miljeep
01-19-2008, 20:59
What a pain in the butt. That sport cage is not an easy thing to install, luckily a fellow jeeper just happened to be down there and gave me a hand. Once I had an extra set of hands working on the cage, I realized that I should not have even started without help.
I did not follow the directions as written. They wanted me to remove a lot of stuff that I did not need to. They said remove all the padding from the rollbars, but I only removed what I needed to do install the bars.
Te rear bar went in ok but I had to tie a ratcheting tow strap around it and then to the lift in the bay next to me to pull one of the factory roll bars out a little so that I could pop the rear piece in there. The directions said that jeep builds the rollcages with a one inch tolerance or something like that and mentioned that you may have to pull the rolbars together or pull them apart to get the bars to fit.
the "T" in the front went on ok and the cross bars in the back went on ok also.
Tearing out the dash to put the floor mounts in sucked. It really seemed like we were not going to be able to get the mounts to work, but we did.
The bar that goes across the dash has the bolts in a position that make them very tough to get to. We worked for a while trying to tighten them up the best we can.
Tomorrow I have to drill into the frame and install the frame tie in, then piece the jeep back together and I am done.
I still have agas tank skid plate, but want to wait until a shop night with Beltway before attempting that since I know some others there that have done it before.
I wilpost photos tomorrow, but it took me a lot longer than I had thought it was going to take.
so, thanks to MuddyLuxury (who is not on here yet, but should be soon) for helping out on my jeep and not doing his which he had originally been there to do.
So, I will be down there tomorrow to finish up and thenI think again on Wednesday. There is a guy that works down there (greg) that has a jeep and some parts he needs to install to get it working again. He has been really good to jeepers that go in there quite often. /images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
I did not follow the directions as written. They wanted me to remove a lot of stuff that I did not need to. They said remove all the padding from the rollbars, but I only removed what I needed to do install the bars.
Te rear bar went in ok but I had to tie a ratcheting tow strap around it and then to the lift in the bay next to me to pull one of the factory roll bars out a little so that I could pop the rear piece in there. The directions said that jeep builds the rollcages with a one inch tolerance or something like that and mentioned that you may have to pull the rolbars together or pull them apart to get the bars to fit.
the "T" in the front went on ok and the cross bars in the back went on ok also.
Tearing out the dash to put the floor mounts in sucked. It really seemed like we were not going to be able to get the mounts to work, but we did.
The bar that goes across the dash has the bolts in a position that make them very tough to get to. We worked for a while trying to tighten them up the best we can.
Tomorrow I have to drill into the frame and install the frame tie in, then piece the jeep back together and I am done.
I still have agas tank skid plate, but want to wait until a shop night with Beltway before attempting that since I know some others there that have done it before.
I wilpost photos tomorrow, but it took me a lot longer than I had thought it was going to take.
so, thanks to MuddyLuxury (who is not on here yet, but should be soon) for helping out on my jeep and not doing his which he had originally been there to do.
So, I will be down there tomorrow to finish up and thenI think again on Wednesday. There is a guy that works down there (greg) that has a jeep and some parts he needs to install to get it working again. He has been really good to jeepers that go in there quite often. /images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif