Whispering Pines March 8th

[GTJake]

its probably going to be extremly muddy.

[luvmyxj]

i\'m in.7 day calls for rain fri &sat ,cloudy 40deg on sunday.and does anybody know when i try to upload an avater it tells me i don\'t have permission to edit info?

[fedrusion]

I\'m out, I need to figure out what I\'m doing about fixing my front end. My sister backed into it. Yay.

[GTJake]

pics?
whats the damage?
good excuse to take the ins. money and buy/build a cool new bumper!

[Ryan_25]

I can get some aftermarket body panels and stock bumpers.

Let me know what you need.

[GTJake]

Troy, Keith and I are going to start to fab a front bumper for my XJ, if your intrested, you could get in on it and we could build two.

[fedrusion]

Bumper is tweeked, into my fender, fender is ripled and bumper end cap is scratched up a little. I got an estimate to fix fix for 1300. My sister would be paying for everything, definetly interested in fabing a bumper instead of stock replacement. I might just have the fender fixed and have her give me some cash to work on a bumper.

Do you guys have any ideas on cost to fab one and what plans did you have, winch non-winch?

[GTJake]

still up in the air about winch or not. im planning not to do a winch at this point. I believe that if i had a winch it would be used more to get other rigs unstuck, and I dont feel that I need to have one.
if you wanted to put a new bumper end cap on, i have two perfect ones painted black with fusion paint and they look mint. let me know if you need them.

[fedrusion]

Will do about the end cap. I think I would rather go with a fabed bumper. When are you guys planning on getting going on this.

Should probably move this conversation to another thread.

[Dragon]

Why not add a front receiver instead of a place for a winch (since you don\'t want a winch anyway).
That way you can add a winch when you need it, and leave it out otherwise.

[carchameleon]

unless pulling in a straight line (never happens), its not good to pull from a reciever.

anyone coming to wp, make sure you have good tires, mud doesn\'t like street tires

[GTJake]

reciever mount winches are junk. they flex and bind up the winch.

im making a new thread for this topic.

WHOS GOIN TO WP?

[carchameleon]

i\'m planning on it

[GTJake]

if everything goes good with the new tranny in my jeep then im in also

[itbdby]

I would like to attend. It will be my first event. I am the guy with the new Rubicon Unlimited (from Tuesdays meeting).

Do you think that my \"stock tires\" can handle it? Who do I pay? Do we meet there?

I bought a CB, a rear hook for the trailer hitch and a 3\" x 20\' tow strap. What else do you suggest?

-Angelo