JLJeeper76
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Hi Dave. I'm a David also. I love the sarge green. That's what I really wanted,Hi, I’m Dave. Just took delivery of our Sarge green JLURD last week. It’s intended to replace our trusty FJ Cruiser as our camping and over landing platform. My main reason for the switch was the allure of the diesel for mpg (range) and torque.
we call it ‘Sarge’, for lack of imagination.
i want to mod it with long distance cruising in mind but that gives me trail and high clearance to go where we want to go once we get there. I love the look of the big beefy 37’s but am not sure that works for thousand mile highway journeys. But we do want max ground clearance for trail use at our destinations. The FJ was set up with an Icon 2” lift on 33’s. Pretty good for most purposes but our skid plates were pretty beat up and I realized that when airing down a lot of that good ground clearance was lost. For this reason I’m thinking 35’s for this Jeep with a mild lift. On the other hand i dont want it to look like roller skates either. I’ve seen some 35 - 2” lifts that look nice and others that don’t. Love the 37” look but just not sure how that will work when driving from Texas to Alaska!
looking forward to learning from others here and meeting new people!
You'll hear plenty here on lifts and tires, but I'm interested in overlanding/camping also, so I went with a 2.5 inch JKS lift with Fox shocks and 35 inch BF Goodrich KO2 tires. In the attached pic it doesn't have the 35 tires yet. I just added them this week.
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