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One of the best camping experiences I’ve had was in a first come first serve rustic campground back in the Canyonlands national park. The stargazing was fantastic.
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1 - AWESOME!
2 - in my experience, a Jeep configured for proper offroad, is just terrible on the highway. White knuckle drive at those 10 MPG highway speeds with loud tires, and you feel like it's just going to jump off the road and flip at any moment. I would not enjoy a 1500 mile highway road trip in one going 70+, I'll say that! Can you just tow it? (You'll get about the same mileage either way!) But once you get to MOAB, you will be a God amongst men, with that badboy. |
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Quoted: Make Lions Back great again…. View Quote Have to make due with Baby Lions Back... ![]() ![]() (Moab) Jeep Thread! ![]() ![]() |
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Be sure to post pics here.
https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/OVERLAND-ing-Talk-Rigs-Mods-Trails-Trips-Part-2/5-2559303/ Also don't forget the jeep wave. I believe jeep guys do this so they have friends willing to give them a pull when stuck on the side of the road. ![]() |
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Going there and wheelin' will be nice but are you going to be able to drive it home?
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Quoted: 1976 CJ5 from Stevens Point to GA then NC Smokey's then up to the UP and back home. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I drove a lifted 1978 CJ5 with 35's from Kansas to Nothern Michigan after I got out of the Army. Fuck. That. 1976 CJ5 from Stevens Point to GA then NC Smokey's then up to the UP and back home. I had a couple of CJ5's back in the '70's. Great fun........for a while. Not so great on road trips. |
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Quoted: Sorry your gonna die because you didn’t bring a photocopier/printer. Travel without one invites peril. View Quote ![]() |
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Have fun OP!
If he can’t drive it back the IN signal mafia group will make sure he gets home! Oh and… ![]() |
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Quoted: The White Rim Canyon road in Canyondlands looks amazing, but that doesn't sound like a good idea without 4x4, low gears, recovery equipment, camping gear, etc. View Quote I've done the White Rim Trail twice, both times in an all-stock 4Runner SR5 with factory tires. We camped for two nights on each of the trips. It might have been doable in one day, during the summer when you have more daylight, but that would be a long, long day. Got stuck once on Potash Road during or not long after monsoon season, but getting pulled out of that was easy. During dry season it wouldn't have happened at all. |
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You need to update the thread as you go, from the time you leave, along the way, getting there, on the trails and back.
Update how things go, what works, what failed... |
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Have fun. Now that you have shown us your Jeep. What guns are you bringing for the trip?
I brought my Glock 43X and AR15 with me out to Colorado last year to hit the Jeep trails. ![]() |
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Quoted: Have fun. Now that you have shown us your Jeep. What guns are you bringing for the trip? I brought my Glock 43X and AR15 with me out to Colorado last year to hit the Jeep trails. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/41568/CO_JP_JPG-2954630.JPG View Quote Hellcat Pro with Chinasun 507k ![]() Colt 6920 upper, poverty lower. PA ACSS red dot and 4 mags. ![]() |
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Man I dread driving my TJ to the KAT from Indiana
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Quoted: Hellcat Pro with Chinasun 507k https://i.postimg.cc/T3sXkFFW/20230725-184723.jpg Colt 6920 upper, poverty lower. PA ACSS red dot and 4 mags. https://i.postimg.cc/d0Q4yV42/20230102-161940.jpg View Quote Woa there buddy. 4 mags...? The yotes will eat your babies if you roll with anything less than 10. At least make sure one of them is sporting some photo realism. |
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I really want to take my X3 out there. We ride the Black Hills all the time but I'd love to see Moab.
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Went to Moab for the first time last summer.
What a spectacular place. I want to go back. Soon. Have fun OP! |
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Awesome! We do a Moab or Rockies trip once a year.
What trials are you going once you’re there? |
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We did 2,500 miles round trip in our gx460 to go wheeling in Ouray, Co in July. Had issues on the way up and only got to do two trails. It sucked after building up a vehicle to take up there after wanting to go for years only to not do any of the trails we wanted to do. Got to see some beautiful areas though.
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I've been wheeling out there 10 times and driven my rig from NE Ill-annoy each time. The only thing I've broken is a sway bar end link (back when I had sway bars). and I don't wheel the easy trails.
It does make me a little nervous wheeling for 7 days and then having to drive nearly 1400 miles home after, but I wheel my rig accordingly. The answer is not always all the skinny pedal. Have a great time |
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Quoted: I'll just leave this here for the OP to ponder...... https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/376764478_759360169325091_4851231541331080011_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=49d041&_nc_ohc=Llp5RC-0jhMAX-XXWvP&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=00_AfCMdT8zYXTi_wqcMMCduvqnbGcCbjVTYGd9lVaJi6aSiA&oe=65091F34 View Quote That looks like Uwharrie |
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It's not the 1500 miles out there that's the potential problem, it's the 1500 miles back...
It'll be an adventure at least. |
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Good luck, have fun and pay attention to your rig. My son (a real dumbass in his younger years) had me re-gear the Samurai so he could go rock crawling. He failed to tell me about the rock crawling part. So he’s 125 miles from home, slides off a rock and the center section landed on the rock. He split the weld in the center and didn’t know it. Drove it home, and drove it around a week or two after.
Told him I was done being his pit mechanic. Sold it. If he told me what he was doing we could have installed sliders or something to protect the housing. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/509920/signal-2023-09-12-16-18-46-853_jpg-2954617.JPG IYKYK View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Bidens Jeep so he wont run out of money |
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Used to travel to Moab annually in my 2012 4Runner. My favorite place in the US.
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If you need mechanical help I’m in eastern Iowa, shoot me a message
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What are you bring for spare parts and tools?
Running stock front shafts I would recommend spare shafts for easy change out, The shafts ujoint ears are the weak point. Its even a quicker trail swap with the wheel bearing attached as a unit. As a owner of a Bronco and a TJ, The Bronco driver is going to have a nice comfortable ride there. You, not so much ![]() FYI, the ZJ steering upgrade is plenty strong for 35s" and a a lot less $ than the Currie setup. |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/509920/signal-2023-09-12-16-18-46-853_jpg-2954617.JPG IYKYK View Quote ![]() I didn't get the copy/printer reference. |
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It's not the getting there, it's the getting back that can be challenging.
Enjoy!!!!! |
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Your idea could be worse
![]() Will the mini jeep make it to Moab? Ep1: The build. |
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