Texas Texas Jeepers!

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Say, wouldn't it have been easier just to drive around at 'der rock?

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In Salado - looking forward to hook'n-up with y'all sometime soon.

Lots of crazy stuff goin' on right now, with busyness on weekends, but hope to carve-out a weekend soon, to make it happen with y'all.
What rock? That ain’t no rock. That there is a pebble. :p

We’d love to have wheel together. That was back in the 31 days. They look so small now
 
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What rock? That ain’t no rock. That there is a pebble. :p

We’d love to have wheel together. That was back in the 31 days. They look so small now


Yep, I remember those 31" days. Then the day came when I went up to 33's - I was beside myself.

Then, the day came when I went up to 35's - and life was bliss.

Next stop, 44's :D

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What a cool jeep!... hope you can work it out to where you can wheel with us.:)

Thank You:)

For sure, I need to break-away and do some wheel'n with y'all--it's very good therapy--to get out in the sticks--the elements--to get mud clods in the ear--to hear the 4.0L growl--to then plink some empty beer cans with a (dare I say it) - gun.

And say, am I see'n double, or do you have two Jeeps?
 
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Thank You:)

For sure, I need to break-away and do some wheel'n with y'all--it's very good therapy--to get out in the sticks--the elements--to get mud clods in the ear--to hear the 4.0L growl--to then plink some empty beer cans with a (dare I say it) - gun.

And say, I'm I see'n double, or do you have two Jeeps?


P.S. The green monster CJ with 44's is just a random pic. The Khaki TJ in my avatar, is my Jeep.
 
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Thank You:)

For sure, I need to break-away and do some wheel'n with y'all--it's very good therapy--to get out in the sticks--the elements--to get mud clods in the ear--to hear the 4.0L growl--to then plink some empty beer cans with a (dare I say it) - gun.

And say, am I see'n double, or do you have two Jeeps?
Im happy to say you have perfect vision. The white is a 97 SE 2.5, ive had it a year.
The Patriot Blue is a 4.0, i just got it 2 months ago so yes we have 2 jeeps for some reason... :-/ :-)
 
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Very nice combo there :O)

I was commenting to someone recently, that during a recent trek into the PNW, a 2.5L TJ was tackling some aggressive trails very nicely. It had a 4" lift and was running 33's. I had read that there's limitations to what the 2.5L can handle, with mods. But from what I saw, it took-on some gnarly stuff just fine.
 
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Very nice combo there :O)

I was commenting to someone recently, that during a recent trek into the PNW, a 2.5L TJ was tackling some aggressive trails very nicely. It had a 4" lift and was running 33's. I had read that there's limitations to what the 2.5L can handle, with mods. But from what I saw, it took-on some gnarly stuff just fine.
I have wheeled my white 2.5L 97 3 speed auto with 3.73s twice in the Texas hill country with the Texas Jeepers. That 2.5L tackled every trail and hill and granite rock pile i dared to attempt. :)
Edit: and thats with a stock tj with some sort of 2" spacer BB lift the PO installed on 31s. :)
 
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I have wheeled my white 2.5L 97 3 speed auto with 3.73s twice in the Texas hill country with the Texas Jeepers. That 2.5L tackled every trail and hill and granite rock pile i dared to attempt. :)
Edit: and thats with a stock tj with some sort of 2" spacer BB lift the PO installed on 31s. :)

Yep, not surprised :)

We've all read the 100s of threads which say, "you're going to have to upgrade this...and if you upgrade that, you're going to need this...and you'd better not do that unless you first do this...etc., etc." Though many such commentators have good intentions, I've concluded that an equal number of them are rather engaging in a measure of less-than-obvious "guilt-transference-syndrome" - wherein and whereby they feel better about themselves when they can convince someone else to spend the same amount of money on upgrades that they have.

Hello? :)

In short, its amazing where a stock TJ will go - when the driver navigates the tundra with a little skill.

OK, I've just donned a flak-jacket, as I do not doubt I will have offended someone--it's nearly impossible to comment on anything these days (including the weather), without incurring some kind of backlash.
 
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Yep, not surprised :)

We've all read the 100s of threads which say, "you're going to have to upgrade this...and if you upgrade that, you're going to need this...and you'd better not do that unless you first do this...etc., etc." Though many such commentators have good intentions, I've concluded that an equal number of them are rather engaging in a measure of less-than-obvious "guilt-transference-syndrome" - wherein and whereby they feel better about themselves when they can convince someone else to spend the same amount of money on upgrades that they have.

Hello? :)

In short, its amazing where a stock TJ will go - when the driver navigates the tundra with a little skill.

OK, I've just donned a flak-jacket, as I do not doubt I will have offended someone--it's nearly impossible to comment on anything these days (including the weather), without incurring some kind of backlash.
Most people on here are pretty cool! Do we do what you suggest? Maybe. Surely a lot of us are enablers. I'm sure that's true on Mustang Forums just as much as Cooking Forums. In the end though, it is true, that if you want to build your rig around a certain tire size, there are things you must upgrade. I presume that many of us build our rigs as a hobby. We like to create problems as much as we like to solve them. We also like to get outdoors and use our machines as we built them to perform, to find out if they will do what we built them to do. No offense taken!

From the barren granite wastelands of Central TX
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If you're up near Georgetown the drive would be a little closer, about 1:50min. If you want to go out, let me know and I'll meet up with you. I'm 45 minutes from Wolf Caves.
 
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