my guess is that no one will really care...

...but here are some pix of the jeep i used to own - and myself - the last time i went "wheeling" up close to moonrocks.







i have a couple more if anyone is even slightly interested.

we didn't make it up to the rocks due to snow, by the way. i think these were taken late may 2006.

I'm 'even slightly interested'.

Is that hole for a pvc snorkel?

i'm slightly interested also.

nice rig.

yeah, pvc snorkel. worst waste of time, effort, and sheetmetal ever.

i built that fugly bumper all by my lonesome, and hid the solenoid box behind the grille. these pics were taken before the finish welding/grinding/painting was done. 1/4" frame attachments, doubled as steering box brace - 3/8" flat plate to hold warn 9k winch - skinned with a mixture of 3/16" and 1/8" and braced internally with 1/4" - 1" shackle mounts tied into frame attachments.

the jeep was only sorta tough, there were many many things i wish i had done differently.

Yeah, who cares?

How about the specs, lift, tire size? Pix with the snorkel?

Has that mirror been "tree adjusted" in pic #2?

It looks quite capable

Just noticed the lone hood grille. Looks kinda funny.

PDeeXJ said:

Just noticed the lone hood grille. Looks kinda funny.

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Makes sense though. Guys running the vent over the throttle body have trouble with the TPS crapping out on them due to rainwater coming in.

i don't have any pix with the snorkel... it made its way into the dumpster almost as quickly as it arrived! for a while, i had a cheap trucker mirror over the hole that worked pretty well when the doors were off, but that got pretty beat up so i took it off. i put the hood vent on that side and ran the intake across the top of the engine so that it was pulling a little bit cooler air from the side of the engine opposite the exhaust manifold. probably made absolutely no difference, but whatevs.

6.5" hybrid lift - RE control arms, rusty's rear leaves, rusty's coils, DT shocks (garbage!).

33x12.50R15 les schwab mud terrains. these tires work really well for being priced so reasonably. excellent on-road handling when balanced, sh!tty when not balanced - like any tire i imagine...

4.56 gears, lock-rite in the front.

warn 9k winch, obviously

rockrails i bought from some dude whose friend made them, almost identical to JCR offroad

custom roof rack. it fell off once. weird story.

homebrew oba w/5 gallon tank

no muffler, punched out cat. sounded like a damn tractor.

5% tint on back 5 windows
15% on front windows - not the windshield duh

this is from another cheesy trip


i flexed up on a tractor of some sort late one night


i had 35" mtr's for a quick minute... junk!


i drove over a log with those 35's on just because i could.


later that afternoon, i climbed the tire on my friend's toyota project, which is incidentally still in the same condition as seen in this photo.


this was taken as i was figuring exactly how tight i could fit the winch in there underneath the grille. i was very satisfied with the end result.

Walter!

Great to see you are still around. Haven't seen you in a while. Front bumper looks nice. Very functional which is the most important.

hi hans!

well, to make it clear, i'm not really "around" per se - i moved back to northern CA where i am pursuing a bachelors of nursing degree. pursuing as in trying to get into a program. i finished my prereq's in yakima this last spring, and just couldn't stand to be away from my family and girlfriend down here, so here i am.

i want another jeep very badly, but i think it'll probably be a YJ this next time around. i promised my girl i wouldn't get one until i finish college though, so hopefully that day comes sooner than later.


all of that being said, i miss the pacific nw terribly.