CJMore's Loki Build

One location for upgrades, gotchas and status on the build of my 392

Wheels and Tires
While this wasn't exactly the first upgrade to the Jeep it's where I'll start.

Tires - A set of Mickey Thompson Baja Boss A/Ts 37 x 12.5 R17 from Discount Tire
Wheels - Fuel RIcon beadlocks with Apex Performance 3.0 Rapid Precision Valve
Lug Nuts - Gorilla Automotive Lug Nuts

At our house the Jeep is a family project and everyone got to play installing the wheels, cause as you all may know, no major tire shops, at least here in CO. will mount Beadlocks.

If you want to know more about mounting these, how the torque has been set or is sitting etc. let me know!
Short answer is I've been pleasantly surprised!

Couple thoughts - Maybe it's because I'm 10 years older, but the mounting of these beadlocks was TOUGH. This wasn't a soap and hop on and they popped right on. NO this was a serious battle - Not what I was expecting. But we made it happen.

The Apex Performance 3.0 Rapid Precision Valve are AWESOME
If there's interest I may do just a quick driveway and trail vid on why these are must haves for our ride!

The verdict is still out on the Gorilla Automotive Lug Nuts - They're lug nuts so we'll see

These weight just over 100#s. IIRC stock was 85ish#

With bigger rubber comes Rusty's Offroad Tire Carrier upgrade w/ Hi Lift Jack Mount.

There's lots of great install videos out there and detailed reviews, but Rusty's stuff is solid.

A couple highlights that were present in my install.
If you're polling the sub panel off in the rear of the Jeep remember there's a screw tucked back in this cutout in the pic below.

Second I'm a full sized human and there's aspects of this install that are diffidently 2 person tasks.

Rusty's tire carrier has a optional mount to the tailgate using Nutzerts near the handle. I test fit this a couple times, which means install, uninstall, install cycles but it was worth it.

There's a couple of shim options included in this kit, based on tire size and weight, ultimately it really boils down to tailgate alignment and I used nearly all the shims for proper alignment.

The (2) additional pics below is that trial and error fitting of various shim combos

Be sure to get the tailgate alignment RIGHT before you go through the nutzert process!

CJMore said:

Couple thoughts - Maybe it's because I'm 10 years older, but the mounting of these beadlocks was TOUGH. This wasn't a soap and hop on and they popped right on. NO this was a serious battle - Not what I was expecting. But we made it happen.

The Apex Performance 3.0 Rapid Precision Valve are AWESOME
If there's interest I may do just a quick driveway and trail vid on why these are must haves for our ride!

The verdict is still out on the Gorilla Automotive Lug Nuts - They're lug nuts so we'll see

These weight just over 100#s. IIRC stock was 85ish#

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I would like to hear more about the Rapid Precision Valves.

That setup weights just over 100lbs? My 35's on stock wheels weigh 108.

Sticking to the Rusty's theme
Met one of the fellow forum fellas @tstevens and bought the Rusty's Engine Skid Plate.
Install was pretty straight forward and instructions are good. Obviously you want the jeep to be ICE cold for this. Ask me how I know another time....
I used a transmission jack to assist in the process - You'll want ratcheting swivel head shorty wrenches to make this install reasonable - if not it's time consuming.

After I fit everything up I had a bit of an exhaust pipe "rub" and a knock on start-up.
See the pics below but a little love from the flap wheel and a shot of high temp paint - Custom

Yeah guess I forgot to mention. While I was elbow deep in the tail light end of the Jeep I replaced the PATHETIC stock LEDs with a Set of Flush Mounts from Oracle. I posted elsewhere on the forum about these but the backup light from these tails is AMAZING.

I'm a fan of the flush mounts as it give my tire carrier with the Hi lift mount plenty of swing room without a crunch.

A shop here locally is going back and forth with Oracle on their Blind Spot monitoring issue and I have it on good authority that a fix is in the works. If it's important to you stay tuned.

Great upgrade and worth it.

More upgrades for the back of the jeep to be posted soon.
Versatable install and sh!t show story, USB Charger, Roof Rack, Epics Kracken with ARB twins, Bulletproof dash mounts and a few others all installed just need some write-up time - Stay Tuned