JEEP Vehicles in Winter

[cmysix]

Lousy heaters, lifted jeeps handle like crap for the most part, not much room inside either. Get the right tires and they go about anywhere though.

Lift them properly and they will handle just fine

 

[cmysix]

Have a 2002 wrangler X. You would freeze to death in it in a state north of the red river. Any speed over 60 is 50/50 you get home alive. No anti lock brakes. A motorcycle pulled out in front of me, I hit the brakes and went across the oncoming lane, thru a ditch and stopped 2 ft from a wrought iron fence. Would never let a young driver have an older model keep.
Worst hunting vehicle ever made. By that I mean “hunting” not driving to a hunting spot. Getting a gun out the window is impossible except maybe a derringer.
But I still love it and won’t sell it.

Isn’t country club hunting illegal

 

[cmysix]

I am helping my wife's uncle with a 1966 Jeep Commando build. Got all the body work done including the half cab (which I initially thought was hopeless). Modern sound proofing (in 66 they didn't care about interior noise I guess). Installing a modern GM fuel injected V6 with cruise and AC. 5 speed and higher ratio differentials. Turning out to be an awesome Jeepster.

There is a reason they put those low ratio gears in, just like a farm tractor. Wheel speed. You could have put a taller tire on and got a little better streetabilty, people forget they were never intended to be your country club cruzer. They were meant to be just what the military needed a utility vehicle , those old jeeps were lucky to go 50 mph, the USMC wants them back.

 

[JFrank]

Lift them properly and they will handle just fine

You know, I’ve heard that a couple times but have never actually seen the phenomenon in person.
Similar to Bigfoot..

 

[dgeesaman]

Get the right tires and they go about anywhere though.

Number one rule of winter driving! (and not a Jeep thing)

 

[JFrank]

Number one rule of winter driving! (and not a Jeep thing)

Yes sir ‘ I think the three peaks blizzard rating is a good place to start. I really like the Cooper AT-3 for Montana icy roads.

 

[cmysix]

You know, I’ve heard that a couple times but have never actually seen the phenomenon in person.
Similar to Bigfoot..

Look up the builder who does the show. Truck U, he’ll tell you who makes the kit, there is a lot more geometry then just shoving it up into the air

 

[209jones]

While I have a soft spot for Jeep, had a 74 hardtop Cj5 w/V8-304 for 17yrs, I don't miss it all that much. Had to turn aound and go home after about 90mi into a 500mi trip one winter, htr couldn't do the job, even with an aux htr & winterfront and belly tarp, -40F. I did a lot of work on it myself, springs, diffs, locker, rewired it, cracked frame, got tired of doing that, bought a Taco in 92. Really not a whole lot of difference in how they handled stuff off road, went thru much fo the same stuff and thru many of the same places, some the CJ did better, some the Taco did better. Stuffed a moose into the CJ one year, much easier to deal with that in the Taco, camping gear and fishing and hunting gear, dogs too. kept that Taco for 17 yrs too, newer one has 14 yrs on it now, no regrets on either one.

 

[Albany Mountain]

My Jeep pickup during winter;

 

[David Milisock]

55 years ago I worked on a regulated hunting club. The owner had an old Willys, since then I've never seen anything better in snow or mud. Don't ask about how it did on the road!

 

[Albany Mountain]

My CJ5 during winter, looking for the jeep pickup.

 

[Mulligan]

Like I said above, the CJ-5 was replaced by this FJ-40

The kids will arm wrestle over it when I tip over. Ordered an Old Man Emu suspension for it a couple of months ago, will be in the country by early spring.
Damn 1972 springs wore out!!!!who would have thunk??

CW

 

[D Coots]

My Grandpa bought this new in 1947. My Brother in Law owns it now. Back then the Oliver implement dealer sold them. He has the bill of sale with the options. One option was a belt pulley for the PTO. I remember Grandpa hooking up to the windmill when the wind didn't blow to pump water for the cattle. He raked hay with it, pulled hay wagons in, pulled the bales up into the barn with a rope with it. He had a horse mower that he mowed ditches with. He hated weeds. He had a pump sprayer with 2-4D between the seats to spray thistles, milkweed, and any other weed he hated. He used it every day on the farm...like they use the quads now. He hauled hay out in the winter for the cattle on a skid. He took me to the river fishing with the long cane poles sticking out the back. The Jeep looked a lot bigger then. It was the first vehicle I drove. I would go up into the pasture and shoot ground squirrels with his .22 and smoke the Viceroy cigarettes he kept beside the sprayer.

