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I wish the Pintlers came in a 15"! I would be all over finding a set.
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It really does! Especially when the rear seat is out it feels like you have a mini truck bed
Yeah it would be nice... I'm actually okay with the 17" though... it does give me the option of running bigger brakes in there which would be the right thing to do for 37" and above for sure. Still undecided on how long I'll push my luck on the stock axle, or whether I'll be looking at JL donor axles or something fully aftermarket... need to see how the budget recovers.
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Fortunately for export spec, or certainly GCC spec, they all got Dana 44's in the rear.
On top of that, sand is quite kind to the axles as the tires spin quite freely on them so we don't get the sudden stop you might get when a spinning tire finds traction hopping up a rock, or a torsional twisting of the half shafts if you accidentally steer on slick rock with a locker engaged, just don't need to worry about that. So in my experience sand has been very forgiving for larger tire sizes and we can to a certain degree get away with a lot more than what would be standard advice in the US. Plus the motor is stock and I have a more gentle giant with flotation driving style rather than beating on it. Biggest thing here is bending axles from jumps so a good truss helps, along with running lower pressures if you are gonna bounce around so you land on big soft balloons rather than hard heavy tires.
First Jeep was a present to myself for my 18th birthday; an 1989 YJ (i still have but will probably sell soon) It was a lot of fun and definitely got me hooked but was just one problem after another, so after 1 year I bought the TJ I still drive today!
Don't know if I've seen you on here...nice stuff.
Have you got any camels? I have 2 TJ's, and some CJ's, but I've never had a camel. I've always leaned toward the 2 hump
camel, I figure the towing capacity is better. I bet someone could make a great joke out of that . Camel Tow. Keep posting your projects, really nice Brute and TJ.
Don't know if I've seen you on here...nice stuff.
Have you got any camels? I have 2 TJ's, and some CJ's, but I've never had a camel. I've always leaned toward the 2 hump
Keep posting your projects, really nice Brute and TJ.
Haha - those camels can be worth more than both my TJ's combined. Interestingly the double-hump thing is geographic - they are native more to regions like Mongolia where the temperatures range from -55 to +30°C where as our temperatures can range from 0 to +55°C so... I fear the double hump model would overheat here. I've never seen one.
I have often given thought to owning a Ford F550 rollback with a Camel Tow logo on the door just to haul my toys to the desert. That might get me a one way ticket home.
