My first off road trip....AHHHH!!!!!

[stewie]

Are you talking about the stock bottle jack from under the back seat, or something else? The stock jack lifts from the axle tube.

Do yourself a favor and read the owner's manual. What works on a Toyota will not necessarily work on a Jeep.

Oh, and before you go any further afield than a dirt road, look into finding yourself a full-size spare tire.

rob

good advise. i would definitely buy two full size tires. one to replace the blown one, and another to go on the opposite side. then take the old tire that was opposite of the blown one and use it as your full size spare.

at least now you know how to change a tire on your jeep. you may want to practice it once or twice so that you know how to do it on the freeway in the dark. also learn how to jumpstart your or someone elses vehicle.

just make sure your rig is properly maintained and you will be amazed at what a stock cherokee will do.

hth

 

[rehab]

i hydro locked my first time. once you get over the "dumb kid" urge to floor it through everything it becomes a lot more enjoyable

 

[HaleYes]

well as some of you may know...i have been trying to convince my parents to let me go offroading. Well needless to say it didnt go so well...i got my mom to take me offroadung in our neighborhood. Its a new neighborhood and part of the road isnt finished....so its all dirt

well all of the mud is not rocklike....and there were puddles that had some snow on them...i thought they were shallow...well they werent...it was snow on top of ice that was about three inches thick with water underneath

i put it in 4 wheel drive and attempted to drive through it....i got stuck a quarter of the way through it...so i out it in reverse and attempted to get out...after a few tries i got out...i turned around and headed out to the paved road...well on the way back i felt a weird wobble...i had never experienced this before...i got on the paved road and realized the tire was blown...i got out and called my dad...i started to take out the donught and the jack...at first i put the jack on the rails by the door because that is where i have always seen my dad put it on his sequoia...well it didnt lift it up at all...so i thought i had broken the axle...then the next thing i see its a speedingcar coming towards me...i thought it was my dad coming at us all pissed

it wasnt

it was the cops...they thought we were trying to steal stuff off of the construction site...we werent of course...they get out and put their spotlight on me and flash their flashlight on me and yell

"What the hell are you guys doing!!! Stay where you are...dont move!!!"

i say i have a blown tire he says o okay...then he notified the station

we explained our situation and he said "well we are going to stay here till you fix the tire...just so the neighbors are see the crusier here."

he then tried to explain to me that my jack wouldnt lift the jeep and he said we should call AAA

i went on and disregarded his statement...the jack worked fine once i put it on the sub-frame...i took of the rim and put on the donught...i felt so bad!

so the final total

10 minutes of offroading= repairs to a blown tire and never offroading again..maybe

o yeah it was 10 degrees out with a windchill of below 0

Cliff Notes:
Drove through a construction site and got a flat tire. Parents are pissed.

 

[MudDawg]

You are right Yoda....you will end up with new wrist jewelery and a new buddy named Bubba if you get caught trespassing on a job site in Florida. There isn't much choice....for example in my trade (HVA/C) thieves will steal anything made of copper or anything that has copper in it...

 

[bmyohn]

my parents arent pissed...which suprised me...i told them that i would pay for it and take care of everything...im taking it to my friends shop and hes gonna remount it....if the rim is bent im gonna buy a new set of black cragar's and goodyear wranglers

 

[cal]

They had no reason to be pissed. You didn't do anything wrong. You mother was THERE and knows you did nothing wrong.

Like was said, you did what you did with consent and supervision. You were calm, dealt with everything that came up, and are paying for the consequences.

 

[Monkey55]

10 minutes of offroading= repairs to a blown tire and never offroading again..maybe

o yeah it was 10 degrees out with a windchill of below 0

Welcome to the World of Off-Roading. It's all part of the FUN and sounds like an easy fix.

Don't let that discourage you. It sounds like you learned from it..

Elias
Eh-lee-us

 

[axe609]

hey we all learn from our experiances. but it is wise to start slow and work your way up. find some trail or terain that is mild. get to know where your wheels are and what it takes to get through and over things.

my first offroading i would have loved to have a xj, i drove a 1976 Toyoya station wagon. and never got stuck in anything that my mom, brother and sister couldnt push it out of. i lived in Canada, in the bush you can go anywhere and no one will find you. so it does make sence to have someone with you. they can push if it gets rough. lol

i just got my first xj and i love it. its still stock and will be til i get out of the "Sandbox". but the reasons i want to go up 3" and put on a winch isn't so i can get there its so i can have a bit more fun on the way. with experiance you learn its easier to fill a rut then replace broken parts.

"crawl, walk, run" the army likes to train that way and it works
the army also likes to say "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
i still like it rough.

see you on the trails

 

[Jeepsloth]

sounds like he's about ready for some sawz-all action

 

[bmyohn]

im trying to fit new tires possibly 235s to 255s and black cragars