Cake
February 10th, 2012, 11:49 AM
Greetings and salutations,
New to the mountains:thumb:, new to the jeep:wrench:, and new to marriage:confused:. Whew...
The wifey and I moved to the 4 Corners area- right outside of Durango- little over a year ago, and I picked up an XJ fall of last year. For the record, the jeep came before the marriage.
Anyway, I drive a company car during the week, and she needed something other than my old 2wd chevy pickup to get to work, so I got the jeep with the intention of it being her DD, and my weekend toy. Lets see how that pans out...
I put a 3" RC lift, new leaf pack since the old ones were inverted, and 31's. The other stuff hasn't been that exciting, but I figured I should get it out of the way. Upgraded headlights, harness, what do you call it, steering box frame brace?, put a hitch on for a rear recovery point, homemade disconnects, some exhaust work, which i'm not too sure i'm happy about...
Upcoming plans: I have longer brake lines to put on, spacers for upfront to get rid of the rake, and I'll be ordering a SYE once my taxes deposit(tis the season!). I'm pretty hesitant about chopping my output shaft though, as easy as everyone says it is, I typically have terrible luck. Murphy read the book, I wrote it. I'm also keeping an eye out for an adjst track bar and rock sliders and a 31" spare. Need to take care of front recovery points before wheeling season begins too... Kinda tough to work on my rig where we live. Driveway is rocky and dirty and full of pointy things, and its all incline. Plus I only have weekends to do the work, and typically we're going places and doing stuff. I mountain bike, ski, and we're totally into paddle trips.
Anyway, I'm not into trashing the rig- more of an expo guy. I'd rather spend a few hours going somewhere far off the beaten path and setting up camp with the better half, the dog, and the beer, than spend a few hours crawling around on a few rocks with nothing so show for it except body damage and a few hundred yards of distance.
So hopefully I can get down on some trips with y'all. I didn't notice many people from around my neck of the woods, but I've got my eye on some trails in the Sangre De Cristos this summer. I'd also like to check the Alpine Loop and Black Bear pass of my list. We're about a 3hr drive from Moab, so I'm always up for that, except during the summer.. you'll find us on the water instead of the dirt out there then. Too ffffing hot.... which reminds me.. I need to order hood vents as well..
Photos are basically from our backyard, a couple miles from where we live.
New to the mountains:thumb:, new to the jeep:wrench:, and new to marriage:confused:. Whew...
The wifey and I moved to the 4 Corners area- right outside of Durango- little over a year ago, and I picked up an XJ fall of last year. For the record, the jeep came before the marriage.
Anyway, I drive a company car during the week, and she needed something other than my old 2wd chevy pickup to get to work, so I got the jeep with the intention of it being her DD, and my weekend toy. Lets see how that pans out...
I put a 3" RC lift, new leaf pack since the old ones were inverted, and 31's. The other stuff hasn't been that exciting, but I figured I should get it out of the way. Upgraded headlights, harness, what do you call it, steering box frame brace?, put a hitch on for a rear recovery point, homemade disconnects, some exhaust work, which i'm not too sure i'm happy about...
Upcoming plans: I have longer brake lines to put on, spacers for upfront to get rid of the rake, and I'll be ordering a SYE once my taxes deposit(tis the season!). I'm pretty hesitant about chopping my output shaft though, as easy as everyone says it is, I typically have terrible luck. Murphy read the book, I wrote it. I'm also keeping an eye out for an adjst track bar and rock sliders and a 31" spare. Need to take care of front recovery points before wheeling season begins too... Kinda tough to work on my rig where we live. Driveway is rocky and dirty and full of pointy things, and its all incline. Plus I only have weekends to do the work, and typically we're going places and doing stuff. I mountain bike, ski, and we're totally into paddle trips.
Anyway, I'm not into trashing the rig- more of an expo guy. I'd rather spend a few hours going somewhere far off the beaten path and setting up camp with the better half, the dog, and the beer, than spend a few hours crawling around on a few rocks with nothing so show for it except body damage and a few hundred yards of distance.
So hopefully I can get down on some trips with y'all. I didn't notice many people from around my neck of the woods, but I've got my eye on some trails in the Sangre De Cristos this summer. I'd also like to check the Alpine Loop and Black Bear pass of my list. We're about a 3hr drive from Moab, so I'm always up for that, except during the summer.. you'll find us on the water instead of the dirt out there then. Too ffffing hot.... which reminds me.. I need to order hood vents as well..
Photos are basically from our backyard, a couple miles from where we live.