Expedition4x4 jeep build kinda slow still in progress

[expedition4x4]

Long time coming I guess
I bought my jeep in August of 2011 and my requirements were fairly straight forward a base model jeep with only those creature comforts deemed necessary
so it was a 4 door JK with black fenders, black hardtop, 6 speed manual, Airconditioning and none of the fancy shmancy stuff such as power windows and power doorlocks and was riding on 16 inch steel wheels and pizza cutter tires oh yeah and also I got 3.73 gears with it no 3.21's for me yuck


First order of business was sourcing some rubicon takeoffs which made it look a bit less of a 70's station wagon and helped its offroad powess a good bit


^^ Pic from Camping near dillon resevoir in Summit County Colorado
Christmas of 2012 I drove over to GOBI racks here in Denver and bought myself a gift
stealth rack with body standoffs and front panel basket I also picked up an ARB awning with some Amazon gift cards from work mounted the awning to the jeep using fourtreks awning mounts




flash forward a few months and a thread here at expo helped me find a fridge
http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...igerator-plastic-melted?p=1340350#post1340350
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/110646-Old-Norcold-refrigerator-Free-to-a-good-home

Fixed the fridge and then of course I needed to fab up a place to put it so it isn't moving around too much and while I am doing that I went ahead and built a place for a snowpeak IGT3on left, my tools on right with a hinged storage behind that and dry goods under fridge when out

 

[expedition4x4]

Finished product for storage in back

took a trip to Moab in April 2013 with my girl


Picked up a rooftop tent local on craigslist for a good price
it was an early tepui prototype needed a few things like retightening the hinge mounts etc
took it for a trip to expo and the canyon on the way back!


first of this year I decided it was time to replace the sagging sport suspension and went with an AEV dual sport 3.5"
the reasoning behind the 3.5 vs 2.5 was that I found it on local CL for a smoking deal and the 3.5 has the flip steering kit
Also went with 4 spidertrax spacers and toyo opencountry a/t's in 35/12.50x17



Hood blackout from a buddy that was making them

found a local guy selling a cod/moab front bumper and put it on

 

[expedition4x4]

Installed a vector E-dock for accessories up front


even put in a grommet to run wires up into tray


mounted Yaesu 7800 and dell 8" tablet pc with an external bluetooth GPS puck

 

[WOODY2]

WIRES

Just how hard was it to fish a power wire thru the bottom of the tray? Did you go down behind the glove box?

 

[expedition4x4]

Installed a springtail rack in back and mounted a group 27 yellowtop



Next up is running some 2 awg cable back to it and installing a Bluesea 7622 ML relay

 

[expedition4x4]

yes behind glove box pretty easy in fact with the grommet

 

[WOODY2]

Did you blindly drill down thru the hard plastic underliner and fish it thru or some how remove that under liner and the drill? I want to run a USB hub up out of that location

 

[expedition4x4]

Took the rubber liner out before attaching the e-dock then when drilling took the dash part off and drilled a 1" hole with a bimetal hole saw. Worked out great for me.

 

[WOODY2]

Soory for appearing dense but you removed the piece that the rubber liner screwed to? I was just going to drill down with a step bit just didn't want to hit one of those metal air-conditioning lines

 

[expedition4x4]

yes the entire center dash portion comes off with 4 screws and pops off then you can drill it out on your bench

http://www.wanderingtrail.com/Mechanical/2012JK/dashremove/dashremove.html decent writeup

 

[WOODY2]

that's what I needed Thanks a bunch, drilling at daylight!!

 

[expedition4x4]

there ya go!

 

[evilfij]

Nice rack

 

[toxicity_27]

How do you feel the e-dock holds up to the weight of the tablet? I see you put a few other screws in. Was it wobbly without them?

 

[expedition4x4]

Squeaky more than wobbly but very happy with the extra support