Well, my commuter car, an 05 Dodge Neon, is no longer in my possession. It was hit by a hail storm about a month ago, and the insurance company has decided to total it.

Some useful information i ran across while looking for ways to identify a 4.0L for DIYJ.

The casting number is cast into the head, and found on the drivers side.

The year ranges follow:

Year............Casting No
1987-90......53005535 (8933002665)     2686
1991-95......53008405                  7120
1996-98......53020569                  0630
1999-04......53010449                  0331

As anyone who bothers to read this site has probably noticed... I've been MIA for months.  Considering that my last post was about our daughter being born, maybe I have a good excuse. 

Some news! On Friday, August 13th, my wife delivered our baby girl! Please welcome Kiera Anne into this big world!

The full story here.

So this past weekend at Rausch Creek, Scott and I had a conversation...

Scott and I both drive our Jeep's to the trail, wheel, and drive them home. Scott still drives his daily. I would if I didn't have this nice fuel efficient commuter car. We're sitting at camp, looking around the parking lot, and we see all these tube chassis, far from legal buggies and then our inspectable, streetable, YJ's. Scott's explanation, in his usual comical form, "We old school!".

I've typed up a short report for this weekend's trip. It can be found here.

Excellent weekend! Had a blast. I'll be posting pictures and videos shortly.

We had a decent turn out, no major carnage, and lots of fun!

For the past 5 years or so, my parking brake has been dis-functional. Due to rear brake adjustment, and stretched cables.

When I did the SOA, i replaced all of the cables, well, all except the main cable running from the pedal to the T junction for the rear wheels. My rocker guard was in the way for that one, i'll re-visit that one later.

It's that time of year again. The Jeepaholics are planning their 9th Jeepaholics Anonymous Other Coasters Makeshift Jamboree.

Every year we get together, to have a good old disorganized time. Before they closed, we'd been hitting Paragon Adventure Park every year. After they closed we started going to Rausch Creek.

Welcome to the new SWBCrawler.com!

Bear with me as I work out a less generic theme, otherwise, all of the old tech, trips, trails, and photo galleries should be available via the menu.