dantheman!
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Hi there, im Dan.
Picked up my 92 Limited 2 weeks ago to be an offroad toy. wanted to build a cheap but capable rig. All my friends had kids and sold their sports cars and got jeeps. Still have the GTO's as well but i wanted to hang out with my friends. been playing offroad for 10+ years with my friends but never owned one of my own. So away we go!
1992 Limited
AW4 4x4
hp D30 and a D35
Leather, power everything(all works!), sunroof.
115k miles.
beginning goals are to keep the spend under 6k and have a competent little wheeler and hopefully keep up with all my friends JK's with 35s. Want to teach my wife the joys of offroading as well. She is a gearhead as well so she was all about starting another build.
Here she (and i) are after purchasing it for 2k.
Brought it home to show the wife then immediately took it out to make sure everything worked and there werent any weird issues.
The stock sealed beam headlights were garbage, replaced them with the rampage H4 conversion off amazon. Fan shroud was cracked so that got swapped today. Ordered some louvers for the hood to keep the underhood temps down when crawling.
So the tires make the rig, ordered the 33x12.50r15 MTRs for it (amazon had them for 222+tax with prime shipping and they took 2 days to get here). Rims are the JEGs brand 15x8 D window with a 3.75 backspacing. Going to paint them gold as a small homage to the stock mesh wheels.
(forgive the hobbit feet)
Going to need a BIT of trimming haha
Ordering the Rusty's 4.5in long arm kit on wednesday as well as their rock sliders. Hopefully have it on in a few weeks. Also a derale trans cooler is on the list since the trans got a BIT warm on tuesday morning when i took it back out to play on these terrible street tires again. wasnt happy shifting for a bit but once it cooled down it was fine. Fluid flush and a cooler and ill do some more testing.
Looking forward to sharing more pics as the weeks/months go on. We are planning a trip in the beginning of feb to Hidden Falls so im hoping to have it sorted and take it out there.
Picked up my 92 Limited 2 weeks ago to be an offroad toy. wanted to build a cheap but capable rig. All my friends had kids and sold their sports cars and got jeeps. Still have the GTO's as well but i wanted to hang out with my friends. been playing offroad for 10+ years with my friends but never owned one of my own. So away we go!
1992 Limited
AW4 4x4
hp D30 and a D35
Leather, power everything(all works!), sunroof.
115k miles.
beginning goals are to keep the spend under 6k and have a competent little wheeler and hopefully keep up with all my friends JK's with 35s. Want to teach my wife the joys of offroading as well. She is a gearhead as well so she was all about starting another build.
Here she (and i) are after purchasing it for 2k.
Brought it home to show the wife then immediately took it out to make sure everything worked and there werent any weird issues.
The stock sealed beam headlights were garbage, replaced them with the rampage H4 conversion off amazon. Fan shroud was cracked so that got swapped today. Ordered some louvers for the hood to keep the underhood temps down when crawling.
So the tires make the rig, ordered the 33x12.50r15 MTRs for it (amazon had them for 222+tax with prime shipping and they took 2 days to get here). Rims are the JEGs brand 15x8 D window with a 3.75 backspacing. Going to paint them gold as a small homage to the stock mesh wheels.
(forgive the hobbit feet)
Going to need a BIT of trimming haha
Ordering the Rusty's 4.5in long arm kit on wednesday as well as their rock sliders. Hopefully have it on in a few weeks. Also a derale trans cooler is on the list since the trans got a BIT warm on tuesday morning when i took it back out to play on these terrible street tires again. wasnt happy shifting for a bit but once it cooled down it was fine. Fluid flush and a cooler and ill do some more testing.
Looking forward to sharing more pics as the weeks/months go on. We are planning a trip in the beginning of feb to Hidden Falls so im hoping to have it sorted and take it out there.
