Even though I've had this Jeep for six years, I decided to start a build thread to document what I've done.
My parents bought a new TJ back in 1999, and every time that I would go back up north to visit my parents I would have an opportunity to drive it. It was always a great time, and in 2002 I actually drove it to a location in Maine where I asked my wife to marry me. Over the years, my wife and I had talked about getting our own Wrangler, but the timing was just never right. Fast forward to 2012 and my wife and I made the decision that we would not have children. We decided that we would take some of the money that we had been saving and finally buy ourselves a Jeep. It took a few months of looking, but one day my boss came up to me and told me that he had seen a nice looking Jeep just down the road at a mom and pop used car dealer. We hopped in my car and drove right over there to check it. A few days later we ended up buying a 2001 auto Sienna Pearl Sahara with 101,000 miles and a clean Carfax for $10,500. Not knowing anything about Jeeps at the time, I had no idea how lucky we were that it had a Dana 44 and absolutely ZERO rust. It had a cheap no name 3" lift and only a few small issues that we knew that we would could deal with.
My parents bought a new TJ back in 1999, and every time that I would go back up north to visit my parents I would have an opportunity to drive it. It was always a great time, and in 2002 I actually drove it to a location in Maine where I asked my wife to marry me. Over the years, my wife and I had talked about getting our own Wrangler, but the timing was just never right. Fast forward to 2012 and my wife and I made the decision that we would not have children. We decided that we would take some of the money that we had been saving and finally buy ourselves a Jeep. It took a few months of looking, but one day my boss came up to me and told me that he had seen a nice looking Jeep just down the road at a mom and pop used car dealer. We hopped in my car and drove right over there to check it. A few days later we ended up buying a 2001 auto Sienna Pearl Sahara with 101,000 miles and a clean Carfax for $10,500. Not knowing anything about Jeeps at the time, I had no idea how lucky we were that it had a Dana 44 and absolutely ZERO rust. It had a cheap no name 3" lift and only a few small issues that we knew that we would could deal with.
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