Jeep life lives on

i have been slack, no doubt about it. All those poor people out there wondering if my jeep will be ok and me, sitting here with no concern for said people. i apologize for that and offer no excuses.

So... i have to give it it Chrysler, they did it right this time. They towed my jeep away and that same day it was fixed and returned to me! It turns out that the #2 cylinder threw a misfire code. Chrysler says it was a bad spark plug... When is the last time you had a spark plug go bad at 12K miles? Anyway it's running fine now.

So what's new? What's happening? Uwharrie. I know, beating the dead horse but hey, it's the only real place to prove how awesome the jeep really is!

The black JK and i set out to have a 'kick ass' opening weekend. Uwharrie OHV trails opened on April 1st 2010, a Thursday this year. We traveled down to the Badin Lake Campground, site 20, with 2 vehicles the white hot knife and the black jk. We setup the camp and promptly went night wheeling.

Let me tell you that we did it all. I mean all of it. We covered 95% of all the trails and all of the core trails multiple times. It was just me and a 9 and 6 year old and we went where no one thought we could. We went up Kodak rock. We went down Daniel (including Daniel Rock). We went up Dicky Bell. I mean we did it all and gracefully.

We did have to say goodbye to one friend, a BF Goodrich A/T tire with 12K miles on it. The poor thing just couldn't handle the pressure! Changing a tire in the field usually sucks major puppy water but i had the help of 2 great friends, snag wood and tim dogg. It was like nascar on the trail. Hell, we were the fastest jack in in Montgomery county! Thanks to Shawn and Tim we overcame obstacles and had a great time doing so.

I can find no reason to modify my stock Sahara. If there was something that i couldn't do... maybe. But there isn't, that JK is simply the most capable off road machine built today. Did i mention the tires SUCK! Now, i realize that most Visa jeepers who purchase a Sahara don't take it off roading in the first 40K miles but PLEASE! Chrysler, offer us the 'i am going to take this jeep and use it for what it was built for' package!

2 days of cleaning and the jeep is back to normal. i changed the air filter and the oil and filter. One thing to note is that the oil took a major beating. In Uwharrie i couldn't have done more than 20 miles yet the oil aged a good 2 to 3 thousand miles! 4 days of hard trail riding is like 5K rode miles!

Oh ya, if you have some great JK wheels with those awesome Wrangler off road treads, give me a call. i need some new wheels!