So Thumper, my beloved LJ — a Jeep Rubicon Unlimited with lots of fixings — has been in storage in Colorado for a couple weeks now. I drove it out for the big Anasazi trek and then left it in Ouray, which is a far more fitting place for an …
Project LJ Stage 3: Enter the expensive. A series of fortunate events punches up my LJ timeline (items covered in detail below). $1000 — T-Max EWI-10000 Winch. $600 — Skid-row Nightcrawler Front Bumper. $400 — Jeeperman Trail Skidz. $375 — Smittybilt/Rugged Ridge Off-road Cargo Rack. $200 — Rola Pursuit Cargo …
Project LJ Stage 2: More quick, cheap fixes, plus a small bit of Jeep-style luxury (items covered in detail below). $800 — Garmin Trail Guide. $75 — Buchanan Precision Machine 1.5″ Seat Lift-kit. $70 — Mopar’s Jeep Mud-flaps. $50 — Skid-row Steering Box Skidplate. $25 — Domelight Kill Switch, from …
Spent part of my weekend replacing the battery on the Stratus in hope that its starting problems are due to a dead cell and nothing more. There are many reasons I’ve grown to dislike the vehicle, so I was surprised to get yet another: opening up the hood, I couldn’t …
During our time out West this summer, we decided to head out to Moab, UT for some hardcore jeeping — and it just so happened that we went with the owner of 4xGuard, who was up for a bit of product testing in his gorgeous Grand Cherokee. Here’s a video …