly.

All in all if you use the "if its been put together it can be taken apart " mindset it can be done. Just takes time (5hrs for me) and patience. Knowing I saved all that money makes me feel great...and every mod on my Jeep has been done by my own hands.

 

Finally pulled the hardtop and doors for the first time. Looking forward to the next 4 days of great weather.

 

Got a set of rockridge tail light conversion to led dots for my birthday this week. Installing this weekend. Pics to come!

 

Looks good.

I installed Katzkin leather a few years ago. One of the most enjoyable yet painful mods I've ever done. My hands hurt for weeks lol

 

It's not as difficult as you think.

You just need to make sure you catch all the hog rings on the bars under the material.

Mine took me two days - I didn't have the option of a full day uninterrupted.