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Steve&Debby
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Location: Colusa,California/ Percebu
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TW
Why not get rid of the rice burner and get a real offroad rig, a JEEP 
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MICK
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Location: Rio Hardy
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Mood: livin the good life on the river
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TW how many jeeps have you and I pulled out?
Mick
Getting there is ALL the fun!
Ok being here is fun to
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Steve&Debby
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Mick and TW
Bring your rice burners up to nothern California and I will take you on a couple of little trails in my back yard. One is the rubicon trail and the
other is the four dice trail.
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Ken Cooke
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Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Steve& ebby
Mick and TW
Bring your rice burners up to nothern California and I will take you on a couple of little trails in my back yard. One is the rubicon trail and the
other is the four dice trail. |
Steve & Debbie, I can personally vouch for Mick and TW that they are great guys, and although Mick rolls in a built Ford Ranger and TW...well, on
a dirt bike at the moment, these guys' hearts are in the right place. TW even *paid for* a Baja Grande t-shirt with a picture of two
Jeeps (gasp) on the front!
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TMW
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My daughter has a Jeep she says I can have. I don't remember the model. It looks like a CJ, I'm not familiar with Jeep models and probably 1980s year.
I just haven't had time to go look at it. Her ex-husband gave it to her in lieu of child support and she lets the boys drive it around in the back
field. I liked my Toyota because it wasn't real big and I could haul my Honda XR250 with me in Baja.
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Steve&Debby
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TW, dump the rice burner and take the Jeep.My Jeep is a 1986 CJ 7 with a few modifcations, tune port injection 350,th700r automatic overdrive, full
width dana 60 front wiyh detroit locker,full width dana 60 rear end locked,slight lift,38x15.50x15 swampers,just to mantion a few.If you get your
daughters Jeep I have a dana 44 front and rear end with detroit lockers if your interested.I would post some pictures if I could figure out how? YOU
KNOW ITS A JEEP THING.   :
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David K
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Jeep is the grandfather of SUVs (well Willys-Overland is, but that became Jeep)... and for that I have great respect.
My parents began their Baja travels in 1965 in a Jeep Wagoneer... and at 17, I got my first new four wheeler, a '75.5 Jeep Cherokee Chief (401 V-8,
Quadra Trac, nice).
In 2 years, the new Jeep had failure after failure due to poor quality parts and labor... (handles breaking, water pump failing, rear window motor
breaking, auto tranny failing (GM unit), carburator failing, low range lever breaking... ENOUGH!!!
I will say that when it wasn't in the shop being repaired, it would go anywhere and the 4WD system was awesome... It would outclimb any other 4X4 and
handled the sand south of San Felipe with ease.
Since the Jeep, I have owned 3 Subaru 4WD wagons (all were awesome... 130,000 miles in 3 years each), a Mitsubishi pickup, Mazda MPV van, Plymouth
Grand Voyager van, and now on my second 4WD Tacoma.
Of all those vehicles (1975-today) only the American brand vehicles (Jeep & Plymouth) gave me unreasonable difficulties and failures costing
thousands! The Japanese models gave me very little problems and no breakdowns.
The Toyota Tacomas have been the most trouble free of them all... and they have been driven the hardest, too...
So, even though I love Jeeps and do hope they have improved in quality since the AMC days, there is no arguing that the Toyota Tacoma is by far the
most well built, capable Baja truck/ SUV I have ever experienced.
My 2005 Tacoma now has 72,000 miles on it and I have had it for 2 1/2 years now. I have had no breakdowns or paid for any repairs... I recently
modified the rear suspension by upgrading the Bilstein shocks and adding adjustable air bags to stiffin the back end which did bottom out with a load.
I also had a front break noise at 8,000 miles which did go away with the first break pad replacement.
Here is a photo of my Jeep in Nov., 1975 on the road between Diablo Dry Lake and San Felipe as I was going from the checkpoint at Valle Trinidad to
Nuevo Mazatlan for camping and the Sulfur Mine to watch the Baja 1000.
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Hook
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Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
My daughter has a Jeep she says I can have. I don't remember the model. It looks like a CJ, I'm not familiar with Jeep models and probably 1980s year.
I just haven't had time to go look at it. Her ex-husband gave it to her in lieu of child support and she lets the boys drive it around in the back
field. I liked my Toyota because it wasn't real big and I could haul my Honda XR250 with me in Baja. |
And I have a Tilt-a-Rack motorcycle carrier that's been used ONCE that I'll sell you for half the cost of new just to get it out of my garage.
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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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For TWs purposes, a new Tacoma will do him fine. He's not going on the Rubicon, he's driving long, desolate stretches in the desert..**alone**. A CJ
w/o air conditioning, leaf sprung syspension, and possibly w/o a hardtop would be hard on him.
Remember, he needs a pickup truck to carry his gear and motorcycle. A SWB Jeep won't fill the bill - not even an AEV Brute.
Back in the days when I drove a pickup, I knew the utility of owning one, and with TW needing space to carry a motorcycle, but still hit the trails, a
Tacoma w/a locking rear differential will get him everywhere he needs to go...in Baja.
"DeserteXplorer" pictured here (w/yours truly) did fine on the Pole Line Road a few years ago. His BFGs didn't blow out, and he had no issues on the
trail.
This stock 4Runner struggled due to his lack of clearance - getting completely stuck .25 mi. past Mission Santa Maria due to his small tires & no
articulation, but made it out of Mission Impossible under his own power due to good spotting & driving.
That front valance got in the way every chance it go. Here, we are in Green Valley on the Score 1000 race route during Baja Grande II in Nov. '07
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TMW
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DeserteXplorer has some really nice side nurf bars that were custom made on his Toyota. There's two made three bars there, I forget exactly.
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Ken Cooke
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Those are some nice high-clearance rocker guards. All-Pro in Hemet probably mass-produces ones like his. I'd check into it since these will save you
some $$ from damage out there in the backcountry.
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Steve&Debby
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Location: Colusa,California/ Percebu
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Well I hate to say it but I agree the Toyota is hard to beat for dependability and comfort for the baja runs,as you can tell there is not much left of
my Jeep that is JEEP.I bought this "Jeep" 20 years ago as a total and since then have been modifiying it ever since.I have finally got it built up to
where it will hold together.Our travel to Baja has been limited to winter travel when it is not too hot,AC would be nice for summer travel.
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Roberto
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You mean BajaXplorer (BX), right?
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TMW
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Correct Roberto
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Cypress
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Didn't this whole thing begin with TW rear ending a school bus?
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Roberto
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I believe he has these:
http://www.demello-offroad.com//catalog/index.php?cPath=27_2...
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Ken Cooke
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Location: Riverside, CA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Didn't this whole thing begin with TW rear ending a school bus?
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The guy was haulin' gonzo through Mexicali, trying to make it to work in Bakersfield the next morning, and WHAM!  it was all over. Kinda messed up his
fender and front end.
I heard somewhere that your worst day in Baja is better than your best day at work. Is this true???
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