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Rebuild of the JK

Kep01

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A few months ago I purchased this rig and I have run it a few times and it works great but has several glitches in the electronics and honestly it just needs an overall update. Let it begin.
 

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Few more
 

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So over the weekend I was invited out to a ride and when I went to wake up the ol girl she wouldn't start. Dead battery, then I replaced with a spare and it would fire up then go dead. I could hear the fuel pump kicking off so I started checking everything out. After several hours and lots of cursing I ended up with the dash tire apart and found a lot of loose wires that were hot and just dangling waiting to short out and burn.
 

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So now it's time to do a complete tear down and rebuild. Plan is to strip everything and raptor line the exterior. Powder coat the cage and re wire the 6.0 and all new interior wiring along with a custom dash. Jeep stuff has to go due to all the fire hazards.
 
Are you sure the wiring is messed up? I have never seen a jeep without a complete rats nest of wiring behind the dash with several quickly available hot wires already prepped for hook up hanging in the middle. Just sayin.
 
Are you sure the wiring is messed up? I have never seen a jeep without a complete rats nest of wiring behind the dash with several quickly available hot wires already prepped for hook up hanging in the middle. Just sayin.
Same here for sure. I just assumed that is exactly how it was wired from the factory :dunno:
 
Are you sure the wiring is messed up? I have never seen a jeep without a complete rats nest of wiring behind the dash with several quickly available hot wires already prepped for hook up hanging in the
It has issues for sure from people cutting and tying into several hot wires throughout the Jeep. I don't like how it is so I'll fix it the way I do like it.
 
It has issues for sure from people cutting and tying into several hot wires throughout the Jeep. I don't like how it is so I'll fix it the way I do like it.
I agree with you, i was just being sarcastic since all jeeps seem to have a mess of wiring behind the dash regardless of age.
 
I've seen worse. But it's definitely giving me some anxiety looking at that awfulness. lol Glad you're doing it correctly now, before it goes bad.
 
I agree with you, i was just being sarcastic since all jeeps seem to have a mess of wiring behind the dash regardless of age.
No worries. When I started pulling the panels and trying to find the fuel pump issue I got to a point and said screw it. It's all coming out to be redone.
 
I've seen worse. But it's definitely giving me some anxiety looking at that awfulness. lol Glad you're doing it correctly now, before it goes bad.
It's rough but once I strip it all out then I can route and build in a way that will last a long time.
 
Update! So right after I started this project my job relocated me to Mississippi and the rig was put in storage during that time. Fast forward to September of last year and I pulled her out and loaded on a trailer and brought her to Mississippi and rolled her in the shop at the new house to finish what I started. At this point she wouldn't run. I began the rip it part phase, after a week I had pulled all the wires out. Literally nothing was left. Then I called up psi and had a new harness built for the 6.0. 8 weeks and it was on my doorstep.
 

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Also while waiting for the harness to show I started sanding on the old girl. That damn green paint dust was everywhere!!
 

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During this I found that the rear of the tub was beat to hell and filled with bondo to look pretty so I built some fenders from some old metal I had and welded it over the original body panels.
 

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Next was the raptor liner to change everything up and make it different.
 

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Today's update some dash work in progress. Got switches wires up and on the way to being completed!
 

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