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What's that bag for? Storing the sunroof glass?!

Thanks man. I haven't been down that way in too long. I'd love to visit again sometime. If I do, I'll let you know.

Or, just thought of this, cut the grill in a way to allow the light bar to recess into it. That would reduce the overbite quite a bit. Maybe later or if this setup should turn out to not be strong enough, although with 3/4" steel on all mounting points this thing should be bullet proof. But if not I'll have to look into some redesigning.

Thanks Kyle. But this bumper fits better on pre facelited rigs so I would NOT do a conversion if this is what you're planning on doing. Or if I were to do it again, I would probably remove te centre grill entirely and move it back further so it doesn't stand out quite as far. However not sure how that would look aesthetically. Might be ok due to the winch, light bar and lights filling up that space.

All done!!!

Bumper is coming along, but it doesn't fit as well on the face lifted as the pre-facelift. The face lifted pathys are more rounded at the nose whereas the older ones are more flat like an XJ. This requires some additional fabricating and modification of the bumper.

I had that smittybilt cover you talk of. It's good for when you tend to get dirty etc, but they aren't comfortable for longer trips. I've since canibalized the cover and only use the rear MOLLE part on the backseat to keep my trunk organized.

Lift it! Get some old man emu Medium Duty springs and your woes will be over. Like Nova Path said, lift and quality shocks.

Depending on budget, I'd recommend looking into replacement seats. I've recently seen a thread on another forum where someone put BMW M5 seats into an older rig, I think it was a Rover. Some modding required, but pretty sweet mod!!

Nice. And all 3 pre facelift! Just curious, what's the motivation behind 3 pathfinders? They seem to all be running so it doesn't appear like canibalizing is a factor?

Still without bumper cover, driving around with my XJ bumper in the trunk. But moved the KC lights to the roof and LEDs to the front in anticipation as the KCs will be too big once the new bumper is on.

Nice. Looks like it's time to get some real NPORA stickers!

That's a nice radio. I wish I had that to go with all my other blue Interior LEDs. Clean!

Yeah there isn't a lot holding these rigs together. Nothing will withstand a head on collision unless it's made of armour or rubber lol.

Glad to hear it held up. But that rear now looks much too low. What's your plan for that? Looks like you could use longer trailing arms, those tires are aweful close to the fender. Nice Jeep too! Try rotating the photos next time. Thanks

This might be a long shot, given how old this thread is, but can those brackets be purchased separately without the bumper? And if so, where from?

Anyone know anything about the Volant 12633 cool air intake for the 3.3 L Xterra? Looks like a closed in system, which would be great for protection from water. My lower water separator box is totally destroyed and I need a better system. Not so sure about assembling my own. I'm also in need of a new exhaust. My current one rattles. I'm thinking of just asking a muffler shop of putting on a larger diameter than stock. Throw on a free flow muffler and call it a day.

Trying to find those TJM brackets on the interwebs. Seeing if that might speed up the process of getting this done before my May 29 trip.

Nice find! Yeah that's in line with what I was talking about but I think this one still doesn't give much support for downforce weight. Those braces connecting the 2 bolt on locations don't seem all that thick. But definitely MUCH better than stock. Nothing should be mounted to stock brackets other than stock bumper.

Exactly!! That is why my brackets will be 1/4 steel and bolt onto the tow hook location AND OEM bumper location with cross braces and such. My "guy" has a great plan to make this bullet proof. He said with this I can winch the truck up a tree lol. Gonna cost a bit more than I had hoped initially but a job done right is well worth it.

Sorry man mine never came with fender flares.

These are theexbrit's pictures. This might help explain what I'm talking about.

From his DIY you can see that he use the "step up" brackets from the original bumper to mount the cut off RC brackets onto. Otherwise the bumper would sit much lower. He said to drill an additional hole into it as the original only has 1 bolt and 1 slide on rail with a nut and bolt. I wouldn't even dare mount the bumper to that even without a winch. The original bumpers are extremely flimsy and thin. Hardly weigh anything.

Tried mounted the bumper tonight. The stock bumper brackets are super thin sheet metal. I'm gonna have to fabricate a completely new frame for the bumper brackets to bolt onto. A mounting frame that actually connects to the frame of the vehicle at the location of the tow hooks. Hard to describe but it will make more sense once you see it. Didn't take a lot of pics of the "R&D" process. But needless to say this isn't as easy as theexbrit made it seem. Unless you want to risk mounting a 200lbs bumper onto paper thin sheet metal and winch with that. For this to be done right it will take a lot of steel! MTF

I tried this tonight on my face lifted R50 and those stock brackets are extremely thin. I cannot believe you used those. Have you winched with this setup without tearing the bumper off?