I will send you a PM, but I want to say thank you. This community is amazing. I am going to pull both covers this weekend. I want to see firsthand and I will post pictures. I would love to connect with a local Jeep pro, so thank you again. I would love for someone in the know to drive it and tell me their thoughts. I haven't driven it a lot due to the diff issue, and I have owned it for just a few weeks, but every time I drive it I notice something new. @someguysjeep mentioned a shop in NKY. Is that Performance Offroad? I called Highlift Offroad today but haven't heard back from them. I am hoping to find someone to do my regear, install lockers, and remediate whatever is wrong with the diffs. I would have the lift, steering, etc. installed at the same time.
You’re welcome. I would not recommend Hylift Off-road based on my personal experience. To that point, over a period of several years I have searched but have not found a reliable Jeep shop around our area. Im sure they exist but I’ve had no luck. As a result, I ended up with work that I had to redo.
Blaine has repeated the mantra over the years to “stop paying people to fuck your shit up.” I have found the best resource around here being Jeep clubs and other private owners if you are not mechanically-inclined enough. These are usually like-minded people that have knowledge to help but are not motivated by what profit they’ll make on your Jeep.
However, I’ve also found that much of the work we do on our TJs that appears intimidating, is really not that hard once you push through that mental barrier and dive into it with the right guidance, which you will find in here in abundance. One last piece of advice is that the “right tools” make all the difference in a job.
The moral of the story is “no one will care about your Jeep like you will.”
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