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A little about me:

Hey there! Glad you could stop by. I started this site at first as a fancy way to host the many pictures that were beginning to stack up from being outdoors in Arizona, not to mention just many of the interesting things to see that I happened to have a camera handy to catch while outdoors wheeling or hiking. It eventually evolved from a small site that I had no intentions of being very serious about, to hosting thousands of pictures of my travels and the like. What you'll find here are pictures from four wheeling outings, rock crawling, a bit of camping, some site seeing, wildlife, old buildings, "ghost" towns, mining remnants, you name it, you might find something close. I've also used pictures to document many of the upgrades and fabrication work I've done to my vehicles that range from trail worthiness, to audio upgrades. I'm going to go out on a limb and call myself an amateur photographer in lieu of a "recreational" photographer, so you'll also find pics of what I refer to as my "artsy" side coming through. These may manifest themselves from nature shots to just the pure random. If you have any comments on my pics, or anything else on my site for that matter, don't hesitate to email me!

I have been into four wheeling and running the desert trails since I owned my first vehicle. In roughly 2000-2001, I became more interested in the more hardcore type of wheeling, called rockcrawling. It takes a vehicle with a bit of agility, some important and almost required modifications, and sometimes just plain disregard for sheetmetal. It requires traversing rocks that are at the least as large as a basketballs and range up to boulders as large as the entire vehicle your riding in. Each size of rock, demanding a different kind of respect and level of expertise to keep your vehicle repairs to a minimum and simply from rolling over onto it's roof. Check out the "Picture Albums" page to take the journey with me.

About My 4X4's:

The offroad rigs I currently own are a 1987 Jeep Cherokee and a 2003 Toyota 4Runner. The Jeep came to me in December of 2003 for a great price, so I couldn't pass it up. Although it was completely bone stock when I bought it, I knew that soon it would shed this "stock" label. This Cherokee was a Wagoneer Limited which had the popular 4.0 liter inline six, 4 speed auto transmission, and the 242 Selec-Trac transfer case. It also has the "bells & whistles" of power windows, locks, cruise control, leather, yada, yada....yes...I said leather :) Being the Wagoneer model, it has the woody panels up the sides, wood trim accents throughout the interior, and the 4 headlight grille setup. This was the rig that got all the modifications so that it would perform well on the rocks, yet still be a somewhat well mannered driver on the freeways (you really can't have the best of both worlds here). The Jeep now sits in the back yard collecting dust. It was more or less mothballed when it needed tires and since the MPG's were not the greatest to be driving 30 miles one way to work. Below is a list of the things I've done to it with links to specific pics for that modification. This is just a sampling of well over 1200 pics in my albums, check out the "Picture Albums" page to see them all.

• 8" Skyjacker Rockready lift as the starting point.
  
• Self fabricated track bar & bracketry..
  
• Self fabricated rear bumper with receiver hitch & swing out tire carrier..
  
• Self fabricated rock sliders & future cage foundation.
  
• Generously trimmed & formed wheel wells.
  
• Tom Woods slip yoke eliminator for the NP242 transfer case.
  
• New longer Tom Woods rear double cardon CV driveshaft.
  
• On-board air (in form of CO2 gas cylinder).
  
• Dual diaphram Brake Booster from a 2000 Grand Cherokee to replace the weak OEM single diaphram version.
  
• Substantially upgraded charging system wiring & additional fuse panels/relay panels.
  
• Cooling conversion from early model closed to late model open system with GDI three row Radiator.
• Uniden CB with Wilson 5000 mag mount antenna.
  
• (4) 50 watt halogen Rock lights for night wheelin'.
  
• Custom over the knuckle steering using 3/4 ton GM tie rod ends and DOM tubing.
  
• Self fabricated front Lower Control Arms using Rubicon Flex Joints.
  
• 35 x 12.50 Nitto Terra Grappler tires.
  
• 15 x 8 black "rockcrawler" steel wheels.
  
• Superwinch EP 9.0 9,000 lb. winch.
• C-ROK front LP winch bumper with recovery tabs and integrated steering box reinforcment plates.
• (2) 100 watt Hella Rallye 4000 off-road lights mounted with custom winch fairlead bracket.
• Custom switch panel where the digital dash clock used to be.
• Bilstein 5125 14" travel front shocks with custom mounting captures.
• Added power & ground distribution panel in engine compartment.
• Blue Top Optima battery.
  
• Powermaster 140 amp high output alternator.
  
• Heavily modified THOR rear quarter panel guards.
  
• "Full Blackout"rear LED tail lights and mini LED reverse lights.
  
• Main Battery Cutoff Switch incorporated into the front grille..
  

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My Email: offroader673@gmail.com