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Our Journey into the Jeep Experience

Trial and error build-on-a-budget of our JKU Sport, Gunner.



Our goal: be able to run all the Jeep Badge of Honor Trails. Starting with the easiest and culminating with Rubicon Trail; while maintaining nice driving characteristics and using it as a Daily Driver. Most importantly, we need to do this on a budget!

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Jeep couple at the top of Christmas Mtn in Terlingua, TX

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We started in 2018 with a 2017 Jeep Wrangler 4-door Sport, JKU. The mall-crawler of the Wrangler Family.

Here are some things I didn't know:

  • Out of the 3 models of Wrangler (Sport, Sahara, Rubicon), the Rubicon offers the most off-road features
  • 4 wheel drive doesn't involve putting power to all 4 wheels!!! (only 2 wheels at best)
  • You can't just put bigger tires on a Jeep
  • You can't just put bigger/heavier/longer springs and shocks on a jeep to lift it.. (not if you want it to still perform well)
  • Weight matters. All the aftermarket crap you get to add to your Jeep makes it work harder and more likely to get stuck

So we bought our 2017 JKU Sport and started a learning process.

fun day on the trails with Jeep JK