What’s your recipe for an all-around Jeep TJ?
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Not sure if this’ll show up, but here’s a few clips of our rig as it’s setup now. 7/10 trail here in SD. Worked well, but always room for improvement, i think.
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Bummer to have our great spotter in the way of the rig, but it was the only safe/“out of the way” place to stand on a tight/steep portion of the trail. In any case you can sorta see the rig articulating and working pretty well on a fairly big obstacle. Our AdventurePig is definitely more rig than i am driver…lol. I have a lot to learn still.
Corral canyon
- Sidewinder trail 7/10
- Gunslinger- loop b - 8/10
Very technical trails, in my opinion; simply cuz i’m a wuss…lol.
I assure you all my connections are parallel to the axle, that was my engineering thinking. I did this not long after I bought my JTR. I stuck with the Haltenberger until I got a bad case of the DWs over my Pomona Ca when I went to the Off-Road Expo there, hit a bad, bad section, and wow, did DW raise its ugly head? It was then that I decided to redo my suspension on my Dynatrac Pro 60, I don't think I paid $10k it's closed, IIRC. My Jeep was featured in the Dyantrac catalog for several years. I knew the owner really well, great guy. It's sad to see that he sold out to another outfit.
After I redid the suspension, I did not have an issue with DW again, and for about another 5+ years and a good 50-60k miles. That is when I was living out in Scottsdale, AZ, and we talked a lot back then.
As a matter of fact, you called me the last day I was in Scottsdale, and my wife and I were heading home to Texas the next day. After 10 years of wheeling and building, I was burnt out, and the wife decided to retire, so I sold my business and my 3 Jeeps and headed home to Texas. IIRC, you invited me to join up at the upcoming Hammers. By then, I had sold everything. But I kept my Warn winch and put it on my F 450 truck along with the thimble you sent me, I still got it, and it has been on the end of my Masterpull rope to this day. Its also seen a lot of action over the years
I did not have time for it after I bought a ranch in Texas. I sold it, and my wife told me It was time to retire, so we moved to Florida...Florida and Retirement are not my cup of tea, but I did get back into Jeep. I have had four since being here: a JKR, a 2023 JLR, a 224 JLR_X, and a JT R. I sold all of them except my JLR-X, and I gave that to my wife the other and she is trading it in on a 2025 JT which she has on order, to be delivered in Nov? After a JK and 2 JLs I am going back to a TJR ASAP.
Good hooking up you again and when it comes to Jeeps I know. you are the smartest guy in the room...
They are not because they can't be. The draglink is at an angle as is the track bar.
I was guessing based on what I know prices have done in the last several years. This is for a JK, I don't imagine the TJ version will be much if any less since there is no reason for it to be.
This is the axle in a box. You will still need another 5 grand in steering and fab to get it under a TJ.
It would be sad if he sold to a normal company. It is way more than sad that Yukon is the new owner.
And again, that is a function of size and strength.
I went full out on Dynatrac F & R, and at that time, you get the High Steer package. No need to scrimp if you are going big it pays dividends. The only thing I had to do was replace the front wheel bearings once. I put almost 80k miles on those axles. At the same time I did that I put on a Supercharger, which really helped since was driving all over the SW.
Here is my set before I put my drag link and my track bar in parallel...I did it by fabbing up a dropped frame connection and rotating the steering box.
I wrestled with this question myself a few years back. My recipe is an LJ, 3” lift, 33’s, regear to 4.88, lockers front and rear, stock engine, tranny and transfer case, hard top with roof rack, custom tow hitch, and a whole host of other modifications, some necessary and some just because I wanted to. I live on big island Hawaii and this setup works for picking up folks at the airport, hauling kayaks and paddle boards to the beach, towing my utility trailer, taking the tough route around Mauna Kea, slogging through Hamakua mud, and all daily driving duties. And it’s not just another Toyota Tacoma-if you visit the island you will know what I mean. Really happy with my decisions and the rig overall.
Yup, i’m an admitted tail-chaser. I appreciate this post.
1 Jeep stands out among the herd and its the only Jeep that fills all the requirements IMO: 2003-2006 TJ R and that is as close as you can get. The other option on par with the TJ R is the LJ R. I had both and I used my TJR for my Moab 7+ trails and my LJ R for the more moderate ones ( it had no mods).
I had gone to Moab 2x before I modded my '03 TJ R and I remember doing Hells Revenge, this 100% OEM. My TJ R was able to do it.
On my last trip to Moab and leading my last run a guy showed up in a brand new TJ R. He bought it off the lot on the way to Moab. He had come a long ways and albeit he did not meet my requirements of 37s, 3 in lift or better. He showed on our last day of the week long wheeling. He could only get off work for 3 days, Fri-Sun.
He followed me on the forum and he knew I led runs and he begged me to let him go with me. The only time I ever gave in and I told him to get behind me as I led and I will get you thru Pritchett Canyon because that is the last run of the week and we leave about 11 am. He one tun this morning and you can get your Jeep broke and you broke in. He had never had a Jeep.
I forgot what our first run of the day was but he managed to break his frot axle shaft on one side. So he had 3 wheel drive.
Believe it our not, I got him thru P Canyon. Lot of strapping for him and a whole lot of spotting. Also a lot of looking and seeing if there an easy way for him, there were a few spots that helped him.
Lets us NOT forget, why its called Rubicon: When the engineers approached corporate to build a more off road Jeep, they had to have a metric to show the justification. The Metric they picked was the Rubicon Trail. Do it OEM and they did and that is why its called the Rubicon...
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