Introductions

[Goatman]

Hi,

I'm Richard Gauthier (Goatman), and live in Bakersfield with my wife of 31 years (who wouldn't wheel with me if her life depended on it), and I have three grown daughters and two grandsons. I'm a used car manager at the local Ford dealership. I bought my first Jeep at 18, a '55 Willy's wagon with a SBC. My current rig is an '88 XJ "Cheromanche" with D44/Tera60, 37's, full cage, etc.

I enjoy organizing runs and events. I've been coordinator of three of the Moab events, including last years XJ 20th Anniversary Celebration where we had 175 XJ's in Moab, and I organize an annual XJ trip on the Swamp Lake Trail every summer which we've been doing for six or seven years. I also organize the Best of the West XJ tours, which is a week of hard-core wheeling in a different location every year.

I have missed many of the SoCal runs because of my work schedule and the distance to many places from Bakersfield. I hope to get to a SoCal run soon so I can see old friends and meet all of you new folks. It's great to see so many new SoCal XJ'ers.

 

[Cherokid]

Tony aka Cherokid.

Not a kid on the outside but still very much one on the inside. (my 6 year old boy reminds me how fun it is.) I've got a beater 89/90 (per the dmv) limited that really isn't road worthy yet let alone trail worthy. I'm going through the big 'D' so funding is a challenge. Cut my 4 wheelin teeth on an 81 toyota truck and still kickin myself for selling it. This is my second xj first turned out to be junk, this one will work good. I'm looking to build it to do like my toy (wheel hard, look presentable, reliable like a clock) but more.... More power, more comfort, more versatility. Looking forward to meeting and wheelin with ya' all. arty:

(I took my son out in the old xj a few years ago. He was all of about 2. Wound up on a STEEP ledge with my right front and left rear tires in the air and kind of teeter tottering. I asked him what he thought. He shouted, "GO GO GO!" ) He's coming along nicely.

 

[Shanbo44]

Shannon, 26, Lancaster, Construction Manager

88' 4" pro comp/RE/tomkin/crusty/RRO lift, Bald 32's and missing some sheet metal. arty:

Learned to wheel in a 74 Dodge Ram 2wd. Currently married for almost 4yrs to my high school sweet heart of 10+ yrs :smootch: , who happens to have our first turkey in the oven :rattle: . My wife loves to wheel with me :loveu: and is the reason why my jeep is covered in mud :guitar: . The wife and I love FOOTBALL and the Almighty Green Bay Packers and my jeep is a close second.

I am also a recovering smiley face addict... :gee:

 

[karstic]

Hey All
Curt Chaffins (aka Xtreme XJ) down in the low desert in the Coachella Valley
Riverside Co. middle of nowhere....Indio...

Curt

Curt I was working down in Thermal last week and saw you at 111 and I think Avenue 52

BTW I'm Stephan Regenfuss aka karstic

Black 92 4dr 4wd being built into a mild-mannered all-purpose vehicle to explore and hunt and fish and ???

Live in Fullerton
Office in HB
work anywhere from PV to IV to OC to SFV to the IE (I'm a geologist).
I get to do a lot of off-road driving for work.
Enjoy camping, fishing, hunting (Duck season just opened-Yeesss!!!!)

Learned how to drive in a Totyota 4x4, first and second cars were VW Baja Bugs. The XJ is my first 4wd vehicle.

has been a great resource a a cool way to meet fellow XJer's

 

[Xtreme XJ]

Curt I was working down in Thermal last week and saw you at 111 and I think Avenue 52

BTW I'm Stephan Regenfuss aka karstic

work anywhere from PV to IV to OC to SFV to the IE (I'm a geologist).
I get to do a lot of off-road driving for work.
Enjoy camping, fishing, hunting (Duck season just opened-Yeesss!!!!)

Hey Karstic.... 111 & Ave. 52 YEP ! I work right behind the tracks....
THERMAL !! not possible theres NOTHING ! in Thermal. You go THROUGH !
Thermal to get elsewhere... Wheel'n, Hunt'n, MEXICO ! So where were you
"work'n" ? & were you in your XJ ?
See Ya down the trail....just not in THERMAL !
Curt

 

[livewire]

John McHorney Burbank CA 87 4door 33x12.50 15" goodyear mtr dana 44 rear 4.88 gears detroits front and rear ridgidco front bumper

 

[mikeyl]

hi all!
i'm mike lysik , (usually called "mikey" if rollins is on the ride and/or andy is handy)
i live in both yorba linda ( o.c.) on the weekends and poway (san diego) during the week
i have had the great fortune (misfortune?) to ride with and call a bunch of you friends and always looking forward to riding with the rest of ya!

