Enthusiast III
Well,
I was all set to start building the Jk Unlimited for our travel rig, but life gets in the way sometimes. I let "annie" go to a new owner last week. While it hurt letting my second JK leave the driveway, It opened a new era for the Autism Family Travels family. We are now free of the loan we were paying on it, plus insurance etc. We are now focusing on our 2015 Patriot as our rig. We have owned this little gem since new when i traded the worst purchase of my life on it. My 2001 Harley Davidson Road Glide CVO. Harleys....VOMIT!
Anyways. We are gearing up for this year's adventures, so I need to get cracking on the build of the Pat in the next month. We will be adding the front runner roof platform for extra carrying capacity, a travall cargo divider inside to keep us safe from flying gear, the rocky road winch mount and light mount with a 5000lb winch. I am keeping it lightweight on this build. Underneath will be new Moog springs, daystar 1.5" lift, new AT3W falkens and bilstien shocks. For lighting we are going to get some great LED headlight bulbs with correct harnesses, 2 hella 450 LED on the front light mount bar, and two hella 350 lightbars in pencil beams for the underside of the roof rack. In the fog light housings, I am going to get the LED blubs that you can switch from white to selective yellow by cycling them on and off. I may go with a set of LP adventure wheels too. Although the wheel spacers and stock wheels look pretty good on it now. We also need a trailer hitch and wiring so reese to the rescue with that and their class 3 and full plug and play harness.
Inside I am getting ready to mount the tablet in the "cubby" in the dash, so we have all our nav/entertainment apps available and ready to use, as well I am getting some mini CB installed as well. We need to have extended LTE service so A weboost booster will be installed with it's antenna in the headliner so all our devices receive the boost signals from it.
Underneath, we will be installing the skids on the engine and gas tank from the FDII Patriot, as well as the tow hooks. The added protection and pluckability of the tow hooks will be welcome additions. Also a new high capacity battery will be installed for the fridge in the rear.
All in all it will be a well rounded adventure rig made to do some light backcountry adventures. No rock crawling but it will mosey up trails decently without too much trouble.
A shot of our pat with it's wheel spacers and 235/65/17 Kumho AT51 installed. These tires are good, but had an odd handling trait where they were very "flighty" at center and slightly off center on the highway.
I was all set to start building the Jk Unlimited for our travel rig, but life gets in the way sometimes. I let "annie" go to a new owner last week. While it hurt letting my second JK leave the driveway, It opened a new era for the Autism Family Travels family. We are now free of the loan we were paying on it, plus insurance etc. We are now focusing on our 2015 Patriot as our rig. We have owned this little gem since new when i traded the worst purchase of my life on it. My 2001 Harley Davidson Road Glide CVO. Harleys....VOMIT!
Anyways. We are gearing up for this year's adventures, so I need to get cracking on the build of the Pat in the next month. We will be adding the front runner roof platform for extra carrying capacity, a travall cargo divider inside to keep us safe from flying gear, the rocky road winch mount and light mount with a 5000lb winch. I am keeping it lightweight on this build. Underneath will be new Moog springs, daystar 1.5" lift, new AT3W falkens and bilstien shocks. For lighting we are going to get some great LED headlight bulbs with correct harnesses, 2 hella 450 LED on the front light mount bar, and two hella 350 lightbars in pencil beams for the underside of the roof rack. In the fog light housings, I am going to get the LED blubs that you can switch from white to selective yellow by cycling them on and off. I may go with a set of LP adventure wheels too. Although the wheel spacers and stock wheels look pretty good on it now. We also need a trailer hitch and wiring so reese to the rescue with that and their class 3 and full plug and play harness.
Inside I am getting ready to mount the tablet in the "cubby" in the dash, so we have all our nav/entertainment apps available and ready to use, as well I am getting some mini CB installed as well. We need to have extended LTE service so A weboost booster will be installed with it's antenna in the headliner so all our devices receive the boost signals from it.
Underneath, we will be installing the skids on the engine and gas tank from the FDII Patriot, as well as the tow hooks. The added protection and pluckability of the tow hooks will be welcome additions. Also a new high capacity battery will be installed for the fridge in the rear.
All in all it will be a well rounded adventure rig made to do some light backcountry adventures. No rock crawling but it will mosey up trails decently without too much trouble.
A shot of our pat with it's wheel spacers and 235/65/17 Kumho AT51 installed. These tires are good, but had an odd handling trait where they were very "flighty" at center and slightly off center on the highway.
