I've never been to WV, but I’ve spent plenty of time in western NC, I can tell you the river water is still cold in August.
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I've never been to WV, but I’ve spent plenty of time in western NC, I can tell you the river water is still cold in August.
MountaineerTom
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Maybe it’s a little longer trail than I remembered, and looks like one trail and part of another. I wonder if anyone else on this site has been there to give more details? Also, the first pic says part of trail 1, but I wonder which part? There are two #1 trails on the map, but I’m assuming Jeeps would use the #1 that is NOT a bold black line since it matches the #8 tail on the map.
Yeah… I don’t know. The mountain house is only 30ish minutes away from there, I’ll probably end up there sometime.
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I just now noticed the legend in the top left corner saying ===== are 4WD accessible trails.
It's still not the cleanest map. I assume the 4wd #1 is the 12.6 mile trail. Maybe we should bring this topic up over on the Carolina thread and see if any of those guys have been there.
I replaced all my old speakers that the PO put in with new ones.
Old:
- Rockford fosgate 4” in dash
- Rockford fosgate 5.25” in sound bar
New:
- Polk DB522 5.25” in dash
- Polk DB622 6.5” in sound bar
- Spliced in Alpine .75” tweeters above dash
I also put Noico soundproofing sheets all around the new dash speakers as well as poly-fil in the sound bar since it wasn’t there before.
The sound quality is way better than before, and will get much louder as well which I wanted for the highway.
I’ll try to get my Rockville RW10CA 10” powered sub in on Wednesday. Can’t wait for that!
Other pictures to come later.
Old:
- Rockford fosgate 4” in dash
- Rockford fosgate 5.25” in sound bar
New:
- Polk DB522 5.25” in dash
- Polk DB622 6.5” in sound bar
- Spliced in Alpine .75” tweeters above dash
I also put Noico soundproofing sheets all around the new dash speakers as well as poly-fil in the sound bar since it wasn’t there before.
The sound quality is way better than before, and will get much louder as well which I wanted for the highway.
I’ll try to get my Rockville RW10CA 10” powered sub in on Wednesday. Can’t wait for that!
Other pictures to come later.
Started work on the subwoofer this morning. Will finish it up tomorrow
Nice work. I need to add a center console sub and amp. the dash and speak pods just dont cut it.
The recommended wiring kit for the sub was quite difficult to get installed just because it was barely long enough to get to the sub from the head unit and battery - at least in the way that I decided to route it. The ground wire also gave me some trouble finding a place to mount it. Maybe there was a better way. Drilling the hole in the firewall also gave me a lot of trouble because the only drill bit that I had that was the right size was like 10 inches long and I couldn’t easily fit my drill under the dash with it…
Then I had to put a restraint strap on the tailgate so it doesn’t swing too far and pull out the wires. I drilled some holes and did that. I decided to try and clean up all the wires. I suprised myself with that. I’m not usually good with stuff like this, but I’m super happy with how it turned out.
And I love the sub, it sounds amazing. I have it turned almost all the way down just because it’s so loud and I don’t like that much bass. I’m excited to see how it does on the highway.
Then I had to put a restraint strap on the tailgate so it doesn’t swing too far and pull out the wires. I drilled some holes and did that. I decided to try and clean up all the wires. I suprised myself with that. I’m not usually good with stuff like this, but I’m super happy with how it turned out.
And I love the sub, it sounds amazing. I have it turned almost all the way down just because it’s so loud and I don’t like that much bass. I’m excited to see how it does on the highway.
Made a new trunk space now that the sub wouldn’t work with the old one I had. This one is much nicer and quite a bit stronger now that I can weld. I gotta get a piece of carpet or something to put on top so it’s not see-through.
Just as a bit of an update - I used the speakers and the sub for the first time on the highway today. I could hear both at 75 mph with only half doors on, so that’s successful. Really the whole goal of this project in the first place.
CEL randomly came on today when driving home from work. Decided to take it to the autozone nearby to borrow a code reader and when I turned the car on again, CEL was gone. Kinda annoying…
Glad to see you out there using the Jeep what it's designed for! You're doing it right.
Envious that you have these trails within a short drive.
I’m enjoying it! These trails are just old logging roads and forest service roads that my family has cleared out over the years, but a blast to drive on!
It's kind of interesting, my family has a mountain house and the neighborhood that it's in has this dirt road that goes back up a mountain on neighborhood property. After maybe 3/4 of a mile, it turns into national forest and branches off in quite a few ways with even more connecting to logging roads that are crazy overgrown. It was made by the local volunteer fire department 10+ years ago when there were some crazy wildfires in the area.
My family enjoyed using it and hiked all over the place on it until my dad bought his JK. Once my dad got the jeep, we started doing a ton of work clearing it all so that we could drive it. We eventually discovered a really cool creek back there and since we could drive farther and faster than we could walk, we found a really cool view on top of some rocks almost 5 miles up these roads. I found a cool little rock climbing bouldering area recently (that's my big thing, I go climbing 3-4 times a week). There's also a random pond on top of the mountain way up there.
Eventually, some neighbors started taking side by sides and four-wheelers on it and it became pretty established on some of the main parts. Was the first place my TJ went offroad. Now the neighborhood owners just sold all of that property to a couple who put a gate on the road. They'll build a house sometime soon and didn't want to hear the side by sides flying up there to get to national forest. We made friends with them and got the gate code so it's fun to still drive it once in a while and go explore the national forest area of it. Just can't do anymore work on the private area since someone owns it now. Obviously want to be respectful of them and their land as well. I know no one asked for all that info but thought it would be interesting to share... kind of a cool story.
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