jeep03girl said:

slander said:

oddball said:

Anyone who has ever taken off roading courses or even read a book on the subject knows the first thing you are taught is to know your vehicle well (this doesn't mean what type of gas milage you get) and know the limitations of your vehicle and do not exceed them.  9 times out of 10, mishaps and breakage is due to driver error — including neglect.  The other general rule is to have your vehicle up to par regarding maintenance.  If you know there are questionable issues on your vehicle, you should not be off roading it.  Disregarding items like worn bushings, clanking u-joints, etc., is just asking for trouble.  Of course these and other decisions made prior to and while off roading mean nothing if one lacks common sense.  End of story.

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Well one obvisouly lacks common sense if your just tossing axle shafts and tool boxes in the back of your jeep and not strapping them down.  I agree with ya theres nothing worse than wheeling with someone who has some junk that broke in the lot and they are contanly wrneching on it, but stuff happens and its best to be prepared for it, especially if you wheel some place like harlan ky or something like that where the trails are spread out over a few thousand achers.  Ones wheeling style affects that, but lest face it, out on the trails people start trying stuff they shouldnt, or give it "just one last try" before pulling cable and BAM!!  Plus murphys law states that if ya have it, it wont break.   In my 10years of wheeling ive seen plnety of people break plnety of stuff, my buddy took out a professionally setup currie ring gear in a d44 on its first wheeling trip on his property, even new stuff breaks!!  Im not trying to argue with anyone BTW just having a livey disscussion!!

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I don't lack common sense but I do lack space. I would love to see someone try to strap all this stuff in the back of a Wrangler and still get around the park.

Yeah one would lack common sense if they didn't strap gear down –  but even strapped, that crap can break loose in a roll over. I don't care who one is or how long they've been wheelin' — Not all the gear mentioned above needs to be carried to each off road event.  Terrain and location should however dictate what you bring in spare parts.  But I digress.

As for space in a Wrangler — Exactly.  Interior space is the only thing I miss about my previous KJ.

Moparboy said:

Thats why I want to order the mountaineer rack from Olympic offroad, it looks great and you can keep all the heavy stuff strapped down. Here is a link for it, dont know why they put it in a wrangler though.

 

http://www.4wd.com/productdeta…..rtID=44872

 

Evans