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@jsudar thread made me remember about this section and I figured I could make a post… When I was down in St George over new years my buddy had a lightly modified Capra on portals that I drove that was pretty sweet. It had front dig, rear steer and was way more capable than the wraith I’ve had...

What a trip. Great mix of wheelin and giving the little one time to play. Mostly kept it to 1/2 days of wheelin. Naturally I’d have liked to do more wheelin but this was a family trip after all and more than 5 or 6 hrs for a 3 year old is a lot. 12/28: Started off with a quick run up Double...

I’ll be down south over the new year. Will be down there from Dec 29 to Jan 5 but probably only wheelin 29th to the 2nd ish. Then will be doing other stuff with the fam. Would love to run some new stuff and stuff I haven’t completed yet such as Joint effort and nasty half.

A few weeks back I was chatting with Tim Saunders and it came to light that I’d never done Coyote Canyon. He responded with a screenshot of the permit calendar and we set a day for this weekend. Due to the 7 rig limit on the permit, it was a pretty exclusive trip with vetted vehicles and...

I'm looking for a couple OE Jeep JL or JK shocks that I can cut the eyelets off and use for a project. Anyone have anything floating around? I know the red versions that come on rubicons have the eyelet I'm after, but I assume the black shocks on the other trims would work as well.

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CTIS has always fascinated me. If I ever build something with portals because I won the lottery, I’d put serious effort into implementing the CTIS function that the h1 portals have an option for. I came across a feller that built a home brew setup on 05+ super duty unit bearings. Pretty cool...

Got the Jeep out for the first time in 2 years and since the motor trans and steering changes. The mildly built 6.0 is a real ripper. I’ve never been able to go up the dunes that fast! Wednesday night I did double Sammy at dusk for a shakedown. All good. Felt great to be back in the seat. It...

Let’s talk about steering. The initial concept for what I’m trying to execute came when speaking with Woodward steering about external servos back in 2014 or 2015. My brother and I had gone down the rabbit hole trying to understand how to make a better hydraulic assist. We learned about...

Close to 5 years ago, I picked up an LQ4 out of a GMC savannah with 205k on the clock. The van had been rolled, but I did hear the engine run, since I had to turn the van around in order to pull the motor. The effort was worth it and I snagged the motor and 4L80 attached to it for $550. I sold...

Last weekend I was supposed to help out a buddy at the Dino Dash BOR race in Vernal. He didn't end up getting his car ready in time. My brother and I had talked about making a super quick trip down to Moab to run Pritchett and then come home. This weekend fit both our schedules with fallen...

Figured I would post this here as a long shot. A few months back I picked up an 08 KTM 450 SX-F with a bad motor for $500. The cylinder was salvageable and I had Lindsay Machine Racing send it out for a clean up and replating. The valve guides were toast, as were the exhaust valves. Intake...

About a month ago, my fam and I went down to Sand Hollow to play for a few days. The weather was perfect and the trails were good. At some point I halfway broke the breather off my rear axle. I didn't find out until I was all sorts of twisted up in the soup bowl at the end of the Maze. I...

My family had some time constraints and the little Sahara trip didn't work. So we made a quick trip to 5 Mile to play in the snow. We made first tracks up through Rattlesnake and then motored up into the hills to the Mercur mine overlook. Lots of fun. And probably upwards of 18"-24" of snow at...

Is Ward Canyon open for winter travel? I know that many of the roads up by the B are closed to everything but "over snow vehicles" during the winter. I haven't been up to the B in almost 15 years, and was thinking if Ward Canyon is open, it would be a fun snow run.

Had a fun time today. Buzzed up the trail with relatively little drama. The group consisted of me, my pops in his sleeper one ton TJ on 37s and a couple buddies in CJ-7 buggies on 40s. I'll let the pics and vids do the talking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv-deZAP9wA...

Hauled down to Moab Wednesday to Saturday this last week. Fantastic weather and lots of laughs and fun. Our family group has grown as younger peeps have collected jeeps. We had 11 TJs in our group this trip and we were missing some people. We ended up running Moab Rim Wednesday afternoon...

Went down to Sand Hollow the latter part of last week with my pops and friends. Pretty fun trip. Ran "milder" trails due to the rigs my work friends had, but that didn't stop me from having fun hitting all the bonus lines around. Thursday we ran Plan B (7) and Double Sammy (7)...

Time to clean out some of the tires I have collected. I have 5 Maxxis Rzr SCR short course tires, 35x12.50-17. I can't remember the letter of the compound right now, but they are the stickiest ones. And they flat work. I was able to get a JK that was open in the rear and locked up front up...

Recently, I mostly finished Bill the mutTJ. My brother Russty is one of my biggest partners in crime and always has been. He used to have a 4.7L swapped TJ that he sold right before he got married. It was replaced with a bone stock '98 TJ with plans of building it into a capable rig from the get...