91 limited with around 6" lift, lots of amour and still a bunch of stuff i want ta do to it. my plates read "trale b8"
hope see a few of you at the naxja meeting in buena park in nov though i'll probly not get a chance to hit big bear this time i am still trying to schedule it in

 

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

Hey Guys, I'm Dan Turner....

Been wheeling almost since birth...I may have been born in a 42 Willys MB, or might as well have been. I'm 32 now. While the old flat fender jeeps are my first love, I seem to be driving the XJ a lot more than my CJ2A (350 SBC, SM420 trans, 44 front-60 rear, extended wheel base, 38 in swampers etc.)

Good to meet and wheel with you guys.

Dan

 

[xman]

Hi Folks:

I'm Dean Birdsall (Xman) and my wife Michelle live in Crestline, Ca we have three boys Mathew(18), Patrick(5) and Ryan(3). I’m a Senior Network Engineer consultant. I have been wheeling with my dad since the late sixty and got my 1st jeep when I was around 20 it was a 1968 Jeep CJ-5 which I wheeled for over 15 years. We brought the 1998 XJ two years ago from my bro because he wanted an automatic and we needed more room for the young ones to go wheeling.

 

[bburge]

Bill, I drive a 93 4 door with 33's and about 6" lift, locker in the back a few other things to get me into and (hopefully) out of trouble.

I live in Valencia/Newhall area and work (currently) in Culver City. I'm the Dir of IT/InfoSec Officer for a online company with a series of websites and 250 employees.

I sometimes go by "4FOOTED" as that's what's on my license plate.

bburge

 

[Captain Ron]

Captain Ron, aka Ron Johnson. Live in Ventura/Port Hueneme. Engineer/Biz owner.

Built up my XJ in May, been running just about every weekend since. Time for the deserts...

Don Chilcote AKA VE6NN...

K0IOA\6 \M \MM

--ron

 

[ScottyDog]

Hello folks, My name is Scott Suyeto (aka Risingsun),I'm half Japanese and half Rednekc! (Mom is from Alabama). 31 years old & I live in Gardena, Ca. (Honolulu of the mainland :spam: ) I drive a white 92' XJ ltd with RE 4.5" lift, 31" trxus m/t's, 29 spline 8.25 with zj disc brakes, and 4.10 gears. I've been married to my wife Tricia for 10 years, and have 3 children, Jordan (13), Ciara (11), and my main jeepin man Brandon (4). I'm the Air Export Manager of a Japanese Freight Forwarding Company that takes up most of my time away from family, wheelin, & fishing........

And since my bro wheels an XJ, but never seems to have time anymore for XJ boards, I'll introduce him too.....

Casey Suyeto (aka Doo Doo, Uncle Doo Doo) Married,no kids, just a spoiled German shepard/Collie mix. Also resides in Gardena, Ca. Wheels a white 94 XJ with 6" hybrid lift, homemade long arm kit, 6" Rusty's coils, RE 4.5 spring packs, with 1.75" shackles, 33 x 10.5" BFG M/Ts.
Works his ASS off in I.T. for Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine.

Scott Suyeto

 

[witt]

i guess ill do this too

Hi im Eric Wittenmeier
im a broke college student @ UC riverside....
i drive a blue 98 cherokee
its got that 4.5" RE thing on it... 33x12.50 MTR's.... BLINGIN CHROME WHEELS.... that are rock rashed pretty bad...
right now my heep is out of commission... both (front and rear) Dshafts craped out on me....
um.... i got that spiffy dana 44 in the rear...
open/LS.... gona change it soon....

um ya.. thats me,


--Eric

 

[ryurabbit]

OK I'm here too.

My name is Jay (Rabbit) or (RyuRabbit) Harrell.

I have a 92 on 5.5 inches lift and 35" pro comp baldies. My Jeep likes to lay over on its side for people to rub its tummy. It likes to eat front axles especialy left ones and enjoys wheelin with the crew. I hope to see more of you as the socal group gets bigger. We need to have a SOCAL meet and greet with enough room for everybody to show up.

Soon to be done mods: New 35" MT/R's, HP44 front with 5.38 gears, inner and outer cages!

 

[XJ_Matt]

Well what the heck! I'll tell you a story too!

Im called Matt, but you already figured that! Hey that rhimes dont it?

