Tails
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2016
- Location
- Thomasville
Rewind to four years ago. I was the East Coast coordinator for Patriot Therapy/True Patriot. I had no money and was trying hard just to survive life. I decided to sell my TJ just to keep the lights on for a few more months. I always missed the sport but didn’t think I would get back into it. I loved this forum so continued to read it but again thought I would never get back into it.
Fast forward to Easter this year. Some friends of mine invited me to Moab during Easter Jeep Safari. Even thought I was riding shotgun I had the time of my life. The bug had bitten again!
Over the last four years my wife and I have been doing the Dave Ramsey thing. We have successfully paid off over 75,000$ in debt. I received the go ahead to begin looking for a Jeep to get back into the sport as long as I don’t go tofar overboard. I put word out to my friends that I was looking for a well priced good platform Jeep. By this time @josh$$ had just sold his TJ and I was kicking myself for not jumping on it.
Middle of May I receive a phone call from my friend that I went to Moab with saying he had found me a Jeep. I asked about it and he told me that his shop had built it at the end of 2018. He said it was rust free and had a lot of quality parts he said the guy was selling it for a 1/4 of what he built it for.I said “send me pictures and info on it.” I asked why he was selling it so cheap and was told it’s had low oil pressure for years. They were just running 20w50 in the engine and it ran fine, but it would need a new engine sooner then later. I received these pictures….
The pictures peaked my interest. I showed the pictures to my wife and she said “if you want it buy it.” As a guy that been married for more then a day, I thought this was a trick. After a few days she asked when the Jeep was coming home? I immediately called my buddy and said I wanted the Jeep. He called the owner and was told that the owner needed to keep it a few weeks to find a new vehicle. I agreed since I was leaving the next week to take my daughter to Universal Studios. When I returned home I drove to Greensboro with the check. I still hadn’t seen it in person yet. The guy couldn’t meet me that day so I left the check and drive home but not without receiving it’s invoice from 2018. I now knew everything that had been done to it. A few days later I got a call to come pick up my Jeep. I went up and it truly was in great condition. We put it on the lift and saw a rear axle shaft was leaking. When we pull the shaft it was bent so we put a new shaft that was laying around the shop in. It was time to do the drive back to Fayetteville. Leaving the shop it had a hesitation for a second and then snapped out of it. After that it drove extremely smooth. I drove it around Fayetteville and would occasionally get the hesitation again. So I replaced the upstream O2 sensor and it fixed the hesitation. Now it drives great. I named it Under Pressure due to the low oil pressure.
That brings us to today. Here is the list of what all has been done to it so far:
New top, method wheel, 35’s, Hyline read bumper carrier with swing out tire carrier, 4 in teraflex long arm kit, JCR front bumper, warn winch, poison spyder fenders, 4.56 gears, true trac in rear, pro comp led headlights, SYE with a Tom woods driveshaft, full bed rug kit, seat covers, black magic brake kit, painted mustang grey (was purple), poison spyder rockers, banks monster exhaust, banks header, and a lot of misc maintenance items.
plan going forward is rebuild the engine, 1 ton stearing upgrade, new rear axle to get rid of the 35, true trac in the 30. Rock hard roll cage, and seats with harnesses. This is all stage 1 of build just to get me back into the hang of everything.
Sorry for such a long read, posts going forward should be shorter. Here is another picture or two of it.
Fast forward to Easter this year. Some friends of mine invited me to Moab during Easter Jeep Safari. Even thought I was riding shotgun I had the time of my life. The bug had bitten again!
Over the last four years my wife and I have been doing the Dave Ramsey thing. We have successfully paid off over 75,000$ in debt. I received the go ahead to begin looking for a Jeep to get back into the sport as long as I don’t go tofar overboard. I put word out to my friends that I was looking for a well priced good platform Jeep. By this time @josh$$ had just sold his TJ and I was kicking myself for not jumping on it.
Middle of May I receive a phone call from my friend that I went to Moab with saying he had found me a Jeep. I asked about it and he told me that his shop had built it at the end of 2018. He said it was rust free and had a lot of quality parts he said the guy was selling it for a 1/4 of what he built it for.I said “send me pictures and info on it.” I asked why he was selling it so cheap and was told it’s had low oil pressure for years. They were just running 20w50 in the engine and it ran fine, but it would need a new engine sooner then later. I received these pictures….
The pictures peaked my interest. I showed the pictures to my wife and she said “if you want it buy it.” As a guy that been married for more then a day, I thought this was a trick. After a few days she asked when the Jeep was coming home? I immediately called my buddy and said I wanted the Jeep. He called the owner and was told that the owner needed to keep it a few weeks to find a new vehicle. I agreed since I was leaving the next week to take my daughter to Universal Studios. When I returned home I drove to Greensboro with the check. I still hadn’t seen it in person yet. The guy couldn’t meet me that day so I left the check and drive home but not without receiving it’s invoice from 2018. I now knew everything that had been done to it. A few days later I got a call to come pick up my Jeep. I went up and it truly was in great condition. We put it on the lift and saw a rear axle shaft was leaking. When we pull the shaft it was bent so we put a new shaft that was laying around the shop in. It was time to do the drive back to Fayetteville. Leaving the shop it had a hesitation for a second and then snapped out of it. After that it drove extremely smooth. I drove it around Fayetteville and would occasionally get the hesitation again. So I replaced the upstream O2 sensor and it fixed the hesitation. Now it drives great. I named it Under Pressure due to the low oil pressure.
That brings us to today. Here is the list of what all has been done to it so far:
New top, method wheel, 35’s, Hyline read bumper carrier with swing out tire carrier, 4 in teraflex long arm kit, JCR front bumper, warn winch, poison spyder fenders, 4.56 gears, true trac in rear, pro comp led headlights, SYE with a Tom woods driveshaft, full bed rug kit, seat covers, black magic brake kit, painted mustang grey (was purple), poison spyder rockers, banks monster exhaust, banks header, and a lot of misc maintenance items.
plan going forward is rebuild the engine, 1 ton stearing upgrade, new rear axle to get rid of the 35, true trac in the 30. Rock hard roll cage, and seats with harnesses. This is all stage 1 of build just to get me back into the hang of everything.
Sorry for such a long read, posts going forward should be shorter. Here is another picture or two of it.
