My friend and i recently got the chance to leave the family behind and go wheeling. i do enjoy wheeling with my kids and family. That being said, there's no jeep trip like the '2 dudes' trip. It is the quintessential off roading experience. You take the back seat out and fill the back up with all the luxuries that 2 dudes might require.
We set out to Uwharrie (duh!) with our packed jeep and no doors. It rained. Uwharrie was totally different. That finely crushed sub micron Mars dust turns into a thick greasy mess that clings tighter to your tires than a dress on Lady Gaga! Let me tell you that this is when your stock jeep goes from 'hands down the best offroading machine available' to the equivalent of driving a Nissan Sentra through 2 feet of snow. My stock tires absolutely rot in the mud. It makes me look forward to the day the warrantee is expired so i can heavily modify the rig or at least get good rubber on the rims. We camped out at Kodak rock and were essentially the only jeepers out there. The weather treated us extremely well and the only thing that was marginal was our wood (The kind you burn in a pit, get your mind out of the gutter).
After we returned from our redneck site seeing tour, i got the oil changed at 15527 miles and once again it drives like new. It's amazing how these newer tighter tolerance engines run like total ass with dirty oil. Don't worry about high priced oil, find the cheapest you can and keep it changed.
i'll be getting after the differential fluid change here shortly and i plan to use the Lucas oil stabilizer. I think that will really help for offroad wear and tear where the diff is just rocking back and forth and not flinging up any oil.
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