Derek's Daily Driver TJ

Owners Name & City-
Derek M - Orem, UT


Make, Model & Year of Vehicle-
2001 Jeep Wranger


Engine-
Stock 4.0L I6


Transmission-
NV3550 Standard


T-Case-
NP231J - Currie Slip Yoke Eliminator, Tom Woods DS


Axles-
Front - Dana 30, Rear - Dana 44- Spartan locker 4.56 Ratios


Suspension-
4" Currie Coils, Teraflex Monster Flex Short Arms, Rancho RS9550 Adjustable shocks


Wheels and Tires-
Black 15" Steelies, 35x12.5 BFG KM2's


Winch-
In the future plans


Favorite Trails-
Hell's Revenge, Poison Spider, Little Moab


Other-
This is my daily driver. I keep it street legal for the most part, it hauls my little family on most trips. My goal is to be able to keep it driveable to and back from Moab 4-5 times a year.

I have been active on this site for a couple years, this is my intro thread: http://www.rme4x4.com/showthread.php?75937-Im-new!-but-not-to-wheelin-and-not-to-Utah!&highlight=


This is how my TJ looked when I first bought it:

I will slowly add pics of the progress since March 2010.

 

[krammit]

Dang son! What a cute jeep!
Hey D, talk to Aj @ teraflex about maybe a 44 for the front. He might have one...
Oh one more thing, you should post up the vids from little Moab so we can see this black beauty doin work!

 

[glockman]

Great looking jeep. I love the top.

 

[DerekM]

Here is a little video recap of Kurt (KRAMMIT) and I at little moab a while ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoB...xt=C3431a85UDOEgsToPDskI4e4hHxZQBcKQhOSu6HujE

[video=youtube;TwoBVHFc-cY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwoBVHFc-cY[/video]

 

[DerekM]

I just picked up a rubicon 44 for the front of mine so I will have a spartan and some chromoly shafts for a d30 soon I hope.

Please let me know. I might be interested.

 

[DerekM]

Another Little Moab video Krammit made, this was a fun trip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8AZ...GXQYbcTJ33aD0VD6MUazXilrec9Yn6cR mvFp5RsLLuI

[video=youtube;v8AZxiLo1wg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8AZxiLo1wg[/video]

 

[DerekM]

I should probably update this thread. I sold the Jeep and the 4runner and bought two new vehicles last week! This is the new tow rig/work truck:
3/4 ton GMC with vortec 6.0. Love the 11mpg



And we finally got our dream car, a 4 door JK Rubicon. This should fit my family pretty good for weekend trips to Moab:
2009 with 50k miles



Also picked up a set of 35" KM2's to get this thing off the ground asap. Installing a 4" lift on Monday:

 

[Bart]

Congrats, and the wifey looks happy. Bonus

 

[Newman08]

Dude, when we going to Little Moab??

 

[DerekM]

We need to go soon! The only problem is I have a side business that I work on fridays and saturdays. We could go if it was a saturday late afternoon/evening.

 

[benjy]

3/4 ton GMC with vortec 6.0. Love the 11mpg

A few weeks ago I was between daily drivers, so the tow rig took over commuter responsibilities. 11.5 mpg, but it has a 50 gallon tank so it only hurt once every two weeks

Good looking rigs, that's a fantastic combination IMO