I have been building and wheeling XJs for 23 years, I have owned over 30 XJs, a MJ I still miss everyday, one amazing 59 CJ5, 2 IH scouts (800A and a Scout 2) , I've wheeled Xjs on 30/44 locked, to my current XJ on tons/Atlas/38s/caged.
I love my 2020 Wrangler JLUR for camping, and easy wheeling and it's a DD. It's been a nightmare as far as steering wander and death wobble, but luckily I've been fixing and diagnosing those things for over 20 years, just not so lucky on my bank account .
I love my FSJ wagoneer that I restored, its almost too pretty to wheel, and that's why she hasn't even wheeled yet, although I've put maybe 2000 hours into restoring it over the last 5+ years.
I really want one of the new Broncos someday. I think they are super rad.
I am obsessed with camping gear, not the fancy expensive stuff, but just in general camping gear what works for cheap, I log my gear for every trip
I started camping at the age of 5 in my dads awesome 79 K5 Blazer.
John. I heard you say you don’t like drop boxes. Why is that? I don’t really like them that much either. I think they mess up your leaf springs. but I wanna hear why you don’t like them.
They lower your rear roll center, cause weird handling on road and off road. Some people dont notice, but for my rig removing them made it drive much better. I tried slider boxes but those got destroyed on the first rubicon run and had to take them off
The metalcloak are better on trail, but for my personal liking they were too soft on road with gear in the rig. The aev are really stiff offroad. So its a tradeoff . Depending on what you do, if you want it solid on road, id go aev, if you want it softer offroad, ill go metalcloak. The body roll went to nothing after we removed the aev and put the metalcloaks on
Thats a tough call man. AEV told me over the phone that they thought the 3” high capacity would probably be too stiff, those are more for like Pulling a trailer with a roof top tent sort of rigs. I guess ill never know. These are Pretty stiff, pretty sure i have the 2.5s. I dont think id do the 3”, Maybe the 2.5” with a 1/2” spacer. I need to add some Spacers to The rear now that ive raised the rear Shock mounts
When i would load the cooler, all the gear, water, people, the metalcloak would sag alot. Also have a motobilt rear Carrier, iron man rear bumper, 37” tire on the back, sometimes a roofrack too. Lots of weight. The aev seems to hold the weight better for sure now. But its a trade off for sure.
It wasnt the airsoft bbs or the amount of beads - rotated fronts left to right and vibes are gone. So beads are fine, the tire cupping / feathering from these used 40s is got for 400$ was facing the wrong direction. Thought i had it in the right direction but I guess not.
The castor angle is not individually adjustable, setting the arms longer on the passenger side lengthens the WHEELBASE on that side to compensate for road crown. I do like 7.5 degrees of castor on solid axle truck/Jeeps.
Thank you! Yeah I had way too much footage and it was super hard to get it down to 20 minutes. Wasnt sure how to make This video flow either. I cut out so much
Thanks so much!! That means alot to me ! I feel like I suck at making these videos and im super overcritical of my videos and usual end up hating all of them for some Reason so thank you!
I read the directions 4 times before starting, had the paper directions and a YT video on my phone while I was installing them. Followed the instructions to a T. Super weird. Too much work to take em, and they have so many bolts holding them on, so I just left them as is.
@@blondejon83 Yeah, I had them on my ‘18 JL Sahara and recently traded it in for a JL Rubicon. I’m trying to decide if I want to do the MC fender/liner install again. My OEM fenders have the extra piece that juts out beyond the flares but I’m not a fan of plastic at all. I’ll probably go back and do the MC’s eventually.
I dont think id do these again. A buddy had some amazon cheapo fender flares for 200$ that instslled super easy and dont stick out as far. Id either do that, or honestly just leave the stock fenders on. These are super cool, but i think id go a different route on the next rig
Which bearings are you concerned about ? The 300 is filled with 2 quarts, and the 231 just has the input bearing basically which is fully submerged in like 1-1.25 quarts, i cant remember exactly since we filled it til it came Out of the middle hole. We also run catch cans on both of the vents as well to monitor overfilling. So far its been great. Ive got a buddy thats been running the same Setup for 16 years and its been fine on his.
Check the RTF event calendar to make sure youre avoiding the jeep jamborees , toyota rubicon, stuff like that, which lately have been in mid to late July. If you can - go monday thru thursday to avoid the weekend crowds. Its so much better on weekdays. Id say also to avoid the heat, and the snow, late june to early july, or september to early october. If the heat doesnt get to you too bad (granite holds heat like an oven) then mid july thru mid september works as well, but be ready for the heat - but watch out for big runs on the calendar. Also, it can get super cold, windy , rainy, and start down pouring at any time, so even if it calls for warm weather bring cold weather clothes somewhere in your rig just in case. Also, once you hit mid october, it can snow at any time .
