Is this the forum for Maryland?

[GauchoMD]

Hi, I have been a member of the SoCal Chapter of Naxja for a few years now and am currently in Glen Burnie Maryland. I have to replace the water pump on my 2000 XJ (just started leaking today on my fifth day of driving from Cali) and was wondering if anyone can help me out? :cheers:

 

[nosigma]

I too am a SoCal Naxja transplant. Got my XJ while detailed to San Diego. Came back to DC after 3 years. Been back here as a member longer than I was out there. Fondness for the desert dies hard but mud, slick rocks and water have challenges all their own as does wheeling in Ice and Snow.

You are technically in the NE Chapter but you really live in no mans land like I do in Northern Virginia. Feels like 80% of all SE Chapter members are in Georgia/Tennessee with a fair number in the Carolina's. membership is scarce around DC but we do exist. Never enough folks available for a M&G buts thats more of a DC problem (the free worlds existance rest in our self important hands you know, or you will soon find out next time you have 11 items in the 10 item line at the grocery).

I am a big supporter but if you want to go wheeling around here you need to link up with one of the local clubs. Off Camber Crawlers (Maryland Club), Beltway Jeepers (Md, Va & DC), NoVa Jeepers (90% Va but with lots of Maryland members) are the biggest local clubs. Its all pay to play here, not like the millions of acres of wide open BLM land you are use to and I miss dearly. Rausch Creek (privately owned) in central Pennsylvania and Crozet South Central Va (privately owned and very private) along with The Cove Winchester Va (Big Dogs events) are the best wheeling in the area. The state and national parks offer rough fire roads with a few "obstacles" but nothing that is very challenging. Everything else is private. Power line roads and gas pipeline right of ways are ILLEGAL.

If you get desperate to go wheeling send me pm, maybe we can scare up a few other members (I know 3 or 4 in NOVA Jeepers) and we can do a trail ride to Crozet Rausch or maybe Crozet (my favorite).

Oh, yeah to your original question. Sure its a quick job. Do you have have a warm place to work?

John

 

[xjtrailrider]

Welcome to the SEC, yep you are in the "middle" so to speak. I would check both boards for info on M&G's and wheelin trips. You are not far from some great wheelin in VA.

 

[GauchoMD]

I too am a SoCal Naxja transplant. Got my XJ while detailed to San Diego. Came back to DC after 3 years. Been back here as a member longer than I was out there. Fondness for the desert dies hard but mud, slick rocks and water have challenges all their own as does wheeling in Ice and Snow.

You are technically in the NE Chapter but you really live in no mans land like I do in Northern Virginia. Feels like 80% of all SE Chapter members are in Georgia/Tennessee with a fair number in the Carolina's. membership is scarce around DC but we do exist. Never enough folks available for a M&G buts thats more of a DC problem (the free worlds existance rest in our self important hands you know, or you will soon find out next time you have 11 items in the 10 item line at the grocery).

I am a big supporter but if you want to go wheeling around here you need to link up with one of the local clubs. Off Camber Crawlers (Maryland Club), Beltway Jeepers (Md, Va & DC), NoVa Jeepers (90% Va but with lots of Maryland members) are the biggest local clubs. Its all pay to play here, not like the millions of acres of wide open BLM land you are use to and I miss dearly. Rausch Creek (privately owned) in central Pennsylvania and Crozet South Central Va (privately owned and very private) along with The Cove Winchester Va (Big Dogs events) are the best wheeling in the area. The state and national parks offer rough fire roads with a few "obstacles" but nothing that is very challenging. Everything else is private. Power line roads and gas pipeline right of ways are ILLEGAL.

If you get desperate to go wheeling send me pm, maybe we can scare up a few other members (I know 3 or 4 in NOVA Jeepers) and we can do a trail ride to Crozet Rausch or maybe Crozet (my favorite).

Oh, yeah to your original question. Sure its a quick job. Do you have have a warm place to work?

John

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately no, I do not have a warm place to work (well, I do, it's at my home in Santa Barbara, CA, haha)... Is there a warm place to work in this part of the country in January? :laugh2: This is my second time here, I moved to Silver Spring, MD from Cali then back a few years ago. I'm seriously considering paying a shop to do it since it is so cold, plus I don't have the proper tools, etc... here, that's why I figured I'd ask if there were any members nearby that could help and/or point me in the right direction :wave1:

eace: Jason

 

[bigalpha]

I hear ya on not having a warm place to work on stuff.

As far as tools, it only takes some basic hand tools to get it done. I think you could get it done with only a set of wrenches and a set of sockets.

 

[Ghost]

I have a standing invitation to anyone that needs help, but very few are around me. Hope you get it all fixed up, and welcome to the Right Coast! MAybe you two "experienced" vetrans form the West can organise a Mid Atlantic chapter. :gee: We have a ride to Callantee in Mountain City, TN in Feburary. It's probably a good bit of a drive for you but IMHO well worth it!

 

[nosigma]

I have a standing invitation to anyone that needs help, but very few are around me. Hope you get it all fixed up, and welcome to the Right Coast! MAybe you two "experienced" vetrans form the West can organise a Mid Atlantic chapter. :gee: We have a ride to Callantee in Mountain City, TN in Feburary. It's probably a good bit of a drive for you but IMHO well worth it!

Nah. I am perfectly happy with SE Chapter, just wish the bulk of the chapter wasnt so dang far away. I am getting way to good at wrenching on JK's. There was talk of organizing something in the Mid Atlantic a few years ago but there just arent enough people in that area to make it fly.

Wheeling here is so different it might as well be another planet. Rocks are slicker, mud everywhere, especially on the approaches, no sand and there are these stupid vertical brown things all around that limit where you can go, I think they are called trees or something like that.

John

 

[Ghost]

Nah. I am perfectly happy with SE Chapter, just wish the bulk of the chapter wasnt so dang far away. I am getting way to good at wrenching on JK's. There was talk of organizing something in the Mid Atlantic a few years ago but there just arent enough people in that area to make it fly.

Wheeling here is so different it might as well be another planet. Rocks are slicker, mud everywhere, especially on the approaches, no sand and there are these stupid vertical brown things all around that limit where you can go, I think they are called trees or something like that.

John

LMAO! Nice one! :rof:

 

[Shorty]

standing offer goes for me as well-- I'm a little farther than McLean, but not as far as S.C.-- If I move all the two wheeled obsticals out of the garage, we could have heat.

 

[GauchoMD]

Thanks for all the offers, but I actually got it fixed already. I had to head up to NYC so I just sucked it up and took it to a mechanic (could've done it myself since I've done it on my '96 back home but I didn't have any tools or heat)... It's really nice to see that is just as strong here as it is in SoCal! :cheers: