My Off Road TD

[01Sport]

That is beautiful.

[wagonmaster]

I prefer my explorer. I can take it where hummers fear to tread OFF ROAD

Or my suburban were with a 2"lift I look over jeeps with a 6" lift

Tim

[01Sport]

Or my suburban were with a 2"lift I look over jeeps with a 6" lift

Yeah, but offroading is all about a low center of gravity. Give me a TJ with cut fenders with just a little lift and you can look over me all day in your Suburban That is if you can follow. Sorry, I just sold my TJ so I'm feeling bad. All I have now is my Tahoe, which looks over Jeeps.

[KI7AHO]

Since we are going Jeep, I roll old school........
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Still looking at TD designs , but we will start this summer.
By the way, great forum everybody,
Thanks,
Jon

[Eddielbs]

You Have A Real Jeep and Are A Real Jeeper If . . .

1. You use a hose to clean the inside and the outside

2. You take your date home early on a Saturday night so you can work on your Jeep

3. You determine that the best route from Point A to Point B is through a rock pile or over a mountain

4. You call a scratch or a dent, a beauty mark

5. You roll it over and don't get upset

6. Your Mom or your sister can't get in without help

7. You judge every hill you see by how much fun it would be to climb

8. You feel nauseous when you see a RAV-4 or a Chevy Tracker

9. You get custom pin-striping from trail brush

10. A low-rider Jeep pulls up next to you, and you want to get out and slap the driver

11. It takes more than 6 hours to get donuts

12. You pull into the unplowed parking spots on snowy days

13. You take your friends wheeling and they say "What trail; I don't see a trail!"

14. You've been forced to add TJ, CJ, YJ, and XJ to your spell-checker

15. You can see OVER a Suburban

16. You carry emergency supplies and clothing because you never know where you will end up

17. Your Nerf bars battle rocks and win

18. It rains and you don't care that your top and doors are off

19. You drive around to look at Christmas lights . . . topless

20. You change your plugs in the parking lot at work on a break

21. Your "Parts Department" is on blocks behind your house

22. You take your Mom wheeling and she has to help you flip the Jeep back onto its wheels again

23. You use an ice-scraper on the inside of the windshield

24. You get more heat from holes in the floorboards than through the heater vents

25. Every page of your repair manual has greasy fingerprints

26. Passengers scream "DON'T ROLL IT!" when you take them wheeling

27. You spend more time under your Jeep than under your significant other

28. Winter comes and your can't remember where you left your top

29. You spend more on car washes than on insurance

30. Even worse, the car wash won't let you in

31. You fix almost everything yourself

32. You feel sorry for someone in a $60,000 Toyota Land Cruiser

33. You have the phone numbers for all of your favorite mail-order accessory houses memorized

34. You have all your credit card numbers memorized

35. You slam the door and chunks of dried mud crumble to the ground

36. You get asked to pick up your co-workers in a snowstorm . . . and get paid for it

37. Your wife/girlfriend refuses to get in it

38. You are the only one on the street who doesn't plow their driveway

39. You are dating the Service, Parts, or Sales Manager at your local Jeep dealership

40. You try to run the plow trucks off the road when it snows heavily

41. You can't hear your $200 stereo over the howl of your tires on the highway

42. You have a high-water mark INSIDE the Jeep

43. After your answer to "What did you do this weekend?", the next question is always: "And you do this for fun, right?"

44. Your criteria for selecting a "significant other" includes auto repair skills--air tools optional

45. You plan your wedding around the Club's trail ride schedule

46. You save broken Jeep parts as "momentos"

47. You know the exact story behind every one (see above)

48. When someone refers to "The Good Book", you think of "The Jeep Owner's Bible"

49. You keep trying to convince your significant other to allow you to remove the doors on the family minivan

50. Your Jeep no longer fits in the garage

51. You always have your drinks "on the rocks"

52. You think that any tire that isn't waist high looks like a bagel

53. You can't take a girl, who's wearing a dress, on a date without carrying along a set of steps

54. You can't sneak into church late because the engine is too loud

55. You know your ring gear size, but not your wedding ring size

56. All of your shirts have some sort of grease or oil stains, or battery acid holes, from not planning on working on your (or a friend's) Jeep

57. You have a dirt berm at the end of your driveway from the mud that got washed off of your Jeep

58. You think that an "airline" is something that connects your differential to your air compressor

59. You stop trying to get the dirt out from under your fingernails

60. You buy parts for your Jeep instead of food for your family

61. You spend Super Bowl Sunday turning wrenches rather than watching the game

62. Your e-mail address refers to your Jeep rather than you

63. Your garage holds more Jeeps than your house has bedrooms

64. You have enough spare parts to build another Jeep

65. You have Jeep parts in your cubicle at work

66. You have to wash your hands before you go to the restroom

67. You carry along enough tools to supply a small garage

68. You nickname your Jeep after the noises it makes or it's most damaging trail accident

69. You carry along a replacement part for every drive component on the Jeep

70. You can air up your tires without stopping at a gas station

71. You're constantly getting passed on the highway

72. The Service Department has to let all of the air out of your front tires in order to reach the engine

73. Your wallet is always empty!

[Cruiser]

Just to add,, your spare clothes bag is a drybag like white water rafters use..

[shadowhaus]

Here is a buddy's Jeep and TD during a camping trip this year.

[Russ in California]

Couldn't resist. Jeeps are ok, but how come when ever I see one on the trail the driver won't return the wave? Same thing with Harley riders ...

Couple of good anti-jeep quotes from the inter-web...

