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11:04 pm June 3, 2010
| 94XJGUY
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Hey ya'll heres another j-man special, hood vents on the cheap. The hood vent mod is a common one for xjs due to their common overheating problems and i was fortunate enough to come across some matrials and resources that allowed me to do it for relatively nothing. first off i just happend to have an extra hood, i had a jeep given to me last summer that i parted out and i still had the hood.
 
 
yes i know the hood is red and yes i know my jeep is white but i wanted to do a trial run to see how it looked before i tore into my white hood and beside the red might look pretty sexy once i get it on because of the red stripe down the side of my jeep.
the vents that i used were from the cowling from a YJ, i used two so that meant finding two vents, which lucky the local junk yard had two yjs and at a cool low price of ten bucks for both vents i figured it was s deal i couldnt pass up.
 
i then did a little CAD (cardboard aided design) to get placement of the holes
 
i then procced to cut out the holes with a grinder that had a cut-off wheel on it.
 
then i placed the vents in the holes marked the spots for the bolts and drilled the 3/16 inch holes for the 3/16 inch hardware which i had gotten from a work for free last summer
 
 
then i test fitted everything one more time and then bolted and tightend everything down
 
 
 
i did not install it tonight because it was getting late and i was getting tired and the bugs were getting bad, so it will be put on tomorrow and to finish it off im thinking a big crawler ready symbol across it
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no you dont get it… its a jeep, its never fixed, just less broken
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1:58 am June 5, 2010
| Electric Stooge
| | DDO West/Platteville | |
| Weekend Warrior | posts 804 |  
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Looks Great Justin!! good work!
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Mitch(1 of 3 stooges)
00' XJ, 5.5" Long arm, 32×11.5×15, 4.0l
If something electrical doesnt work right, throw a relay or 2 on it!
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8:01 am June 5, 2010
| BLKWJLMTD
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Job well done! I like how it turned out. You gonna trash your white hood and swap this one in?
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2002 WJ Limited, 4.7L V8, 3" Iron Rock Offroad Lift, Bilstein 5125 Shocks, Tenneco SS, 17" JK Rubicon Moabs, 255/75R17 BFG KM's, Cobra CB,
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11:49 am June 5, 2010
| 94XJGUY
| | Elgin IL. | |
| Weekend Warrior | posts 563 | |
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no you dont get it… its a jeep, its never fixed, just less broken
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12:15 pm June 5, 2010
| Electric Stooge
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| Weekend Warrior | posts 804 |  
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I like it!! matched the sticker and light covers!!
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Mitch(1 of 3 stooges)
00' XJ, 5.5" Long arm, 32×11.5×15, 4.0l
If something electrical doesnt work right, throw a relay or 2 on it!
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11:56 pm June 5, 2010
| BLKWJLMTD
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2002 WJ Limited, 4.7L V8, 3" Iron Rock Offroad Lift, Bilstein 5125 Shocks, Tenneco SS, 17" JK Rubicon Moabs, 255/75R17 BFG KM's, Cobra CB,
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3:06 am January 8, 2011
| armyboy1911
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wow, that turned out awesome! nice work!
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Mike G.
U.S. Army Veteran
2000 Jeep TJ – 4.0L 5 speed
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