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…
Read More General Grabbers All-Terrain Tires and Method Race Wheels from Tirerack.com
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…
Read More Rugged Ridge Phase 3 – Black Bear Jeep LED Off-Road Lighting
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…
Read More Phase 2: Installation of Rugged Ridge Bumpers, Winch, Spare Tire Carrier and Hitch
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…
Read More Second Shipment from Rugged Ridge – Phase 2 begins
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…
Read More Completion of Rugged Ridge 4″-5″ Lift Kit with Shocks for our Jeep
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…
Read More Installation of 4″-5″ Inch Rugged Ridge Lift Kit with Shocks
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…
Taking the First Steps towards building our Bad Ass Jeep! So when customizing a Jeep there are a million things you want to start with. And if you are like me, you want to start with everything all at once.…
Read More Taking the First Steps towards building our Bad Ass Jeep!
2016 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Black Bear Build Preliminary Build Sheet Now that we have our Jeep Wrangler JK Unlimited Black Bear purchased, we need to get right to work on beginning our modifications. There’s an almost unlimited number of modifications…
