Recent content by Snowbird Tom

You shouldn't need washers if they're the original bolts. Just get a "wobble" extension long enough to clear everything and snug it all up. Harbor Freight has them and they're inexpensive. https://www.harborfreight.com/3-piece-3-8-eighth-inch-drive-impact-wobble-socket-extension-set-67065.html

And summers are great, except for the mosquitos, black flies and other biting insects. I camped up in Copper Harbor for two days on a motorcycle ride around the perimeter of the Upper Peninsula.

Way northern Michigan, even that's a bunch over such a short time. There's a snow pole in Houghton/Hancock (UP) that goes up over 300 inches. Their record is ~350 inches for one winter. Buffalo and Canada north of Lakes Erie and Ontario get hammered regularly because lake effect. They were...

If you look close, the plug pins are there on those.

OEM light picture has a plug.

Should be a plug in. Factory isn’t going to solder stuff on the assembly line.

Time for a new light bar. I think those bulbs are hard wired and not replaceable. They look like the new E series bars, but they don't come in combo colors of yellow/white.

Talk with a rep at Discount or Belle Tire. IME, they’re pretty good with fitment and recommendations. Happy Discount customer for 20+ years. Pretty sure you can swap 33s on, but I’m not seeing your vehicle in person. 7.5” width rims are generally too narrow for 12.50 width tires, causing wear...

Yeah, I had some experiences... Ended up costing me $300 to have the coolant flushed because some idiot topped off the Jeep's coolant bottle with washer fluid. Brain dead morons work in oil change places. Then again, I had the Ford dealer do the oil change on my old Focus while on my...

I’m a fan of the newer Smittybilt bumpers. My Jeep came to me with an older version with no lube point on the pivot shaft, so I end up using lightweight silicon based oil applied under the cap. I need to buy or borrow a power port tool to lift the swing arm off the pivot and self modify it with...

Not a good idea when actually offroading. They’ll lower clearance and probably get scraped off. AND - if you need them, they’re unavailable under the stuck vehicle. 😂

Crud, I did a quick blow thru the post and totally missed that the selling dealership did it. Only places I’ve ever seen anything like that was the buy here/pay here poor credit corner lots. Ooops? :(

On electrical work? Absolutely! Techs don’t do stuff out of the goodness of their hearts. An hour’s work is an hour’s pay. We’re mercenaries. lol

I'm using an S-Pod and it simplifies adding anything electric. Install the switch panel above the rear view mirror, run the wire harness inside the left A post and down to the distribution box under the hood. Anything electric connects to the box and the switches are then active...

This is an unsupported version of the batwing that took me a few minutes to find. No poles. https://openroad4wd.com/products/openroad-270-degree-freestanding-awning