Excellent thread. To me there are two catagories of Jeep use, for this thread lets call it XJ use. There is reality use and playground use, it just depends on where you drive. For me, I do alot of back country photography and do my seasonal hunt and fish. I would place myself in Reality use, but use the playground from time to time ( Moab ). For those who attended the 20 year event in Moab I proudly won second place in the show and shine for the Best Equipped rig; only being beat out by the famouse George Forman Grill welded on the back bumper, I am still recovering from that tearful moment. With that said, I felt I needed a rig that would be able to cover thousands of miles of FSR and it has 100,000 miles worth and that's not counting street use. But I also needed a rig that could get me out of the worst thing mother nature could throw at me and it has. So dependability and Off Road use I tried to combined in an even way. My rig inside looks the way I bought it off the lot in 1999 and still rides comfertable. The outside looks pretty stock except for the front and rear Warn bumpers, Warn 9.5ti thermometric winch, Super Nerfs, Wilderness rack, and extra lights. Everything else that is critical for off road use is hidden, Tera-low, axles, armor, lockers, steering etc.. I would have to say I am pretty proud of my rig, it took me 5 years to build it. I don't have the 8" lift or run 35's but I do have a clean modified XJ that still runs and feels like the day I bought it.
