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Shifting gears a bit(pun intended). Was introduced to this TJ on Craig's list in 2008 and it was love at first sight. It was located in the Alamo city, abut 275 miles from home. One phone call led to a flight to pick it up. Previous owner, retired AF, met me at airport, drove to bank and transferred title, then dropped him off at his house and headed south. Arrived home just as the outer bands of a tropical storm hit. Jeep had been mostly a city dweller w/a bit of rock climbing according to previous owner, but would soon be ready for the brush country.
First step was front and rear receiver hitches to accommodate the Warn winch which had served so well for the past five years on the Silverado.
The much smaller interior of the little TJ was quite a challenge, but a little S. TX engineering provided a shelf over the sun visors for calls, gloves, etc, a saddle scabbard over driver's left shoulder carried the Stevens 20 ga youth snake gun and an improvised rifle rack held two rifles safe and secure, yet readily available. A couple of canvas cargo bags held the rest of our paraphernalia on the back of the seats.
About filled up all the places to carry stuff inside, shifted back outside and......
First step was front and rear receiver hitches to accommodate the Warn winch which had served so well for the past five years on the Silverado.
The much smaller interior of the little TJ was quite a challenge, but a little S. TX engineering provided a shelf over the sun visors for calls, gloves, etc, a saddle scabbard over driver's left shoulder carried the Stevens 20 ga youth snake gun and an improvised rifle rack held two rifles safe and secure, yet readily available. A couple of canvas cargo bags held the rest of our paraphernalia on the back of the seats.
About filled up all the places to carry stuff inside, shifted back outside and......
The rear end started out by simply adding receiver hitch for the chair and game lift which had also served well on the Silverado
This worked well.....until it didn't. The receiver on the truck was a frame mount but the jeep receiver was a bumper mount. One evening, we were heading back to camp w/a rather large nilgai cow hanging on the boom on a rough two track when, what turned out to be a bumper to frame bolt stripped the threads, sounding like a rifle shot in the back seat & dropping bumper a few inches. We limped in w/the load but had to figure out a solution. Drilled the nut (which was welded inside the frame) and re-threaded to US thread (original was metric), then altered chair, locating the boom socket as close to the bumper as possible, thus reducing the leverage of the heavy critters on end of boom.
The old boom socket proved quite handy for smaller critters using a shorter boom.
It was a really great ride.
This worked well.....until it didn't. The receiver on the truck was a frame mount but the jeep receiver was a bumper mount. One evening, we were heading back to camp w/a rather large nilgai cow hanging on the boom on a rough two track when, what turned out to be a bumper to frame bolt stripped the threads, sounding like a rifle shot in the back seat & dropping bumper a few inches. We limped in w/the load but had to figure out a solution. Drilled the nut (which was welded inside the frame) and re-threaded to US thread (original was metric), then altered chair, locating the boom socket as close to the bumper as possible, thus reducing the leverage of the heavy critters on end of boom.
The old boom socket proved quite handy for smaller critters using a shorter boom.
It was a really great ride.
One of the first cats I called. Saw this cat run across the two track about 200 yards away and didn't think he saw my truck coming over a low ridge, so pulled over into the low scrub best as I could, stuck my head out the window and let loose w/cottontail call. A few minutes later he steps out of the brush within 45-50 yards.
