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| Dave Laws' 1988 YJ Wrangler Sahara | Short Cuts | ||||
Matt and Randy cheesing for the camera, Helldorado - Moab, Utah |
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| Owner : Dave Laws | Equipment and Modifications: | ||||||||
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Vehicle:1988 Jeep Wrangler Sahara
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Other Accessories Full roll cage, home built Full spare front hub and rotor parts on spare tire carrier Rubicon rack Complete Rhino lined interior Hand throttle heavy duty gas tank skid plate Warn premium hubs Home built custom axle trusses Midland CB Sony CD Thor sound wedge speakers Mitsubishi Montero bucket seats with ride control Tuffy center console Link-Arc under hood welder Home built on board air system Xenon fender flares Wet Okole seat covers Tow shackles and tow bar K&N filtercharger Custom tool box under rear seat **Note, all customizing done by owner and Rocky Mountain High 4x4 |
Notes from Dave
One day on the way to L.A. for a tradeshow I had forgotten a book for reading. I stopped at the airport kiosk and picked up a magazine. Fate dictated that it was a 4x4 magazine and I proceeded to read it cover to cover. Uh-oh, I was hooked, big time. My wife calls it a chronic disease. It's very expensive, incurable, rapidly progressing and mostly terminal, and I love every minute of it. I had no sooner landed back home when I started looking to buy a Jeep.
I had barely gotten the Jeep (bone stock) when my boys and I took it to Hole in the Rock, and then on to Golden Spike in Moab. I guess I was just too dumb and naïve to know that I shouldn't be there in an open diffed, unlifted, stock Wrangler. But hey, we made it and we had a ball.
After that the wish list started and hasn't gotten one bit smaller despite all the money and time poured into it. To start with I purchased a spring over kit from Rubicon Express and gears from Randy's. The lift I could handle but the gear change was beyond me. On a whim I stopped at a new 4x4 shop near my home and somehow managed to convince the owner to do some trade work. He would install my gears and I would do some custom machine work for his Project Ramcharger.
Fate must like me. Four years and dozens of custom extreme suspensioned rigs later, Matt Hornback at Rocky Mountain High 4x4 and I are still swapping my engineering time for shop access, labor and parts. I couldn't have done this without him. It has proved to be a good relationship as he is now my spotter for ARCA events (rig 114) and co-planner/sponsor for other trail runs and events.
Dave
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| Having fun on obstacle 1 Course A Cedar City, ARCA |
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