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    Hand Pressure Camp Shower

    I'm I'm on Chrome.
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    Hub Tent reviews/suggestions

    Gazelle T4 user here. Setup is quick, tear down is quicker, guy out the hubs in stiff winds. Camped in it in multiple thunderstorms now in Arkansas and it slept well. I'm 5 8 and can stand up in it with headroom to spare. My dad and I just spent a week straight in it in Colorado moving...
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    Hand Pressure Camp Shower

    I can't see any of these pictures or links or whatever ya'll are posting.
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    Ammo Advice

    You put this in the buy sell trade group. The best is, whatever you have that isn't birdshot. There's a lot of people that like #4 buckshot. I find it easy to find 00 buck pretty much anywhere and it'll get the job done, same for a 7/8ths or 1oz slug.
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    What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

    Receiver hitch bolted to the draw bar. There is no official CJ2 towing capacity, but the military MB and M38 were rated for 1500 lbs cross-country and 2000 lbs on the road. And the civie CJ2s were rated for a 1200 lbs draw bar pull for agri work. The most this will ever have to pull is a...
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    What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

    Got the oil leaks on the CJ2 squared away and been using it to move brush around the property and most importantly hauling the kids around because they bug me multiple times a day for a "Jeep ride in the CJ2".
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    Ford Maverick and the small overlanding pickup truck

    The locker alone would make it worth it for me but for me re:towing, my towing is usually sub 1 ton with not much more than that rarely. Flat towing my CJ2A (2200 lb curb weight) is generally about as heavy as I get.
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    Ford Maverick and the small overlanding pickup truck

    "Tremor" Maverick
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    What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

    Wasn't too bad. Ignition switch replacement is really easy on that year XJ.
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    What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

    Well I was in Colorado for about a week. After getting home, I dropped the oil pan on the CJ2A because it was dumping oil out of the rear main when running. Like if you sat in one spot for 15 seconds you would have a puddle. I found the rear main to be of the "improved" type, which is a...
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    XJ in Colorado

    The next day we hit up Black Bear with the group and had lunch in Telluride. I did a little gift shopping for the kids then while the group ran Imogene which we already did we ran Ophir back to the Million Dollar HIghway and met up with the group as they were coming off of Imogene and ran up to...
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    XJ in Colorado

    Took my dad and the XJ out to Colorado for almost a week. Ran a bunch of passes, visited a few Basins and camped a lot, all but one day, we rented a room in Ouray for a night to shower and do laundry. Northern NM near Raton. Near Cordova pass. A dead end trail at 11,400 feet we found a...
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    Texas exploring just got better

    I grew up in Texas and live here, but really if I had the choice I'd live in the PNW or somewhere in the western part of the US. I'd even take Arkansas or Missouri. Texas has it's pros but if you're into "overlanding"........it meh. My biggest deal is with the total lack of public land...
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    In Hot Pursuit

    They're not too expensive, and sometimes you can find them for sale in the classifieds section, I think right now they're going for about 200 new. FWIW I like mine, and I'm glad I have it. I don't keep mine permanently installed. I only drop it in and hook it into the Jeep when I'm going out...
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    Ask About Gaia GPS!

    My negative experience was with my Android tablet as well. I finally just let it sit and noticed the tile count was creeping up, and it eventually loaded them. I loaded up a big chunk of Southern Colorado for a trip I'm starting day after tomorrow.
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    Ask About Gaia GPS!

    I'm curious as well. Just recently, I struggled for almost a full day to download a few offline maps.
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    Garmin TREAD

    That's 62.5 years of Gaia Premium. Or about 625 gallons of gas in my current location. I think I'll buy the gas instead.
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    What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

    Yesterday I put the front driveshaft into the CJ2 and sewed up a quick windshield frame hold down and some chain covers for the tailgate using one of my old uniforms like I did with the CJ5. I also finally swapped the front driver unit hub on the XJ since it had a little play in it. I'll see...
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    What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

    First drive since tear down. My son is quite happy. Looks like I've got some leaks to track down. I feel like the engine is leaking from everywhere, but she runs like a top.
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    Campground Insanity

    This is pretty much the case anywhere in my experience. With some exceptions, out west and where there are large tracts of BLM land. BLM land is basically non-existent the further east you go. NP lands are very nickel and dime and "on rails" so to speak. And state parks at least here are...