At Last, an ARB Snorkel for Your Jeep Wrangler JK Safari
ARB USA now offers a Safari Snorkel System for the popular Jeep Wrangler JK. This new accessory serves two primary functions that JK owners will appreciate when taking their vehicle off-road. First, and most obvious, the Safari Snorkel relocates the factory air intake position approximately 28″ higher to prevent water ingestion when negotiating stream crossings. Even in relatively shallow water, the nose of the vehicle can easily become submerged as the front wheels drop into a stream or water hole and the rear wheels still on high ground.
Categories: Press Releases Tags: arb, jeep, jeep wrangler, jeep wrangler jk, jk, off road, safari, safari snorkel, snorkel, wrangler
Trip Report: Scouting the Whiskey Dick Road Management Area – 05.16.2008
Who would have thought that a Friday trip to the Whiskey Dick Road Management Area near Ellensburg, Washington would bring out more participants than most weekend trips.
Well Jerry (aka SoggyMountain) picked a wonderful day for a Backroad Drivers Northwest tour of the Whiskey Dick. Hands down, this was the warmest day of 2008 to date.
The meeting place that morning was the Bar 14 restaurant in Ellensburg. In attendance for the days trip was of course Jerry from Yakima driving his full size Jeep SJ Wagoneer; (and if I get the names wrong, please forgive and let me know to correct them) Phil and his son Travis from Newcastle, driving the white Ford Explorer; Paul from Tacoma driving the other Ford Explorer; Jim (stucky) driving the white Chevy Pickup (I forgot to ask where Jim was from); Trish and Tammy from Bothel driving a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon; John and Cindy from Monroe driving a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon; Sid from Renton driving his Jeep Wrangler, Peter and Don (I forgot to ask where they were from or if I did, I didn’t write it down) driving the Sportsmobile van; myself in my 80-series Toyota Land Cruiser; and Bill from Ellensburg who joined us for breakfast but had to supervise a fencing property today so he couldn’t join us.
Categories: Adventures Tags: 60-series, 80-series, Backroad Drivers Northwest, backroads, bohinkleman spring, bryant creek, caribou road, cayuse, chevy, colockum, colockum road, darrell f jones, desert, elk, ellensburg, fj60, fj80, ford explorer, gps, grave, gravesite, hedgehog cactus, jeep, jk, land cruiser, landcruiser, little bohinkleman creek, little brushy creek, memorial, northwest, outdoors, pacific northwest, quilomene, quilomene ridge, rollinger creek, rubicon, shrub-steppe, skookumchuck, skookumchuck ridge, sportsmobile, tj, toyota, trip, vantage highway, wagoneer, washington, whiskey dick, wild horse wind farm, wrangler
Wynoochee-Skokomish Adventure – 04.04.2008
Originally we had planned to meet in Montesano, Washington on Friday morning, however, because of a paving project on the Wynoochee Road from Montesano to Wynoochee Lake, the location of the meet up was changed to the Taylor Towne restaurant just South of Shelton.
Attending was Ray from Edgewood (driving his Toyota 4Runner), Kevin (riding with Ray), John in his Jeep YJ Wrangler, Dick (riding with John) and Randy from Shelton (riding with me in my Toyota FJ80 Land Cruiser).
Our goals for the this rainy spring day were to:
- Locate the train wreckage from the 1961 film titled “Ring of Fire”. During the filming of the movie they set an old railroad trestle and some passenger rail cars on fire and dropped them into the canyon. (See Brians site at Georgia-Pacific No. 9 and Ring of Fire Wreck Site for a great write up of the details of the movie and the wreckage site.)
- Visit the Wynoochee Dam and Lake.
- Visit the High Steel Bridge over the Skokomish River.
Categories: Adventures Tags: 4runner, adventure, fj80, jeep, land cruiser, landcruiser, skokomish, toyota, wrangler, wynoochee, yj, YJ Wrangler
ARB 4×4 Action Newsletter
I’m a little late in getting this posted. The latest ARB 4×4 Action Newsletter is available for viewing (pdf document).
Within is feature articles on new Jeep JK Wrangler rear bumper system, a sweet new portable air compressor, 10 Essentials of Outback Travel and of course, things for vehicles we can’t get in the United States.
Download HERE
Categories: On The Web Tags: 4x4, arb, compressor, essentials, jeep jk, outback, travel, wrangler
Mopar Dana 60 Soon Available for Jeep JK Wrangler
Four Wheeler magazine announced that Mopar will be releasing a bolt-in Dana 60 replacement axle for the new Jeep JK Wranglers. This upgrade will be very similar to the Jeep J8 export-only diesel powered JK (see Military Version of Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and will larger truck brakes. No price for the axle upgrade has been announced.
Read more at Mopar Performance Jeep Wrangler JK Dana 60.
Categories: On The Web Tags: aftermarket, axles, jeep, jk, mopar, wrangler
ARB Rock Sliders Now Available for the new Jeep JK 2 Door and 4 Door Wrangler
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARB Rock Sliders Now Available For the new Jeep JK 2 Door and 4 Door Wrangler
Seattle, WA November 26, 2007. ARB 4×4 Accessories, Australian based four-wheel parts
manufacturer, is proud to announce another great product for the newly released Jeep
Wrangler JK. ARB is world renown for engineering and manufacturing near indestructible body
protection equipment for a wide variety of vehicles around the world, and the new ARB JK
Wrangler Rock Sliders are no exception.
Read more…
Categories: Press Releases Tags: arb, jeep, wrangler
Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007: Intro
For the past year, I've had the desire to map out and drive an overland route through the Cascade Mountains of Washington state from the Columbia River near Oregon all the way to northern border with British Columbia.
Categories: Adventures Tags: 4wd, 4x4, 80-series, adventure, border, british columbia, carson, cascade mountains, cascades, chelan, chopaka, cle elum, columbia river, expedition, fj80, forest, four wheel drive, jeep, land cruiser, landcruiser, mt adams, oregon, overland, packwood, road, tour, toyota, washington, washington cascades, wrangler, yj
