Well.... we were planning on keeping our last Jeep forever unless we found the right LJR for the right price... and it happened the week before memorial weekend this year. I was looking at Jeeps on eBay and came across this 05 Red LJ Rubicon with only 41,750 miles in Virginia. We flew out the Saturday before Memorial Day, drove down to Auburn, AL, and then drove it back to Texas on Memorial Day. Nice little 1,500 mile trip and a good way to break in the Jeep. Specs below as well as some stuff the Jeep came with.
Factory mopar receiver hitch
3-4 inch Nth degree springs
Spacer kit for the transmission skid plate
Rancho shocks
Rocky ridge upper and lower control arms with Currie Johnny joints
5.13 Rusty off-road gears
Speedo adjustment module
35 inch Falken tires
AEV TJ bolt pattern argent pintler rims
Bestop oversized tire gate
Rusty’s off road front bumper
Quadratec replacement fog lights
Has some upgraded speakers (not sure the brand)
Modified factory style radio with aux Jack.
Hard top
Soft top
Bikini top
Hard top hoist
Mirrors for when the doors are off
This is the Jeep we sold. We kept the red half doors, banks cool air intake, mopar Half top, mopar chrome grill, Smittybilt winch, factor 55 fair lead, factor 55 ultra hook, KC 10 inch light bar, Rubicon express front disconnects, Rubicon express rear extended sway bar links, and N-Fab rock rails.
Sold it within 10 minutes. No joke. Put it on Craigslist, got a call within 10 minutes and the guy showed up with cash. He even paid me another $200 to swap some stuff from his Jeep over to the one he just purchased. It only had 83,616 miles when we sold it. Bought it bone stock, did some modifications and ended up getting our money back out of it and then some.
Here is the new Rubicon the day we picked it up.
First thing I did when we got it home was strip it down and wax/buff it. I removed the rock rails, fenders, bumpers, and etc. there are a few rock chips mostly around the doors (assuming when the previous owner was taking them on and off), some rust on the windshield hinges, and door hinges. I’m probably going to end up getting them taken off and redone. Can’t decide if I want to paint them red or powder coat them black.
I repainted the front bumper and installed our winch. Will probably sell the 10 inch light bar and buy a nice set of round KC LED’s. I installed the N-fab rock rails, picked up a set of the removable steps. I may at one point want to get some other bumpers but decided I wanted to beef up some other things first.
I just purchased:
Gen 2 ball joints
Banks exhaust
Currie tie rod upgrade
Teraflex steering stabilizer
I may also be purchasing a new rear adams drive shaft sooner before later so I can have the spacer kit removed.
Parts I’m wanting to buy in the near future:
Speakers
Seat covers
Front drive shaft
Bumpers (still torn if I want poison spyder front and rear or if I want just the mopar front and keep the factory bumper and receiver hitch in the rear until I can find a mopar rock crawler rear to match.)
Headlights
Bumper lights
Different tires (maybe - Falken’s aren’t my thing)
Moab rims as a back up for off roading
1 inch body/1 inch motor mount
High clearance skid plate
Taillights (maybe)
As of right now I’m just stock piling some parts that I’ll probably get installed in the next 2-3 weeks and have been focused on just getting it cleaned up to our standards. It was undercoated at one point but there is some rusty spots on the frame. Tub is near perfect. Just the frame. Nothing a grinder and a can of rust preventitave spray paint can’t fix. With only 43,500 miles on the Jeep right now this will probably be the last one we ever buy. We have three tops and 2 sets of doors. Just want to make it right and enjoy it for what it is.
Will probably post another update with all the parts we’ll be installing in the near future.
Factory mopar receiver hitch
3-4 inch Nth degree springs
Spacer kit for the transmission skid plate
Rancho shocks
Rocky ridge upper and lower control arms with Currie Johnny joints
5.13 Rusty off-road gears
Speedo adjustment module
35 inch Falken tires
AEV TJ bolt pattern argent pintler rims
Bestop oversized tire gate
Rusty’s off road front bumper
Quadratec replacement fog lights
Has some upgraded speakers (not sure the brand)
Modified factory style radio with aux Jack.
Hard top
Soft top
Bikini top
Hard top hoist
Mirrors for when the doors are off
This is the Jeep we sold. We kept the red half doors, banks cool air intake, mopar Half top, mopar chrome grill, Smittybilt winch, factor 55 fair lead, factor 55 ultra hook, KC 10 inch light bar, Rubicon express front disconnects, Rubicon express rear extended sway bar links, and N-Fab rock rails.
Sold it within 10 minutes. No joke. Put it on Craigslist, got a call within 10 minutes and the guy showed up with cash. He even paid me another $200 to swap some stuff from his Jeep over to the one he just purchased. It only had 83,616 miles when we sold it. Bought it bone stock, did some modifications and ended up getting our money back out of it and then some.
Here is the new Rubicon the day we picked it up.
First thing I did when we got it home was strip it down and wax/buff it. I removed the rock rails, fenders, bumpers, and etc. there are a few rock chips mostly around the doors (assuming when the previous owner was taking them on and off), some rust on the windshield hinges, and door hinges. I’m probably going to end up getting them taken off and redone. Can’t decide if I want to paint them red or powder coat them black.
I repainted the front bumper and installed our winch. Will probably sell the 10 inch light bar and buy a nice set of round KC LED’s. I installed the N-fab rock rails, picked up a set of the removable steps. I may at one point want to get some other bumpers but decided I wanted to beef up some other things first.
I just purchased:
Gen 2 ball joints
Banks exhaust
Currie tie rod upgrade
Teraflex steering stabilizer
I may also be purchasing a new rear adams drive shaft sooner before later so I can have the spacer kit removed.
Parts I’m wanting to buy in the near future:
Speakers
Seat covers
Front drive shaft
Bumpers (still torn if I want poison spyder front and rear or if I want just the mopar front and keep the factory bumper and receiver hitch in the rear until I can find a mopar rock crawler rear to match.)
Headlights
Bumper lights
Different tires (maybe - Falken’s aren’t my thing)
Moab rims as a back up for off roading
1 inch body/1 inch motor mount
High clearance skid plate
Taillights (maybe)
As of right now I’m just stock piling some parts that I’ll probably get installed in the next 2-3 weeks and have been focused on just getting it cleaned up to our standards. It was undercoated at one point but there is some rusty spots on the frame. Tub is near perfect. Just the frame. Nothing a grinder and a can of rust preventitave spray paint can’t fix. With only 43,500 miles on the Jeep right now this will probably be the last one we ever buy. We have three tops and 2 sets of doors. Just want to make it right and enjoy it for what it is.
Will probably post another update with all the parts we’ll be installing in the near future.
