Of Jeeps, cutting, and...

If you don't strive to make any car or bike look stock while being modified, it's a travesty. Well, that may be an overstatement for most without OCD. That wish/want/clinically defined disorder can lead you to do things that make no sense.

The start


If you have a rock crawler Jeep XJ the common mod is the  2x6 rocker to keep the factory rockers from being bashed in while climbing large rocks. If you have a pre-bashed Jeep you do it to get it to look somewhat normal or at least that's my thought process.





Just a little damage


And after judicious application on a cut-off wheel



First mock-up of the overkill rocker replacements



Better but not close so let's break out the spot weld cutter


And after a little massaging we get......





Certainly moving in the right direction?