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they dont have anything for my jeep. =\

Corollas need love too!

@@TrailBuilt 33's and a 2 inch lift ftw!

Reminds me of Kevin Spacey in American Beauty. Get whatever is your ‘79 firebird already!

Whats stopping you from putting jeep mods on it?

Its a sign, brother

Well I mean if you buy a jeep for off roading its good to be informed all the mall crawl mods will hurt you off road and waste money. Many, many guys actually believe giant wheels with thin tires are just as good off road..

The off road community in general is pretty great every community has it assholes but overall it's great

@@wtftony9975 true that. I believe the majority are great folks though.

@@a.common.American disagree just when people say other vehicles can off-road harder

The ones that pass the most judgement are the ones that can't have.

Right. Not everybody desires to go off-road some buy a wrangler for the ability to take the top and doors off in a hour.

I agree with you. One of the most capable off road vehicles in the world is the Mercedes G wagon. 3 factory lockers, horsepower for days, high clearance, good handling. Yet 99.9999% of them are mall crawlers. Why shouldn't they be? I wouldn't want to damage my 100K toy either. Get a 5000$ used jeep then beat it like it owes you money.

A Jeep is an off-road vehicle if you can’t go and don’t want to go off-road maybe you should buy a street car like a Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Honda, etc. If you want to have a vehicle that can take the top off buy a convertible, there are many convertibles the same price if not cheaper then a Wrangler. Don’t think I’m trying to say that you have to go off-road if you have a Jeep, it is really cool to be able to take the top off in 40 minutes to an hour. I’m just saying it would be cheaper to invest a street vehicle not made for harsh environments. I love my Jeeps and they’re great for street use.

@@cablenowadays6586 you mean in 25 mins... ;)

@@ch3z326 I mean I don’t get the point on why you give a fuck on what people do with there money

Think it's called the grumper grill

Lol I don’t think anyone did

I agree on beefing up the axle, but if you're buying a jeep and can find something with a 44 just go with that.

Agree. I have friends that have wheeled their 30 for years without any issues. The trick is they know how to drive.

Wait til your buddy wrecks their rubicon showing off and swap your 30 for their 44 before the insurance picks it up, grab the t case while your at it, they dont check parts.

Except we do Jeeps, Toyotas, Trucks & SUVs

Lol, RIGHT! Because I’m pretty sure you can also buy Wheels from FI for an SUVs/Trucks

@@Zachnotfickle it's just a joke,chill🙄

@@turbotoaster275 I know I know, I was just agreeing with the guy above. It’s not a big deal it’s just interesting to be fair. But, no problem here.

@@MrJoshcc600 If the Dana 30 was in issue from the start, the Jeep would've thrown a Dana 44 under the them from the beginning. The dana 30 has been around for so long, the only way you can break a Dana 30 wheeling it like and idiot.

He hasn’t really wasted that money on a d30 locker and gears IMO. It sounds like he has gotten good use out of them so far and there are plenty of guys like me with $600 XJs who would snap up a second hand d30 locker or gear.

@@GDLutz I agree. They say work smarter, not harder. I translate to wheel smarter, not harder. I got a lunchbox in my D30, under a 2000 XJ on 5" lift and 35's. When I had to meet the wife at the mall today so I could try on some boots (I hate new boots, nobody ever has a size 14) and I had to give her the debit card, who doesn't hate that? I made sure I found a good mud hole to play in first so I didn't look like a mall crawler. Perk for me is the local mall is on the river, I drove down to the riverbank and found a good marshy area and ripped it up turnin my silver XJ brown.

@@GDLutz where do you find $600 XJs? I'd snatch one up in a heartbeat. The only ones I ever see are $5k or more or junked ones with no title.

@@Hertacles Craigslist I my XJ was pretty rusty and trashed, but I paid $600 since it was a 4.0L with the 5speed manual. I also bought another one for parts for $300 that had rear ended someone and was bent in the front. Had a full good drivetrain, an immaculate interior and LOTS of other good parts. I’ve not made one good XJ from the two and have lots of spare part too. Not bad for $900 total.

Yes he did.

Lol I never wave

I wave when I can.

I don't know, but have you checked out our website at www.trailbuiltoffroad.com yet?!!!

@@TrailBuilt LOL, touché

About as meow,!

He could have at least 3 more times, I'm sure 😂

Freedom of choice?

@@frankcastle9691 Good answer. Got a little carried away on that one!

Big bro dozer wheels are worse because they actually reduce functionality imo, I'm not a fan of the angry eye grills that stick out super far but I think a few of them are tolerable.

I love my angry eyes. With the fenders and bumpers and rock sliders it just brings together that aggressive look. I get compliments from a lot of people. But for some reason the jeeple hate on them

@@legitdelirium3446 Like Castle says, freedom of choice. Not my thing, but if you dig it, go for it.

should have stripped it for parts . its abandoned so fair game

@@cordellej 🤡

Dam four tries and you still missed getting a TJ? TJ is peak jeep.....

