Two things completed this weekend:
#1 Narrowed the front bumper (about 5 inches off each end), notched out access holes to the top bolts, rattle can black 3 layer paint job.
#2 Plus started my sidemarker/highmount turn signal project.
Cut out the gussets on the tubefender, replaced with bent+coped tube, layout of backside of sidemarker into steel gauge plate bracket.
Now all is left to weld in the actual gauge plate bracket, prime it, and hippo it. Plus wiring.
Note, Rhino Liner is a pain to remove. Grinder works, but is messy. Actually heating the plate causes the rubber liner to peel off the steel.
Also, I have templates for the bracket to hold the stock TJ sidemarker light. How you affix them to the jeep is up to you. But the pain of layout of a trapezoidal shape has been completed.
Pics here ->
http://elsifer.kicks-arse.org/gallery/v/JeepStuff/04TJ/SideMarkers/OR the same url tiny'ed ->
ttp://tinyurl.com/2sjnql