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Alittle dirt road cruisin

Hood open, tools all over the engine makes me a mechanic right? #joke ok on another note, car manufacturers why can’t you figure out AA or AAA batteries for the car? My RC car had them? #repairs #jeep #battery #cherokeekl #jeep #trailhawk (at Cleburne, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9DWMy8Hc00/?igshid=1j886nr7jhpf7

Before & After pics of the XJ & KL. #Jeep #JeepCherokee #CherokeeKL #Trailhawk #XJ #XJCherokee #Cherokee #Mopar #Colorado #JeepLife #4x4 #Offroad https://www.instagram.com/p/B48KidpnoeE/?igshid=1tc4piyjwnda3

Looky what just arrived! 
#Haynes #Jeep #JeepCherokee #jeepkl #CherokeeKL #Cherokee #Trailhawk #Mopar #fcagroup 
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My Baldy today with the Bearded Bastards. ✌️🤘 #Jeep #JeepCherokee #jeepkl #CherokeeKL #Cherokee #Trailhawk #Mopar #Colorado #CO #JeepLife #itsajeepthing #4x4 #offroad #offroading #offroadinglife https://www.instagram.com/p/B3k846gn0V_/?igshid=1uf92ymx1l3ik

Finally got around to making the plaque to hold my 50 year old Jeep Wagoner badges. They seem happy to be on another Jeep after all these years! #Jeep #JeepCherokee #jeepkl #CherokeeKL #Cherokee #Trailhawk #wagoneer #jeepwagoneer #diy #homebrew #jeepcustom https://www.instagram.com/p/B3IunsjHIrT/?igshid=6817nh2ry22c

KL Cherokee Side Ladder finished, initial tests good, build details below. So we drove around a bunch today, errands, mall crawled a little, found a KL parking buddy. I climbed on the ladder a lot, even had the kids climb on it, it is rock solid. I want to mention again, Jesse at MFC posted an image of an ‘over the rear window side ladder concept’ long ago. So I wasn’t the first to think of this or anything. Got some grade 8 hardware so, all that’s left is to drop everything off for powder coating this week. (Build details, long) First real cost, aside from my painful r&d time that left a couple paint scratches, added some hair loss, and my welding & labor: I bought a HF pipe bender, 20% coupon & tax, $170ish. I bought a 20 foot tube, $33 bucks at my local raw steel supplier, Western Steel. $10 in grade 8 bolts, nuts, washers and lock washers. $8, I used about 1/4 of a $30 cutting blade. Making my own, my welding is free, as is my R&D. Those things were hard, left a couple deep paint scratches, & caused some new hair loss. 😆🤣😂😭 While I made this ladder to fit my also custom made roof rack, such a concept can easily be shortened, the upper plate drilled to match the factory roof grommets, and it would fit any KL. There is a slant to the entire ladder (4 inches difference top to bottom), however the rungs are welded in level to ground. The bottom is NOT ‘bolt on’. It requires a drill, and for you to reach down check your junk, then take the drill & ‘send it’ through the fender, twice. All the way, without hitting the plastic wheel well (move it first). You’ll pass through the outer plastic easily, then hit the sheet metal fender under it. Once through, the base gets two G8 bolts just long enough to secure the ladder, plus a G8 washer & lock washer. I used 1 inch x 14 gauge ew tubing, on my 110v Lincoln Pro mig, that metal liked the 2nd of 4 power settings and about 2.75 wire feed speed. I use a cheap pawn shop chop saw with the abrasive style blades meant for cutting metal; and I cut slow since the saw’s speed is a tad high. It has lasted for all my metal projects so far. #Jeep #JeepCherokee #jeepkl #CherokeeKL #Cherokee #Trailhawk #mfcoffroad https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Ao25cHxPT/?igshid=16lrrg5icclwa

So uh, 🙋🏼‍♂️I realized people driving by probably think I’m parking there to show it off for them to notice from the road... negative. That’s the scenic view where I can stare at my Jeep out my front window at home. 🤣 It’s entirely for my own visual pleasure. This is also why so many of my pics have the same background. 🤦🏼‍♂️ #Jeep #JeepCherokee #CherokeeKL #Cherokee #Trailhawk #Mopar #Colorado #JeepLife #4x4 #Offroad #MFCoffroad #RockyRoadOutfitters #TheBeardedBastards #USA #America #ARMY #Veteran https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Q3GCGnAG9/?igshid=nitu6zfdh5ax