Recent content by SoDakSooner

Nothing wrong with a Jeep in the grand scheme of things and we really enjoy ours. Maybe mine is just overkill. As stated, If I were to do the Jeep thing again, I'd have a bone stock Rubicon(as far as running gear) or a Gladiator. That said, they get crappy mileage, have below average road...

As far as tire size goes in my case, Mine was set up originally to crawl and trail ride as we have some world class stuff around here. While not a true overlander IMO, I have mixed elements of both just to make it more versatile. If I were starting from scratch with a new jeep, I would most...

Ive got a JKU with 37's. I'd stick with 35's. Mine are heavy at 100+ lbs per tire, and you don't need the 37's. I wheeled some crazy stuff with 35's and rarely had an issue. I just got a great deal on the 37's and decided to try. With my lift they looked better too. As far as overall...

Once everyone started discovering the surplus auction thing, it kinda went a bit nuts. I was lucky and caught probably the last big sale of M101's on Govplanet, shoot 5 years ago now and snagged one for about $300. Not sure you can even get close to that now if you can find one. M1101's or...

Not much activity lately. I did rig up some kayak mounts. Really just some large j hooks that I bolted to my temporary(4 years old) tent rack. That Hobie is LOOOONNNG. I also fabbed up some led's under the tent. Picked up a new awning for an xmas present for me(currently mounted on the...

Jeep has to step it up somehow. Ford is going to sell a bunch of Broncos. Entry level pricepoint is actually affordable too.

Yep, did it. Works well. I didn't want to mount it to the outer rails and mounted to the crossbars. I had to build some spacers and wider plates as the crossbars are wider than the plates that came with my CVT McKinley. I didn't want the tent to actually touch the outer rails. I could have...

Well I finally got my jacks installed this weekend. Looks like almost the exact setup as @dstock . Turned out well with the exception of the fact that every drill bit I have is dull, and even more so now. Not bad, about a 3 hour project. Just bolted the new crossmember in as I was too lazy to...

Agreed! Good work!

Ive got the larger hf box on my m101a2. Nice box but need to seal up the lower corners. don't have the parking brake issue on mine. Just make sure you lengthen the tongue enough to be able to do what you need with the tow vehicle. Mine is long enough to swing the gate with no issues. Sign up...

Looks great. I haven't stuck them up under there yet to play with location but that looks like a nice solution.

could you please move mine over here when you get a chance...It's been inactive for a while. https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/sodaks-m101a2-build.168015/

Well after a long hiatus, hope to soon be working on it again. I had forgotten but I had some 31" tall BAL jacks on my Amazon list, and my wife picked them up for me for xmas. Need to figure out how to mount. I use as a utility trailer a lot but haven't camped in over a year...Yeah I know...

Ruff stuff has all their stuff on sale right now. The aluminum drag link and tie rod are on sale for 20% off and the have one ton TRE's. You'd have to ream or drill for insterts but they are a hell of a deal right now. Didn't price the drag link, but the 1.5" aluminum tie rod is like $236 on...

We occasionally go places where we don't want to take the tent. i.e. rockcrawling, off road parks, elk hunting, etc...., yet we still camp. It is just easy to leave it set up in those cases. If we go somewhere where we are moving a lot it goes on top of the jeep.