I understand the Jeep thing, that’s why I drive a Suzuki

I got the Jeep thing, now it burns when I pee

Jeep Recovery Vehicle

Rubicon Recovery Vehicle

Silly boy, Jeeps are for girls

Just
Empty
Every
Pocket

Jeep pronounced in Spanish is HEAP

Jeep Trailer Rated, because you have to tow it there and back

Jeeps are for Cheerleaders

I could by a Jeep, but I could also cut off my leg and let it go gangrenous

Barbie Called, She wants her Jeep back

Did you steal that jeep from my mail carrier?

Jeeps are like tampons, every pu$$y has one

Jeep, it’s like winning the Special Olympics, win or lose you are still retarded.


What's the saying, "Don't hate the player, hate the game"

Shweeet.
Naw, Cheeps, oops, I mean Heaps, no no, I mean...well never mind.
I run with some in my local 4x4 club, Lost Coast 4x4's, and they do fine.
I love to wear my Land Cruiser teeshirts when I'm around them though.
Like: 'I understand it's a Jeep thing. That's why I bought a Toyota'
We kid each other but as long as we get out on the trail it's all good.
Still, I wouldn't give up my Land Cruiser and boy will my trailer look good behind it

[boxcar]

After reading this thread several times, I have finaly stoped laghing and desided to respond.Now please remember my opinions are my own and I do not intend to offend anyone unless theay drive a zuke (puke )in greek.
I have a 1974 cj5 / 4" all spring lift /T-18 tranny/d-20 transfer/d-44 rear with locker/d-44 front (locker) skyjacker hydros all around/onboard air and wulder/401 stroker under the hood (way more hp. than it needs but you gata love the torque. Notice anny thing? It's all JEEP. Not a zuke boddy with jeep or ford toyota or even chevy running gear to make it work.
Yes it will brake, and I have broken it manny times. I also ride a 1966 Triumph hard tail. Real bikers wave to anything on two wheels. But don't let the lack of a wave from a passerby bother you. There are newbees in every crowd. Back to the zukes, I live and wheel in the great NORTHWEST
where mountains mud rocks and trees mix with a little rain now and again to create some of the most challanging terain you can find anywhere on earth.
I have preped many rigs for the riggors of ouer trails. 5 of them zukes.
I must tell you, it would have bin better and less expensive to build an orv from scratch. None of the stock running gear is usable for heavy wheeling.
All ended up with combinations of Jeep chevy ford or toyota running gear
So before you guys start bashing jeeps .Take a good hard look at your zuke. Oh and if you truly think your zuke will go anywhere a jeep will go .Come on down. I'l show you some trails... Ever se a Suzuke towing a recoiless rifal through a mine field while being shelled by the v.c. Sorry I got carried away. For all you fj-40 guys out there theay don't call em land crushers for nothin. No mods needed! In the group of friends that we wheel whith there are -8 jeeps /4 fj-40s/ 5 sammys/ and two 4-runners. All will and have broken got stuck blown up the list is endless. But the one thing we all have in comen is that we never fault each other for his or her choice in rigs . It all works . I hate brand specific snobs........ Boxcar.. Owner---Resurection Iron Works. Builder of all things dirty.

[firemaniac]

A 1974 CJ5, nice, I cut my teeth on a 74 CJ5, got my license in a 88 XJ, and owned a few other makes and models through the years, and landed in a 93 Toyota reg cab, short bed, with a 22re and a 5spd. While I may have more overhang in the back, and not be highly modified, I'll still wheel it, it is my do it all rig, DD, TV, trail, hunting, and occasionally a emergency response rig. You rib me, I'll rib ya right back, the only times I will be a hater is if some one is wheeling irresponsibly, that is the crap that gives us a bad name, and others the reason to close the trails.

I have said it before, and here it comes again. It is not what you buy, it is what you build!
You tow me, I"ll tow you, all it will cost is a couple of pics

[firemaniac]

You Have A Real Jeep and Are A Real Jeeper If . . .

to many to quote

read from above

74. you know which noises are normal, and which ones are new

75. You know what a death wobble is and have experienced it!

76. Everyone knows where you park from the outline in the parking lot

77. That BMW that has been tailgating you disappears in a cloud of white after you slap the snow off of the soft top

[RedRocker]

Here's mine for now, should have an 06 Unlimited Rubicon by the end of the month. I bought this new in 86.

[pete.wilson]

Hey

Nothin sexier than a woman wheeling a Jeep, Hot! LOL

Pete Wilson

[KingMick217]

The Suzuki Samurai was the reason I got into teardropping. When I was in college I didn't have alot of money, but I had a Samurai and access to a shop. I built my teardrop light enough to pull behind it. That little bastard would keep up with 98% of the rigs of-road. Problem was 98% of my driving was on-road. All total I've had 3 different Samurai's; two cloth tops, and one tin-top. I spent a grand total of $4200 on all of them. That's after modifications and such.

Alas I graduated and make alot more money now... I sold the Samurai's and bought a Jeep. Well two actually, not including parts rigs. My wife drives a "predominantly" stock 2000 TJ, and I have an '85 CJ7 with 4"SPUA lift, 360/727/D300 stock axles and 31x10.5R15. The 33" will be going back on this weekend. I have over $5000 in my CJ alone. They are WAYYYY more expensive than Samurai's are to build, and I did mine on the cheap with all Jeep parts.

Of course my Samurai never came close to pulling the front wheels off the ground either. I wonder how long those springs will last untill I twist-em right off?

[chorizon]

Simple question for all you 4WD guys in the know. What's the difference in MPG between a Samurai and a 4-cylinder Jeep?