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| The LANDSHARKS were founded in early 2002 by eager (bored?) local offroad enthusiasts. We plan to grow in number as the word spreads through the area and look forward to accepting those new members. The interest is out there, but for some reason we've just never united as a group to share our hobby. So, here we go! We will remain, first and foremost, a club. A club that just happens to gather in huge strips of mud and rough terrain in the middle of freaking nowhere. We are not limited to just 4-wheel drive vehicles, or any vehicle for that matter. No 4x4? So what! We have no limits on who or what joins (sheep are the exception. Attracts rednecks). Membership is attained by a simple vote of exsisting captains. Hey, just because you drive an annoyingly loud import with engineeringly incorrect protruding dubs doesn't mean you are beyond hope. I, myself, will gladly accept requests for rides. You've been warned though!! [editor's trail-prayer: Please give me the strength to die honorably, unlike my screaming passengers] I can hear some of you out there whinning, "But I have too much $$$ in my rig to go and actually USE it". The point is to NOT trash your ride, and we know this dude. Through our meetings, events, and general camp-fire discussions, we will be edgamakated in the art of "wheeling" as a whole...and save you're paint. We also hope to spark the interest in the female breed of LANDSHARKS. So, don't think that just because you're not a smelly baboon-boy that you wouldn't enjoy a tromp in the outback. It's a great time for you and your (insert relationship here) to do something together and have a good time. That's what this is all about anyway. Oh, and you can keep an eye on us and just maybe believe it when we say that, "we were just out with the guys". As of this posting, we have very limited rules for the active participants of the trail-rides (i.e. never wheel alone, no spontaneous field romps, no redneck "calvin pissing/nascar" stickers visible on rig, etc...) The group as a unit will support the members by providing the neccasary equipment such as recovery straps, jacks, spares, parts, and so on in the motivation to keep it fun, yet CHEAP. More details are in the membership package (still in the works). |
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| For not being able to produce the most popular suspension system on the planet, For leading people to believe they can, and for general shittyness. The early GM IFS trucks shouldn't be ignored! They only want to sell to pretty boy preps now days. Any company that lies to me and my friends for over 2 years straight gets on the shit-list |
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| My new bestest buddies in the suspension world. Skyjacker...Is there any other lift for Jeeps!? They're also on my A-list for being the first for a real lift kit for the KJ. Don't do poly spacers, that's so ghetto. I have their coil over kit, and will show you this awesome lift-kit on the KJ page! Go check it out... (P/N LIB250K) |
| Dudes and Dudettes, Sorry, but I just don't have the time to do updates like I did 3 years ago when I started this thing. I still have the Liberty and still tinker with it. I just passed 110K miles, and about to shoe on my 3rd set of tires...and that's about it. It's still a great vehicle for commutes, work, and for wheeling around and making wrangler drivers blush...but I just can't thrash it like I used to if I wanna keep it running as a daily driver. Huh? Ya...I'm tired for breaking it. It's not weak, I'm just rough on everything I touch. I don't buy stuff for looks, I want it to function...and I drive things like I think they were designed for. I'm into the CJ-7 build, and between it and my motorcycles I just can't dedicate the energy to go wild on the KJ. Anyway, the only issues I have to really bitch about are the plastic fender flares, the original front-end components, and the idiots out here that can't align a modified vehicles (Great Valley Dodge are GREAT with this KJ though). -I made tube fenders for the CJ, and I simply can't make any that look good on the KJ. I just get nuts out there and end up ripping them off with a rock or something. They're held in by plastic rivits, and the entire front facia is attached to each other...no real mounts to the body. So, to get the flare right, you need to also make a steel bumper (done) and find an attachment point for the grill. Anyway, just lift it a couple inches and don't go over 31" tires and they'll stay on...if you're not me. -2002's and possibly other years had a recall on the ball joints. I was on the way to get mine done about 6 months later, and lost them. That's bad. I lost the entire front end on the on-ramp. It would have been deadly if I was actually going 65mph down the road. Took it in and even with the lift and tires, the dealer covered all damages and put in some beefy joints. Damages were: lower A-arms, halfshafts, fender flares, front IFS diff casing, and the skidplate. If you have the early models, get the recall work done! -Go to a shop or dealer that does modified vehicles and has a good reputation at doing so. Every tire shop I've had it aligned at goes strictly by the OEM recommendations in the computer. They won't even deviate from this if you tell them the correct settings. If you no longer have the 215's on there, then it's off by a long ways and just chews up the tires quickly. Oh, while you're there Sipe your tires! |