PEAK PUTTERS

Good, bad, or otherwise the soft deadline that was looming is no more... While that does take the pressure off in terms of calendar days, I do still want to get this wadded up beer can out of my shop :roll: I spent a few more hours on it this weekend and managed to get it to roller status, which mea...

Cage is painted and ready for final install: IMG_1141.JPG IMG_1143.JPG Broke down the front axle and replaced the ball joints with the ones necessary for the WJ knuckles, installed said WJ knuckles, and new unit bearings: IMG_1133.JPG The whole idea behind the WJ knuckle swap is to get better brakes...

Still plugging away on the cage: IMG_0725.JPG IMG_0737.JPG While the cage is getting cleaned up and ready for paint, we took the opportunity to add some rear departure clearance via the cut-n-fold method: IMG_1054.JPG IMG_1061.JPG IMG_1064.JPG Then it was time to whip up a quickie rear bumper to rep...

Wait just a minute... Are you trying to tell me that JeAraFalO went to the mountains?!?! I'm calling 100% BS on that one

Mr. and Mrs. OG were en-route back from a summer in Colorado and the timing just so happened to work out. The Grand Cherokee Trailhawk is THE right tool for this particular job, but rest assured Ginger the trusty JLU-R is still in the fleet and ready to go back to work

I'm guessing with the club connections most of you guys are already well aware of this, but this was the first time I'd heard of the upcoming 50% price hike for the Discover Pass starting next month:

https://discoverpass.wa.gov/

The Idaho Backcountry Discovery Route (BDR) covers something like 1,100 miles in its entirety, and has everything from arid desert at the Southern end near Nevada, to lush and thick forest up North near the Canadian border. Similar to the other BDR routes we've run, the varied terrain and ecosystems...

After nearly a year since the last update, which has included countless wheeling trips and miles traveled off-road "BDR-style" towing the little camp trailer around, I finally got around to taking another crack at an LED light bar. Sort of... Version 1.0 was a terrific failure because of t...

Selling a Brake Buddy Classic supplemental brake system for flat towing. Info here:

https://brakebuddy.com/digital-classic/

Works dandy, we just don't ever use it anymore. Let's say $100 or trade for something cool?

With the axle and brake upgrades figured out, albeit not completed, the next item on the list was a cage. With the XJ no longer serving daily driver duty, its future as a dedicated wheeler has been carved in proverbial stone, and thus some substantial increase in protection is warranted. I've never ...

As the weeks and months rolled by and spring came back around, the boy was itching to get something going with his beloved XJ. We spent a few hours one afternoon getting it running again and doing some cleanup of the engine bay and interior, and then started to put a plan together for it's resurrect...

Fast forward nearly 4-years, and the little XJ has dutifully done battle everywhere from the high-school parking lot to Moab, the Rubicon Trail, and countless other adventures in between. It’s seen everything from routine maintenance to tire and wheel upgrades, suspension changes, and even an engine...

For anyone interested, I'll give my insight into the trail and some general thoughts on the trip as whole... Hopefully Dryside will do simular. To get it out of the way immediately, I would NOT recommend doing what we did in terms of how the trip was approached. A long drive day, followed by a full ...

Time out of your life you will not get back

I'm exhausted... Dryside and I launched from the greater Kennewick area around 0700 on Friday, 27Jun2025 and proceeded to drive approximately 750 miles to the outskirts of Truckee, CA. The road trip was long, and there was some drama with a pesky trailer wheel bearing, but overall things went reason...

After the absolute disaster we encountered on the Rubicon trip last summer ( http://www.peakputters.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7569 ) that involved using a trail welder on no less than 3 separate occasions, having one of these in the tool bag has become a high priority for me personally. Now,...

Sometimes it just all comes together... this was definitely one of those times. Incredible weather, views, food, and friends all made this one for the history books.

Anyone know of a good person/place to work with on getting a windshield fit into a rig that isn't exactly factory fresh? We've pushed and prodded and pounded a whole bunch on the roof and A-pillars of the XJ and I'm reasonably sure it'll take a windshield at this point, but I have zero experience in...

Lee you are tugging at my heart strings

Last time I washed my flatty was back in the spring of 2017, and to be honest I wasn't even the one doing the work

Given it was Memorial Day weekend, the rulebook says the dollop of Wilcox should have been camping somewhere deep in the Oregon wilderness... However, due to various circumstances well beyond my control, this sadly was not the case for Memorial Day weekend 2025 :cry: However, the man/myth/legend kno...

As we wrapped up our spring break trip this year, we rolled through the hallowed grounds of Moab, UT for one night. With only about 16-hours of total time allotted for the stay, I was under a pretty tight time table for any recreational activities whilst there as sleeping was going to take a decent ...

For spring break this year, we took another trip to the Southwest and specifically St. George, UT for a couple of days. Unlike last time, since we again had a lowly 6G Bronco with us, we skipped the wheeling hotspot of Sand Hollow just outside Hurricane, UT and instead found a unique waypoint to mea...

As noted prior, the Bronco will never be pretty, and I don't want it to be. With that said, I do have my standards :lol: Some new carpet was added to the interior: IMG_1531.JPG IMG_1533.JPG We spent about a year just enjoying the Bronco as it was, using it for ice cream runs, running to the fuel sta...