 

[ronsatspokane]

Circa 1975 senior year of high school helped my father rebuild a CJ5 we bought from a relative who had rolled it. 327, Holly 750, headers and glass packs exhausting just in front of the rear wheels on both sides, 3 speed tranny and two shifters for the transfer case. It ended up as my primary driver. That thing would burn all four tires down to the rims if you dropped the clutch with the front lockers turned. It was loud and I was proud driving it. I loved it.

Ended up with another CJ5 a couple years later. That thing hopped down the road like a jack rabbit. Didn't discover until the day I sold it that one of the front shock mounts was broken. I didn't know any better or care, it seemed to handle fine in those days before I knew when handling was.

Couple of years later I bought a brand new CJ7. Pimped it with a winch and other off road equipment. Was going out of town when I'd planned a ski trip with some friends, Loaned it to one of them so the trip could continue. He smashed it into a rock wall. He was fine but the insurance company rebuilt it, it should have been totaled. Went down the road sideways and tilted to one side after they "rebuilt" it.

Later my wife bought a new mid 90's Jeep Cherokee. Should have kept that. Never suspected it would become a classic. She traded that on a Jeep Liberty and later traded that for a Subaru.

I ended up with a 2011 JKU a few years later. Had what they called the "minivan" motor. That thing was gutless. I got rid of it after I'd dumped a lot of money into pimping it out with lockers front and rear, new 5-11 running gears, lift kit, 35 tires and Fuel wheels and other stuff. Should have dropped a V8 in it and kept.

Now the wife has a 2 door JL. That thing has the power plant they should have had all along. It's a hoot to drive. Takes me back to my CJ days. I think it's a keeper. Wish she would have got the black Rubicon sitting next to it but she didn't like the color so she got the dark grey sport. Oh well. It can be upgraded.

 

[jds holler]

Here was my alternative to owning a Jeep back in prolly 1979. It was a '65', with a 283 Chevy in it, and stock three speed on the floor. My best bud at the time had a CJ, so we got to compare the two a lot. The jeeps are simply lighter weight, and can sometimes climb steeper, and go over the top of soft ground that the Land Cruiser will bog down in.

We put them both through absolute hell though, and it was about a toss up who did the most wrenching. I still believe the LC was better built, and added weight was the price to pay for that.

This particular place was about 25 miles from absolute nowhere, and rescue wasn't an option. No, we weren't stuck, because cell phones hadn't been invented yet. Kinda funny how we never used to get stranded in places where these days you would make a call and wait for help. I've been stuck in a few times where we simply made camp and kept working on it for a couple days until we got-er-done. Never went anywhere without Handyman jack, shovel, axe, chains and rope, come-alongs, one or two spares -- oh yeah, beer. Lot's of beer.. jd

 

[AccelR8]

I've been stuck in a few times where we simply made camp and kept working on it for a couple days until we got-er-done.

Oh you haven't lived until you've had one get frozen into the ground!

 

[Olde Man]

In 1968 we sandbaged the floor and a couple on the hood of a borrowed Jeep. Driving flat out it was more dangerous than the enemy.

 

[Gard72977]

My jeep is makes it to the shooting range and the grocery store.

I hated putting the doors on for the Winter.

 

[bluealtered]

Half cabs were hard to come by where I lived when I had my first commando, we used to sneak into Yosemite valley the back way out of Fishcamp on highway 41. It was a old logging skid trail that went down a steep off camber trail with very tall water bars that I managed to tip my commando over on it's side three times in the first snow of the year, (it was a bragging rights thing).

I simply got the come along out and pulled it back over and went down to the valley. After three times there wasn't any more full or half cabs around so I finally figured out to not do that anymore. Those bragging rights beers got expensive.

 

[JFrank]

My jeep is makes it to the shooting range and the grocery store.

I hated putting the doors on for the Winter.

Nice Jeep.
Doesn’t look like it’s ever been off road.