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So, i'll prob spare you all the details of YET another JKU but just give you a run down of the build of it so far...
I bought it new in 2012, after our fam outgrew my XJ, I ended up picking up a new JKU with zero options, and lemme tell you, it was not an easy task to find one. A few months later I found one for 25k, and away we went! After a couple months and the silly truck bouncing off the front bumps on our ski-jump like freeways around the Bay Area, so I put a leveling kit on it to help with that. Soon after that I put some some 32 tires on it to replace the stock 29" tires and I basicly kept it like that till those tires wore out, then went up to some 33's and a 2" lift, sliders, stuck my old milemarker winch on a winch plate on the front bumper etc.... 2yrs after that gears, 35's. Broke some control arms so started replacing those, trackbar, etc etc etc. Its been a great truck so far with a 135k on it and i'm planning on keeping it pretty much until it dies. And its got like standard jeep stuff, lol
My wifes GMC sierra is going to be getting its own post a little further down and it'll prob make up a majority of the posts here as thats a bit more out there in terms of whats going on with it and some fairly major re-engineering of the front suspension to make it suck less... well, needless to say, it'll be interesting! My dad bought the truck new in '03 and it pretty much was his worktruck for a number of years until he picked up a '14 Xterra Pro-4x, so my parter picked it up as it was a good step up from her previous GMC Sonoma.
Its only a 2wd but it has the max tow package n stuff, so it has the V8, G80 in the rear, etc etc. Over the past few years we'd just been going through the truck and doing general maintenance and stuff until a bunch of crap started falling apart in the front suspension and it needed tires. Luckily I had the set of 33's at about half life from my jeep and a half-baked plan was born to do some minor suspension work on her truck, a small lift, some better lights, stick the 33's on, get some skids on it and see what we can do with the truck.
Just before we started tearing into the suspension. An idea of where it was when we started... This is when I was replacing the stereo, blown af speakers and generally getting the light bulbs on the interior to be not sucky... and started running wires to the backup cam.
Soon I'll have coilovers to replace this mess...
Pulling the old super worn out coils out... these had 190k on em and they were super dead.
And uh, here's a cat.
I bought it new in 2012, after our fam outgrew my XJ, I ended up picking up a new JKU with zero options, and lemme tell you, it was not an easy task to find one. A few months later I found one for 25k, and away we went! After a couple months and the silly truck bouncing off the front bumps on our ski-jump like freeways around the Bay Area, so I put a leveling kit on it to help with that. Soon after that I put some some 32 tires on it to replace the stock 29" tires and I basicly kept it like that till those tires wore out, then went up to some 33's and a 2" lift, sliders, stuck my old milemarker winch on a winch plate on the front bumper etc.... 2yrs after that gears, 35's. Broke some control arms so started replacing those, trackbar, etc etc etc. Its been a great truck so far with a 135k on it and i'm planning on keeping it pretty much until it dies. And its got like standard jeep stuff, lol
My wifes GMC sierra is going to be getting its own post a little further down and it'll prob make up a majority of the posts here as thats a bit more out there in terms of whats going on with it and some fairly major re-engineering of the front suspension to make it suck less... well, needless to say, it'll be interesting! My dad bought the truck new in '03 and it pretty much was his worktruck for a number of years until he picked up a '14 Xterra Pro-4x, so my parter picked it up as it was a good step up from her previous GMC Sonoma.
Its only a 2wd but it has the max tow package n stuff, so it has the V8, G80 in the rear, etc etc. Over the past few years we'd just been going through the truck and doing general maintenance and stuff until a bunch of crap started falling apart in the front suspension and it needed tires. Luckily I had the set of 33's at about half life from my jeep and a half-baked plan was born to do some minor suspension work on her truck, a small lift, some better lights, stick the 33's on, get some skids on it and see what we can do with the truck.
Just before we started tearing into the suspension. An idea of where it was when we started... This is when I was replacing the stereo, blown af speakers and generally getting the light bulbs on the interior to be not sucky... and started running wires to the backup cam.
Soon I'll have coilovers to replace this mess...
Pulling the old super worn out coils out... these had 190k on em and they were super dead.
And uh, here's a cat.
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