Nice looking' rig, man! Definitely inspires me to get off my butt and do more with mine! Also, jealous of the $5 hi-lift!

 

Did ya ever make it out to silver lake?
I'm only an hour away and haven't been up there yet.
My Jeep is awaiting more love before I can wheel

 

I have not. Silver lake is like three hours away from me so were planning a weekend trip. Probably won't be until august

 

Great thread!! I have have the same 2000 But alot of my specs are different.

 

Thanks! What's different on yours?

 

Took a trip out to Silver Lake sand dunes for two days this week and it was a blast! My friend brought his YJ but the fuel pump started going bad so we had to cram in mine for most of it. It was tons of fun though.










I air'd down to about 10 psi and I was able to handle just about everything. I made it up the test hill no problem too. I even caught some air on a few parts (accidentally) but my jeep was literally off the ground completely a few times and it was awesome

 

I have the same tires. How'd they do? Did you air down at all.

 

I have the same tires. How'd they do? Did you air down at all.

 

They worked really well. I went down to about 10 psi

 

How'd your intake hold up? No sand inside !!

 

Haha, I actually haven't checked that yet. But I'm guessing it's okay since I didn't have any issues with it. The only problem I had was when my alternator got soaked, but it started working after about an hour and I just stayed out of the water after that

 

I'm currently up at school in Michigan's Upper Peninsula now! It's about 500 miles away from home so I made sure to get the jeep running nicely before taking it up here. I changed the oil, differential fluid, Tcase fluid, transmission fluid, and the trams filter. The filter was quite possibly the worst idea I have ever had in my entire life. But hey, I got it back together and there aren't any leaks... I also did some rust prevention and primed and painted most rusty spots including the roof rack. This thing has to be able to handle the 300 or so inches of snow that's going to start in the next 2 months.



I've even had some time to make it to a trail already. This was literally 5 minutes off campus and was probably the best trail I've been on so far. There were lots of rocks and some pretty nice ruts as well.

 

Looking good as usual. Why do they make you have flags at those ORV parks? I've seen people with those at Badlands too. In the southeast we never see those.

 

Most of the time it's so when your coming over a hill others can see you, at least from what I understand.

 

Makes sense then. I figured it was some form of a safety precaution.