Newbie from Colorado

[The_Great_White_Wk]

What's up everyone
I'm Sean I live in Colorado. I own a Jeep Grand Cherokee wk that I'm currently building as a overlanding vehicle. Its currently on a 4inch superlift and 285/70/17 cooper tires on American outlaw wheels. Glad to be apart of the overland bound family

 

[Bryan R.]

Welcome

 

[Big G]

What's up everyone
I'm Sean I live in Colorado. I own a Jeep Grand Cherokee wk that I'm currently building as a overlanding vehicle. Its currently on a 4inch superlift and 285/70/17 cooper tires on American outlaw wheels. Glad to be apart of the overland bound family

Hello Sean, welcome to the OB community. Nice pics.

 

[Boort]

What's up everyone
I'm Sean I live in Colorado. I own a Jeep Grand Cherokee wk that I'm currently building as a overlanding vehicle. Its currently on a 4inch superlift and 285/70/17 cooper tires on American outlaw wheels. Glad to be apart of the overland bound family

Sean
Welcome to the group.

Boort

 

[Jay D]

Hey Strange.wk, welcome and nice rig.

 

[Kent R]

What's up everyone
I'm Sean I live in Colorado. I own a Jeep Grand Cherokee wk that I'm currently building as a overlanding vehicle. Its currently on a 4inch superlift and 285/70/17 cooper tires on American outlaw wheels. Glad to be apart of the overland bound family

Welcome to Overland Bound Sean.
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[Neal A. Tew]

What's up everyone
I'm Sean I live in Colorado. I own a Jeep Grand Cherokee wk that I'm currently building as a overlanding vehicle. Its currently on a 4inch superlift and 285/70/17 cooper tires on American outlaw wheels. Glad to be apart of the overland bound family

Welcome Sean!

Please stop by this thread to say hello to the locals:

OB Members Colorado

Sorry I won't be able to go up that far North this weekend @carlo_donz . Not to take away from that group but wanted to gauge interest if anyone wants to do a ride closer to Colorado Springs on Sunday. I'm too new to wheeling in the area to make many suggestions. Was thinking of Shubarth loop...

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[PDB]

Hi Sean. I've outfitted the rear of my WK for overlanding if you want some input? I can post you some pics and info.

 

[The_Great_White_Wk]

Hi Sean. I've outfitted the rear of my WK for overlanding if you want some input? I can post you some pics and info.

That would be great. Not sure if I want a drawer system/bed in the back or if I wanna go with a rtt. I'm already top heavy as is being at almost 6 inches of lift

 

[PDB]

Yeah I thought the same. I went OME HD to get a good ride when outfitted under GVM. So I struck off drawers and went 40l fridge and two wolf boxes - you can pack the food in the fridge.

I thought of a box over the fridge, but again one purpose weight. So I found a bomber school table with adjustable legs that fits as a shelf and comes out for base camp and road repairs - its strong enough to clamp a hobby vice to if you need to whack off a broken cv.

The Wolf boxes you can stack as a seat/table in base camp or put on the roof for temp boot space.

I leave the rear seats up to maximise space oddly enough, which enables passenger capacity at short notice e.g. picking up a trail bound victim.

Anyone else finding it near impossible to type on the app, too little text space?

 

[PDB]

Tried to post pics from the app but nothing. Will try from PC....

 

[PDB]

Quick stop empty, all goes back in quickly. Extra 3 seats in there, full tool kits, compressor and hi-lift behind the back seats and fridge, accessed by folding the seats down through the back doors - no digging for gear. Lithium powerpack, electrics box on shelf with fire blanket and firestryker. Full recovery kit down the right side. First aid, 2x helinox cots, 2x helinox swivel chairs and camp shower (seaflo on demand wash down kit - read 'empty your jerry can in 1 minute') down left side. One wolf box has the kitchen including oven, grill plate etc. kitchen utensil pack hanging from the fridge handle here. The hanging stove (MSR Reactor kettle) tucks in the left side for quick access. The magma pan set with dragonfly stove and primus gas stove inside slots on the right with MSR fuel bottle. Second wolf box empty for food, except for freeze dried emergency packs. The table folds and fits on the top shelf with a frontrunner chair and another frontrunner chair slots on top of the wolf boxes under the shelf.

100W solar panel slides in between the boxes and fridge down the middle in protective foam sleeve. The water jerry can fits in behind the wolf boxes. A bivvy loo tops of all your needs. Pop up shelters, privacy tents and bivvy loo exhaust containers strap to the roof rack. Quick effective system and no room for rattles!

 

[PDB]

Pic of all packed up. Bivvy loo and kitchen utensils on the jerry can. On top of the fridge I have a magnetic tray with magnetic spice tins. Take the tray on and off quickly to slap on the lid or the sides.

 

[The_Great_White_Wk]

Pic of all packed up. Bivvy loo and kitchen utensils on the jerry can. On top of the fridge I have a magnetic tray with magnetic spice tins. Take the tray on and off quickly to slap on the lid or the sides.

That's a pretty awesome setup. Thanks for the information and how your rig is set up definitely gives me some ideas for what I wanna try to accomplish for the rear of the jeep. Nice wh by the way. Another question for you notice you had rear sliders. Are those the extremely rare 4x guard sliders or custom?

 

[Ubiety]

What's up everyone
I'm Sean I live in Colorado. I own a Jeep Grand Cherokee wk that I'm currently building as a overlanding vehicle. Its currently on a 4inch superlift and 285/70/17 cooper tires on American outlaw wheels. Glad to be apart of the overland bound family

Welcome to OB!

 

[PDB]

Thanks, glad its given some ideas. Yeah they were the last set of sliders from JBA, raptor coated. The rear bumper also raptor coated and colour coded plus laquer. Also JBA CB aerial mount. Wilderness lighting LED scene lights in the bumper.

Also have JBA UCAs and 4xguard sliders.

 

[PDB]

Forgot to mention the travall dog/storage guard boot divider. I Also have 6 wilderness lighting rocklights so 2 each side by the rock rails and 2 in the tailgate with a button switch - works really well at night to see round camp without glaring on other campers.

 

[PDB]

Thats alot of flex in your rear axle Sean. Nice rig. Have you diconnected the sway bar? Do the UCAs catch the fuel tank? Is that a saguiro front winch bumper? Thanks.

 

[Bama_Kiwi]

Welcome, Sean.

 

[The_Great_White_Wk]

Thats alot of flex in your rear axle Sean. Nice rig. Have you diconnected the sway bar? Do the UCAs catch the fuel tank? Is that a saguiro front winch bumper? Thanks.

I dont run a rear sway bar anymore. I'm also running Core 4x4 adjustable upper and lower rear control arms teir 1 and a teir 3 rear adjustable trac bar. Had to do the gas tank skid notch on drivers side to keep the upper arm from making contact