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Cookie Cutter TJ Rear Tire Carrier
I’m cheap, so naturally I wound up building a tire carrier out of scarp metal rather than ponying up for a real one when the Cookie Cutter TJ outgrew its stock sized spare 🙂 I like the thought of saving weight by not dragging a spare tire around with me all the time, but I want to be self sufficient, so along comes a spare! Took some scrap to work and played around on the mill to get this: Pulled…
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Interlake 3-28-15, The TJ’s 2nd ORT
We took the Cookie Cutter TJ on it’s second Off-Road Trip with the boy. This trip turned out to be a pretty good mud test for the new tires. With all the rain the prior week, it was a wee bit sloppy, though not as sloppy as I feared it would be. The boy was ready to go bright and early:
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Cookie Cutter TJ Front Bumper
Front bumper Build: I wasn’t a fan of the front bumper that came on the TJ when I purchased it. Not only in the way it looked (too busy), but it also hung out quite a bit in front. I don’t have too many photos of it on the Jeep, but it looked like this on the ground 🙂 So started fabbing up a simple stubby bumper: I tucked it up as close as I could to still have room…