Recent content by Dean

Heard a similar story with a melted rain jacket. The temptation is to remove it, but that will only make things much-much worse.

Nice! Upgrading from a 19 gallon stock tank to a 31 gallon tank on my LJ was hands-down one of my favorite modifications.

It also syncs up with Vader's hallway scene from Rouge 1 almost shot-for-shot.

I run Rigid Industries LED headlights in my Jeep. Installed a bunch in other Jeeps. In my time working at an off-road shop we had tons of JW speaker lights defective out of the box and returned as defective. Never had a set of Rigids comes back. My second pick would be KC HiLights...

Going to be rough on vendors to do three events back-to-back-to-back like that. I suspect a lot of the "small fish" that built the event in past years are going to drop out of doing all of them and be forced to cut back to the show in their back yard.

Two other great resources I'll point you to are TrailDamage.com and the Latitute40 maps. Both cover Colorado and Utah. Trail Damage is like a wiki of trails for both states and has difficulties, GPX files, photos, videos, and trail reports. The Lat40 maps also have trail information on them...

Yeah, I'd say everything north of Moab and most of everything south of Moab is fine. The touchy spots will be the La Sal pass and stuff like that. And yeah, skip Lockhart Basin and the Kokopelli part around Moab.

That section of the Kokopelli Trail from Dewy Bridge down around Rose Garden Hill to Onion Creek is LEGIT some of the hardest wheeling I've ever done. Especially solo.

And the faux-trucks like the Avalanche and Ridgeline that are just very confused station wagons.

I can make sparks. I can melt metal. Occasionally it sticks together. However, I will not insult professionals by calling what I do, "welding." Thanks for the link. I'll look into it.

Logged 130'ish miles over the weekend and about 50% was on dirt/gravel. I was the mid-guide in a group of 12 rigs. SSSOOO much dust. Need to figure out a good way to get some high-up on a wrangler which is tricky given the soft-top/hard-top. May have to pull a trick out of the military...

Is it going to be an actual "truck" and therefore compete/dilute with the Ranger? Is it going to be a next-gen Ranger? Or is it going to be a Brat/Avalanche/Sportrac faux-truck? I've heard rumors the next-gen Ranger will be on the Bronco platform. So that makes sense. I just can't see a...

Love my InReach, but I also just passed my HAM Tech exam so I have yet another option in my comms array.

Stock gearing on a V8 ZJ should be 3.73:1. You should be able to confirm on the axle tag or if you pop the cover it will be stamped into the ring gear.

The front is a Dana 30. It's the exact same axle as a TJ or XJ/MJ D30 including the mounts and everything. When I broke my D30 I swapped one in from a TJ and it bolted right now. So, in theory, if you found a D44 from a TJ Rubicon it would bolt up to a ZJ.