What we can learn from our Jeep counterparts!

[StreetCreeper]

Ok I just thought of some good reasons why we should reach out to others like Jeep guys and even encourage them to come over to the 4Runner side.

People often poke fun at the Jeep guys or laugh about their trucks, but it's been my personal experience with a few of them, that they are generally good folks who have a whole wealth of knowledge and experience.

What's more, Jeep people are often more than willing to take the time to teach others.

By coming together with solutions born from real-world experiences by Jeep owners, we 4Runner folks might all learn a thing or two!

Just about any long-time Jeep owner can tell us things such as:

What to look for in a good tow-truck company?

Which satellite phones work best with 911 when you are left broken-down & stranded in the middle of the forest?

How best to prepare and eat your shoe leather when you run out of food?

What color truck is easiest for Search & Rescue to spot from the air?

Learn fun games to play on the side of the road while you wait for the tow guy! Games like: How many 4Runners just drove past us in the last 5 minutes?


Ok I'll stop there ... was bored and felt like messing with Jeep guys in good fun of course.

 

[KidVermicious]

I was going to say, the best thing we can learn from Jeep guys is not to buy a Jeep.

 

[ComradeVlad]

You sir are a fantastic forum member! Haha


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[Tyler James Inc]

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Thanks for the laugh [emoji1376]


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[zoombyu86]

"how to prepare your shoe leather." lmfao!

 

[185Runner]

Best posting of the year!

 

[pauldub]

15+ years of Jeep Cherokee driving and one tow.

1 month of 4Runner driving and one tow.

You choose.

 

[Nervo19]

I once went through the "Cheap Mods" thread on one of the Jeep sites and I swear they were all nothing but Plasti Dip and Para Cord. No creativity whatsoever.

 

[ToyotaBrah]

The suspension/steering components of a Jeep XJ are way too complicated. There are bars and joints running everywhere. It's a nightmare trying to track down a suspension clunk on an XJ. I will say, though, the inline 6 they came with is one heck of a motor.

 

[MN4runnerman]

I once went through the "Cheap Mods" thread on one of the Jeep sites and I swear they were all nothing but Plasti Dip and Para Cord. No creativity whatsoever.

Aren't the same things in our 3rd gen cheap/easy weekend mod thread?

 

[BunBun]

Awesome

 

[johnbyebye]

What's funny is I was so close to buying an 04 Grand Cherokee. I actually liked the rig but the seller sold it to someone else at the last second. I ended up with my 2000 Limited 4Runner. I LOVE this thing. It was meant to be I suppose.

 

[thegipper]

The suspension/steering components of a Jeep XJ are way too complicated. There are bars and joints running everywhere. It's a nightmare trying to track down a suspension clunk on an XJ. I will say, though, the inline 6 they came with is one heck of a motor.

The 4.0 inline 6 is one of the best motors ever built, I will 100% agree with that!

The suspension/steering stuff on a Jeep is a Fing nightmare...been there, done that. Just look up "death wobble" and enjoy! (also been there, done that).

 

[kolelt]

i like jeeps. I think they are good 4x4 trucks. When i was in the woods a while back. With few tacomas. Of course we are IFS and we tried to make it up this kinda easy hill but we couldn't. Lack of lockers i say. Anyways, minutes later a bunch of jeeps showed up. One guy was complimenting my truck, saying " Nice 4runner, we were just admiring it". Then goes up this crazy hill like it was nothing lol.

 

[buccaneerbandit]

heeps

As a prior Heep owner you forgot to mention the ability to locate a good chiropractor after anything more than a 2 hr drive.

 

[TheDurk]

I love my Ford-built 1971 CJ-5 with a Maverick in-line 6. It is great at what it does and is much better for attacking mountain horse trails than the 4Runner. It is a major kick outdoors in Brazil with no top and the windshield folded.

Just don't take it on the asphalt.

As for Laredo, Cherokees, anything not CJ....

 

[Beaumont67]

To me, TJ's with the short door bottoms:
- feels like crawling into a bathtub, elevated 2 feet above the bathroom floor / just not a normal, entry experience

To me, travelling to a golf course in a TJ:
- don't think of picking up a close friend, the mini-trunk won't hold two sets of player clubs

 

[deves2]

I recently learned what "JEEP" stood for:

Just Empty Every Pocket

it seems they cost large amounts of money to keep running

 

[BN-2B]

I love my Ford-built 1971 CJ-5 with a Maverick in-line 6. It is great at what it does and is much better for attacking mountain horse trails than the 4Runner. It is a major kick outdoors in Brazil with no top and the windshield folded.

Just don't take it on the asphalt.

As for Laredo, Cherokees, anything not CJ....

^Yes.^
Backup to my 4Runner is a 1980 CJ5 with the straight 6.
A machine comparable more to a tractor than a street ride, as you're practically sitting over the rear wheels.
Not built for comfort.

Topless and doorless with the windshield down in the Caribbean may be the closest one can get to a naked magic carpet ride.

Everything has its purpose.
Jeep may have strayed.



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[19963.4lsr5]

As much as I *****ed about working on my mother in laws 86 CJ7 over the years.

Things like:

1)a motor tick that wouldn't go away. Which ended up being piston slap and all 6 Pistons lost their skirts clear up to the oil ring.

2) every two years I'd get a call about the jeep not starting. So it's time to replace the ICM and coil again. Why because Ford and their better ideas designed a ignition module that didn't like being energized without the engine running. ("Grams, you can't leave the ignition in without starting the engine. You will fry the ignition module again" and again and again.......she never got it. I replaced the ford ICM with a MSD6 I've had on various projects since 91.

3) the dreaded carter BBD carb. Rebushing the throttle shaft bushings made it good as new.

And many other things.......but damit if it didn't put a smile on my face every time I took it for a drive, shake down run etc......it became a hobby.

I found her a 04 grand Cherokee limited 4.7l with qudra-drive. In the snow that system with hydraulic couplers in the axles as well as the XFR case can't be beat. And she retired the CJ7. It now sits waiting for its third round of chemotherapy. I also have a 04 Laredo 4.7 but it lacks the varilocs in the axles like the QudraDrive system has and it's still a snowmobile with 4 rubber tires. I prefer those two in snow than our old wrecked Jshift case 96 SR5, or our current 97 limited.

But saying all that I just bought a 97 SR5 from dillsburg pa that's in need of a engine and trans for 550 dollars. Garage kept its entire life. The wrecked 96's engine and trans now have a new home and I can finally part the wrecked heap out.


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