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You know I test drove the new 2007 Wrangler and I stalled it like six times... guess why? The engine is so quiet you cannot hear it. It was crazy- I haven't stalled in traffic since I was learning to drive stick eons ago.

louder and warmer... nothing like roasting your leg on your tranny hump metal in the summer!

My carpet comes in a can marked Herculiner.

I've officially got an address in Tucson. My wife comes out January my MJ 'round April (should have everything but the tires and seats!)

it was really cool to crawl around the mountains to the east. a lot of people shooting up there. there was at least one fully automatic rifle, and probably 100 people shooting in various areas. I only went back in for about 10 minutes as my TJ isn't set up and I didn't even have a hi-lift with me, but having someplace to go anytime and do lite wheeling would be awesome. The problem with Tucson is finding a place to rent. I've been here a week today and I'm no closer than I was when I rolled in. There are a ton of houses for sale but the rentals either don't have any pool access, are overly expensive ($1295/mo next to 7 identical houses for sale @249K isn't my idea of a good deal) and most don't have any driveway space to speak of. I'm going to look at one today that will cost me an extra $1400-ish because the streets are so small I can't even get my car trailer in the neighborhood much less the moving semi, and if I park my MJ in the driveway the back 8" will actually be in the street (and it's SWB!). Other than the actual finding of a house to rent instead of buy, one that you can park something other than a car at anyway, Tucson has been really great.

Found an MJ and all it really needed was a floor... :rotfl2: My dad gave me mine, the second one anyway, sans floor needing a clutch and to be converted to 4wd. And it was completely coated in black greasy dirty grease-dirt. I'll never do that again... the floor that is. I'd convert a rust free 2wd any day. Cleaning the gross crap off sucked too.

Wow, can you imagine making a Hummer WIDER?

I felt like my BFG ATKOs wore out really fast on my TJ. I like my old school BFG Mud T/As they got grandfathered to the TJ to replace the ATKOs and are still good to go even with siping and many miles. Down at Redbird (Dugger, IN) it's all thick gnarly clay mud- you can spend 8 hours getting your club 2 miles on a bad day. Watching the BFG Mud T/A perform in this stuff totally sold me. The people with BFG and Super Swampers were walking the stuff, the people with off brands like Mud King might as well have been working slicks. To see them in the parking lot you'd think there wasn't a difference, but boy when the goo is thick it shows you what a good tire is. Of course they tell me out here (Tucson) there is only one mud hole that can ever be relied on to be there so I've got to maybe change my tires too.

Yeah, disco is good if you want to cable disconnect and run an ezlocker or something. Otherwise I'd say go with whichever is in better shape.

Come on, Iowa has really nice rolling landscape compared to Indiana, sure it averages flat, but I'd rather drive in Iowa any day.

Yeah, thank Napoleon...

Hmmm... what if you stop accelerating between 45-50? What if you force it to stay in the gear (make it not shift so there is no "before shifting").. does it go away at 50? What about decelerating, does it vibe in gear coming down? What about neutral? I would think if it was the tires speed would be thing, regardless of if you're going up, down or shifting - but it's been so long since I had a car that did the tire thing at 75-80 I can't remember if it did it coming back down. Not that the dealerships understand these things...

Actually it's just the quick air I and no tank. It will reseat a bead just fine. You just have to be patient. Reseating a bead takes pressure not speed, it's just with mega speed you don't have to be patient or terribly careful.

if so then I'm about to become divorced or dead, depending on the wife's mood. :brows:

I have a Quick Air 1 that I had in my XJ. It fit so nicely in the wheel well... it will reseat a bead, I've done it five or six times, but it's slower than dirt. I'm going with the engine compressor on my MJ (no AC) and I have hand tools as a backup (heh heh)... That reminds me the shop I had my trailer tires replaced at had this little 10 gallon tank that they filled to about 150psi from the main line and then shot all that air into the tire bead through a half blocked 2" steel barrel that came off the tank. It was homemade and worked great. No better than lighter fluid or whatever, but it would be really cool to whip one out on the trail and reseat someone's tire with it... It's loud as heck and a great way to show off how much stuff you can take.

Sounds like it would be cheaper just to skip the rest of the warranty. When I bought my Wrangler the biggest Jeep dealer in town (Kahlo) wouldn't come down $300 and I told them I'd just drive across town and they'd make me the deal. Kahlo said, fine, whatever. And I bought my Jeep at Crossroads for the price I wanted. The third Jeep dealer that I've delt with does things like order a Rubicon Wrangler and puts crome all over it, including those stupid soft crome step rails that hang like 6" below the built in diamond plate rock guards. No wonder it's still on their lot over a year later. The only warranty work I ever had was when the screw fell out of the rotator cap arm on my way to Kokomo. The first thing they said was: "has you taken it off road?" as if that was to blame for the screw falling out. As if I had. I said to the guy, "Look, I have a Cherokee that I really take offroad- this one is really nice, has clean paint and small tires, why in the world would I take it offroad?" I don't' know that was at the time when Jeep was voiding warranties for off road use. I don't know if they still do that or not...

well, you know there are only so many things I wanted to put on the survey- However- Having driven into Tucson I saw: 3 lifted XJs 2 "nice" wranglers (like set up for offroad not bling'd out like in Phoenix) and (drumroll) The first comanche I've seen in 2000 miles of driving! It was bone stock and completely rust free... :drool: I think we may have a winner folks! (Yeah I know there are probably more Jeeps in Moab, but it's still only 10 hours away from Tucson so I think I can live with that...) Still I think it's a good discussion and I want to continue to hear opinions.

Come on Canada is all one place, unless you count the French speaking part separately. I'm just kidding of course, although I realize that when you say "doesn't snow (much) there" we probably have really radically different ideas about what "(much)" is... ;)

Well I'm actually wanting to start a little used jeep/offroad shop- but I'm not looking for a place to do that in. It's kind of if it makes sense where I go then great, but I'm not moving anywhere because I can start a business there. My wife is a business analyst for a big insurance company and it's her job that is important to fit.

whowey - just making sure you're paying attention. It gets boring going there all the time too. Moab actually came up in my top places to live at findyourspot.com (word to the wise use a fake email addy) I wonder what the job market is like there...

Well, Phoenix didn't have much to offer (actually they have everything- except a place to park my trailer) ...so, I'm moving on. I'm going to be driving around the Southwest looking for a new place to live. Any suggestions? If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

If you're familiar with Word almost everything is the same, you'll see the same button bars and stuff. It will look real familiar once you get in it. Also grab some other peoples' presentation files (like ask the office for the kind of stuff they've had in the past) and you can use them as templates and also just for general deconstruction. Good luck, let us know how it goes!

I always start with an O'Rielly book and read it straight through about 3/4 of the way. O'Rielly is the best computer language book publisher I've found, over and over again for many things. Not sure they've got a PPT book though... maybe one on MS Office will have some info. Good luck!

Indiana is straight dusk to dawn, in fact one of the gotcha questions on the driver's exam had and hour before and and hour after as an attractive wrong answer.

will an ax15 withstand a V8?