What did you do to your TJ today?

RoadmasterD said:
+1 on the Summit seat cushion. I replaced the driver side on mine before adding the RC seat covers and it feels like a new seat.
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I'm sure my seats could use a foam redo but.. Is it $200 per side? With what I paid for the Bartact seat covers (which I do love) and another $200 - $400 for foam, I am at the cost of set of new seats.

Like I said, I love the Bartact covers, but I do regret not buying a set of Trailcats instead.
 
MikekiM said:
I'm sure my seats could use a foam redo but.. Is it $200 per side? With what I paid for the Bartact seat covers (which I do love) and another $200 - $400 for foam, I am at the cost of set of new seats.

Like I said, I love the Bartact covers, but I do regret not buying a set of Trailcats instead.
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$75 per side, sold individually. $20 if you two sets of the bushing fix kit. I did my drivers side first so see if it was worth it before springing for the pass side.
 
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Fulton_Hogan said:
Absolutely.

Link: https://formufit.com/blogs/news/pvc-auto-door-stand

As I said, I modified mine a bit to give it the taller mid-section. So the types and quantities of Formufit pieces was different than shown in the link.

I bought one pack of 4-way pieces (not two), substituting one pack of 5-way pieces for the bottom and middle connectors on the middle section. I also bought one pack of 2-way connectors for the top crossbar.

The measurement modifications I made were: 7" instead of 6.5" for the shortest PVC sections, and the middle risers were 18" just like the side risers.

Advice: I bought casters with bolts 3/8" diameter and 1" length. If you can find casters with longer bolts, you'll have less headache. Maybe even look at 1/2" bolts, they should fit in the end caps.

Assembly: After jamming one PVC piece into the Formufit connector and it not easily contacting the internal ledge where it would fully seat, I figured something slick would help assembly. (I didn't want to bang on the pieces with a mallet and mar them.) I grabbed whatever I had within reach out in the garage that wasn't liquid or too staining, in my case some Mink Oil. I slathered a bit on the PVC external ends and the connector internals and everything seated easily afterwards.
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What kind of PVC did you use? Did you use 1 1/4" Schedule 40 from Home Depot?
 
red02tj said:
$75 per side, sold individually. $20 if you two sets of the bushing fix kit. I did my drivers side first so see if it was worth it before springing for the pass side.
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Summit Racing? Is there a writeup on getting this done? I do have to pull the drivers seat to replace the bottom seat warmer and the Bartact cover which developed a seam failure from me leaning on it getting in. Bartact replaced the bottom cover free of charge.

I do like the look of the stock seats and I was concerned that here in the NE aftermarket seats would scream steal me!
 
MikekiM said:
Summit Racing? Is there a writeup on getting this done? I do have to pull the drivers seat to replace the bottom seat warmer and the Bartact cover which developed a seam failure from me leaning on it getting in. Bartact replaced the bottom cover free of charge.

I do like the look of the stock seats and I was concerned that here in the NE aftermarket seats would scream steal me!
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https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/tj-seat-foam.77477/
 
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MikekiM said:
I'm sure my seats could use a foam redo but.. Is it $200 per side? With what I paid for the Bartact seat covers (which I do love) and another $200 - $400 for foam, I am at the cost of set of new seats.

Like I said, I love the Bartact covers, but I do regret not buying a set of Trailcats instead.
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I paid about $70 for the bottom cushion. The seat back was in good shape.
 
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Messing with my rear defrost today and it doesn’t seem like it gets warm. It’s getting 12v to the terminals. Guessing the PO didn’t do the repair right. I figure you should get 12v on the circled red areas too with a DMM.

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Decided I want to remove the 1.75” spring spacers and go with a new 2” lift spring. So which springs should I buy? Already have the shocks so I only need the springs.
 
SPECWAR said:
Decided I want to remove the 1.75” spring spacers and go with a new 2” lift spring. So which springs should I buy? Already have the shocks so I only need the springs.
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I put BDS on mine, they seem fine but I have nothing to compare them to. They are a regional company (in southwest Michigan I believe). I guess it depends on your budget.
 
Swapped the month old ORO taillights for the Maxi-Bilt ones since the ORO right side decided to crap out LED's. Extreme Terrain was awesome to advance replace them.

I like how the Maxi's are all on with the parking lights.

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Tejasol said:
Got up early and was able to install my new passenger MaxBilt taillight. I spliced it into the harness I already had ready to go last night. MaxBilt was very cool about replacing the light. Pretty much no questions asked.
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Why did you have to replace it?
 
mjonesjr84 said:
Why did you have to replace it?
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It worked for one day. For some reason (probably because I don't trust my electrical experience) I checked to make sure the lights were working after I got home the next day and no passenger light. I learned how to use a multimeter properly and realized that I had power all the way to the light. At that point I emailed them and they sent me a new one with a label and padded envelope to return the non functioning light. Easy peasey.
 
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