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| Ahh, The Great Outdoors |
| Feb-24 2002 Imagine if you will..... Three young people in two vheicles both with four wheel drive, and of Jeep descent, treck into the wilderness for some offroad action...... Ok, enough of the corniness. The date is right though. My buddy James, his girlfriend Brooke, and I, head into the great unknown that is called Clifton, With the 85 Eagle, and the 80-85 Jeep. There is no real point to try to convince all of you out there in TV land that the Eagle is any kind of equal off the road. But I made it almost as far as he did, after he had broken a trail. The snow was way deeper than he had expected. I told him that it was shin to knee-cap depth, I'll paraphrase, " bullshit, its not THAT deep!!" well we get there and he sinks to his hubs. He was like "WTF????" " I told you so", But the jeep sailed across it like nothing doing, 33's, 1300 pounds, a 258 and a four speed do the tricks. The Little AMC did pretty well inspite of the depth of the snow. I wish that I had some snow pushing skidplates. Now the Jeep, with 33's sails across the white and doesnt even leave a mark. Im jealous. It's time to upgrade to a Jeep, or at least do some suspension work to one of my Eagles. He figures that If he had his 304 in this little Jeep that hed be breaking stuff on a consitent basis, but the 258 is working out great for the time being, except for the erratic idle. |
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| This Picture was from when I took the Eagle Mudding (ok, ok, the mud was only four or five inches deep, but still) one fine midsummer day. James (owner of the Blue Jeep) was with me and laughing like a crazy. What I was able to do was get the car spinning around a corner, flinging goo all over creation. Finnally after a half hour of going around in circles We called it Quits and headed into Brewer to get gas, and pulled up next to a new Wrangler at a stop-light. It had an impressive array of lights, guards, tow hooks and 215-70s. Not to dis Wranglers, but this kid had not gone the usual route of making his Jeep more capable off road. |