Hey y’all. Aaron here from Austin, TX. My fiancée and I have a 06 Wrangler Unlimited. We love camping, fly fishing and mountain biking (all the hobbies), and I have always enjoyed tinkering with cars, so over landing has come to us naturally, I’d say. We’re trying to keep the Jeep as stock as possible, so we won’t be going crazy with fenders and lift kits and major changes. I grew up tinkering with Honda’s and learned that reliability can sometimes suffer with aftermarket performance parts, and stock LJs are hard to come by, so as stock as possible it will be.
We’re just getting started and aside from replacing little stock pieces here and there (hood prop catch, floor mats, door straps, sun visors) have installed new K02s on stocks wheels and a OneUp bike rack with RackAttach.
We currently have a Smittybilt brief top and tonneau cover that will be replaced with a Bestop Sailcloth (on order) with factory hardware. I’ve got a Smittybilt roof rack on order as well and their XL overlander tent. I understand those aren’t the premiere tents if you take the tent route but the price point was right for us and meant I didn’t have to slap together a cargo trailer.
I’m currently figuring out how to mount a GI Jerry can behind the front wheel with a u-bolt hitch receiver and a can mount. Haven’t seen many people running around with those cool old green cans, and we really liked the one we saw in the surplus store.
I came across OB watching YouTube videos for sliding drawers and kitchens and saw an incredible system, custom built by the owner of a Taco using extruded aluminum slot hardware. I’m not going to have time to put together a system like that before our first trip, but decided instead to throw something together that will just limp us through it, and then tackle it when we get back. We definitely don’t have as much room as a truck, but I figure I could build a system up to 4 feet in length.
looking forward to spending some time here!
