A friend of mine and I are trying to get to gether for a wheeling trip, he's from michigan we're planing either a badlands, wellsville, the mounds or bundy hill in late June or July. He's got to finish up cj5. My buddy is hopefully coming home from England mid June and were cutting a trail at his gma's out in the boonies of hocking county. When do ya want to meet up?

well im in hocking so i can probably help cut that trail and get at least one more person in. as far as meeting up whenever is fine with me. shoot me a time and ill see if i can make it work.

Well I'll have to see if come home or not to go over there, hopefully he does..... We have a lot of fun memories on the "trail to nowhere" lol. If yah got a dremel I'll be glad to meet any evening this week lol. I can't find mind.... I want my doors off. Lol

its just a cheap auto zone dremel but yeah i got one and you more then welcome to use it. it needs some better disc the ones i got were burning up quick with just cutting plastic.

i bought one while i was in AZ to go doorless on my 88, i got the whole cutting kit that came with it. Use only once when i had to cut the harmoic balancer broke off it. i haven't seen it since lol.

yeah the az dremel is a fine tool. lol i put a case window in my computer and it was to much of a job for the wheels that came with it. not sure about the dremel its self yet only used it for that one project.

I went and bought one tonight. Driver side is removed I ran out of disks and the rains came lol. I got pictures but the computer's down at the moment

Doorless!

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to do list:
finish going doorless
finish rock sliders
install t-case and gas tank skid
put front flares on
need to fix front passenger side bumpstop
fix turn signals
either stick RE 3.5 coil or my 1" spacers up front to level it out
few other thing that i can't remeber

ok now we really got to meat up so i can take a spin in a lifted doorless xj. to see how i like it lol. i have to pull my drivers side door anyway to fix the hinge. it is ripping out of the door. and i dont want it to decide to go doorless while im going down the highway.

i only went a lap through the woods b4 the rains came... I had to hurry back to the house to get the door back on lol. So far i like it. Im usaully home from work by 5:30 on weekdays.... I was working in Logan today at the Smead plant

no joke. i work at amanda bent bolt. right down the road from smead. and i live right close to smead.

I also do the Waste water treatment plant and I've been to the new high school a couple of times to.

Tonight I'm gonna work on Getting the flares back on, mabey get the passenger side of to but I need to get more disks

wow so pretty much you work everywhere in logan except walmart lol.

cant wait to see some updated pics of the xj. it will look real nice with the flares back on. and wheeling it will be nicer to so that no mud or rocks get flung at your face.

got the passenger side front door off, major pita. I'll take picuters tommorrow.

cant wait. i really want to check out your xj but my schedule keeps filling up fast. i might end up doing to hinge mod on my jeep. since i got to take the drivers door off to fix the hinge anyway. hinge mod and a deans conector for the speakers and i should be set.

whacha doing sunday?

i have a cookout to go to. i will try and make sure i can have a day free next week or weekend. lol

A friend of mine invited me to go along with them o tar hollow. I guess there's a bunch of unmaintaned townships road that thy wheel on

i have been wanting to go to tar hollow so tell me how it is. there are a few videos on youtube. i guess its a good one for vehicles that are not huge.

did some wheeling today...hopefully i'll have some vidoes and pictures up

Lovin it man. Very similar to mine. How are the rhinoed rockers working out for you?

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good...thought i scratched them up pretty good b4 i let them dry

some pics

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Our group consisted of a 94 ZJ 4'' on 33's, a stock 98 ZJ on At's, Me on 3-4" on 31's and 2 sami's soa, one on 32's and the other on tractor tires and welded up

once im lifted i cant wait to go wheeling with you. and it looks like im going doorless just like you lol. i got to pull my drivers door to fix the hinge so i can start opening and closing it again. cause it just rusted off.

we had a stock Zj with us, so you could join us if ya wanted to... it wasnt bad... bypasses around anything serious...it was agood time. ive got few more vidoes on may facebook. when ya avaible to meet up?

im free 2maro lol. busy schedule working 6 days a week and what not.

Sorry I missed yah, we had a guy quit at work so I've picked up more hours and jobs since now I'm the only tech in southeastern Ohio. I'm gonna be free most week nights if yah still want to meet up. I'm in belpre tomorrow so I'll be home around six

im pretty busy all day to day but free pretty much any other night this week. as long as i have a little notice.

well i havent done much to it lately. just been wheeling it.

I've wired my electric fan so i can i control my fan manualy.

i finished up my cluster swap by getting the correct sending unit for the coolant temp sensor

soon as figure out how to upload the vidoes to youtube, i'll post them up from my last wheeling trip.

So far ive got the suspension dialed in perfect and the Treadwrights are performing beyond expectations.

All is left to do is get a spare tire and wheel the crap out of it.

I may be starting to build my 88 for some more hard core stuff.

i didn't get many pictures from last weekend, a few videos that im working on getting posted up.

here are the pictures
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little update:

Oil and filter change
Valve cover gasket
Started on the cowl snorkle tonight (pics hopefully tomorrow)

Still need to install t-case and gas tank skids
reinstall my fender flares up front
get the windshield replaced (long story)
rewire and wire lights
and other stuff......

goal is to get all this stuff done by next thursday as im going on wheeling/camping trip next weekend.

finished the cowl snorkle

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I built it quicker than i expected so im gonna try to accomplish some thing else

After installing the snorkle, I finished up the wiring on my cb and went on a little night time run through the back part of my woods. Tomorrow I should have my new windshield in and I'm gonna work on getting my skids installed and my lights wired up

update:
I rewired the hella's on the front bumper to properly fused and relays. reinstalled the light bar and lights up top. mounted lights up underneath for night wheeling, those still need to be wired in tho.

Did some camping wheeling this weekend:
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more:

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really steep hill climd on the way back down

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last ones...

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had to replace the altenator when we got back to camp. which turn out to be a real pita. the spare i got was also toasted. so my buddy shawn ran home that night and picked up one up and got it to me the next moring. many thanks to him

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man wish i would have went. but seeing how my radiator blew on my way home probably a good thing i missed it.

Yah, it was a bad trip for altenators, I toasted mine and shawn's is over charging. So when will you be up and running? Ive got to pull the interior, beeline it and put some drain plugs In

hopefully i will get it up and going this weekend. driving the honda gets so boring.