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    What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

    Did my weekly PMCS on the Jeep and found my coolant recovery tank had a small leak towards the bottom. Pulled the tank and inspected it and found the previous owner had fixed a leak with RTV sealant and that fix has failed. Ordered up a new one for 18 dollars should be here next week. Went...
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    Tents and why you purchase them?

    I have tents but typically just sleep in the Jeep as a tent.
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    GMRS Radio!

    I'm licensed on both. The local GMRS repeater to me has great coverage about 40+ miles in all directions. I've had a little success getting my local Jeep club to switch to GMRS but absolutely zero with trying to get them into HAM radio. Many are still on CB. I've managed to utilize HAM radio...
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    Joining from Texas

    Welcome from Hunt County Tx.
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    Rockhounding & Fire Lookouts

    I'm jealous of the Fire Tower attending. It's something I would really like to do if I could wrangle enough time off for it.
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    The Overland Over-The-Counter Pharmacy

    Got my 16 pocket lewis and clark deal in today. Was going to go with the 8 pocket one but amazon warehouse had the 16 for the same price as the 8. Now to order up some more single use meds and stock it.
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    US Southwest DFW Monthly Recurring Overland Bound Meet - August 2019

    I was there may of this year and theres none zero signage, no fences, not even purple paint or ribbion to signify anything is private property up there. West from the fire tower is a few abandoned structures but theyre fenced and have signage. I know the k trial west of the Indian Hwy has been...
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    Jeep XJ

    Short arms isnt ideal but they'll work. Dana 35 is servicable but id keep an eye out online for a 97+ Chrysler 8.25. Typically they go for pretty cheap and if you find one in an XJ itll drop right in. What size are the tires? 3.55 is the stock gearing for automatic transmission XJs so you...
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    Jeep XJ

    That whole panel is probably done for. Not the end of the world. But will take some. Body work skills to fix. I bet if that part is that bad the front floorboards are pretty bad too. See if you can pull the carpet back enough to are bare floor on the driver and passenger side. Crawl under...
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    Jeep XJ

    Try to send it through fb messenger. You can add me. Joshua Downs. Should be able to find me by seaeching "blkredlinedrvr"
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    Jeep XJ

    Good advice above. I'll mention rust again because it's such a big deal. A little rust you can deal with but a rusted rotted out frame or large body panels can be the death kneel for a XJ. Someone on the Cherokee Forums just posted pictures of their broken in half on one side frame rail and...
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    Classic XJ

    #XJFORLYFE Looks good. I hope the useable spare parts went to a good home and aren't going to wind up in the scrap heap.
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    SVO ....Small Vehicle Overlanding

    How do you like that floor lift? I don't have a tall enough garage for a full size lift :( But have been eyeballing a few lifts like that one. Would be great if I could find something like a half height two post lift.
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    The Overland Over-The-Counter Pharmacy

    Good stuff. I keep a few single use packets of nearly all of that except for obviously epi and a few others. @systemdelete thanks for that link right now I keep them in ziploc bags and it's....not organized haha.
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    US Southwest DFW Monthly Recurring Overland Bound Meet - August 2019

    Its ok. Not much to do on it really but its one of the only spots in our area where we can disperesed camp. The grasslands are ran by thr USFS.
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    US Southwest DFW Monthly Recurring Overland Bound Meet - August 2019

    I could probably swing 15th that night and part of the day saturday then I'd have to head home for work on Sunday morning.
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    Overlanding with "stock" 4X4

    Do what you want. Take from those mod threads and videos what you want and apply it to your vehicle as you see fit. My mostly stock XJ works fine for me. Has an "upcountry" clone lift that was a factory option on XJs but still rides on easy to find and cheap 23575R15 tires. A little bit of...
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    Mountain House Meals

    They're pretty good but a bit pricey, as much as a full MRE in most cases. Also low on calories, not a huge deal ifwe are just tooling around in our vehicle but if you are working your butt off or doing a lot of long hikes it may start to wear on you. You basically need the full two servings...