"Meet The Silver-Submarine (AKA ChiTownFJ's Buildup)"

[CHITOWNFJ]

Started my Own Bezel Painting after Seeing Dragons at McCausland I thought how dam good that would look on my Silver Titanium with all of the black accessories.

Here it is Sanded down and primed.




Extra Parts For a few days of drying.



Drying in the Garage. I used Krylon Plastic specific flat black spray paint. I hope it holds up.





Door Handles and Mirrors Too!!



Finished Product!! Hell yea!!

[CHITOWNFJ]

Started into Making a Shovel and Axe Mount for The Roof Rack. Again, budget minded cause all of my money went into other mods! :-) Thes cost me 40$ for everything to have this set up for the axe and shovel.

1.75" rack mounts $10 each
small sized Quick Fists, 4 of them $3.50 each
Hardware: Flat of Steel and 1/2" bolts around $5

[noworries]

Looking really good!

[CHITOWNFJ]

Got My Winch Today, Pulled the bumper back off to pop this sucker in! I should have it done by the middle of the week!

First things First. Gota rip down the Front of the FJ!


Then I modified the Factory Mounting system for the front bumper. The All pro has a very tight fit for locking the bolts on the studs so I chopped off the hard to get to ones and purchased some Grade 8 Hardware to replace them so they can bolt from the back side and be much easier to access! I sprayed them black to keep from rusting and also sprayed the small section of wheel well that shows silver because of the All Pro Front Bumpers lack of Coverage for this girl :-)





Here we are on the Ground and the winch ready to put in. I chose a Warn XD9000 winch because of its massive pulling power in relation to the weight of the FJ. I did have to rotate the clutch assembly around so that the engaugement switch would face forward and fit in the allpro. This winch is as big as I could see any winch fitting, there is not enough room for fingers around in that thing!


Here I had to modify the Warn Solinoid box to make it fit right into the all pro bumper. The way it is situated I just reach into the front drivers side opening and plug in the controller.


The Winch is Mounted. All Pro really did not give any consideration to ease the mounting process of this winch, it was near impossible to get a real sized wrench on anything up in the belly of this thing!
I also removed the all pro tag on the bumper! Why do they put that on there! Now there is holes where it used to be, so stupid, are they that worried about advertising or branding? Jeeze


Here Is the Control box, It is mounted there outa sight, but is easily reached for plugging in the control cord through the front opening!


Different view of the whole back side.



Mounted up and working!!

[Dragon]

That is one hell of a build up, ChiTown. Nicely done

[CHITOWNFJ]

Thanks Bill! Hope to see you on the 20th!

[Fjamming]

That looks great! That's a lot of work, dedication, and patience. Big thumbs up for pulling it together.

[LandCruiserSteve]

CHITOWNFJ previously said:

Then I modified the Factory Mounting system for the front bumper. The All pro has a very tight fit for locking the bolts on the studs so I chopped off the hard to get to ones and purchased some Grade 8 Hardware to replace them so they can bolt from the back side and be much easier to access!

Great idea!! Since the lateral frame studs are the only attach points for the All-Pro front bumper (compared to other brands that use additional support brackets), that makes a lot of sense beefing up that particular area.

When I pull my All-Pro off prior to relinguishing my FJ to the dealership for the inner fender cracking repair, I'm going to re-install it using your method . . . . perhaps even adding another mounting hole or two on that face plate.

CHITOWNFJ previously said:

All Pro really did not give any consideration to ease the mounting process of this winch, it was near impossible to get a real sized wrench on anything up in the belly of this thing!

Tell me about it. When I installed my All-Pro winch bumper, it took about two hours to get the bumper on, and almost another two hours just trying to get those last two bolts on the winch tray tightened. They should've provided access holes from the bottom of the bumper for a socket extension.

CHITOWNFJ previously said:

I also removed the all pro tag on the bumper! Why do they put that on there! Now there is holes where it used to be, so stupid, are they that worried about advertising or branding?

Me, too. I pulled off their advertising on both my front and rear All-Pro bumpers. As to not leave the remaining holes naked, I filled them with 1/8" black-painted pop rivets.




Otherwise, CHITOWNFJ, your FJ is looking fantastic as ever!!

[CHITOWNFJ]

I just finished up my battery box to mount my Optima with a Stinger Distribution center on top of the battery! This box only works for Optima as the 2 posts on the inside slide directly into the hold points on the optima keeping it very secure and safe.

[CHITOWNFJ]

Some Quick update photos!!





I will have Geared up and wheeling pics by this weekend!!