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I have looked and I don't see one here. I know some of my buddies on JKO like to BS around so I thought I'd put one together. And being that I'm from Canada, it's a stretch calling myself a Michigander, therefore anyone else from the Great Lakes section is welcome to chime in on stuff.
Let's see if we can get it off the ground floor now.
 
#2,781 ·
Nice Chris. Can't wait for you to install this one. I might do what you did and throw an Aussie up front.
They're on sale at the Aussie locker website like right now! It did really well at BH last time. In fact I was cutting ruts with my fronts all day while my open diff rears just dropped into holes and stalled :suicide:

I knew that day that rear traction was the next big thing on my list.
 
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Lockers were a world of difference for me this trip to Bundy. I had no idea they would make that distinct a difference in traction. So glad I went with selectables. Sorry Chris - we differ in opinion on that. Mine are much more expensive, but I don't have to use them if I don't want to. Huge plus for me in my opinion.
 
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Lockers were a world of difference for me this trip to Bundy. I had no idea they would make that distinct a difference in traction. So glad I went with selectables. Sorry Chris - we differ in opinion on that. Mine are much more expensive, but I don't have to use them if I don't want to. Huge plus for me in my opinion.
Yup, that's the fun of being a Jeeper. We all own essentially the same vehicle, but "to each their own" in the very sense of the saying :) We're both after the same things but with very different ways of going about it. That's the awesome part!

I don't have a single aftermarket switch in my interior. I had them for my lights at first but grew to hate em - they just weren't there for me quickly enough. So all the switches went, and so did some of my lights.

This locker strategy keeps me switch-free. You don't know how happy that makes me :bounce:

I have ideas of how to make my upcoming rock lights and roof rack lights (roof rack is next on the shopping list) switch free also. It's part of the challenge and I love it :)
 
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Yup, that's the fun of being a Jeeper. We all own essentially the same vehicle, but "to each their own" in the very sense of the saying :) We're both after the same things but with very different ways of going about it. That's the awesome part!

Yup.

I don't have a single aftermarket switch in my interior. I had them for my lights at first but grew to hate em - they just weren't there for me quickly enough. So all the switches went, and so did some of my lights.

That's cuz yer weird.

This locker strategy keeps me switch-free. You don't know how happy that makes me :bounce:

More proof of weirdness. lol.


I have ideas of how to make my upcoming rock lights and roof rack lights (roof rack is next on the shopping list) switch free also. It's part of the challenge and I love it :)
Fog light through LED? ESP? Mind control? Foot mounted hibeam switch ala 1974 Plymouth Fury?


Ordered front nitro shafts, Viking winch line, hawse fairlead, and ball joints today. Debating on ordering rear shafts or cb set up or oil pan skid or e series light or...
Wow Eddie - you're out of control dude. j/k. Nice.
CB gets my vote. Anyone opting for getting the rear shaft is just plain...bah - nevermind.
Oilpan skid is less useful than a CB. E-series light only partially useful unless you find yourself driving through a lot of dark deserted roads at night...
CB.
 
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That's terrible, Jamie. I couldn't handle going that long without my Jeep.

I hope you'll be fixed at no cost and back on the road n trails again!
Adam is personally doing everything he can do to work this out and I am assured by him that "it will get fixed".
I am patient and I will remain on "the high road".

Eddie - got up $400 at casinos to then lose $700. won $157 golfing so came home down $143.
 
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Fog light through LED? ESP? Mind control? Foot mounted hibeam switch ala 1974 Plymouth Fury?
Good guesses LOL :lol:

No, actually, the lights are pretty simple - just relay them to my highbeams. Flip the stalk and the world lights up :koolaid: I've got to be careful in traffic or I might get a ticket, but the only time I need extra light - offroading or when I'm pissed at someone, I high-beam.

I also thought alternately of permanently linking my fog lamps to my headlights. I would repurpose the fog lamp function: when I twist the stalk for what used to be fog lamps, it turns on all my offroad lights. Highbeam will be reserved for my headlamps and long range beams.

For rock lights - I'll put a trip switch next to my shifter so whenever I go from drive into 2, the lights come on. I don't crawl any faster than 1st or second gear anyway. So it's kinda like a switch - but without needing a switch.

Whatever I can't tether to a current stock control apparatus, I do without :)
 
#2,790 ·
Ordered front nitro shafts, Viking winch line, hawse fairlead, and ball joints today. Debating on ordering rear shafts or cb set up or oil pan skid or e series light or...
I vote CB. Not very sexy but super useful when trail riding!
 
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I guess I'm the odd one out with for not wanting to make my interior look like a space shuttle cockpit :shitstorm:
 
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No Chris I will second your opinion!
We can start the "Say No To Switches" club!

I was a little deflated this morning when I realized my CB radio is full of switches. But it's a fairly rudimentary model with volume, gain, squelch, PA toggle, and two other junk toggles. But I can live with those :koolaid:
 
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I drove through the south part yesterday on my way home. We were thinking the north end would be better because of how hit the south part is and we can get up high enough to take pictures of downtown.

Any good places to pick up a cb antennae? I can't find any frestik's on the east side.
I got mine from rightchannelradios.com. Local Grand Rapids business (I think). They ship everywhere and have really good stuff!
 
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