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table of contents 32 july 2009 70 cover section don t get affordable winch review 32 big pull little dollars top five fixins 42 the trail repairs you need to know yank strap winch 46 recovery stuff simplified casualties of war 52 damage avoidance arm yourself 70 trail tools and you stuck departments 42 trail head 6 mailbag 8 dispatch 12 jeep shots 86 new products 90 your jeep 94 dr vern 101 randy s electrical corner 102 marketplace 104 14 sideways 1 features nearly cancelled 18 wrangler rubicon the jeep that shouldn t have made it through the system 2011 grand cherokee 44 fourth-generation warfare jeep game 78 shorthand and hipster-speak tech off-road ready camera 62 we beat the olympus tough-8000 recycled 64 part ii making our trail truck more useful capable and reliable charge 68 easy at-home nitrogen for coilover shocks project j2008 74 part x so close yet so far off-highway why 76 -j part ii tying up the loose ends jeepster resurrection 80 ending a 5-year hibernation 64 76 on the cover bob leland went to work teaching his 04 wrangler rubicon to sit up and beg while associate editor pete trasborg nabbed the training session in pixel form 18 events hillclimbing muck and mayhem 26 jeeptoberfest strum wisconsin badlands 58 all-around wheeling july 2009 www.jpmagazine.com 58 jp 3 www.fantamag.com www.storemags.com

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trail head for years i ve wondered how the jeeps and trucks i drive received such poor crash ratings from the insurance institute for highway safety iihs i mean how is it even possible for a 5,000-pound ½-ton fullsize truck with a real frame and factory 33-inch tires to get a lower crash rating than a 1,800-pound tin can on 22-inch shopping cart wheels that s like telling me a .22 caliber pea shooter has more punch than a .50 caliber rifle then it dawned on me that the people performing the test must have no clue what they are doing they ve thrown reality simple physics and newton s laws of motion right out the window even a 5-year-old who is somewhat proficient at rock-paper-scissors can tell you that a larger stone will make a bigger splash than a small pebble when thrown in a pond but what s worse is that average america has no idea what this institution is feeding them ultimately i don t care how many seat belts or airbags you have in a smart car if it gets crushed by a ½-ton truck or even a wrangler it s not gonna be a pretty sight i m really not sure how the iihs comes up with the parameters for the test do testers hit the vehicle with a similar mass if that s the case it s even more unrealistic statistically a pickup truck is safer for many reasons in most states the roads are filled with small and mid-sized cars there are simply fewer large pickup trucks on the road than cars so regardless of what you are driving you are less likely to be hit by a pickup truck than hit with a car and if you are the one in the larger truck it would seem to me that you would be safer since the probability of being hit by a smaller lighter car is greater than that of being hit by another pickup of equal weight not to mention the bumpers of most small cars barely come up to the rocker guard on my ½-ton truck or jeep i don t know about you but that fact alone seems a heck of a lot safer to me than getting hit in the mid or upper-door as would be the case with a car-on-car or truck-on-car collision however if you ve seen the equipment used for these crash scenarios you quickly realize it s nothing like what you would typically encounter in reality on a wrangler for example the impact equipment has a panel bumper that extends from the ground to the just under the side window they say it s modeled like a ford pickup frontend anyway that s nearly 4 feet off the ground the bumper and hood of a typical car that might hit you comes in at about half that height interestingly the somewhat-vague good acceptable marginal and poor iihs crash test ratings fail to elaborate on the g forces felt inside of the vehicle when it gets hit a small lighter car can easily get knocked around like a pinball which creates g-forces that can break bones or even kill occupants a large heavy truck is less likely to get knocked around by a smaller vehicle so the forces felt inside are significantly less dangerous as long as we re tossing physics out the window i have a request i will personally volunteer for crash dummy testing to set the record straight let s seat-belt the iihs testers into a herd of smart cars or any newer iihs-recommended small car stuffed to the gills with every optional air bag and safety wing-ding and then i ll ram them at 50-mph in a 13,000-pound military truck with no safety equipment to speak of except for