Couple things done to my non-Mopar

71ChargerRT

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I found and picked up a pair of M715 headlight housings, buckets and trim rings. I also found the radiator just sitting in place, held in by free will, radiator hoses and trans cooling lines. I yanked it to see it it was fixable, but no, no such luck. So while I had it out I removed the A/C and hideous grille, and I found a piece of stretched steel lying around so I cut it and fit it in. I also popped in the headlight housings, no lights yet, I have to mod the housings a bit and repair the headlight harness. I installed true Jeep hood hold downs, and hood pins because the others were a little loose for my taste. I am debating on using the factory turn signals or getting some round LED style to put in next to the headlights. I thought about driving/fog lights in there, but the brush guard upright is just about dead center of the hole. While doing all that I decided to remove the tail lights, 2 different years, and I modified the housings and I'm going to use the LED tail lights I bought for my truck in there instead, post pics of that later. Pics of the front...
 

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I tossed the side marker lights in the trash can, put some sheet metal in place and used a little left over roll on bed liner to match them up.
 
Headlights are in... more big pics.
 

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It is Rhino lined all the way around, but the PO painted some sort of camo pattern on it. I'm looking for the Ultra Flat black paint to go over the whole thing again. I am also going to paint the wheels black, after new tires.

Debating the best route for a "safari rack" with mounts for a Hy Lift jack, spare tire, plus gear, similar to this http://www.jeepinoutfitters.com/images/wp-835.jpg. I thought about 1/2" black steel pipe for the frame, with stretched steel on the floor and sides, I'm also going to mount lights across the front, one on each side and a pair in the rear.

Found a 3" body lift too, about $115, don't want or need to get it too high, I just want a little more clearance for the 33's.
 
Looking good. Much better with the round headlights. I would remove that bar on the bush bar and then run two 1" square tubbing uprights on either side of the fog light...on both sides. And that roof rack would be cool too.
 
you know if you can weld...all youd need is a roller bender to make a rack..honestly id want something ALOT longer than that for the big J series
 
I'm going to make the rack as large as possible, probably come as far forward as the driving lights all the way to the back door.

Thought about that TC, but that brush guard is so well built I don't want to compromise the strength by cutting it up like that. That bar is solid, far more solid that any similar bars I've encountered, and it's welded to the frame. I'm going to put some stretched steel across the headlight openings but that's as far as mods are going on that.
 

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