I know I'm talking about OEM hardware here, but it is in a non-standard application... So techincally it's (just barely) mod tech. Anyway:
Yesterday and this morning, I helped with stripping an XJ before sending it off to the junkyard. Nobody seemed to want the OEM tire carrier that was on it, so I snagged it: the specific style is the same as the one in this picture.
While I don't want to get into the relative merits (or lack thereof) of this carrier, I am kind of interested in adapting it out to fit my 2000 until I can afford an aftermarket bumper and carrier. There was a write-up somewhere (not here, IIRC) of a guy who did exactly this: my search-fu is failing, and I can't find the article. If anyone has a link to it I'd appreciate it if you could post it; even though I have all the bracketry, etc. I'd prefer to learn from someone else's mistakes before I start making holes in things.
Yesterday and this morning, I helped with stripping an XJ before sending it off to the junkyard. Nobody seemed to want the OEM tire carrier that was on it, so I snagged it: the specific style is the same as the one in this picture.
While I don't want to get into the relative merits (or lack thereof) of this carrier, I am kind of interested in adapting it out to fit my 2000 until I can afford an aftermarket bumper and carrier. There was a write-up somewhere (not here, IIRC) of a guy who did exactly this: my search-fu is failing, and I can't find the article. If anyone has a link to it I'd appreciate it if you could post it; even though I have all the bracketry, etc. I'd prefer to learn from someone else's mistakes before I start making holes in things.
Thanks for that; it's exactly the one I was looking for. You don't happen to have a link to the write-up, do you? There's a forum user whose username matches the licence plate on that XJ, but I don't think it's the same person and Google's not helping (again).