Its easy to see from just one look how awesome the Roadfly Black Bear Jeep looks with its new 37-inch General Grabber All-Terrain Tires, mounted on 18-inch MR308 wheels from by Method Race Wheels, thanks to our awesome tire and…
Category: 2016 Jeep Build
Roadfly’s summer project. We’re building a 2016 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Black Bear Edition.
Unboxing of sPOD 8 Circuit SE System with Touchscreen
Roadfly just partnered with sPOD to be our partner for controlling all of our power management and distribution needs for our Roadfly Black Bear Jeep Project. We had just installed all of our Rugged Ridge off-road lights for the Roadfly Black…
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General Grabbers All-Terrain Tires and Method Race Wheels from Tirerack.com
The most common modification made to a stock Jeep, and the one that makes the single biggest impact, is wheels and tires. Even before you buy a Jeep you’re thinking wheels and tires. How big can I go? How big…
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Rugged Ridge Phase 3 – Black Bear Jeep LED Off-Road Lighting
Our third shipment from Rugged Ridge arrived today. Five boxes filled with goodies This shipment is for our third phase of the Roadfly Black Bear Jeep Build. We did a 4.5-inch suspension lift in our first phase. See Installation of 4.5…
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Phase 2: Installation of Rugged Ridge Bumpers, Winch, Spare Tire Carrier and Hitch
For Phase 2 we went with new bumpers, winch, spare tire carrier and trailer hitch. There a lot of choices but we decided to go with the Rugged Ridge XHD bumper series. We like steel and the look of the…
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Second Shipment from Rugged Ridge – Phase 2 begins
Second Shipment from Rugged Ridge - Phase 2 begins Phase 1 of the Roadfly Black Bear Build involved the installation of a four and half inch suspension lift. With the lift installed, we began looking into getting larger tires that…
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Unboxing of the Rugged Ridge Suspension
It's like Christmas in July. The first phase of our Roadfly Jeep Build project is installing the new 4" lift kit from Rugged Ridge. Here's what UPS dropped off! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWX0649oJhI&feature=youtu.be
Completion of Rugged Ridge 4″-5″ Lift Kit with Shocks for our Jeep
While waiting for our lost crush sleeve to show up, we drove around town for two weeks (including a week at Rehoboth Beach) with the rear of the Black Bear 6.5 inches higher then the front. The crush sleeve arrived the…
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Installation of 4″-5″ Inch Rugged Ridge Lift Kit with Shocks
So we just received the Rugged Ridge 4”-5” Coil Spring Lift Kit with Shocks (part#18401.60) from our friends at Rugged Ridge and we couldn’t wait to get it out of the boxes. This kit requires the use of a drop…
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First Shipment from Rugged Ridge
We just received our first shipment from Rugged Ridge. 350 pounds of metal and steel. We couldn’t be more excited and we couldn’t wait to rip it open. Finally we can start our build!!! So our first shipment contained what we…