Hello all, my name's Brett and on Halloween 2016 I became a member of the TJ clan. I work for a GM dealership and have primarily driven GM products, but always wanted a Jeep. I'm now the proud owner of a 2006 TJ 4.0/6 speed soft top with 90k miles. It came with a winch bumper on the front and a steel d ring bumper on the back, 2" suspension and 1" BL, and 5 brand new 285/75r16 ko2's and looked like this:
My original plans were to keep it stock and just relax and enjoy riding with the top off etc. Coming from a guy who once had a turbo truck and loves projects, I started lurking on forums and started getting more involved with builds. I joined this forum for insight and assistance!
Current mods include:
-Spare tire delete
-Sold the BFGs and bought some 33" mud grapplers on 17" Hostages from a friend
-Smittybilt XRC 9500 pound winch
-Removed step bars
-50" light bar with 4" cubes
-580w 12" flood bar on front bumper
-Smoked Smittybilt soft top (old one was tearing)
-interior carpet delete
Looks a little something like this now:
This is my most favorite vehicle I've ever owned! Future plans include:
-Line-x the floor pan
-4" Rough Country lift
-Leaving the 1" BL on and putting 35x12.50 TSL Boggers on these Hostages
-Negative flare colormatched Poison Spyder front flares
-Poison spyder rear corner armor
-4.88 Gears with front and rear ARB air lockers
-on board air compressor for lockers and to air slack tires
-CNC some fake beadlocks for the hostages PC'd red
-short snorkel of some kind
-possibly a freer flowing exhaust
-SYE
-tummy tuck
-Antirock front/rear sway bar disconnects
And I know the list will continue as time goes on. Any insight is appreciated! I do ALOT of creek/river riding and offroad/mud. Not really anywhere to crawl so i'm not extremely concerned with flex. This isn't my daily so I'm good with loud obnoxious tires, just want it functional!
My original plans were to keep it stock and just relax and enjoy riding with the top off etc. Coming from a guy who once had a turbo truck and loves projects, I started lurking on forums and started getting more involved with builds. I joined this forum for insight and assistance!
Current mods include:
-Spare tire delete
-Sold the BFGs and bought some 33" mud grapplers on 17" Hostages from a friend
-Smittybilt XRC 9500 pound winch
-Removed step bars
-50" light bar with 4" cubes
-580w 12" flood bar on front bumper
-Smoked Smittybilt soft top (old one was tearing)
-interior carpet delete
Looks a little something like this now:
This is my most favorite vehicle I've ever owned! Future plans include:
-Line-x the floor pan
-4" Rough Country lift
-Leaving the 1" BL on and putting 35x12.50 TSL Boggers on these Hostages
-Negative flare colormatched Poison Spyder front flares
-Poison spyder rear corner armor
-4.88 Gears with front and rear ARB air lockers
-on board air compressor for lockers and to air slack tires
-CNC some fake beadlocks for the hostages PC'd red
-short snorkel of some kind
-possibly a freer flowing exhaust
-SYE
-tummy tuck
-Antirock front/rear sway bar disconnects
And I know the list will continue as time goes on. Any insight is appreciated! I do ALOT of creek/river riding and offroad/mud. Not really anywhere to crawl so i'm not extremely concerned with flex. This isn't my daily so I'm good with loud obnoxious tires, just want it functional!
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