Houston Install Party

terrahawk wrote:

George / Jenny,

Can Joe and I come help ya'll sort out the barn this weekend?

we wont be home on Saturday it's grandpaws 88th birthday and we will be at his birthday party........Maybe Sunday?

don't forget to take pics.

that is is kick ass mod

George / Jenny,

Can Joe and I come help ya'll sort out the barn this weekend?

the install party will be at our house...we live out near the waller magnolia area.

Hutch don't forget I still have my bumper as well the plastic and the metal frame with the light hoop on it.

jeeperjennie wrote:

ok then the 21st it is.....bring chairs and your drink of choice....oh and jeep parts to install...see you all there

Where? I don't have anything to install (as of yet), but can I come to the party?

Akonius, that looks good. I have not seen it done like that before.

Yeah Jody that would be great. All your talk about cutting off my bumper got me thinkikg....

Umm...sorry about hijacking the thread.

Hutch wrote:

anybody have any experience welding plastic? I have been thinking about doing the stock stubby bumper mod.

Mark, I have my old stock bumper you can experimant with.

Hutch wrote:

anybody have any experience welding plastic? I have been thinking about doing the stock stubby bumper mod.

I did mine...riveted and welded. Once you get into the welding...its not that hard, just time consuming. Best approach I used was a "stitching" approach with a point tip, then you smooth it out with the sides of the bit. Either a high wattage soldering iron or a portable butane torch will do the job...I used the butane torch. After I was done, I sprayed it all over with Duplicolor Bedliner - I only had one can so it didn't really fill in gaps as well I would have liked it to - but I'm fine with the end result. Also, I used a low speed Rotozip with a cut-off wheel seen below - it goes thru the plastic like butter and leaves a nice sanded cut edge...also goes thru the steel bumper frame. Here's a few pics of mine...

why weld plastic just use the expanding foam and paint

anybody have any experience welding plastic? I have been thinking about doing the stock stubby bumper mod.

ok then the 21st it is.....bring chairs and your drink of choice....oh and jeep parts to install...see you all there

N2rock wrote:

Feb 21st gets my vote... ANd then we go wheeling on the 28th to give the new mods a pre-Trees shakedown run

I'm with Steve - the 21st is good...following week at the Creek will be good as well!

...now I just need to BUY something to install!

Feb 21st gets my vote... ANd then we go wheeling on the 28th to give the new mods a pre-Trees shakedown run

Ok as for the install day

Feb 7th
is too close we wont have parts in and things ready to do installs

Feb 14th
valentines day ooo not so good some of us will have plans that day

Feb 21st
We are having Alex's birthday party here at the house....we can still do an install day here that day...at least it would give all of the kids something to do...maybe I'll rent a moon walk or something but we can for sure bar b q and eat cake!

Feb 28th
I think we are all planning on wheelin that day

March 7th
Not too much going on that day could do an install day

March 14th
could do an install

March 21st
Week before we go to Trees........install day not such a good idea.

Should we start a poll?
or do you just wanna give feedback?

hummmmm.......you guys need a place with big trees, lots of room for Jeeps to park, room to work on Jeeps, a place with not too many neighbors, some place near tomball, some place tucked away in the sticks, with no Home Owners Ass.

Gosh G and I have been racking our brains trying to find a place like this.........

this description sounds so much like a place I have been to before...now where was that place?

as we are trying to think of a place... it would be nice if this place was close to me.

say just outside of Tomball.

:idea:

hmm.......... wonder where we could find a place like that????

N2rock wrote:

Yeah... We can get my bumper raise to get rid of the ugly gap (so RonGilbert won't mention it any more LOL), and my ahem tire carrier too

Now where is a place??? A place that can handle an unruly group like this. Some place out in the stix that doesn't have HOA's to worry about. A place where they don't care if they piss off the neighbors. hmmmmmmm where is a place like this?


Of course, everyone is welcome at my house too. My neighbors don't seem to mind too much

A place where one could drive up tree's without certain others getting all butthurt.

Yeah... We can get my bumper raise to get rid of the ugly gap (so RonGilbert won't mention it any more LOL), and my ahem tire carrier too

Now where is a place??? A place that can handle an unruly group like this. Some place out in the stix that doesn't have HOA's to worry about. A place where they don't care if they piss off the neighbors. hmmmmmmm where is a place like this?


Of course, everyone is welcome at my house too. My neighbors don't seem to mind too much

I think we need to start planning a Houston install party in preparation for the Trees Ranch run and then have a testing day at Spring Creek the following weekend.

I would say the weekend of March 7th for the install party. The weekend of the 14th for Spring Creek, and that would give us 2 weeks for tweaking....

Anybody up for this?
Do we have any volunteers to host? (I would but I don't think the neighbors nor the HOA would like it though )