I am 25 now and I live in Oceanside CA (North County part of San Diego). I dont work for anyone, anymore, but i used to be a Lead Network Admin. I got enough work to do with the XJ. I had a Jeep ever since i got my drivers lic. It was an light gold 86 Laredo 2 door 5 speed with a TBI 2.5L 4.11 gears that i bought at a salvage yard auction in Otay Mesa for $700. She only had 70k on the clock. I had put a 3" lift on it and i wheeled the hell out of it and i had put 100k miles on it. I then got a new ZJ laredo in 96 it had a 4.0 auto and 4x4 It was white but it should have been yellow cause it was a damn lemon! I sold that after two years of hell and I also sold my old XJ that now had 175k miles. I then strayed away from wheeling for about 5 years and drove around in a rice rocket. I really missed my XJ and wheeling. So i sold my ricer and came back with my current XJ that was a former Police vehicle. I then found this website and i joined Naxja and the mods have begun. I been out wheeling it alot. I even rolled it on its side on bronco at the last time out for LCIR and nothing hardly happened to it. Amazingly it just needed a new door. I was told a DVD of that is being made and will be coming out in a couple of weeks. Its been alot of fun and stuff but here we have reached the end!


Heres what shes got now:

Shiny Black Paint 4door w/ Factory Sun-Roof :shocked:
GM 3.4L V6 (New Engine) Edelbrock Headers, Gutted Cat, Glasspack Muffler
REbuilt TF904 with B&M Transpak and shifter
NP 207 with RE Hack n' Tap SYE
HP Dana 30, 4.10 Ratio, Locked, Crane High Clearance Diff Cover, x760 U-Joints, ChroMo Axle Shafts
87 XJ Dana 44 4.10 Ratio, Locked
Sagging 5.5" inches of Lift on 35" MTR's on 15x8 3.75"BS Black Rockcrawlers
ProComp LCA's extended for 6 inches lift
Superlift Superide shocks with BPE's front and back
JKS 6" Adj. Disco's (both SwayBars Removed. I just sold the disco's)
Con-Ferr (short but 6" tall) Roof Rack
Bushwacker Fender Flares
RockRats OverKill Front Winch Bumper and Rear Hitch Bumper
Warn M8000 Winch
Hella Offroad Lights ontop of rack
Racing Buckets with Harness
Vynil Rubber floor with drain plugs (Instead of old moldy carpet)

What i have laying around that i want to put on the XJ:
Ford F150 HP Dana 44 Front Axle, 5.38:1, Detrioit, Warn Hubs
85 Toyota 8" Front solid hybrid Axle, Warn Prem. Hubs
Dodge FF Dana 60 Rear Axle, Fully Spooled
Ford 9" rear axle
8" Alcan Rear Springs
6" Skyjacker Coils w/ 3" in polly spacers
TJ front flares
NP205 tcase

 

[Captain Ron]

... I been out wheeling it alot. I even rolled it on its side on bronco at the last time out for LCIR and nothing hardly happened to it....

THAT was the most amazing thing I've seen. Not one shard of glass, and the back window, HOW did it find the only soft spot there to land on?

If I remember, once you were back on your feet, you ran the rest of the day, like nothin' ever happened. . . . then drove it home.

Cheers!

--ron

 

[olympic4x4tech]

Another Erik. From Huntington Beach work in LA.
2000 silver one. Rock rails, bumpers, stinger, tire carrier, half of my exo left, all from you know where. 6" lift longarms with bilstein 12" 7100's up front soon to be 14"ers. Custom spring pack in rear, revolvers and some crappy rs9000's soon to have a bed cage. Received a new motor at 8k miles. New front and rear axles in progress of getting built. No sway bars for the past 3 years but soon to have some anti-rock like sway bars front and rear.

 

[GSequoia]

Name: G. Sequoia Armstrong
Birthplace: Torrance, California
Bust: 34"
Waist: 34"
Hibs: 34"
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 180 lbs
Ambitions: To abuse my XJ in very creative ways.
Turn-Ons: Internal combustion, synthetic oil, rocks, long drives on trails.
Turnoffs: Yuppies, heavy-handed enviromental laws, wilderness areas.
In 2014 you: Will be fixing some sort of problem on my Jeep.

 

[Jump This]

Okay...now that V-ball season is almost over...I can do this too!
Name Rick
34....married (22 years)
96' with basic wheelin stufff
Live in Borrego Springs.... :sunshine:
Build almost all of my own stufff
Can't wait to get out to the sand dunes this Thanksgiving!
Can't convince my son that a XJ is a great first car for him....

 

[Mike L]

Okay...now that V-ball season is almost over...I can do this too!
Name Rick
34....married (22 years)
96' with basic wheelin stufff
Live in Borrego Springs.... :sunshine:
Build almost all of my own stufff
Can't wait to get out to the sand dunes this Thanksgiving!
Can't convince my son that a XJ is a great first car for him....

Damn, you've been married since you were 12? 34 - 22 = 12 CRAZY......................... :laugh3:

-Mike L.