Does your dad know that you're gay?

Amen to this.

I was waiting for that too! I'm not a jeeper but there are 3 jeeps on my street and all of them have angry grilles, angry headlights, and flashing rainbow lights... 2 of them have big pizza dish wheels (that are chromed and painted too). All these jeeps have more painted parts on them than my damn truck and car combined... I just dont' get it. Bros have turned Jeeps into the new Honda Civic.

Thank you omg. As a TJ owner nothing makes me cringe harder than seeing those stupid fucking angry face grilles. No Jeep modification in the history of Jeeps is any worse than those.

Angry eyes gang 😤✊💯💦

I’m not a fan of the Angry, but to each their own. Jeep’s are for personalization so who am I to judge. I only care about functional modes to make sure I can go farther.

4 runners are the rejects of the n family...

Haha

@customoffsets

Bob Joe *cough* *cough*

He literally offered products for everything he mentioned..he was just low key about it

@@casey197930 smooth criminal

Lol love this comment. I’m about to get a jeep and I can’t wait for all the jeep owners to judge me for getting an angry grille and red halo lights. God FORBIT anyone built what they like lol

(Mic drop) well said, Mr. Castle!

Of course the punisher guy says this

I guess you'll look cool stuck on trail with a broken axle, busted bead, and enough lights to signal batman for help.

@@ivanfromtheeast4709 LOL, nailed it

the pin strip scratches look worse. if you’ve been in a tight unkept trail they are very useful for moving the branch’s before they wack you in the face.

Agreed. Sure you have that sense of comfort when life takes you off the beaten path. 1 week of owning my jeep and I was led by GPS a few miles down a dead end dirt road in the woods in NH. Drop offs on either side. very sticky u-turn situation and man-o-man was it dark. The new LED group upgrade for the front works great, but backing up... no light at all on the OEMs.

Lol no . Lockers night and day difference.

This is for jeep mods not mall crawlers. Lockers are #1.

@@matthewanderson6767 lmao wonder how the military keeps ever got by without lockers or cjs for that matter. Oh yes the people driving actually knew what they was doing. Logic over lockers any day

The original ww2 jeeps were small and light enough that soldiers could get out and push or pull the jeep out of a lot of stuck situations.

No difference! You can put some chrome wheels and a light bar on a honda civic if you want!

The only thing I would point out is that you can’t tell if that 2500 pulls a trailer or not or whats in the bed. you can heavily infer a mall crawler is a mall crawler. Your point is valid who cares but you dont actually know what is in that pickup or what it was doing 5 minutes ago. A truck though, its more about style, the mods dont inhibit its use as a truck. A jeep with wheels like that? No way are they smashing those into rocks. I am in the heavy equipment/mining industry and everyone has truck albeit few are bro style. When I have 5,000 lbs of cutting edges in the bed of the pickup and its a stack of steel 6-12” high, sometimes I think about how NOONE has any idea that there is 5,000 lbs worth of steel in a stack with the gate closed because the truck looks normal. The time this comes to mind is when that civic cuts me off with all that weight as payload, I doubt that same civic would have been so aggressive if there was civic was sitting on top the bed rails as an obvious load. You might give that guy a bit more space but that civic is much lighter than this stack of steel that you cannot see... As to the bro style, my old neighbor hot-shots with a Dodge Ram, he has the wheels and the headlights and grill, to each their own. You could not be more wrong if you are implying that his truck does no work. It does nothing but pull heavy loads on the highway when someone needs something now.

Limited slip does well enough

@@trexthepony8614 there is no reason at all to elect to install an LSD when a proper locker is relatively the same. Another positive to not having an LSD is lunchbox lockers.

@@danh8302 Yeah, but if your jeep came with a LSD rear, might as well take advantage.

Auto-lockers are under 300 normally. You can install in your driveway in a couple hours if you have basic tools and mechanical knowledge.

Agreed...I too have a dana 30 with 35s stick shift...no issues...I did replace ball joints and tie rod and front track bar to Teraflex...but only after 100k...got 73k on the new stuff and is holding up great...greaseable and rebuildable...stay muddy my friend.

I'm running one now with Motive gears and a True trac limited slip style on 35's beefed up. I'll up grade sooner or later but I'm with you, I've ran it for years with tubes inside 4.5 lift.

same i run 15” wheels on 35s and it’s on a dana 30 with RCVs and a truss and gussets then a stock 8.25. Thing just eats and over anything. Also love the thick tire look

Angry eyes and grill replacement is the worst.

