Red Dawn

[Red Dawn]

I've been thinking about starting a thread to show what I have done to my my jeep and what I will do. So I have finnaly gotten around to starting it.

Sheila and I purchased our Jeep in May of 2013. It was our first step into the Jeeping world. I don't have a picture of when we first got it but here is one that was close.
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I'll add more soon

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I think that previous picture may show the leveling lift i had put on it, I can't remember now. But here she is with new wheels in tires almost a year ago. I went with 17 inch rims and 33 inch toyo MTs
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So at that point it had a 1.5 inch leveling spacers and the new wheels and tires, I was feeling pretty happy, little did I know that I was developing an addiction.

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As spring was approaching I bought a bimini soft top and named her Red Dawn, because all the cool kids were doing it. and I picked up a pair of side mirrors for when the doors are off
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for Spring Break 2014 we decided to go to Moab. I met a couple of peeps from Olympia on the Wayalife forum that were gonna be there at the same time and we met up and ran a couple of runs together, here are a few pics.

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Well Moab was awesome and I found that I need more lift. and It wasn't long until I added 2.5 more inches with a teraflex spring kit with bilstein shocks. The sales guy at Northridge recoomended the AEV geometry correction brackets for my lower control arms so put those on too. This time I did the labor myself for this lift and got to know the underside of my Jeep better. I had Les Schwab put my leveling spacers on before and what a waste of money, i was just a newb.

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After succesfully adding the lift to my Jeep, I guess I was feeling handy and I decided to build a trailer that I could take camping, so here are asome pics of that project.

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On labor day Sheila and I went up to bethel ridge near Rimrock lake and had alittle fun but still didn't have any off roading friends yet locally.

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Then I started snooping around this forum a bit and went on an A&B run with Bryan, Mike and Lance. Well that was real fun and I thought they were great guys and they invited us out to Juniper that night for 3 ball and we had a blast.

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Well then I started to creating Christmas ideas for my Jeep in my head and I was bale to get a few of them. Warn winch, new front bumper, eaton e locker for the rear, and Bryan fabbed side rocker sliders, and couple LED lights. I don't have pics of everything yet, but here are a couple and I'll get some more up soon.

[OldGreen]

Neat Jeep.

Keep the kid's hands inside the Jeep. Seriously. We had a club member's dad lose his hand because of something that simple.

[tobyw]

Huh, we're neighbors... Pretty sure I picked up a 50cc Polaris from you several years ago? At any rate, we should hook up and go wheeling sometime.

[Red Dawn]

Huh, we're neighbors... Pretty sure I picked up a 50cc Polaris from you several years ago? At any rate, we should hook up and go wheeling sometime.

Yup my daughter still remembers the day I sold that to you, Ya I'm always up for wheeling. I need to be a better neighbor and stop and say hello some time.

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rocker side rails have been installed, and wiring for front windshield LEDs and rear locker is done.