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What I learned at the Crawl...2012 Edition

UNCC_99XJ

Twisted Up
NAXJA Member
Location
Harrisburg, NC
-Camping primitive style is good. Camping in a bitchin cabin with AC, Direct TV, tons of beds and a hot tub is better!
-Doug is still a mean grill master.
-Coming down the mountain in a severe thunderstorm in a rig with no roof or windshield isn't a pleasant experience at first, but certainly makes for a good story to tell anytime in the future.
-100+ degree temperatures and 20 minute climbs up the mountain make for some very un-happy Jeeps, no matter how good your cooling system is.
-A 50lb sack of potatoes for a potato gun is well worth $15 and a trip into town.
-The amount of help people are willing to offer to those in need is simply awesome.
-Getting involved with NAXJA continues to be one of the best decisions i've ever made!
 
Cabin FTW
Tim knows his bearing noises
Ed can run lower rock garden like a boss
Nate's weiners light up at night
Carissa screams like a girl......or was that Dan? :D
Ed's boy is awesome
 
A harlan burn ban is more of a guideline than an actual rule.
Too many screw drivers & margaritas provide enough pulp fiction quotes to last all night.
Jack is a heck of a fist pounder!
Gas caps get lost when you forget to put them back on.
MSD plug wires can melt too.
Glenn can be talked into anything, and apparently out of nothing.
 
-Jennie wheels better than Nate
-Nate still cannot read a trail map
-Doug knows a lot of things about a lot of things
-Do not advertise your trip to the parts store on a 100 degree day with a bunch of broke XJ's driving around
-If you put your kids in the back of the jeep with a giant snack bag while you work on someone's Jeep, the snacks will disappear
-If Sam had a 5 speed, she'd give Tim a run for his money

-Do not (DO NOT) put platinum spark plugs in your Jeep or Doug will hunt you down and kill you
 
-the cabin plays
-don't make Josh's jeep mad or it will shut off and stay that way until you apologize
-Tow rig brakes go bad pretty quick
-if your not running an air filter dont show me the engine compartment ;)
-Tyler can quote the entire script of pulp fiction in order
-Josh and I deserve a day of wheeling where we don't make any memories
-The only way bacon can get better is when the unit of measure is "a pitcher"
 
-The only way bacon can get better is when the unit of measure is "a pitcher"

The MWC was there to introduce the ground breaking unit of measure! :D
 
My XJ is now named the Red Rocket
Fish Fossil and I don't get along well.
A fist bump is not boom, it's pow.
4 second count for potato's is ideal.
I have a very sturdy camp chair.
MWC peeps are cool as all get out and love some bacon.
When you hear spotters yelling, throttle, and then Ghost yelling, you aren't getting up the hill quick enough.
With the proper encouragement, Ed will run Lower Rock Garden and beast it.
Wheeling as the only one without doors in the easy group gets messy.
Everyone likes the sound of my XJ.
Trailering is the only way to go.
 
It's the new international standard of Bacon measure

I'll have to keep that tradition going!

-The smell of bacon will lure people in like flies
-A 50# bag of potatoes will entertain a crew of guys for the night and potato guns should always be fueled with
-Ed's kids are the best!
-Fuses are a b***h
-No one is a stranger
-The Lion's Den is the neatest obstacle I've ever seen
-A 1-cup measuring cup is acceptable for a "small" Rum & Coke
-I fried so much bacon my griddle plug came off... but thankfully Ghost fixed it for me and I continued to fry

Can't wait for next year!!!!!
 
-cabin is the only way to go
-Tyler knows his Pulp Fiction and having to stare at that badass bumper he built every time i walked in or out of the cabin made it difficult not to steal haha
-sunday traffic blows. took us 14.5 hours to get home
-we didnt brake anything in Kentucky, but Lisa most likely broke her ankle while bringing some of our stuff into the apartment :/
-the MJ still gets it done
-the people/food/trails were amazing
 
-we didnt brake anything in Kentucky, but Lisa most likely broke her ankle while bringing some of our stuff into the apartment :/

Oh NO! I hope not!
 
-Apparently when I wheel people come ruining to watch
-when told to stop the sound of the engine drowns out everything else
-there are women that like to wheel.... now to find one!
-the MWC guys like bacon as much or more then their sheep!
-Tyler can flop in 14 seconds!
-I can bend some steel and its not always a good thing!
-header panels are over rated!
-crunching the front of an xj can and will blow fuses
-Wheeling with a bunch of xj nuts is the only way to go.... when your junk breaks you have 10 people all trying to help you get it running again!
 
Well.......

- A/C, King bed and a hot tub is so worth it
-a sand covered elk rug can double as a blanket when Tyler drinks to much
- Stock rear XJ bumpers are pretty damn durable (Its still on...damn.)
- Peeling 60 frozen hamburger patties apart takes quite some time
- I LOVE bacon even more when its in a pitcher
- A bottle of wine is probably too much for the first night
- The anxiety of letting Doug drive my jeep without me is not worth his enjoyment
- Didn't think I could meet more awesome people!
- Lions Den never fails to give us a good show!
 
I learned:
- alloy shafts and 300m joints are a comforting investment for those full throttle drop the clutch moments
- lion's den is one of the coolest trails I've seen
- a 93" wheelbase is inadequate for the big ledges of Mason Jar
- placing a tree between your hood and windshield without flopping takes skill
- Tyler went through Lion's Den like it was the qualifiers for KOH
- I need a spare for my truck, so I don't have to buy 4 new tires on the 4th of July
- my raffle luck has run out
- that my girlfriend is becoming more comfortable with operating my Willys
 
- Ghost found a trail where he needed bigger tires! (crawfords cry)
 
Stock Xjs are pretty damned capable.

My wife is a racecar driver

AC in the tow rig is awesome

MAPP gas FTW.

Parts store radiators don't fit unless you have a grinder.

said radiator will make you mad enough to throw tools on a 100*+ day.
 
I learned Molly can make a hell of a samich.

I learned that too many holes in a firewall allows a lot of engine heat into the foot
area.

I learned a jeep without the extra capacity of the heater core tends to stay a little warmer.

I learned I am not as young as I used to be and the extra hot days makes for some "early" nights.
 
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