Howdy everyone! After about a year and a half of owning my 06 Jeep Green LJR, it's about time to start building and upgrading. This is my 3rd jeep I've owned. I've owned 2 TJs and finally found out I wanted an LJR. I bought it with 114k miles on the clock, 6 speed manual, 33s and a rough country 2.5" for $14.5k. I've only had one chance in that time to take wheeling in that time, and had a blast! With my job I've been gone for pretty much every summer so I get to miss most of the nice weather haha.
Recent projects have been the Savvy BL and Currie MML, 35in tires, and I also pulled the trigger on a Warn Zeon 8. There were some pretty good sales on the tires and winch so I kinda jumped my purchase list for those.
Future plans/ideas:
For now I am going to build for 35s and keep it as light weight as I can. My way forward is to pick up the Savvy or Currie 4 in lift, Savvy Tummy Tuck, probably Rancho 5000x based on a lot of recommendations on this forum, Black Magic big brake kit, axle shafts one day, re-gear, some armor and misc parts. I am hoping this will look very similar to @Midnight LJR build prior to his recent mid arm upgrade! I would honestly love the mid arm lift, but it is a little out of the budget and I want to do this all myself. One day I will hopefully get it, but I need to improve my non-existent welding and fab skills haha. With my budget being a little more restrictive, this might be a slower moving thread so I apologize in advance!
My uses for this jeep currently are for some mild offroading, explore back roads, enjoying the nice weather with the top and doors off, and just enjoy driving it! I want it to have good on-road and off-road manors, but be reliable enough to take off-road and get into some more technical stuff.
A few things I am hoping to accomplish with this thread is to document my process, provide feedback on my experiences, learn from all the more experienced members on the forum and build a greater knowledge of all things TJ/LJ/offroading!
I look forward to everyone's suggestions and help, thanks!
Recent projects have been the Savvy BL and Currie MML, 35in tires, and I also pulled the trigger on a Warn Zeon 8. There were some pretty good sales on the tires and winch so I kinda jumped my purchase list for those.
Future plans/ideas:
For now I am going to build for 35s and keep it as light weight as I can. My way forward is to pick up the Savvy or Currie 4 in lift, Savvy Tummy Tuck, probably Rancho 5000x based on a lot of recommendations on this forum, Black Magic big brake kit, axle shafts one day, re-gear, some armor and misc parts. I am hoping this will look very similar to @Midnight LJR build prior to his recent mid arm upgrade! I would honestly love the mid arm lift, but it is a little out of the budget and I want to do this all myself. One day I will hopefully get it, but I need to improve my non-existent welding and fab skills haha. With my budget being a little more restrictive, this might be a slower moving thread so I apologize in advance!
My uses for this jeep currently are for some mild offroading, explore back roads, enjoying the nice weather with the top and doors off, and just enjoy driving it! I want it to have good on-road and off-road manors, but be reliable enough to take off-road and get into some more technical stuff.
A few things I am hoping to accomplish with this thread is to document my process, provide feedback on my experiences, learn from all the more experienced members on the forum and build a greater knowledge of all things TJ/LJ/offroading!
I look forward to everyone's suggestions and help, thanks!
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