2004 Limited 3.7 4X4, sun roof, EVIC, chrome grill.
(3/15/08 - New upgraded suspension lift) The OME CRD 790's (500 lb. spring rate) are keeping the front end up with the weight of the ARB and winch. No more sagging!
Previous lift - RRO 2.125" Combo w/stock CRD 410 lb. spring rate front coils.
OME CRD 790 - 500 lb. spring rate front lift coils, OME 948 H.D. rear lift coils, "Jeepin By Al's" Upper A-Arms, front Rancho RSX shocks #17505, Gabreal rear shocks (extended, for a 2002 Dodge Durango) with an extra set of upper rear spring isolators, front extended Teraflex bumpstops, and home made rear extended bump stops made from rubber mallet heads.
ARB Bumper with a Mile Marker E-9000 lb. winch, with Amsteel Blue synthetic winch line.
Front - Detroit Truetrac gear drive limited slip.
(Installed Sept. 04 and has survived 2 blown front housings that took out both ring & pinon gears, and still going strong!)
Rear - Power Trax No-Slip lunch box style locker.
(Installed Sept. 04, no problems to date.)
Aluminum front differential collar added for reinforcement and washer bottle replacement (pg. 4).
Armor: Factory Mopar skids, Engine, Transfer Case, Gas Tank, and "All J's" tranny skid & Boulder Bars.
Sitting on 32" Buckshot XMT Mudders, load range C, with 3 ply sidewalls and fully sipped on stock 16X7 Aluminum rims.
Spider Trax 1 1/4" aluminum wheel spacers, for a total of 4 1/4" backspacing.
Electric fan motor cut-off switch installed for deep water crossings.
Section of 1/4" angle iron welded to lower lip of the ARB for dent proof winch cable protection.
YELLOW CREEK in WELLSVILLE, the Wheeling Capital of OHIO.
South of EAST LIVERPOOL (Rt. 30) along the Ohio River off of RT.7, to the 3 rd. Wellsville exit, ( Clark St. Intermodal Facilty Exit)
1st. Wellsville exit from the North is RT.45 (Lisbon St.) and has a McDonalds, Roadhouse, 2 gas stations , Dairy Queen.
"Maiden Voyage" 2/14/04, she sank!
Rock Creek, All J's Boulder Bars and Tranny skid getting a workout.
Powerline Hills
1st. pic light snow covered and some ice.
The locked Wrangler behind me, and myself were the only ones to make it up out of a group of seven that day.
Some hills don't look very steep going up, untill you look back down at them.
Then there's one they call M.F'er, if you really want something steep.
"Scooby Doo", obstacle in the Forbidden Zone.
Cleaning mud off the undercarriage at The Car Wash on the way out.
3 ft. deep at the time taken.