Dogboyslim
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If you don't have kids you may not know this book series, but as I was talking to a local jeep specialist, I felt like I was trapped in this type of a book. Anyway, this is my first jeep, so the Just Empty Every Pocket thing just got real for me.
If you want to go offroading, you are going to want some armor
After you have the armor you are going to wish you had bigger tires
If you want bigger tires, you are going to want a lift
If you want to return to stock gearing, you are going to want to regear
If you are running hard on oversized tires, you are going to need to deal with the weight
To deal with the weight you will need to address the spare tire carrier
to deal with the stress on the drivetrain, you are going to need to reinforce your axels...
OMG! He was really good about saying you don't have to do everything up front and walking through options of priority given what I want to do, but how the hell do people pay for all this? I started adding it up and if I did everything above, it would be near $10k worth of parts!
I don't want to go cheap on something only to buy it again later, so I'm thinking the following 6 steps is probably what I ought to consider (I already have LOD side-step/rock rails):
If you want to go offroading, you are going to want some armor
After you have the armor you are going to wish you had bigger tires
If you want bigger tires, you are going to want a lift
If you want to return to stock gearing, you are going to want to regear
If you are running hard on oversized tires, you are going to need to deal with the weight
To deal with the weight you will need to address the spare tire carrier
to deal with the stress on the drivetrain, you are going to need to reinforce your axels...
OMG! He was really good about saying you don't have to do everything up front and walking through options of priority given what I want to do, but how the hell do people pay for all this? I started adding it up and if I did everything above, it would be near $10k worth of parts!
I don't want to go cheap on something only to buy it again later, so I'm thinking the following 6 steps is probably what I ought to consider (I already have LOD side-step/rock rails):
- Skid plates (something like undercloak, differential and FAD protection) (~$1500)
- Lift (right now I'm waffling between 3.5 gamechanger and TerraFlex ST4 (so ~$3k prior to labor or do it myself)
- Tires/tire carrier (Right now thinking 35s, but may decide to go 37s. I can't go over 37 and still run local trails, so that would be the upper limit, but I need to address the spare carrier at the same time, so this step will be $3k ish if I get new rims)
- Axle reinforcement (no idea cost)
- Regear (I've heard ~2k)
- Buy a new jeep and start over. ($$$$$$$)
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