a 1960s-era lap belt we ll see who walks away john cappa www.jpmagazine.com editorial editor managing editor technical editor associate editor senior web producer web producer john cappa steve kedrowski christian hazel pete trasborg edward a sanchez jason gonderman art direction and design alan huber greg smith mark snyder the truck group on the web www.jpmagazine.com www.fourwheeler.com www.4wheeloffroad.com www.4wdandsportutility.com www.dieselpowermag.com www.minitruckinweb.com www.off-roadweb.com www.sporttruck.com www.truckinweb.com advertising information please call the jp magazine advertising department at 323/7822649 related 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mailbag by john cappa i don t need your magazine and i hope to use the internet to stir things up on that article as well your credibility is shot you re lucky i am not in charge of jp magazine if i had an editor that pulled a stunt like that he would be jobless i can tell you this for certain you did not gain any readers with that stunt and most likely you lost some you are a failure as an editor and a comedian it s not funny i realize the april fool s part of it all if i wanted an april fool s joke i would talk to my 9-year-old goodbye scott brandon monument colorado you got me a very cruel trick gentlemen cruel indeed justin honan wilson north carolina sucker i ve been a subscriber for quite a few years and i love your magazine i received the april 09 issue and sat down in the library to dive into it the first thing that caught my eye was the blurb on the cover about jeep being bought by international on page 64 after reading the details i left the library and called a couple of buddies to share the news we were all pretty psyched at the time but suddenly it dawned on me that it was the april issue i fell for the story about bolt-on portal axles a couple of years ago so what gives can i believe any news in the april issue did you guys sucker me again eric dahlman savanna illinois april fooled yesterday my wife yup she s a jeep chick brought in the mail and was flipping through the new issue of jp excitedly she started reading aloud the article on international buying jeep a rubicon grand cherokee 4.5l diesels allison transmissions the return of the solid axle it sounded too good to be true then i noticed the issue date at the bottom of the page april yup you got us nice job that was very mean but well done john jack walogorsky strafford new hampshire fished in my new jp mag showed up in the mail and my wife who was locked out of the house waiting for me long story for another time was reading it when i got home she told me all about how jeep and international were finally going to be a match made in heaven her words not mine i immediately flipped to the page and read in awe the unbelievable story about all the vehicles being taken off-line good riddance and the rubicon package being offered on everything else i even wrote my brother-in-law an international die-hard to tell him about the breaking news fast forward 2 hours when i decided to read a few different articles low and behold right there in the article about what prognosticators you guys are was the clue i was missing it suddenly came on like the proverbial light bulb the whole article was the annual reader bitch slap oh i was so worked up i couldn t believe i fell for it this year last year s article was easy to spot why i fell so hook line and sinker for this one i don t know but kudos to you all you really got me keep up the good work maybe someday this article will too come true in the mean time i will keep devouring your every article and enjoying how you constantly pick on us readers shane white via e-mail xj cover conspiracy if my memory serves me right i don t recall ever seeing an xj adorn the cover of jp magazine since i ve been a subscriber way back in 1997 back then mr sandals himself rick pewe was at the helm remember him anyhoo it s nice to see you show us xj guys some love and give us a cover shot i got my jeep back in 1996 a new xj it s still running strong with 95,000 miles on the clock and the 4.0l runs strong as ever still bothers me that jeep scraped this workhorse the magazine is going strong as ever with great content even with petey t and you gotta love tori s puzzles too josh jacobson perkasie pennsylvania at first i thought you were nuts so i looked into it and checked the back issues all the way to the beginning spring of 96 and ya know what you re right that is the first cherokee xj to ever grace the cover good catch pissed off labor i recently read international buys jeep in the april 09 issue i have now heard that you guys did this as somewhat of an april fool s joke if that is the case that is ridiculous it is tough enough to have