I decided to install a cold air intake. Mainly because my stock air box was cracked from the accident before I bought it. It was working fine but it kept coming loose and leaking. Also when I did the intake I did a major cleaning of my throttle body and MAF sensor (used MAF cleaner). here are some pictures.







I probably won't be doing much until spring, I have some projects around the house and Christmas coming up. I do have a couple small projects planned for the upcoming weeks.

 

My gas mileage went from roughly 14 mpg to 18 mpg after the intake was installed. I mainly attribute this to cleaning the MAF and the throttle body.

 

Looks like your going down the same paths I did. You even have the same crappy wrangler rt/s tires I had. Fair warning they SUCK *** in snow. Here is a link to my build.

Lets make it better then when I got it.

 

They were okay in the little bit of the snow we've had since I got it. They are however awful in the rain. Every time i go up a hill the back tires start spinning.

 

Oh yeah horrid in the rain, I could light mine up from a 25-30 mph roll. Just wait till you get one of them wet sloppy snows it becomes white knuckle fast.

 

My wife's subaru has bald tires so that is top priority in tire purchases right now, then I need to fix my sagging rear leafs. Any suggestion on what I should use instead of the good years?

 

I went from the RT/S's to BFGoodrich Rugged Terrains. Great looking tire and fantastic in rain. haven't tested them in mud or snow yet.

 

I love my Cooper Discoverer A/T3s. Grip in rain, snow, dry, you name it. Now I have to be on a slick wet parking lot to get it to even spin them.

 

So I decided I would to the 4 headlight "upgrade". I tried the 1 wire method. I spliced into the yellow wire from the low beam on the passenger sided and ran it to a ground. That is it. I didn't solder this or even ground it that well. This was only temporary to test it out. I want to eventually run the ground through a fuse and a switch on my dash somewhere. Here are the pics.

 

I don't believe you fuse the ground, only the positve