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When I started out 40 odd years a go : a sleeping bag tankers canvas hold all with clothes 2 burner coleman stove Cooler Tarp and air mattress That was good for 7 to 10 days - lakes for a shower Now I have a Discovery II with an RTT, Awning and way more of everything and I am not sure I am...

Apparently you can get transfer cases with different gears hi range only 1.003 ratio £545 1.1 ratio £620 1.211/22 ratio £495 1.3 ratio £620 1.410 ratio £495 1.667 ratios...

Defender to Disco II all used the same basic LT230 transfer case but, you can not just swap there a lots of little differences. Same with front and rear diffs

@aminmohmed11 Good & reliable is a hard question to answer, what country you actually in is half the answer. In North America, Jeep & Toyota are the simplest and most common, but you will find literally everything here. Then you need to decide what you are going to do, basic gravel road...

@smritte yea that drives me nuts, I am generally far away from any one but every now and then you get a group like that. My biggest gripe is smokers who feel that having an ashtray is wrong and flick butts, and ashes out the window. I could care less if they smoke but damm keep it the truck...

Up here in BC in the spring I use my axe regularly, there are tons of small trees down. A few whacks with an axe and I can pull them to one side, and off to one side. It works well to delimb to get a chain saw in too. But totally different environment than you have in California. For...

You might try a directed approach, off road shops, Jeep dealers etc. And provide a framed print they can display and offer to change them out regular on a regular basis, sort a print for rent idea. A lot of leg work and setup but it worked out well for a local fellow here, he was primarily...

@OscarMk I love that definition, mostly because it excludes almost everyone. Think about how many people can take months or years to travel, as to different that is pretty vague. I can get that with in 50 miles of home by attending various cultural festivals and events. To me is about...

@rumbledawg I think you hit the nail on the head with your nephew's Jeep, before you upgraded it struggled. Give at least from what I see your preference to do things right rather than cheap gave him are far better vehicle. Let's face Jeep's the absolute most common 4x4 in North America. And...

@leeloo Welcome to the internet :blush: I get the feeling @rumbledawg is not all that far from me, 2400- 2600 miles is about the distance from Vancouver to the Yukon border. Like him I go as far out of the way as I can, but I am a little more limited by having a LR Discovery with minimal...

@rumbledawg I was on the other end of that in a basically stock R50 Pathfinder - in my case it was almost always how did you get here and oddly almost always from Jeep guys. note that all jeep guys are that ways just some seem to think only jeeps can 4x4

I feel your pain that was me in January

@ThundahBeagle you notice that @rumbledawg has a theme with people breaking stuff - too much skinny pedal. I see it all the time 1st thing people do is punch the gas, that is the correct response maybe 1 time in 10. The idea is gentle throttle increase, to maybe 40% if you do not start moving...

That is always tough how big a tire, but consider what you are doing and what kind of terrain you typically encounter. So in general I avoid deep mud, and there is little sand here in the PNW and BC in general. My tire needs are: wet rock and gravel slimy mud a couple of inches deep snow...

@ThundahBeagle On one point @Billiebob is correct on just slapping a set up big heavy tires on is not a solution to anything and is in many cases ego, the look at my cool truck thing. Think mall crawlers A few points Weight is an issue big tires weight more and put more stress on axles, drive...

Gerber Mk II I have had for a very long time, 40 + years and a Buck 110 I have had just about as long Gerber the old leather sheath died years ago and tip was damaged by a driver on exercise 30 years ago. That sheath lets knife slide beside the set quite nicely when I choose to wear it or...

Well for me that depends where I am going. If I stay largely coastal 3 hours of hi-way will get me to good area's to off road. Worst case for me is getting to the Rockies about 10 hours, I can do it in less (8 hours) and have done so, but I take secondary hiways and stop when I want and sort...

Gates are a problem everywhere, they are open when you go through and closed an hour later. The big issue here on the coast in BC are the ante-logging nut bars and other dips who think damaging equipment worth 100' of thousands of dollars is a lark. As a result many logging companies put up...

I treat trash like food sort of. In side my Trasharoo I have a heavy duty trash bag, and garbage that goes into that, goes in to plastic grocery bags 1st. If I can have a fire I create a small side section and burn everything possible including cans, glass does not. Then once things cool a...

@freak4life well idea of the bells is to let the bear know you are coming, it is based on the fact most bears want nothing to do with people. The same with air horns and whistles, my bet is they work well on "curious" bears or bears that are just the on the trail. I have chased black bears...