89 MJ

The inside of my dads YJ is bedlined with Raptor and the floor mats don’t move much or at all in that.

The only way to go is up! I could take a couple of pictures of our topper/bumper racks that we have at work if you need ideas, but I’m sure you could get the concept without pictures.

I’d probably hang out in the non-cool crowd (MJs, XJs, the real Jeeps). The main reason I asked was to get an idea compare to the Back to the Fifties car show (10,000+ cars).

Happy to help. You look like another young guy. Are you high school or college age?

What Pete said. If you are doing a 3” lift, you will probably be running 31” tall tires. You will want 4.10 gears then.

Or, you spend 15 grand making it legal and overland ready and you live in the Jeep, best of both worlds, with the exception of running water, indoor plumbing, etc., etc.,

That’s kinda what I was thinking—that’s ok for my family though, because my mom has a JKU she is slowly building.

I do have the 8.8 swapped into my truck. I used one out of an Explorer Sport Trac, so it was about an inch wider than a regular 8.8 and has drums. It was very worth it because I upgraded gearing while I was at it. No brake line extension is necessary with 3” or lift. You could probably do an 8.8 swap in a weekend if you had all of the parts already.

I love vice grips, especially the needle nose ones. They are also great at pinching off rubber fuel line so it won't leak. I'm sure it would work with brake lines too.

Yup, that's going to be very pretty!

We have only been doing a Hybrid model (2 days in, 3 days out of school) for 1 week now. We went 11 months (including summer) strictly virtual. It sucked.

At my school district, we build them in to the yearly schedule, and if we don't use them, then we just have 2 extra days of school that year.

I believe that @Tex06 is down in LA

I think you should step back and decide what you want this truck to look like long term. We can help advise you from there. If you are going to do anything except keep the truck bone stock, or very close to it, then you should be looking at upgrading your whole axle. If you want to lift it and add big tires, you will need to change your brake lines anyways.

Happy to help! I thought it was a good deal, and figured you'd want to see it. It is beginning to look like there is no true maximum bed ownership for you though... What happened to the right rear corner of the trailer? I see it is in primer in these pictures, but wasn't in the others. I think this red bed would make a very cool trailer to pull behind your original 88.

Was that the one I told you about for the flares? If so, glad to see that it is going to a good home!

Well that kinda sucks. Although, maybe not needing to have any more snow days built into the school schedule will mean that school years will be shorter in the future, because they won't need to plan for them.

For those of you who went to this show in 19, how many total Jeeps were there? I would assume there were a lot of JLs/JKs.

You do great work! Any particular reason that you went with an All Terrain on this truck?

Hmmmmm, I have a very nice tractor that doesn't run great, an ok tractor that runs great, and an extra 4.0 that I need to put a new crank in. Anyone want to see me 4.0 swap one of these (the less nice one) come spring or summer?

Its getting close!

Let's see your Briarwoods!

Today is supposed to get up to a balmy 18 degrees today for me!

I just got a Comanche Club short sleeve shirt from my girlfriend for my birthday. I really like it!

We both prefer the Razor grille too, but he has a good condition muscle grille, he can always change it out later if he finds a nice razor. His truck will get 15x10 white wagon wheels