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Just wanted to drop out of hiatus here to (again) offer my condolences. So long, rest peacefully, and thanks for being so kind to an underdog from Texas.

Moab / EJS 2019 Back from EJS and the Jeep performed quite well! No major issues or damage considering I was able to wheel some of the gnarly bits of places like Area BFE. Super stoked finally being in Moab with my own vehicle to wheel and it did not disappoint!

Had a grand time wheelin with y’all thanks for letting me link up :)

1 Ton Swap - Part 5 - Exhaust and Rear Update This final post on the 1-ton journey will cover a couple remaining upgrades I performed "while I was at it" but aren't necessarily directly related to the 1-tons. First, I was tired of the old stock muffler setup and, as part of the next...

1 Ton Swap - Part 4 - Wheels & Tires One of the main reasons for going to the 1 ton swap was to support tires larger than the 37" Mud Grapplers I had been running. With my old setup being 5x5 beadlocks, now moving to 8x6.5, it was time to swap out my entire wheel/tire combo for something...

1 Ton Swap - Part 3 - Rear 14 Bolt Final Assembly and Install The first conversion that needed to be done was to send the rear hubs off to be machined down a slight bit in order to allow the 60 tooth tone rings from Artec to be pressed on. We found a local machine shop to do the work and they...

1 Ton Swap - Part 3 - Rear 14 Bolt Prep Happy New Year :) Continuing on the 1 ton swap, this next part will cover the rear in chronological order, even though again we worked on both axles off-and-on. As with the front, the first thing to do was to strip away all the brackets & hardware from...

1 Ton Swap - Part 2 - Front SD60, Final Assembly & Install With the axle set up it was finally time for some primer and paint! After a few coats and drying overnight at the shop, I picked up the axle first thing in the morning to bring it home. Joe He-Man'd it up into the truck by himself...

1 Ton Swap - Part 2 - Front SD60, "The Grind" The build plan for the front axle, based around the Ford Super Duty 60, was to use the Artec coversion/truss kit, paired with Reid high-steer knuckles, Curry Hubs, stuffed with 5.38 Yukon gears, and locked with an Eaton E-Locker. But first, we had...

1 Ton Swap - Part 1 - Out with the Old, In with the Old The journey to 1-Tons begins with the evolution of the current axles I was running beforehand. As my build is a true "build it in stages" progression rather than an all-at-once upgrade, some of the early economic decisions led me down a...

Happy to announce the one-ton swap is finally complete. This past weekend we had a shakedown run and only had minor items to tweak! I’ll be making more in-depth posts about the swap itself, but there’s a LOT to it so it will take a minute. Till then here’s a raw gallery of photos over the...

Phase 5 Announcement I'm excited to announce the next evolution of Thanos is under-way! Getting Thanos built up to run 37s was a phased process over 3 years. Along the way, decisions were made that got me to where I wanted to be at the time (qualified for the JKX). With that dream realized...

Crazy, right?

Picked up a few replacement decals now that things have calmed down. Pretty neat to find the round star fits nicely on a gas cap.

CARNAGE!! Let's See Your Best Breaks & Trail Damage UCA bracket, wheeled it on a 3-link rear till we could get it welded back.

Project "Thanos" Build Back in the shop this past week for the last bit of upkeep from the JKX to replace the trail fixed UCA bracket with a replacement one from Dynatrac. The bracket comes in two pieces, but the tricky part is it comes squared off and needs to be ground/radiused...

Oh, there was, and he’s one of the best in the biz. Chris had Premier setup on the Gladiator and welded the UCA back onto the axle as best he could given we were doing the fix in a hotel parking lot. It held plenty well enough to get me back home after and up till the new brackets came in for...

From "Flat Nasty" offroad park.

Excessive Industries GateKeeper Tire Carrier Special treat this week. Since day 1 I’ve been wanting a rear carrier delete option that give me an alternate way to carry a spare. Until now I’ve either run the tire long-ways in the single rear slot, or simply propped it up against the rear...

Thanks man; pleasure was likewise. Things break, and luckily in my case it wasn’t a show stopper so I was happy I got to keep wheeling :) This past week the jeep was in the shop to address the front locker problem. Having already troubleshot the issue back to the internal o-rings, ordered a...