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went on a quick trip to Los Padres National Forest area last thursday and friday (the GF just started a new job and those are her days off...kind of a bummer but we are making it work) first stop was Chumash Painted Cave State Park looking out at the Pacific just past San Marcos (you can...

so havent updated this in a while... found a deal on spark plugs and wires so pulled out the plugs that were in the jeep and saw that they were all gapped around .060 (YIKES!) so went with the spec'd Champion plugs and proper gap of .035 before the Death Valley trip we experienced a strange...

newly acquired 99 2WD XJ

lower back seat out in the XJ top back seat folds flat both front seats slid all the way forward then we use two 3" memory foam mattress toppers an assortment of blankets and pillows and if its really cold then we break out the sleeping bags too. so far its great.

entering DVNP Dantes View at sunset Badwater Basin notice the sea level sign... Ubehebe Crater and after hiking up from the bottom we needed a bit of a break heading to the racetrack we of course had to get a pic at teakettle junction looking out from the grandstand at the...

anyway now on to the fun stuff we left long beach thursday nite and rolled into Ballarat. this time we went with another couple and their brand new GC waking up friday morning in Ballarat planning the route for the day from what i read i believe this was one of the two power wagons the...

hope you guys are ready for a huge photo dump from this past weekend thursday before we left for Death Valley we did some service work to the jeep...and of course i made sure the GF got her hands dirty -rear wheel bearings/seals -spartan locker -pick up coil/cam position sensor -distributor...

Mondays project was changing out the old u joints for some new spicer ones old ones out new ones in buttoning everything back up pretty quick job. walked the gf through the whole thing and done in about an hour.*

so kinda bummed cause the locker didnt come in Sat when it was supposed to...once again USPS only delivering false expectations on time we made due with what we had so i helped the gf as i walked her through how to change the transmission filter and shift solenoids. got the trans pan off...

bought some maintenance goodies last week so we can just establish a baseline for some stuff... trans service kit with shift solenoids and filter rear wheel bearings and the one im most excited about :D spartan oh and some misc camping stuff too

the following weekend for New Years we took a trip to Red Rock Canyon State Park area. Ditched the 32" mud terrain setup for some 31" all terrain tires on some American Racing wheels Did some reading about the Burro Schmidt Tunnel and Walt Bickel Mining Camp on BLM land a bit north of the park...

then we decided to take our first camping trip in it that weekend. went to Joshua Tree National Park and it performed great. found an abandoned truck on a trail in the park sunset at barker dam on Sat waking up Sunday on BLM land north of the park Jumbo Rocks Desert Queen Mine...

So we ended up picking it up and of course the AC wasn't working and it was throwing a CEL but a quick search and found it was literally just changing a fuse So no more CEL. AC is ice cold. Replaced a headlight ballast Replaced the buggered up battery terminals Threw on a cheapo light bar...

so while im new to the OB forums i have had an ongoing thread regarding the XJ on a cherokee forum so i can just include the previous info from those threads here... anyway my GF turned in her mini cooper a month ago and we were looking for suitable replacements that she would be interested in...