Took off the driver side rear fender and added a nice battle scar behind driver door. Oh, and that new dust/mud smell.

 

Broke my rim..... OUCH!

 

Wired up my KC's on the front hoop and added Delta windshield brackets and another set of KC's!

 

Whoa !!...thats not a good AEV advertisement

 

I finally installed the driver's side mirror relocation bracket. Anyone wanna buy the passenger side one?

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Also messed around with the idea of using stainless steel u-clamps to fab my own Hi-Lift mount to the Bull bar for off road trips:

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FINALLY put the center caps on the wheels along with went through and torque spec'd everything

 

i played in the mud last weekend



and i witnessed some serious shit.
it was an accident and he slid into the big mud hole now nicknamed the "bunny hole"

 

OMG! how the heck did that happen?

 

Shit happens. I jamned my AEV rim hard enough into a crevice that powering up to get out broke an axle. The axle folks tell me that usually takes in excess of 7000 pounds of torque to shear a D44 shaft. My wheel isn't pretty anymore but it works fine. As to the torque to break the axle: say it was putting out 150# (estimate at 2500 rpm) x 4 (Transfer case ratio) x 5.13 gears x 2.84 (1st gear ratio) = 8741 without figuring any auto trans torque multiplication.

 

the lifted TJ on 34's was pulling a grand cherokee overlandwith 31" MT/R with Kevlar through a nasty trail hauling ass and i couldn't move my JK up enough b/c i was behind another Jeep, and the guy didn't slow down in time and slammed on his brakes and slid into the big nasty hole that everyone was trying to avoid. the overland slammed on his brakes too and he made it alright over to the right. it was nobody's fault but it was a reeaalll bear getting him out. we had a winch on him, that jeep strapped to another, strapped to another strapped to a tree, and they ended up pulling the whole frigging tree down, lucky no one got hurt. the big tree missed a modded out TJ be about 5 feet. it took us well over 3 hours to get out of that trail

the lady 2 jeeps ahead (the one to the left of mine) she was winched through the whole thing and so was the green TJ directly infront of me. nobody thought i would make it without help so no one got pictures of my blasting through that shit. it was soo cool though