rustybottoms88
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This is the story of a little Jeep named Token and of our adventures together.
Seriously though I am creating this thread to document my ownership of a 2001 TJ, so it will be on going or I may just quite posting one day never to be seen or heard from again....who knows.
I bought the Jeep not quite a year ago. I convinced a friend of mine, Lee, to buy a plane ticket and fly to Colorado with me to look at and purchase a 2001 TJ. We then drove it back home to NW Arkansas. That was an adventure in its self and Lee does a pretty good job of telling the story, he can chime in with the who story if he would like. But in short we made it back with out much trouble. I will definitely be doing another trip like that again some day, hopefully with as much success.
Here is the Jeep as it arrived safe at home from the trip.
A picture from the trip, Colorado is beautiful!
Some specs of the Jeep. It has the gutless 2.5L 4 cylinder and weak AX5 transmission and of course the NP231J transfer case. It had well over 200K miles on it at the time of purchase. It has a 2.5" coil spring spacer lift, IronRock Offroad rear longarm kit, an HD DOM tierod and draglink with heims, 8.25 rear axle and stock D30 front axle. A P.O. added heavier duty lower control arm mounts on the D30 and it also has a HD front track bar. Both axles have 4.88 gears with lunch box lockers. It has 35" BFG tires. It came with a few other goodies like rear tub corner armor, rock sliders and Blue Torch Fab front tube fenders. That's pretty much how it was setup when I bought it. Admittedly not much has changed but I have made a few upgrades, changes I will tell you about. I drive it to work and I have wheeled it a few times since I got it. My goal is to have a reliable wheeler but something I can still drive to work. Kinda of a mild version of a Ultimate Adventure rig. This Jeep is a good start. I had a "Rockcrawler" before and I hated only taking it out once or twice a year and it sitting in the garage the rest of the time. I am a tight ass and if I have something it needs to be used or its likely to be sold.
Here is a picture from the P.O. at Moab:
So thats my first post. More to come.
Seriously though I am creating this thread to document my ownership of a 2001 TJ, so it will be on going or I may just quite posting one day never to be seen or heard from again....who knows.
I bought the Jeep not quite a year ago. I convinced a friend of mine, Lee, to buy a plane ticket and fly to Colorado with me to look at and purchase a 2001 TJ. We then drove it back home to NW Arkansas. That was an adventure in its self and Lee does a pretty good job of telling the story, he can chime in with the who story if he would like. But in short we made it back with out much trouble. I will definitely be doing another trip like that again some day, hopefully with as much success.
Here is the Jeep as it arrived safe at home from the trip.
A picture from the trip, Colorado is beautiful!
Some specs of the Jeep. It has the gutless 2.5L 4 cylinder and weak AX5 transmission and of course the NP231J transfer case. It had well over 200K miles on it at the time of purchase. It has a 2.5" coil spring spacer lift, IronRock Offroad rear longarm kit, an HD DOM tierod and draglink with heims, 8.25 rear axle and stock D30 front axle. A P.O. added heavier duty lower control arm mounts on the D30 and it also has a HD front track bar. Both axles have 4.88 gears with lunch box lockers. It has 35" BFG tires. It came with a few other goodies like rear tub corner armor, rock sliders and Blue Torch Fab front tube fenders. That's pretty much how it was setup when I bought it. Admittedly not much has changed but I have made a few upgrades, changes I will tell you about. I drive it to work and I have wheeled it a few times since I got it. My goal is to have a reliable wheeler but something I can still drive to work. Kinda of a mild version of a Ultimate Adventure rig. This Jeep is a good start. I had a "Rockcrawler" before and I hated only taking it out once or twice a year and it sitting in the garage the rest of the time. I am a tight ass and if I have something it needs to be used or its likely to be sold.
Here is a picture from the P.O. at Moab:
So thats my first post. More to come.