I found a great deal on some 33″ BFG M/T tires, so I picked those up. Not much else has changes since the last “stage”, but I also have custom rockers and a custom front bumper that I fabricated.

I have wheeled the snot out of my jeep at this stage, and I have *really* enjoyed it. It’s very clear however, that the next step needs to be a lift/tires with a good belly-up skid. See the image to the right of a much-needed clean out of my skid plate?

Last summer I didn’t want to mess around with taking my hard top on and off all the time for the 2nd summer in a row. I purchased a Viking Soft Top. I also had purchased a 5th rim and tire by that point.

A couple months after purchasing, I took it out to get it muddy. My brother, a couple friends and I headed out to the Cabin and found what we were looking for! To this day, this was one of the funnest wheeling trips I have done. The weather was hot, and the mud was deep. Most of us ended up losing a shoe here and there, so we just tromped around in our bare feet most of the day. Check out the full gallery of the trip in the gallery section.

I bought my TJ used from a ford dealer in town. It had no soft top, A/T tires and aftermarket eagle alloy 058 rims. There was roughly 62,000 KM on the odometer, and I loved it to death from the 1st test drive. This was the 1st time I had owned a vehicle that I actually felt good driving.. all the others were cars, mostly old and slow.