Wilson
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Backstory: I picked this samurai up from a friend 5 years ago for $300. It was sprung over/ yj swapped, on 33’s, locked F/R and had a 4.xx case in it. All cylinders were under 100 psi and one was 45, but it ran and drove… so F-it. I tried taking it wheeling but the stock carb ran like shit. I added a 3k, power steering, X3 seats and a 6.xx case over the summer of 2018.
October of 2018 I swapped the 4.xx case back in and let a friend take it deer hunting. This was fortuitous because on November 8, 2018 a fire wiped out our entire town and claimed my Lj, two flatty’s and my wife’s UZJ100. The Sami was safe in another town.
I bought a built jk and have pretty much exclusively wheeled it for the last 4 years. I let YotaAtieToo borrow it a couple of times and in the spring of 2019 he built me a badass 99% chromoly cage for it and we made a deal to get another 6.xx case in it. I took it on one trip in June of 2019 and other than that I’ve used it like a sxs around my property and on a Little Rock pile that I built. Having this thing for 5 years makes this the longest that I have ever kept a rig!
This past weekend I went wheeling with a longtime wheeling buddy and he said “bring the Sami.” So I swapped in some LED lights from tractor supply, a little Bluetooth speaker and had an absolute blast. After unloading it, my 9 year old daughter said that she wanted to drive it around to where we park it, so she got her first lesson driving a manual.
I’m not sure exactly where this thread will go, but I am inspired to do a couple of things to this rig to make it hit a couple targets; stay light weight, better “road” gearing and to fit in my toy hauler.
October of 2018 I swapped the 4.xx case back in and let a friend take it deer hunting. This was fortuitous because on November 8, 2018 a fire wiped out our entire town and claimed my Lj, two flatty’s and my wife’s UZJ100. The Sami was safe in another town.
I bought a built jk and have pretty much exclusively wheeled it for the last 4 years. I let YotaAtieToo borrow it a couple of times and in the spring of 2019 he built me a badass 99% chromoly cage for it and we made a deal to get another 6.xx case in it. I took it on one trip in June of 2019 and other than that I’ve used it like a sxs around my property and on a Little Rock pile that I built. Having this thing for 5 years makes this the longest that I have ever kept a rig!
This past weekend I went wheeling with a longtime wheeling buddy and he said “bring the Sami.” So I swapped in some LED lights from tractor supply, a little Bluetooth speaker and had an absolute blast. After unloading it, my 9 year old daughter said that she wanted to drive it around to where we park it, so she got her first lesson driving a manual.
I’m not sure exactly where this thread will go, but I am inspired to do a couple of things to this rig to make it hit a couple targets; stay light weight, better “road” gearing and to fit in my toy hauler.
