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Discussion Starter · Mar 18, 2000

What is the best purchase you made AFTER your Jeep, for your Jeep?

Mine has to be my tires and rims/wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif... What a difference, but MAN is my gear ratio messed up!/wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

Jon - YJ94
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Discussion Starter · #2 · Mar 18, 2000

I'd have to say in order:
1. Lockers
2. Tera Low T-case
3. Winch

Brad
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Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 20, 2000

I gotta agree with Brad here. My locker was the best purchase. Sure the lift, tires, and winch were good too. But the locker gets me where I want to go...

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Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 20, 2000

My Jeep was a Q-trac CJ-7, and when the Q-trac blew, I swapped in a T-18 and Dana 18. That changed my Jeep, and my life, as afetr the first time out with that setup, I became a hard-core wheeler and started going on big junkets 5-6 times a year. This is also the mod that led me to get lockers next, and then, of course, all of the breakage started, which led to all of the subsequent upgrades, including the on-board welder...

P.S. Actually, after having written the above, I don't know if it's THE BEST mod, but I feel that even before leaving the driveway, every Jeep should have a good winch and on-board air. For those of you that do not have on-board air - GET IT! Those of us that do are sick of filling up 5 Jeeps worth of 33" tires at every outing!!!

Chuck Hadley

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Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 20, 2000

I have to agree with Brad on lockers. Number 2 is the NV4500 and 4.88:1 diff gears. Makes rock crawling so much easier when you can go
slow. BTW Brad, how is that Tera-low holding up? A couple fellow club members out here haven't had good luck with thiers. One guy blew
his up 4 times in the last 10 months. None of the trails were as tough as the stuff you have at Farmington.

Gary

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Discussion Starter · #6 · Mar 20, 2000

Deffinently lockers!!

Before them, it was the lift, let me keep all 4 tires on the ground, far fewer strap calls

BJ

to hell with it, lets go wheelin'

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Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 20, 2000

Tera Low holding up just fine so far. Of course, I'm very careful, always have been, can't afford to be constantly replacing broken
parts. Mine is the new version, supposedly stronger than the old version. I guess time will tell, 33s and lockers will give it a good
workout.

Brad
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elusive

· #8 · Mar 20, 2000

i kinda like my boggers, but in the mud, there is nothing like a good winch

~~Elusive~~
it's sort of still a cj thingy....

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Discussion Starter · #9 · Mar 20, 2000

Brad, the guy I'm talking about has had both the older 3 gear setup and the newer 5 gear. He's running 33's and lockers. He finally got
fed up with being broken so he's pitching the D300 and putting in an Atlas II. Glad to hear you aren't having problems.

Gary

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CJDave

· #10 · Mar 20, 2000

/wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif We have made a ton of "changes" to the SNOJEEP, from modifying the Quadra-Trac to moving the gas filler. As far as "purchased" upgrades go, it would have to be our "interior group", which included new Rosser-SH low-back seats, ultimate SH center console sitting on a shop-built riser with a built-in Rosser box heater for the floor, and direct-coupled to a Summit-B&M Light Truck ratchet shifter. We copied all of the interior dimensions from our '97 ZJ, and I have to say that this made an entirely different Jeep for Jeepchick to drive....no comparison to the stock CJ./wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif

CJDave
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Discussion Starter · #11 · Mar 21, 2000

I'd have to say it is the winch. I solo a lot and my criteria at an impasse is: Can I self-extract? If the answer is yes then I go ahead. Needless to say, the go-aheads happen a lot more with a winch. The adventure factor and the exploration factor changed more than anything else.
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