First Modifications
The first thing I wanted to change were the headlights, because lets be real; Jeep have the worst headlights hands down. I tried Silvana Silverlight’s. They’re better than stock, but not by much.
I replaced the fog lights with led bulbs. Can’t remember the brand, just something inexpensive off eBay. They were so much brighter than the headlights. I started searching for LED headlight replacements. I really liked the JL Speaker Evolution, but at the time they were over $800 a pear. I just could not swing that much. I decided to add a LED light bar so I could see in the snow, because the headlights just barely worked on a clear night. I found a cheap 20” LED bar for less than $60 that came with switch, relay, wiring and mount.
Shortly after I bought the light bar, I had decided to buy the bull bar from RubiTrux because they made the bumper for my jeep. Since I knew I was going to add a winch as soon as I could find what I wanted, I ordered a winch plate and vacuum pump relocation bracket. The relocation bracket was a suggestion from someone on the forum. After I received them and the use of a friend’s garage and extra pair of wrenching hands, we pulled the bumper, skid plate and cut the factory vacuum bracket off. Then attached the relocation bracket to the new winch plate and installed it. We then added the bull bar brackets. We put the bumper back on and went to install the bull bar, but could not get the brackets to line up with the holes in the bumper. Had to go home without it installed. A couple of days later I was able, with a lot of bracket manipulation, to install it. I was only able to get 4 of the 6 bolts in, as it is mostly decretive anyway. After that I installed the light bar.