[TJSport01]

I gave this a try once but never updated it and it failed pretty miserably. Now that I have a little more time I am going to try it again. Here is the back-story, I wanted a jeep for a long time and when my old Volvo was on its last legs my parents surprised me with a 2001 jeep wrangler sport. It had 42,000 miles on it and I lucked out with the straight six and d44 rear as I knew nothing about jeeps.



being the noob I was my first round of mods were a throttle body spacer a k&n intake and a 3in body lift and light bar…. I know I know terrible, ill spare you of those pics because they are that horrible.

Finally learned a bit about jeeps and wheeling, lost the side steps and saved up to purchase a RE 4.5 in lift, and sye and after a little fender bender some TnT flat fenders. Also swapped the 3in bl for a 1.5 and a MMl

Lift…

[TJSport01]

after the lift I saved up and got some used 33s on eagle alloy wheels, also some pics of the warn front bumper the sye and drive shaft and the K&N intake…








added a tire carrier, rhino lining, some light tabs, and replaced a cracked radiator before I left for college

[TJSport01]

drove the heep from florida to Colorado from school

threw and aussie in the front got some 35 goodyears for Christmas and added an AA transfer case bracket

[TJSport01]

some other randoms... turn signals


plans for the near future is a winch fix the CB i once had and continue wheeling

[TJSport01]

never really knew anything about cars before all of this kinda learned on the way.... also did some maintenance redid the front brakes completely both hubs on the front and a few sensor on the intake

[TJSport01]

some action shots..... what do you all think

[RubiExpressTJ]

i think i wanna get some flat fenders. haha. cool looking rig. do cops harass you with those fenders? any trouble getting it inspected?

[TJSport01]

havent gotten any crap from the fenders but i also have a florida license plate and basically anything goes in florida... ive never been inspected for anything lol

[RubiExpressTJ]

haha. im moving to cali i think. vt is strict!!

[neverbackdown]

Originally Posted by diverdude2890

havent gotten any crap from the fenders but i also have a florida license plate and basically anything goes in florida... ive never been inspected for anything lol

i miss florida i got stationed up here in washington state after joining the coast guard but i have been pulled over more times here in the past year and a half then i EVER did back when i lived in florida

[TJSport01]

florida cops are pretty lax it was a good place to go to highschool, cali?? isnt that more strict there laws are a little ridiculous

[Greg_Volkman]

Originally Posted by diverdude2890

florida cops are pretty lax it was a good place to go to highschool, cali?? isnt that more strict there laws are a little ridiculous

CA tends to be pretty lax with 4x4 rigs. AND we have a ton of open areas for wheeling. When i lived in Colorado Springs we used to have to drive for hours to find a "real" trail (and no, saran wrap and eagle rock are not "real" trails ).

[mscottz]

Nice thread. Maybe I'll see a around town sometime.

[TJSport01]

so far colorado has been so much better than florida trail wise... go figure

[RubiExpressTJ]

yeah i dont know why i said cali? i meant florida... half naked girl friend in the same room... i think i was side tracked. but yeah.... idk if it's the same way in other states but your rig needs to be inspected once a year here and the shops are hard ons about it because they can lose their inspection license if the law finds out their giving stickers to bad vehicles.. it sucks.. i brought my ZJ to a garage and the guy told me i had to attach the front plate with more screws, put a regular bumper on, put a quieter exhaust on, and my favorite; "sheet rock screw some rubber around the wheel wells to cover the tires better" hahahaha.