And it makes my TJ run Hotter, but I do like the fact that I don't have to clean bugs out of my Radiator fins, and it stops loose rocks from damaging my Radiator!,besides, for 30 bucks, I couldn't pass it up,what can I say,my 1st Jeep,at 57 years old (me) Jeep is almost 21yrs old

I like them. I'm getting one in the Spring.

I like the grill Well at least the one for the new Gladiator by fabfours

I want happy eyes. Where they at? Why can't we give our Jeeps the ol' Herbie the Love Bug kinda vibe? 🤭

In fact I hit a deer heading home right after I made this comment. lol 😆

Dayuung!

It’s also funny how people who ain’t even putting 2 cents into someone else’s Jeep is complaining about what they are doing with their wrangler.

@KFC Man Depends on what you plan to do. I need enough clearance to get through undergrowth, fallen logs, and shallow mud/water. Nothing extreme. My brother and I are planning out another build that we will trailer with us at some point.

You have a set of headlights you’d recommend? Didn’t get the LED upgrade package w/ my Gladiator and stock lights suck.

@@mrhackett1984 just any set of leds are better than stock tbh... i bought mine on amazon for 100$ and they work fine

I’ve bent a 44 tube before that being said, I cant say that hear people complaining about bending tubes enexpectedly (that implies to me you were not abusing it; if you were it wasn’t the axles fault). I’ve broken Ujoints and shafts on 30s but never a R&P. I’ve also broken u joints and shafts on a D60 front. You know, I’ve actually broken 2 ford 8.8 shafts and those are beloved by jeepers. My scout came with a D30 front and drum brakes as a roller. So I tossed it right away because of the drum brakes (the first time I had to panic stop in a 40’s pick up with drum fronts was eye opening). I had a scout 44 that was usable so it got the 44 while i was getting the ford D 60 ready and I drove it like that for a minute. I would have never spent a dime on that D30 but I also had plans to make it a 1 ton driveline from the beginning. I wasn’t going to spend money on the 44 either. That is where this disconnect occurs in my opinion. You lose me at spending money on a D30. Also, we have differing philosophies of how much extra strength is built into our driveline vs how much abuse it can take. “Just take it easy” does not work for me, you could also say “just dont have oversized tires”. That is fine, I BUILD mine “smart” rather than being afraid of how close I am to its breaking point, especially if I am back coutry. I assure you that the designer of that axle never intended such a large tire or the forces imparted by it. In the proper context there is nothing bad to say about the Dana 30 axle. It is actually quite tough. I needed a NP203 for my doubler so I purchased a Chevy350, th350, NP203 as a combo pulled from a K5. I turned around and sold the motor for 80% of the purchase price leaving me with a TH350 and NP203. I used the 203 behind the TH400 in the scout and in front of the to be Ford 203. I knew someone that became in need of a TH350 so I traded that TH350 for approval of pulling, what is now my Ford HP Dana 60 front and NP203 out of the 79 ford down there in the field. That deal got me the adapter I needed, the transfer case that I was going to use part of and then turned into a $1000+ front axle all for about $200 maybe. Money for lockers and CrMo shafts goes to the proper axles for the application. Conversely I was in the early days of LS1 performance and I was launching 1.4X 60 foot times on a GM 7.5” 10 bolt. I know loads of people that exploded them, mine held until I pulled it for a 9”. That 7.5” that everyone dogs on, was hanging the front tires of that car in the air. The driver side tire would get about 2’ of air, it took repeat beatings on slicks and sticky surface.

The jeep community is very against jeeps loosing their intended purpose. The difference between a "mall crawler" or "road queen" and a trail rig can be as simple as the tires and wheels that are used. Both have the same lift but 37's on 22's and 37's on 17's are very different. They tell different stories. Now with that said. This is your Jeep. Do what you want to it. Screw everyone else. If you want to use it offroad? Then hook up with people and figure out what you need to do to make your rig work the best where you wheel. Going to be a pavement princess? It does not matter what you do. Everyone is judging you already so might as well just make it yours.

Yes do what you want to your Jeep, you paid for they didn't. I don't know why people or the Jeep community has to be so judgy.

Well I'd go offroad with the stock jeep and you will see what you need, just modding it without understanding the purpose of the modification is part of the judging

F the jeep community. Your wife shouldn't have to worry about and what she feels is nice to her jeep.

If you’re the person that’s worried about it being legal or voiding warranties then you probably shouldn’t be lifting or lowering a vehicle

@KFC Man yeah exactly

Right? Lockers void my warranty, I don’t need them to get down an old logging road. But it’s nice to be able to see when the sun goes down anyway.

To be fair, you don’t need every mod in the book to go do some off-roading - that’s a common misconception. BUT since we do like all the different fun things you can do we would recommend checking out some of our more recent videos which talk about different advantages and disadvantages for the offroad world! Thanks for subscribing!

Send me (Fred) an email at thurston@trailbuiltoffroad and I can get you set up!

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