and keep a job in this economy and for the people who actually work for the dodge jeep and chrysler family such as me i did not find it amusing i will tell people to never subscribe to your magazine based on your little practical joke good luck trying to get people to read your magazine if this is how you treat readers rc junior via e-mail panties in a bunch i threw away over 40 copies of jp magazine from many years of collection i have collected four wheeler and 4-wheel off-road since 1988 and i have every issue i had started your collection years ago i don t find that kind of journalism funny international buys jeep april 09 i look to your magazine as a source of reliable information something you have now ruined that may have been funny when times were good but chrysler is on the brink of failure and your timing is poor perhaps you should browse the internet you pissed off a lot of people there are a lot of us die-hard jeep fans reading jp magazine that feel like you are a reliable source of information only to find out you play tricks on your readers gotcha i should have known after getting home from work i sat down in my easy chair to rest my weary feet and as gazed upon my new issue of jp fresh from the mailbox i read on the cover jeep brand sold to international intrigued i tuned to page 64 and then back to 62 to find what in my opinion is the cruelest april fool s joke to have ever been played on me i was so excited as i read the article diesel jeep wrangler no f-ing way dump the compass patriot and return the cherokee holy crap a carry-all this is the best thing i have ever read in my life eh wait what month is this issue april of course phony spotter your april fool s joke this year was recognized immediately and it was not funny jeremy adams via jpmagazine.com more fooling just dropping a line if the jeep being sold to international is an april fool s joke then it is in more than bad taste and that person should be fired instantly along with the editor that let it go through given the times we are in and the fact that people s lives are being affected everyday in these instances do you realize the anxiety you probably caused countless 8 jp www.jpmagazine.com july 2009 www.fantamag.com www.storemags.com

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mailbag people just plain bad taste bad judgment and wrong i love a good joke but use your heads please if it is true then kudos to breaking a very good story and possibly giving hope to those people russell parker colorado rgest you g g the la ble staff includin wledgea and kno shipping ry invento a huge with our fast as m ywhere pinion h ring etroit traction prodouuctsean when you need the ed dy s n ran n of d arts y et the p selectio the next anism is ing mech llation reliability lock magnetic ease of insta s l s electro nce ifferentia tial technology it sistent performa kertm d ton eloc rmarket differen smooth and con the ea ce n of afte delivers sale pri generatio utton activation call push-b and call odge n scriptio newer solid axle d call part de 3 0 e call ifs 0 splin gm 9.25 lt 8.5 8.6 3 o call s gm 10 b emi float c-clip expedition s ice ow call gm 9.5 f150 explorer or rear t pro l st call ford 8.8 ranger fron 30spl i call ford 8.8 3.73 down pl too l call dana 44 3.92 up 30s 30spl t call dana 44 4.10 down l call dana 60 4.56 up 30sp pl s dana 60 0 down 35 ks 4.1 and truc rs dana 60 6 up 35spl ance ca 4.5 r perform dana 60 aton part s fo r 55 e stock ove believer just read international buys jeep april 09 i am so excited for more info on this i have an 08 rubicon unlimited and my wife has a 01 tj renegade after reading this article i need a cherokee rubicon will you have more info soon such as when can i order one i can t believe a great company like international has bought jeep this is the best news of the year please keep your loyal readers up to date on any info keep up the great work p.s hey trasborg happy april fool s jackass j maclean fort st john b.c canada poor tasting very poor taste when it comes to your april edition about jeep how low can you go an april fool s joke when so many are so worried about keeping their jobs name withheld via e-mail we vern married and on fiber tain ture carb ain -tempera tructible discs m high patented e virtually indes of the vehicle e from fe s are mad ear coating the ration over the li tches ce aton clu a carbon anti-w ooth quiet ope e sale pri l in sm cal wrapped city ­ to provide call their lubri s n call ce ow call scriptio all ratios ri part de ll ratios uck olt tr -10 apol st call gm 12 b olt 7.5 82-05 s 8 up li gm 10 b lt 8.2 64-71 3.0 n 2.73 up to call to o gm 10 b 8.5 72-05 1/2 -clip to call 10 bolt semi float c atio gm call olt 9.5 t all r ll ratios gm 14 b olt 10.5 full floa expedition