I don't know if Eagles Nest has gotten smaller or maybe it just seems smaller now, (kind of like if you go look at your old elementary school it seems so small now...) I have never tried to drive it.
Anyway to throw in my .02 about WW...
I had a full size bronco with a d60 and 14 bolt 37 mtrs, I put those axles and tires under an xj. I had the axles narrowed, the rear 2 inches on each side and the front about 3 inches on each side. The bronco was about 6500 lbs trail weight, and before WW was as smooth as glass (6 years ago) my bronco did not drive up the thing, I could never drive up the thing in the bronco. The bronco had a 460 and 110:1 crawl ratio.
The xj goes up WW pretty easy so long as it is dry, I could probably hammer it when wet and get up it.
The differences between the two vehicles:
Weight (I know my xj is heavy, but I bet it is around 5000lbs loaded)
Suspension, leafs to links (the xj has links front and rear the bronco was leafs all around, this is a topic for another thread but I think this has a lot to do with it, how many leaf sprung vehicles walk WW?)
width, but only 3 inches on each side, however this is huge on WW being 6 inches more to the right on the first ledge is very helpful.
Wheel base, xj 101, bronco 104
same driver, same lockers, same tires,
so for what it is worth there ya go...
(I also believe that xj's are perfect size for WW I have seen a couple stock-ish xj's crawl WW and very built tj's not make it...)
nathan
99 xj with stuff