Drove a HEEP

[addicted56]

So a lot of the guys that deployed left their vehicles here outside the office and asked me to drive them around for them. One happens to be a bone stock older Rubicon. If you haven't been down to Ft. Bragg everybody and their sister has a Heep Strangler. Well not 10 seconds into driving down the road two jeeps in a row go by. The guy must have read the fear in my mind as he threw up a Jeep salute. Bout crapped myself..but I was friendly enough to send one back. I got two more in the matter of a 2 mile drive. Man did that hurt. I did wheel it up a really steep embankment in 2WD just becuase it was a good short cut into a parking lot. It has some MT-R's on it and they grip really well and it is a soft ride compared to the 40's. But the thing has never been off-roaded he didn't even know what the rear locker was for and the road noise is atrocious. A testament to the Heep type of buyer. Most don't even know how to use their rigs...but they sure look cool.

What I thought was more fun was the AWD Subaru outback. Mainly becuase it has A/C. It was 105 without the heat index here in Fay the other day.

Anyway just thought I would throw my pain out there.

 

[little_joe]

Hopefully you got all of the chEEP off of you, if not we can perform an exorcism.

 

[erymer]

Pretty sure there is a series of shots that will clear it up in a couple weeks too.

 

[krzyabncanuck]

I used to work on them back when i was in, it was the only real shop here that was into offroad stuff at the time. The thing i used to like to do to them the most was cut on them for whatever reason we needed to. Just hearing the metal scream was music to my ears.

 

[diggity]

Sounds like you need a ride in my 40 to choke you with dust, ride like a tank, in my case cut off on steep inclines and almost flip to get that heep cr@p out of you Jason

 

[addicted56]

Like I said I was only in there a couple of miles. How much could I have really been contaminated. I bet I could clean it off with enough in my system. I washed my hands with bleach and threw away the cloths.

 

[S4Cruiser]

I bet Stephen would be more than happy to make a trip to the base and drive all your buddy's Jeeps .

Sorry Stephen...couldn't resist .

 

[erymer]

well before Jason hops on here and blows the whistle :whoops:.........Stacy and I do have a Jeep. Actually Tillman's stroller is a Jeep jogging stroller. And it's the best handling Jeep I've ever seen. And after all the sh*t I got from J at lunch I will be pulling out the dremel to remove the logos and put on Teq badges. So if anyone has a good line on where to find them just let me know.

 

[southerncruiser62]

While this is still somewhat fresh on the forum, Have any of you noticed how low the shock mounts hang on the 4 door versions (and maybe on all the new wrangler's)? While at the coast this weekend I noticed that there is about 6-7" of shock exsposed below the axle tubing and it appeared to hang even lower at the mounts than the pumpkin.

 

[lt1fire]

While this is still somewhat fresh on the forum, Have any of you noticed how low the shock mounts hang on the 4 door versions (and maybe on all the new wrangler's)? While at the coast this weekend I noticed that there is about 6-7" of shock exsposed below the axle tubing and it appeared to hang even lower at the mounts than the pumpkin.

Not sure but I will admit that if I wanted a brand new 4x4 it would be a 4 door rubicon... nothing brand new even comes close that we can buy over here.