Let's see pictures of your 4x4!

[garyb1st]

The "new" 9 months old Willys just washed and after our first trek through some wet and snowy Bodie CA mud.   

 

[Kevin Means]

Here's our '06 LJ Rubicon Unlimited on the Mojave Road last month.

 

[garyb1st]

Where's the Mojave Road?

 

[Kevin Means]

It's the dirt under my tires! And it's the mud that's probably forever more caked under the chassis. :-\

 

[zmotorsports]

Nice LJ Kevin.

Mike.

 

[Kevin Means]

Sorry Gary. I thought you meant where's the Mojave Road in my pictures. Duh! It runs between Laughlin, NV and Barstow, CA. Takes about three days to drive. Very isolated in several places, but not a difficult run. Here's a link to a video of our trip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3e3iN7F31c&sns=em

Kev

 

[garyb1st]

Saw it Kev.  Didn't see the Tour.  Were you checking it out for a future trip?  Thought I heard one comment about the ability of a motorhome to get through. 

 

[Kevin Means]

No way RVs like yours and ours could make the trip Gary. I've seen some videos of some pickups with cab-over campers making the trip, and other vehicles towing small sport trailers, but no one with rigs like ours. Most, including us, tent camp. (I still don't mind doing that occasionally) The comment made was in jest.

Kev

 

[garyb1st]

 

[John Canfield]

Here's our '06 LJ Rubicon Unlimited on the Mojave Road last month.

Ah, you have those fancy pants retractable steps  . A guy I wheel with has those electric steps on his JKUR and I was with him when he bashed one in the open position.

 

[garyb1st]

Maria could barely get in ours when we first got it.  Since then here upper body strength has improved a bit.  lol.

 

[Kevin Means]

Ah, you have those fancy pants retractable steps  . A guy I wheel with has those electric steps on his JKUR and I was with him when he bashed one in the open position.

Yep... They're called Step Sliders, and I have to admit that they're pretty handy - pretty pricey too. Fortunately, they were on the Jeep when we bought it. Cyndi fell in love with them when we were Jeep-shopping, and they really do make getting in and out of a lifted Jeep a lot easier.

They're turned off in that picture, because we were unloading things at our campsite, and I didn't want them going up and down as the doors were repeatedly opened and closed. I can sure see how it would be very easy to forget to turn them back on. I think a "best practice" would be to only turn them off in the up-position. I've also considered designing some kind of alarm that would sound whenever they were deployed with the key in the Run position.

We were wheeling a couple weeks ago in the Anza Borrego desert, and I got suckered into going on a trail called Cat Blaster. It's a serious "no-turning-back" one-way trail with very tight side-dragging turns, with rounded and sharp-edged rocks, many of which were as tall as our tires. In that case, I turned the step sliders off in the up-position. They use door-magnets to determine when to open and close, and I didn't want them accidentally deploying with all the frame twisting that was going on. The good news is, they proved to be excellent rock sliders, and they did a great job of protecting the Jeep.

Kev

 

[COHauler]

Some really nice setups on here. Glad to see people getting out in their 4x4's.

I assumed some ROF members were on here....Yep!

 

[John Canfield]

Coilovers and full hydro steering! Nice!

 

[COHauler]

Thanks John. There are a few goodies on my Rubicon. Lol, guess it isn't a rubicon anymore other than a vin #.

 

[oakback]

1999 Toyota Land Cruiser, with factory center and rear diff locks, Bump It Offroad front bumper with 12k winch, Cooper Discoverer RTX tires. It doesn't see much exciting terrain, in Florida it's pretty much easy trails, deep sand, or lots of mud/water, and I got tired of the mud stuff a long time ago. I did get a chance to do some "real" offroading last Thanksgiving on the Tray Mountain Trail in north Georgia, that was a whole lot of fun.

 

[COHauler]

1999 Toyota Land Cruiser, with factory center and rear diff locks, Bump It Offroad front bumper with 12k winch, Cooper Discoverer RTX tires. It doesn't see much exciting terrain, in Florida it's pretty much easy trails, deep sand, or lots of mud/water, and I got tired of the mud stuff a long time ago. I did get a chance to do some "real" offroading last Thanksgiving on the Tray Mountain Trail in north Georgia, that was a whole lot of fun.

Wow. Very impressive LC you have there.

 

[Steelers1407]

2015 Jeep Wrangler JK Rubicon

 

[HueyPilotVN]

It has been several years since I posted on this particular thread.

Here are some pictures of one of the modifications I made to my Jeep Commander.

I wanted a locked storage compartment for off road and survival equipment.

I removed and gave away my third row seat.

I had some of the very best fabricators at our Mobile Hospital manufacturing plant.  So I designed and my guys built a 2,000 cubic inch locking compartment where the third seat used to be.

We built it out of welded thick aluminum diamond plate and it is bolted down into the floor.  I covered the top with matching carpet and it is not at all noticeable.

In addition to all the equipment in the picture I also store a full size winch on a cradle that can attach to the front or rear custom steel bumpers.

The second Jeep is Renae's

 

[HueyPilotVN]

The blue thing in the above pictures is a bed with a self contained battery operated pump.