My First Jeep!

[GeorgiaXJ]

I know the text usualy goes first but this is my first pic post.This is my "new" '92 Cherokee Sport. I got it off of a buddies pops for $500. As you can see there is some work to be done but every thing is very solid. Its got the inline6 and 5speed and its 4wd so as soon as I get it back on the road and get some extra cash its gonna be time to play. The last 4wd I had was a '78 Bronco with a 351modified 9in of lift total and 44's so Im new to the jeep world and still wadeing the waters. I want to put 33's on and looking like the bfg mud terrains or maybe the a/t. Any input from your guys with the epx. would be more than helpful so if you have ideas or things to avoid let me know. By the way in june ill be at Hunter. Thanks for having me.

 

[wingnutooa]

dont even bother with the a/t's unless you never plan on offroading.

they are useless in mud.

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

Ok thanks, I kind of figured that but wasnt sure mainly because ive seen them run so much.

 

[wingnutooa]

and props for another 5spd xj!

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

Thanks. Would never do an auto!

 

[bigalpha]

I have BFG ATs on mine and they handle freaking awesome in everything - except mud. They aren't "luggy" enough and they can get caked up real quick. If you plan on driving it a lot too, ATs are awesome.

 

[Lowrange2]

ATs FTW if ya gunna stay on pavement and ya like crawling curbs! They are excellent for curb crawling. Just sayin!

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

LOL, I will be doing a lot of street driving but I want to keep the stock ones for that and change em out when i plan on wheeling. I don't want strictly mud, I've done the mud thing and its fun as hell but I want to try some trails and hills and things like that. I believe that the muds would probably be better for the all around as long as I dont run them on the street too much and wear em down. Any one know any good spots around Savannah?

 

[wingnutooa]

1 minute of mud = 1 hour of cleaning

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

I don't plan on keeping it clean, its not a show truck. Besides the I think the look better muddy any way.

 

[Ghost]

Any one know any good spots around Savannah?

Not legal places. You have Gulches in Laurns, SC and URE in Troy,NC.

River Rock and a couple others in GA.

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

damn that sucks

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

i didnt say legal

 

[Ghost]

i didnt say legal

We don't do that here. We don't promote it either. If it's private property andyou ahve permision that is fine. We have lost too many great wheeling places to let them have more ammo to use against us.

 

[bigalpha]

We don't do that here. We don't promote it either. If it's private property andyou ahve permision that is fine. We have lost too many great wheeling places to let them have more ammo to use against us.

^This.

 

[FlexdXJ]

Welcome, What the hell were you thinking!

 

[wingnutooa]

my fam had been going to a place for years, old logging roads and such up by an equestrian trail, on weekend we went through a regular side trail we'd always gone down and someone had taken a peice of 1/4 inch plate about 8x12, torched a "V" in it, bent the v so it pointed straight up, then with two peices of rebar bent into candy cane's, staked it down into a small puddle

got my cousin's jeep first then i, driving my sisters jeep, actually pulled it up out of the ground

that was an expensive weekend.

we're not sure if it was because someone thought it was an illegal trail or just some pissed off hunter.

just gotta "tread lightly" and make sure where you're going is a kosher spot, and i mean that figureatively..... unless you want to get a rabbi to bless the trail... thats your call.

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

Ok I understand where yall are coming from on the legal aspect and I respect it. I've just never had to worry about it because all the places back home were mostly old loggin trails or WAY out in the middle of no where. I never had any trouble from any one. We even used to wheel on Fort Benning and Camp Darby (pre 911) But I see how the hippies (tree huggers not pot heads) and the other green goers would have a problem with it and i will keep it in mind. Although it sucks cause GA is my home and i know a bunch of spots on the west half of the state. On that..... what do you have to do to make a place legal to wheel? (just the main jist of it)

 

[GeorgiaXJ]

Ok I understand where yall are coming from on the legal aspect and I respect it. I've just never had to worry about it because all the places back home were mostly old loggin trails or WAY out in the middle of no where. I never had any trouble from any one. We even used to wheel on Fort Benning and Camp Darby (pre 911) But I see how the hippies (tree huggers not pot heads) and the other green goers would have a problem with it and i will keep it in mind. Although it sucks cause GA is my home and i know a bunch of spots on the west half of the state. On that..... what do you have to do to make a place legal to wheel? (just the main jist of it)

 

[Ghost]

IF you want some of those deleted just hollar. Illegal is everything in South and North Carolina, and I think Georgia that you do not have permission to be on by the land owner. NC and SC both have put laws into effect to fine you if cought on powerline trails specifically. I think GA has the same. We in SC just got that law. Basically if you don't know for sure who's land it is and that you can be there it's not worth the $250+ ticket you could get.