28-Sep-2014
Seats, seatbelts, and shifter installed
I installed the shifter in shifter cable first to see if I was going to have problems which of course I did! My shifter cable is going to be too short. The seats and seatbelts when in nicely and everything fits great. The modified YJ seat slides that I used work perfectly and smoothly to move the seat forward or back.
28-Sep-2014
The routing of my shifter cable
The routing of the shifter cable for the Art Carr/Winters shifter is much different that the cable routing of the B&M shifter that the Jeep came with. I'm about 3 feet too short with this cable.
28-Sep-2014
Fire extinguisher installed
I was able to install my quick release extinguisher mount and the MaxOut extinguisher to the cage. When I built the cage I made two locations to mount the extinguisher but this location seemed to work out the best being tucked in and out of the way.
01-Oct-2014
Battery tray mounted
After powder coating the modified battery tray I was able to install it and the Summit heater. The new mounts on the Summit heater serve as the backing plate for the battery tray.
01-Oct-2014
Rock solid
The extra mounting brackets that I added to the battery tray make the tray extremely rigid and rock solid. I shouldn't have any problems with the tray bouncing around and breaking loose with the weight of the two batteries.
01-Oct-2014
Added support
The added support arm on the battery lid supplies major support of the battery tray.
04-Oct-2014
Bracket for battery isolator
I had to make a bracket to mount my battery isolator to and try to figure out a good place to mount it. I thought that I had plenty of room under my hood but the ore items that I add, the more I am running out of room!
04-Oct-2014
Back side of bracket
I am mounting the bracket to my battery tray and it needs to stand off from rubbing the batteries so I added a couple of tube stand-offs on the mounting holes.
06-Oct-2014
Overflow bottle mount
I'm using an overflow bottle from a Mitsubishi Montero but because the OEM mounting bracket was a huge I left it in the car. I needed to make a bracket that would work in a location that would work for me so I sketched a quick design of what I needed and cut it out of some 16ga metal that I had laying around. I made a couple of bends, welded it up, then drilled and inserted a few 1/4-20 nutserts into the grille.
06-Oct-2014
Bottle slides right on
The Mitsubishi bottle slides right on to the mount and snaps in place for a nice secure fit.
Over flow bottle bracket finished
After building the bracket I bead blasted it and powder coated it in a black wrinkle finish.
06-Oct-2014
Overflow bottle mount complete
With the bracket powder coated and mounted, the bottle is installed and all that is needed to finish is hooking up the overflow hose to the radiator. This spot ended up being a great location for my overflow bottle, tight to the grille and out of the way.