a call ratios m 14 b f150 explorer s g call crew all o ford 8.8 ranger all rati edition f150 si all ratios call o ford 8.8 97 newer exp f250 f350 p 5 5 trucks ford 9.7 10.5 83-0 os 30spl pos 5 cars and ati ford 10.2 nt or rear all r for performance fro s dana 60 r 55 eaton part ove e stock w i can believe bolt-on portal boxes and biodegradable jeeps however dr vern getting married come on where would he find someone to do that please don t make the april fool s joke so obvious by the way thanks for the heads-up on the new international diesel liberty i can t wait shazzam bill adelmann apple valley ca still pissed i just read international buys jeep april 09 i learned that this is a hoax i am a subscriber but no longer this is not funny and makes me sick die-hard jeep fans will not appreciate reading that getting excited only to find out it s a hoax i am done with you this pissed me off not funny no class and from the owner of an 08 jk rubicon i will never read you again name withheld via e-mail 9-1456 4 -877-3 1 ations c 0 a.m ­ m-f 5:0 e shipping loc re now th ree all toll-f g info c orderin or ee ical help time tenness gton e techn pacific fornia washin for fre li :30 p.m a 5 lifetime subscription in this month s issue april 09 the cover said the international buys jeep story was on page 64 was that your april fool s joke to hide it on page 62 it all sounds great from a technical development side but how will they market it where s the distribution network maybe it will just be ebay anyway i knew about the floating jeep but i never knew they had wings i just thought you d enjoy this vintage jeep poster it s hanging in the brewster general store in brewster massachusetts cape cod it s about 10 feet up so the .com gpinion www.rin 10 jp m23-02-06co2 www.jpmagazine.com july 2009 www.fantamag.com www.storemags.com

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for free hopefully you have good insurance though it ll have to cover any accidental damage incurred to nearby buildings and vehicles jens bring your liberty by we can see if it fits in the cat grapple and drag it around ahh oh well for now the next best thing to a logging skidder is a non-liberty jeep hot new products for your jk wrangler new cargo liners protect the back of your 4 door jk wrangler from water snow and mud with these mopar approved cargo liners angle is a little funny the text is encouraging children to collect money to buy jeeps for our troops today the liberal wacko teachers train our kids to criticize them keep up the great work seriously did your publishing group ever consider offering a lifetime subscription to jp for a one-time price north american fisherman is doing that you should too john taormina via e-mail here s two more i need to complain the january 09 issue of jp had three separate snide comments about the jeep liberty i own an 03 liberty i am certain other subscribers have the liberty as well no they will never have the off-road capacities of a rubicon but as all-around daily drivers and for off-road use they are the best in their cute ute class a liberty is able to handle about 90-percent of all off-road trails my liberty has the selectrac option which gives it a full-time fourwheel-drive mode which is fantastic for daily winter driving where the pavement continually goes from snow and ice to dry i have subscribed to your magazine because i hope to get a rubicon in the future and enjoy seeing modifications and what is available from the aftermarket as an aside if anyone from chrysler jeep reads this if no diesel is available any jeep i buy will have to be flex fuel you and the readers that don t like the liberty should remember the old adage about there is always someone richer and thinner than you to spell it out the most expensive and modified off-roadonly jeep you can show will not outperform a common log skidder even with the log skidder towing a couple tons of logs behind it the off-road community should be united in enjoying the outdoors not putting down what another reader drives jens jensen windsor vermont yeah i wish i could have a logging skid that would be great maybe if i move deep in the woods i could have one how cool would it be to pull up to the local 7-eleven in a caterpillar 545c if anyone can get me behind the wheel of one or any logging skidder i d gladly operate it after reading several jp magazines from store shelves i opted for the digital version from zinio.com as with my other digital magazines i store them to my external hard drive and thus have an extensive library that doesn t take up any time and instant reading material for the road i do however sympathize with those wanting to discover the world of wheeling in the real reading room to solve this issue i just print off the