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by RICHIET » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:14 am

I started my lift this weekend (can never say finished.) I went with BDS front and rear, fox shocks and bilstein struts. I was originally planning on going with Marks' 3", skid plates and bumper and do it all at once but other pressing needs prevented this. I couldn't put it off since my shocks and struts were too far gone to risk driving any longer on them and I didn't want the 3" without the weight of the bumper. So new plan is to wait till my situation clears up and Mike starts taking orders again and going with 89's to make up the difference. When I get a new DD, then I could get started on the rest of the mods. For now, I'm just trying to avoid the walk of shame, Leaving the TB in the driveway and getting into my friends' jeep ( and listening to "it's a jeep thing, you wouldn't understand.")

On another note, when the BDS kit arrived, it only had 1 front and 1 rear spacer, which would have been all right if I was racing on a circle track. In their defense, I called up their support and had the missing pieces on my doorstep the next day.


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I know, next up, remove running boards.
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by navigator » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:33 pm

congrats on the lift....now lose the running boards!
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by Opeth » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:10 pm

"Jeep thing".... Lol. I usually just respond with yea... "Jeeps are cute, Barbie drives one."

Congrats on becoming a lifted one.
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by RICHIET » Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:44 pm

navigator wrote:congrats on the lift....now lose the running boards!


Thanks. The boards should be gone before I hit the beach this year.

Opeth wrote:"Jeep thing".... Lol. I usually just respond with yea... "Jeeps are cute, Barbie drives one."




Gotta remember the Barbie line tomorrow when we're scouting out some new hunting areas, lol. Thanks.
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by Cable810 » Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:36 am

Looks good!
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