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Build MNR 4600 class 2021 U4 Bronco
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Do you run your own steering setup on the jeep?
My jeep is a raisin and it was never the duck generation
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That thing still has an old off the shelf PSC ram assist. Needs an upgrade but haven’t been using the Jeep so haven’t been working on it
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Left those ducks right there on the dash. No windshield not top. Cruise Control set on 80 coming home for 400 miles straight and they never blew off the dash. Figured they’d have went for a flight but nope, still got em. Guess they live there now. 🍺
Good luck today fellas!!!
Byro
Lurkin’
😂 Awesome. I contemplated double stick tape.
ridered3
Low Talent Wheelin
That’s pretty funny. Anytime I see those Maxxis ducks, I think of Rufus Racing.
It's cool to see the Jeep back out and running trails again.
I was supposed to do that to your Bronco at Crossbar, but I forgot the ducks on my kitchen table the morning we left and the DJ in Davis didn't have any so i failed at my mission.
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I’m going to use that sharpie to write a name on each one. That’ll give me somebody to talk to when I’m by myself. I’ll have Byron and Chris to consult for when I’m screwing up.
While we wait for all the pictures and videos to come in. Here’s a video I took of the old Jeep, first startup in almost 2 years. All I did was put a new battery in it, air up the tires and change the engine oil before dragging it out to KOH.
Nvr-enough
Red Skull
It's cool to see the Jeep back out and running trails again.
This. It's a cool rig from the pics I've seen over the years. JR4X if I drag my rig down your way, can I convince you to fire that thing up and follow you around some trails in your neck of the woods? Never wheeled the area, mom in law is in Farmington so logistics are easy from my end.
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I’m sure we could do that. The reason the jeep hasn’t been out in years is because I’m pretty well hooked up non stop with this racing stuff. Just putting that out there so you don’t get to disappointed if the one weekend a year you can come and I can’t go.
Aee you bringing the Jeep to the Crossbar race? I'm planning on being there again to bring you more good luck.
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Not planning on the jeep. Hoping to bring the RZR if I can get it running againAee you bringing the Jeep to the Crossbar race? I'm planning on being there again to bring you more good luck.
If not, bring the RzR anyway and I'll bring the treefiddy so you can rid yourself of that headache.
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Red Skull
Totally get that, between working for 3 different teams in ~4 different series I understand all too well how free time/rec wheeling gets put to the back burner.
vetteboy79
It's bent. #ttb
I think I already asked you this, but are you guys planning to go to the race in PA?
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No, too far.
ridered3
Low Talent Wheelin
Just ask the BigB fellas for a rental prerunner
Penetrode Offroad
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Off topic but what is the story on the TrailJ? Bought it new and been wheeling since or bought part by part for a prerunner for dad's 4500 car?
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It’s something I bought and rebuilt a long time ago but never did any build thread on. Poor thing has had probably the roughest life of any rig ever. It’s an 06 and it’s just an Unlimited X, nothing fancy. My friend bought it in 2007 when it had 7,000 miles on it as a salvage vehicle. Original owner had tail ended something in it and the fenders bent the tub so insurance totaled it. Friend put a junkyard front clip on it and put rubicon D44’s in it front and rear and DD’d it for a while.
He had two jeeps and the JK’s came out, he decided he wanted a Hemi JK so he parked both his TJ and LJ for sale out by the road where people could see them. A 16 year old girl on her phone hauling ass hit them both. T-Boned the TJ in the passenger door pushing it into the passenger side of the LJ totaling all 3 vehicles. Friend got a huge cash payout and bought the LJ back again as a salvage vehicle. He took all the money from both both and rolled it into an LJ build. Put the Golen 4.7L stroker in it (which runs great to this day) took it to Teraflex and had them put CRD 60’s long arm it and Fox coilovers all the way around. Had the Atlas II put in it at that time. Put Genright front fenders and the AEV high line hood on it. This was in 2009, about 11,000 actual miles on it. Stock wheel base tons & 40’s. The Teraflex geometry was pretty bad.
It wasn’t great but we were wheeling big enough stuff that the terrible suspension geometry just didn’t work well. So then friend took it to Off-Track Motorsports in Cedar City to have IceMan Dean Bullock work it over. The Teraflex suspension setup was tossed entirely and Dean converted the front from a 4 link with panhard to a 3 link with panhard. Stretched the wheelbase by putting a Genright stretch tank in and moving the rear axle as far back as the tank would allow. The lower links were straight and triangulated uppers. Friend switched from Fox remote reservoir coilovers to Radflo Emulsion coilovers for some reason. This is the only picture I can find after the stretch to 113” wheel base.
At that point it still had the factory roll cage in it. Decided he was doing stuff bigger than was safe so took it apart to put a genright cage kit in it. This is where I take over. At this point we were racing 12 to 13 races a year between Ultra4 and DirtRiot. One day I asked him about the LJ and he said “You know what, I haven’t touched it in a couple years and it’s in my way, you aughta just buy that thing from me” and sent me this picture.
That picture was taken and sent to me in 2012. I finished up getting a divorce and as soon as I was rid of the ex I bought it for $15K and dragged it home. There was no interior in it. The cage was only partially finished and needed pulled to finish welding it. No seats no shifter etc, the krawlers that were on it had decent tread but wouldn’t hold air. I put new tires on it right away, this is what it looked like when I was getting started on it.
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I started wheeling it and I immediately hated the new suspension geometry in the rear. You can see in the pics above the lower links are a mile long and hang down too low. Spent too much time hung up on them so I re-re-did the rear lower links again and now I love it. Triangulated the lowers and shortened them up a little. Wheelbase ended up at 112” and works way better now. These pics are just to show what the bottom side looks like now.
I was freshly divorced and took out all my frustrations with women on this thing. My friends and I drink and wheel, did then still do. Just at the time I got this thing dolled up and the way I wanted it. Here it is, at this time it has 17,000 actual miles on it and I just wheeled the hell out of it.
I was freshly divorced and took out all my frustrations with women on this thing. My friends and I drink and wheel, did then still do. Just at the time I got this thing dolled up and the way I wanted it. Here it is, at this time it has 17,000 actual miles on it and I just wheeled the hell out of it.
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Every single one of my wheeling buddies got rid of their full body rigs and went to full buggies right around this time. I wasn’t in a position to make a change so I proceeded to take this thing on buggy trails for years and just finish off the body. It’s some of the best money I’ve spent, so many great trips and memories in this thing. It’s street legal and I’ve never really driven it on pavement except to get between trails or back to the trailer. It currently has 24,500 actual miles on it. 7,000 miles in 12 years doesn’t sound like a lot but that’s all trail miles because I trailer it everywhere.
Random photo dump from just years of trail abuse. At the very first trail hero I managed to blow up the gears and ARB in the high pinion 60 rear. So I removed it and replaced it with a brand new built RuffStuff 9 with 14B FF outers and a true hi 9 third. I’ve been running this same true hi diff since 2005.
Random photo dump from just years of trail abuse. At the very first trail hero I managed to blow up the gears and ARB in the high pinion 60 rear. So I removed it and replaced it with a brand new built RuffStuff 9 with 14B FF outers and a true hi 9 third. I’ve been running this same true hi diff since 2005.
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Hell yeah. Thats awesome. 
God thats a sight. Half ****ed up and 2 little purse dogs guarding it.
Sandy Johnson
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Awesome write up on the LJ! Waaay more entertaining than anything I was supposed to be doing at work this morning.
ridered3
Low Talent Wheelin
Cool trip down memory lane! Crazy how low of mileage it is too!
just driven to church and the market on sundays, never wheeled
Bitchin