Hey my name is Brandon and I am 18 years old (senior in high school) . On a low budget. Anyways I was just recently introduced to the xj world this past October in 2008 when my uncle sold me his 2000 xj for $2000!!!! Needless to say he takes pretty good care of me!! I think it is very clean jeep and I fell in love with it. This is my dd and I am going to put a small lift on it and some bigger tires. However, it sucks living in your parents house, when your stepdad tells you that you can not lift it!!!! So I have to be very sneaky about this. He doesnt know anything about lifts and Im pretty sure i can get away with like 3" of lift and just blame the new tires for making it look big, I know this will work because he doesnt know that the bronco is lifted at all. I have began my sneaky process by taking out some money from my saving and my checks and storing it in a safe place. So he doesnt notice a sudden change in my bank account. I just ordered a bull bar/light bar and it should be here sometime this week and I cant wait to put it on and post some pics. I should have be able to put the lift on by May or June. Here are some specs to my Jeep

2000 XJ
4.0 High Output Inline 6
AW-4
NP-231
D30
Chrysler 8.25
Tires - 235/75/R15 Wrangler Radial's

Soon to be on the XJ
RC 3" lift full leafs (I think this is a good size for a dd, plus my stepdad wont tell the difference)
T/C drop
cb radio
bull bar with 2 lights
31x10.5x15 bfg km2's or destination m/t's
airraid intake
Cragar black soft 8's
....got a long ways to go
Here are some pics of my XJ

Here are some pics of my bronco i was referring to in the previous message........

nice XJ and bronco

Why not turn your Xj into a "You and Stepdad project" and get him involved with you a little more?

Sneaking around isnt the best way to do things,...

nice BRONCO!!!!!!!

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To be honest he doesnt like me too much. He doesnt like anything to do with jeeps or antyhing like that he thinks its dumb. I dont know...hard to explain man. Me and him do not get along at all, lots of tension!!!! Im going to college here this next year which is like 2 hours away from here. So i wont be seeing him much anyways. His reason for not letting me lift it up is cuz i will be going to college....and i really want a lift with bigger tires. I am 18 years old...I should be able to do whatever i want to it.

thanks guys

Where in iowa do you live? I actually live in iowa as well.


Nice cherokee and bronco by the way!!

I live just east of Sioux City.......North western area....where are you from?

^^^^Quite far from you. I live around 50 miles east of des moines.

dude i know how you feel my dad hates me off roading and liftin every vehicle i get, but when its said and done he usaully boast to his friends look at my sons rig he built that.

now thats good deer country down there!!! I wanna live down in southern iowa soooo bad!

Haha oh yea. Bunch of deer down here why i want to get a old truck with a grille guard and go mudding through fields and chase deers down..

But who knows maybe once we both get our XJ's lifted we can maybe meet up and go on a trail ride.

just use your jeep...lol..get a roof rack to put them up there....lol....i bought a hitch rack and i put that on when i go hunting..so i can just throw them on there....lol but i find it very easy for people to run into it when i go throw drive thru's..the first day i had it on...some lady in her husbands f350 ran right into it...cracked one of the holes to put a tow strap through..so she gave me a $50 check...i thought that was sweet!!!!its also funny to see their expressions when they hit it...lol

yeah man..we can make that happen sometime..i was lookin around for trails..and there is a trail that is kinda by ames i think...it looks pretty sweet!..its either by ames or iowa city..bout 700 or 800 acres if i remember right...i also know of some indian ground that is owned by the Macey tribe..and i go through some trails on that ground to get the iowa public part of the land...and if its kinda muddy those trails would be sweet!!!!...and if its really dry...there will be a pond that is dried up....big mud hole!!!

i don't like ford's much but i like your bronco and nice choice on the xj as well just do one thing at a time so you don't kill your budget