"The DADIATOR" Overland JT

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love following this thread. Looking good

Thanks! I know my build has been very, VERY slow and pales in comparison to lots of others, but I will slowly get where I want to go, for sure. I plan to keep building the dadiator up throughout the year.

Let’s see those tires/wheels mounted up! 33’s have taken me everywhere I’ve wanted to go so far.

Should be done Friday or Saturday! The wheels/tires came off of a 2020 and my build date was apparently late september 2021 so the TPMS likely won't work, figured I would save the effort and just take it in to have them swapped around.

The red contrast color is a good choice! Looks good with the blacked out badging and grill. I sense a lift coming. Keep up the good work!

Thanks! Took me ages to finally decide on the look I wanted to go with. I can be very, very picky about this sort of thing.

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Finally got the chance to get my new wheels and tires set up today! I gotta say, I agree with some others who pointed out that the 33s look less weird on the regular fenders rather than the rubicon/mojave high fenders. Really brings the look I am going for together, though I really don't like the chrome lug nuts and am already looking all over the place for some replacement lugs.

I would like to get some red lug nuts, but haven't been able to find any that would match the OEM specs. I hear there are black ones, but if anyone has any recommendations/sources on where to get lug nuts that fit these wheels properly, please let me know, especially if they are red (though black is fine).

With this done, I plan to get to some QOL improvements, such as:

-bulletpoint rubigrid mounting system OR 67designs system
-headlight/foglight upgrades
-bed storage improvements (molle panels, rack, etc)
-better side steps (I have to have side steps for my kids, otherwise I would go with used rubicon rock sliders)

Then for bigger upgrades, next will be:

- Rubicon take off shocks/springs
- 1.5 to 2.5 inch spacer leveling/lift kit
- sunrider or full soft top

And here are the pictures! Don't mind the mess, I haven't had a chance to wash it since the last rain a couple days ago.

 

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Figured I would post up some new pics now that its all cleaned up. Next items getting ordered for sure will be some black lug nuts; beyond that, I am still figuring it out.

 

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Nothing new done still aside from nearly installing some alien shades only to just return them, but I have really been stewing on this....

So at this point I am primed for my next major mod, which will likely be wheels, tires and lift. But in the interim I would love to start doing some low cost, relatively easy mods to personalize her. However, I am totally stumped on what accent color to run with.

Option 1: Lime green accents. I really like lime green and it pairs well with black, but I also see plenty of black and green jeeps and it makes me think of a buddy of mine did their JK up in black and green as well so I don't want to be some sort of copycat.

Option 2: all blacked out. If I go this route I would need to decide between gloss black or matte black for my accents, but this would be an easy route to go and would match my saddle brown seats well.

Option 3: Bronze accents. Would also match my seats well, but not sure how much bronze I would do. Perhaps just the wheels and maybe the badge?

Option 4: Yellow accents. Yellow is by far my favorite color, my last truck was even yellow and I built my gaming PC up to match it. But I also feel a bit fatigued with so much yellow, so I feel like this is my chance to try something new.

No matter what, the silver accents have to go, they just aren't working for me. It's just a question of what direction I want to go.

For fun, heres my gaming PC and old truck I traded in....

I'm digging the Gaming PC matching your old truck. I built my PC about a year ago and got my JT almost 3 months ago and it just so happens they pretty well match!

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