Alright well I did a little test video behind the shop. Nothing spectacular. I ain't no rock bouncer. I am very methodical about using the skinny pedal. But i will use it if I have to.

So just a warm up for Saturday.
Testing behind shop:

 

not bad actually.

 

Yea so far it's ok. I have a phenomenal amount of axle wrap. So i know I am losing torque there. It's from my leafs being unstrapped. But two years this way an no problems. I enjoy the droop it gives me. Always a trade off.

 

yeah "performance" for reliability. no big deal

 

Ha, ha. Yea. It's retired from a daily. So now it's like if it breaks, it breaks.

 

Hell it looked good in that video to me that looks a lot like the areas that I wheel in where the forest trails have been washed out for years. I am not a big rock fan either as we have very few in this area so mine is really a trail rig.

 

Yea I like the rocks. But it's a lot of fun on forest trails. Things can go south in a hurry. The bottom can fall out, a tree can serious damage, etc.....

Hills can be scary also.

 

you'll be fine. i ran 36x13.5 bias iroks on beadlocks aired down to 2psi on stock locked axles (297 joint hp30 and xj44 with 3.55 gears) perfectly fine for years. even drove 200 miles there and back all the time.

so have fun and post vids.

 

Thanks, I think you were right.

This morning on the way to wheeling.
My friend who accompanied me.


Vids a bit later.

 

Some pix. Some great people we met up with on the trail. The 700 hp ultra 4 rig was simply awesome. We were able to make a climb that only a few rigs made all day. So they said we could hang with them. The ultra 4 guys was super cool. Always stopping to make sure we made it.

 

Just some random pix.

Rock bouncer, ls1 , 2.5 tons, etc ...

 

awesome

 

I want one. LOL. Sticky 40's.

.."what's a rock bouncer"

Ultra 4:

 

Big fail. Ha, ha. But that is ok. That huge rock bouncer couldn't make it either.

2000 xj:

 

Faired a little better here. We just watched a nice v8 wrangler stretched with tons and 38's beadlocks, etc.... fail. So i thought I would give it a try.
2000 xj.:
After I made it the wrangler had to attempt it again. He made it. It was pretty sweet, he was pumped. Couple of nice guys. I have the vids of them but forgot to beam them from my buddies phone.