Its the real silent hill

 

hahaha. nah. well maybe... it was an old coal mine, and it caught on fire. well they couldnt put it out after drilling deep wells and pumping thousands upon thousands of gallons of water into it, and after like 30 years the gave up. so now thiers only like 3 people that live there, and the fire is still burning way deep underground. its a pretty dangerous place to go. harmful gases build up in the valleys between hills from the fire, the ground is always like 100 degrees. i wanna go. and i live so close too.

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/the-story.htm

check it out. interesting

 

wait, you mean i was in centrilia and didnt even know it??? damn, i hate not knowing were i am... lol

 

just did some looking on bing maps and yes, OMG, i was in centralia and didnt even know it ... i have been wanting to plan a trip to check it out and see whats still there and all... and low and behold, i end up there and had some time to look around, if only i had known then...

oh well, another day, now that i know how to get there, i think...

checked the GPS, location never saved

 

hey man, ill go up to centralia one day with you...gonna have to be in like 2 or 3 weeks....cause i dont have money for atleast 2 weeks. let me know when your going!

 

Next time I head that way wont be till April or May some time... But you can plan on that I will head back again...

 

thats all good haha. i wanna do alittle bit to my heep before i do a anything serious again... just chagned the oil and put that lucas stuff in....good stuff haha

 

yea, i love the Lucus stuff... use it all the time... what all have you done so far to your heep?

 

well its still stock height...but i put lots of work into the stereo system...but cheap 6x9s so i godda replace them..(yes 6x9s in the back hatch).

i put 2 new head units in... i had 2 amps with 4 6x9s in the back runnin off a 500w rms 4 channel amp, with a 1000w rms amp feeding 2 kenwood subs. it was awesome...but started getting real bad earaches, and it was heavy as ***** so i took the subs out. (i love car audio, i have the M.E.C.P. cert and the C.E.T. cert)

also put a car alarm in, which was a pain

um other then that, i got it almost 2 years ago...did water pump and hoses...usual tune up (plugs cap rotor wires).

shocks were trashed so got new procomp shocks good for a 2 inch lift.

track bar ball joint died so a new track bar. some fog lights....

lookin to do the lift within 2 weeks or maybe 3, and new wheels in about 3 weeks....(but if it doesnt happen within dont get upset...i do go to college and stuff pops up).

last summer had new goodyear wrangler mt/rs put on it, measure about 29 inch. and i wheeled it. haha.

also i have to do the front inner axle seals soon, i have them, just their going to be hard.

oh yea, i also did the cherry bomb muffler...i fixed the ****ty welds and everything minike did to the exhaust before the cat...(welds broke when i was driving, but godda say, diriving with a straight dump is awesome haha)(also i drove it with just a cat and flex pipe replacing the stock muffler, it was cool)

i also need a new wheel hub/bearing thing, get a bad vibe at 50 mph.

new brake pads and calipers on the front myself after finding out i had a cracked brake piston....new pads on the rear just a week ago.


list is so long cause when i thought i was done, i rememberd more...and more...and more haha. i think if i paid a shop to do all that, it probably would have been really expensive.

 

yea well long list and little money is the way of the XJ...

the tires i have are them uniroyal liborators in 215/75/15 size only cuz the walmart were i got them were being ***es about it and said i could only get that size cuz thats what my door and their comp said even though i had 225s on it already... oh well, no more tire money for walmart. when i get new tires again i am going with 235s this time... so yea, mine are like 28-29 inches and it dont stop me from wheelin the jeep either... does quite well on stock tires, lol

 

well mine are 235s i think. i used to work at a car rental place...i got hooked up by the place we took all our rentals too. $75 for each tire, mounted and balanced. brand new. its pretty awesome. they do really well.

i wouldnt have even bought the 215s off of walmart...i woulda just walked out. tires are expensive and i wouldnt pay someone for tires i dont want. haha

 

well it was that or drive who knows how many miles on racing slicks through snow... i opted for the safer choice

 

yeah i live 15 miles from centralia. I have a friend lives in aristes and my aunt and uncle lived at the end of the town on route 61. there house was knocked down in 1993 they live in mt. carmal now. its a creepy place and it not very safe. but its a odd place to explore.

 

it funny how i knew where you where

 

haha. yea, sounds good then. haha