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Hi Musubi - I got it from 4 Wheel Parts. $398.83 delivered to the Waipahu store for pick up. I got one of the "we pay for the tax" specials. If you head over to Oahu Jeeps on Facebook, there's a group / club discount of like 5 or 10% from 4 Wheel Parts. HTH.

Yeah, I looks like that from up top, but when you look underneath, the lowest tube is what bolts on at frame level and then the two top tubes angle up from there. So clearance is not changed from a height perspective, but you are effectively bringing the frame height farther out making the base...

Beaches and parks opened so we had the chance to go out this weekend. First trip to the beach. First run out to the east side of the island.

Taken after the Rubi's first car wash after a cross country / cross the pacific delivery. Build journal here: https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/buck-2020-rubicon-build-hawaii.50046/

@00Sebby I went with the Smittybilt SRCs as well. Have the sequence of take off of stock Rubi rail and putting on the SRCs in my build journal - https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/buck-2020-rubicon-build-hawaii.50046/. Cracking the painted nut from the pinch seam was probably the...

Back to Maui Off Road Center to get the tires updated to the BFG 315 K02's. No lift, just replaced the tires and kept the stock tires. Here's the before and after. I tried to make this as close as possible a direct comparison. Actual height change on paper is just under 2". Can't really feel...

Thanks for everyone who was with me during the transport. All in all, it was great having this forum during Feb/Mar/Apr 2020. It helped me to take my mind off the worst possible outcomes of the pandemic but also enabled me to spend sometime thinking about how to build towards the future for...

Not sure if you could tell, but the Rubi was really dirty from the cross country trip and then the wait in Long Beach before being loaded on the ship. So, employed all the kids and some cousins to do a really complete wash.

Daily driver, surf board transport, off roading with the some of the local groups here on Oahu, and possibly rig up as an overland for some beach camping. The islands not that big but it'll be nice to tour it with the top off and do some social distancing by being on the road and enjoying the...

Put in the Mopar all weather mats. Not sure the drain plug is really fully connected, but it seems close enough. We'll see if the sand drains out well with some water. Big project for today was to install the Smittybilt SRC side armor steps. Took about four hours but a lot of that was...

Been working on getting the Rubi out to Oahu for last couple of months. It's been a good distraction from all of the craziness going on around us and the Rubi arrived yesterday. Transport journal here: https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/jeeping-oahu-transport-journal.47755/ So the...

Finally headed home past the airport and Waikiki. I think I put about 60 miles on the Rubi today which would normally be about 3-4 days worth of driving. There's really not a whole lot of distance to go on this island. I pushed the Rubi to 75+ on H1 to test out the freeway shake and...

After that, it was over to Maui Off Road to finalize tires. I had called them earlier and they were great about the info on the 315 K02's E vs. C and vs. the 35" K02's. One of the local chains selling and helping with tires across all the islands. Getting to their shop, it was clear they had...

After picking up from Matson, I headed directly over to 4 Wheel Parts in Waipahu. As one of the only mainland chains with a presence in Hawaii, I was able to look for side armor without having to pay air freight. Yeah, think about what shipping looks like on 100 lbs of steel. As it turns out...

Day 25 - Thursday Headed over to Matson Honolulu (Sand Island) to pick up the Rubi in the early afternoon. Had to brave the lines at Costco in the AM. When the Matson ships hit Honolulu, everything gets restocked at Costco. Anyway, Matson security was spot on for Covid and had a bunch of...

Day 24 - Wednesday Just checking the Matson status page and it shows the Rubi offloaded and ready to be picked up. Looking at XM Guardian, the signal works in Hawaii! Rubi's first location check in Honolulu. From ~2500 miles away to 7 miles away. Going out to Matson to pick up the Rubi...

Day 24 - Wednesday The Lurline has reached Honolulu. As of 10:23 this morning, the Lurline is in port! Usual turn around is two days of unload and load so the Rubi should be coming off the boat today or tomorrow. I can't tell if Sirius XM Guardian is going to work for Hawaii. The coverage...

Day 20 Saturday The Sirius XM Guardian isn't going to be able to provide positioning as the Lurline travels across the ocean but there's an API for that. Using the MarineTraffic project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarineTraffic, the site https://www.myshiptracking.com gives realtime access...

Day 14 through day 19 (Friday) had the Rubi on the exact same spot on the Matson dock. Late Friday afternoon, we got some movement. Out to the end of the dock and onto the Lurline. Confirmed by Matson's app that the Rubi is loaded up. But the estimated pick up date is still showing the...