It's the tires and wheels. I'd be surprised if bead would fix it. I static balanced my 39s and it's been great until hitting rocks, logs, deep snow etc they have spun on the rim. Once your running a 40" or bigger balancing doesn't do much lol. Either you got a good carcass tire or not
Yeah im going to rotate left to right . The. Ill try to add a few ounces . Then ill take all the weight out and try em. My buddy ken just took em off his rig with no vibes
Two years ago I took my “stock” xj with. Front locker and 29” muddies with minimal rocker panel damage was a blast. Actually damaged my rocker panels more after my 3.5” lift and 33s 😅
That would be so fun to take a stock xj through with a front locker. I want to put a air locker and sliders on my stocker blue xj at some point. My xj on 40s is way overbuilt For this trail
That’s my dog Odysseus ! He was a Boston, Sadly He passed away and my buddy made me a bunch of stickers . He was my co pilot in my truck. I never realized this trail went too much further than the water cross ! I also had to back out on that one . Tacoma lockers 35’s . Need to go back
What the heck thats your sticker and you found this video?! Dude thats a small world situation ! Thats so cool. I also have a boston but he hates camping.
We got up the crossing, just need some spotting due to the rear pass side lower shock mount burying itself, backed up once to resituate . Had to stack one rock pass rear and it went up.
@@blondejon83 😂 that’s awesome . Best dogs ever . Yea so random ! Hope to run into you out there on the trails . I’m trying to do deer valley next run . Never been
Yeah we saw that. Its not an official or legal bypass though. But the forest service needs fire access to the back of the trail for illegal fires so it might eventually get hardened and who knows maybe become official.
I wouldnt say they screwed up. Some new folks , accidents happen, but at the time I was shocked since no one I know had told me they closed part of sour grass and we had been camping in the “back” for the past 20 years , used to bring totally stock rigs through there. Been years since ive ran it. Forest service is taking those down.
^This is total BS, i just bought the 290 to run my cpap throughout the night when tent camping. Fully charged before i plugged it in for the night and woke up roughly 8 hrs later and had 25% left. This was the only item plugged in, so this guy is saying a fridge….! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah Ive ran this fridge countless times for 22 hours on the Rubicon with a 290(does get cold at night which helps but ive tested it in the garage countless times) . Are you using the normal resmed cpap or the travel version? the normal CPAP will blow through the 290 in one night, about 90% in one night. I had to buy the resmed air mini to use on my 290 and I will get 2-3 nights now with no use of the humidifier. The non travel version of the cpaps use a ton of power especially with the humidifier . But Ive been using my air mini with a 290 for 2 years now, it usually lasts an entire weekend on a 290. My main cpap stays home since it sucks so much power.
@@blondejon83 that’s weird for some reason my comment posted on this video. I was referring to the p0455 code video you made on the jeep. Thanks for the response👍
@@yeaaight9227 yeah so I did fix it. I tried like 3 gas caps, smoke tested it many times and found a few leaks and fixed them, replaced the fuel filler and vent tubes, replaced the evap pump, solenoid, and also the fuel pump since the fuel pump was leaking, also replaced the evap system charcoal canister and tried a 4th gas cap, and the light hasn't come back on since those last two things. So basically, smoke testing found some leaks, but it still came on all the time, so then replaced things one by one from cheapest to most expensive until it went away. Id keep trying gas caps too . The smoke tester I used was like 120$ on amazon and it found leaks.
I learn from you's,I'm doing two xj wagons long arm conversions getting the works,one wj wagon with the works,is I'have truck body builder experience for the mods
Hey thats so cool it sounds like you have a ton of projects going on, 2 long arm kits on 2 xjs sounds prettt rad. I used to own like 4 wjs, i had some bad luck with the wjs where stuff just randomly failed all the time like blend doors, cps, etc
I've come to the conclusion that the temp gauge on some XJ's is way off. Mines was saying 220° but a hand held temp guage pointed at the thermostat housing was saying 195°. I've had it up to 230° but the XJ never boiled over or smelled super hot.
Also on this rig, for this massive heat wave, I just recently followed a thread on cherokee forum about how to wire your fan to a switch / relay setup while maintaining the factory wiring and not back feeding
If you need extra cooling , in an application like a very heavy rig on jk or jl axles, or one tons, stroker, cage, 37-40s, etc, then I reccomend a all aluminum 2 row radiator with the widest rows you can find, wiring the efan to a switch, making sure you have the 99+ efan, and also running a large stacked plate trans cooler. This is really just budget upgrades with the trans cooler being 45$ and the fan clutch being 45$, stock radiator is just to make sure the old one isnt clogged.
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