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[macgyvr]

Just buzz cut your hair.

He's bald...

mac 'speaking of...we need a good winterfest hairdo thread' gyvr

 

[macgyvr]

Wheelers response made me chuckle. This response made me chuckle a little more.

I can't stop laughing...

mac 'bic it' gyvr

 

[terrehautian]

Not bald, just thin....

 

[kastein]

I have too much hair. You can all have some.

Sucks if you get stuck with the curly kind though, luck of the draw guys.

 

[ChiXJeff]

I have too much hair. You can all have some.

Sucks if you get stuck with the curly kind though, luck of the draw guys.

*YOU* have too much hair? <chuckle>

 

[REWSTER]

I usualy cut my own hair but my cutter have been shocking me so I went to a place I had a coupon for a 6 dollar haircut told the lady I wanted a #3 she said what about the top, um a 3 lol the look on her face ...

 

[962door]

My girlfriend sent me on a bacon run this morning, ended up with a basket full of bacon and pork products. I also ended up with a 6'er of new glarus' road slush stout, the 3 I've had so far have been delicious.

 

[terrehautian]

So how many bolts should a nut strip have? Mine has four.

I found this on cherokeeforum

What somebody linked to nut strip design.

I have JCR's like this.

Maybe this is why not all the bolt holes line up....

 

[IllianaXJ]

it's not a WF until someone finishes working on their jeep in the campground. That guy is usually me.
If you don't get it installed, look for the ugly white box truck, we can back you onto my ramps and you can work on it from underneath without having to lay in the mud.

Right-o. I'll be swapping wheels/tires first thing when I get there while the Jeep is still on the trailer.

My (borrowed) trailer is available to anyone as a work platform if needed as well. Laying on the ground sucks.

 

[99SJ_Ex]

Something makes me think once upon a time they said their nut-strips were for pre-97 vehicles...

By the looks of it, your hitch should bolt up to the first 3 bolts on each strip. that far bolt is used on the pass rear side to help hold the exhaust hanger, not used on the drivers side...

The very first hole on your hitch, you'll just have to run a bolt through to a nut on the back side and it will just be bolted to the frame and not tied to the others... Shouldn't matter too much...

 

[terrehautian]

I can't get three bolts to line up, any three bolts. I think I don't have the right nut strips. Which means the hitch I had before probably was for an XJ that I got for free. Now to find the correct nut strips. I wonder if I can get my friend with a metal company to cut and make me some.

While image searching, came across this for nut strips....

It is for something else (detours tail bone install), but those nut strips are different then what I have.

 

[99SJ_Ex]

That pic is of the 97+ pass side nut strip. On my 99 there was no nut-strip on the drivers side, just metal tabs with square holes for carriage bolts... Get a piece of angle iron, mark and drill the hole you need, tac on some nuts over the holes and call it a day.

When doing my bumper, I removed the 'lip' that the strip goes over (that tiny bend/fold deal) and used a straight piece of 3x1.5 Channel Iron...

I'll load the pics to my build thread so you get the idea...

 

[terrehautian]

So I probably have pre 97 nut strips then...great, 20 bucks wasted....

 

[REWSTER]

can you take a pic of your jcr strips next to your hitch? i remember having something along the same problems but i cant remember what i did

 

[terrehautian]

Hopefully that picture helps.

 

[99SJ_Ex]

Hopefully that picture helps.

There's holes all over that thing...

I'd take a look at the holes in the from on the XJ and try to match up which holes you will use to the ones on the hitch...

First two on top right, the smaller hole in the middle, and the 2nd up from the bottom on the right look relativly like the ones you need...

 

[terrehautian]

They may look it, but I can get one or two bolts in out of four, one doesn't even have a hole and the other is not lined up. So either the nut strips are the exact right ones or the hitch I have isn't for an XJ.

 

[99SJ_Ex]

I would say the hitch either is for a different style/yr XJ/WJ/ZJ or someone did a DIY on it... And I still think the strips are for a pre-97, but someone can chime in and say otherwise...

Here are my nut-strip/bumper mounts... You can see how i just marked the holes, drilled, tac'ed on some nuts and they work good... I did have to notch the channel iron to so that it slid far enough in to reach the 4th bolt hole through the frame...

 

[hubs97xj]

What's the part number on the hitch? Same strip part number in the 94-96 and 97+ parts catalogs. AFAIK, the holes the frame, the hitch, the hardware, the nutstrips are all the same. We put a hitch from a 00 on my friend's 96 as well, and it all lined up.

 

[99SJ_Ex]

I have my hitch that I took off, only issue is he probably wouldn't get it on till Friday cause I won't get there till late Thursday probably...