Michael Livingston

Sep

13

Project LJ: Stage 3

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Project LJ Stage 3: Enter the expensive. A series of fortunate events punches up my LJ timeline (items covered in detail below).
$1000 — T-Max EWI-10000 Winch.
$600 — Skid-row Nightcrawler Front Bumper.
$400 — Jeeperman Trail Skidz.
$375 — Smittybilt/Rugged Ridge Off-road Cargo Rack.
$200 — Rola Pursuit Cargo Carrier.
$300 — Jeeperman Rear Bumper.
$85 — T-Max Portable Air Compressor.
$70 […]

Sep

10

Project LJ: Stage 2

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Project LJ Stage 2: More quick, cheap fixes, plus a small bit of Jeep-style luxury (items covered in detail below).
$800 — Garmin Trail Guide.
$75 — Buchanan Precision Machine 1.5″ Seat Lift-kit.
$70 — Mopar’s Jeep Mud-flaps.
$50 — Skid-row Steering Box Skidplate.
$25 — Domelight Kill Switch, from Quadratec.
$16 — Stepshield Entry Guards.
$0 — Front Bumper End-cap […]

Sep

10

Car Thoughts II

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Spent part of my weekend replacing the battery on the Stratus in hope that its starting problems are due to a dead cell and nothing more.
There are many reasons I’ve grown to dislike the vehicle, so I was surprised to get yet another: opening up the hood, I couldn’t find the battery. I could […]

Aug

13

Hell’s Revenge

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During our time out West this summer, we decided to head out to Moab, UT for some hardcore jeeping — and it just so happened that we went with the owner of 4xGuard, who was up for a bit of product testing in his gorgeous Grand Cherokee.
Here’s a video I put together of “Big Red” […]

Aug

6

Project LJ: Stage 1

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Project LJ Stage 1: Cheap improvements with big upside (items covered in detail below).

$153 — JKS Quicker Swaybar Disconnects.
$113 — Rocky Road Outfitters 2″ Budget Lift Kit.
$45 — Auto Ventshade Bugflector II.
$40 — Miscellaneous tools.
$10 — Homemade window pouches.
$5 — Homemade tool roll.

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Total for stage 1: $366.
Quicker Swaybar Disconnects
If you do one thing to […]

Aug

6

Project LJ Defined

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Jeeping and Me
I’m proud to say that responsible Jeeping runs in my family. A native of Colorado, I grew up going on camping trips that inevitably involved some four-wheeling in the Rocky Mountains or in the nearby semi-desert canyon country of places like the Canyonlands. Decades before every soccer mom drove an SUV […]