NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I know a great welder in Snohomish... Not quite Auburn, but his schedule is generally open, and his labor is cheap. $60/hr.

Badlands is down there, but he's usually booked up.

Auburn Car Repair and Offroad has great reviews from everyone in the world but myself and GSPRunner.

 

Auburn off-road can suck my diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

 

That talented, eh? Good thing there isn't an emoticon for that...

 

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I open a beer. Just to squirt it out my nose as I read this. Eff you Bob.

 

Is that an older frame Cherokee? Or a newer unibody?

 

I didn't know there was a difference.

 

Thanks! Noted.

 

When did they change to unibody? Looks to be late 90's early 2000's

 

I want to say some where in the 90s Jeep switched from body on frame to unibody, frame and body combined. The unibody makes it difficult/weird when attaching bumpers and such.

 

FIFY!
( you knew that would happen....)

 

It was well attached. Basically, the stinger came off. It was not welded together well.

 

For some reason when you told the story but before you posted pics, I pictured an XJ.

 

I think the average jeep owner (read that as XJ) is too scared to go where these guys were stupid enough to go. Cherokeez seem to be a highly effective budget wheeler when piloted by someone that doesn't hail from Buckley.

 

Isn't a Cherokee typically an xj? When he said Cherokee my eyes rolled in my head. I have a few Jeep friends, but only one is a Cherokee owner. Others are yj or tj owners. I did winch the xj guy out once a week after he got stuck while he was wheeling on his property in the marsh. It flooded half way up the door line. It was a total mess.

Not a pic of action, just a pic of said Jeep. FYI this is a unibody Jeep. 97 I believe.

 

This is where I point out that I'm not even remotely an expert. In any jeep after about 1950.

 

Dana 35 FTMFF... Forthemotherfuckinfail in case you didn't know. The Toyota 8" is stronger than a dana 35.

 

My little toe is stronger than a dana 35... when I work out.

 

I belive all xjs are unibody.