articles that i want to really savor and take them in to the library at least this way you get to choose the style and durability of your washing requirements great magazine at an exceptional savings in digital form keep up the great work terry jackson vancouver canada jp digital #297501rr 4 door wrangler grille appliqués available in black and chrome to give your wrangler that distinctive look easy click-in installation over-the-road subscription just wanted to say that i love my monthly jp download from zinio.com my wife and i are over-the-road truckers and i sometimes have a hard time finding jp in a timely manner not being one to wait i was thrilled to find out that i could have it delivered to my e-mail inbox for half the price of the paper edition thanks for all the great articles and especially for the humor steve richardson somewhere in america #130620rr chrome #130630rr black door handle guards accent kits chrome accent kit write us got a question or comment about jp magazine or the village idiots at the helm drop us a line don t forget to include your full name and where you re from 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dispatch by tori tellem jeep news rumors ·is the electric wrangler a · · · · · go obama is big on electric vehicles so if chrysler s plans get approved and chrysler survives we could be looking at one in 2014 yes grand fans there could be a hybrid-electric of that in 2013 who knows patriot ev fans rocky mountain editions of the patriot liberty and grand are now available among the features shared will be 17-inch wheels power sunroof uconnect 30-gig stereo and freakish amounts of badging the grand laredo and patriot and liberty sport models got the treatment pricing is patriot $19,765 liberty $25,355 and grand $32,825 there was a rocky mountain wrangler in 2005 while gm has been restructuring the whereabouts of its highperformance division s employees chrysler is rumored to be leaving the srt as is a new roof-strength rating system has been created by the insurance institute for highway safety and 12 small suvs were the first to be subjected to it including the patriot iihs says for this test a metal plate is pushed against one side of the roof at a constant speed and if the roof can withstand a force four times the vehicle s weight before reaching 5 inches of crush it scores good jp translation you still have your head intact to be deemed acceptable still recognizable mostly as your head there s a minimum required strength-to-weight ratio of 3.25 while marginal people think they remember your head from high school or somewhere is 2.5 below that equals poor witnessprotection head so how d the patriot do head intact there were two poors in case you re · curious kia sportage and hyundai tucson americans still buying safe familiar cars was the title of the forbes.com article and the wrangler got a shout-out a gain in jeep wrangler sales over the last year a surprising 28.2 percent given chrysler s collapse is also due to the strength of the jeep brand quote without story this must be confusing to consumers today if our competitors will only agree we pledge to bring clarity to this `wear war by making public the scientific data that illustrates for consumers the actual wear result earned by each brand s chosen full synthetic motor oil a proposal by quaker state to mobil 1 valvoline and castrol 12 jp www.jpmagazine.com july 2009 www.fantamag.com www.storemags.com

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dispatch ·the liquidation of crane cams assets has begun ·according to ctv toronto · · · chrysler may not be able to continue operating in canada without a bailout from ottawa a study by a.t kearney is predicting that more than half of the country s tier 1 auto suppliers could file for bankruptcy in 2009 poison spyder customs has new owners larry and cheri mcrae former owners clifton and aj slay will launch american rock rods and still offer spyderlock beadlock wheels united four wheel drive associations ufwda.org has created the million voices campaign to drive new club membership with discounted rates through june 30 industry news ·june 1-11 tread lightly will hold · · its second-annual charity auction on ebay and there will be more than 175 products up for grabs including stuff from bfgoodrich skyjacker hi-lift and zone offroad products a custom 07 wrangler built by bds suspension will also be available for bidding sounds like the duramax 4.5l v-8 diesel for gm s light-duty trucks is a done deal as in done not gonna happen bought a ford/mercury/lincoln but then got canned the automaker that did not receive bailout cash will cover monthly payments up to $700 for a year it runs until june 1 gm and hyundai have offered similar so-you-lost ·speaking of lost jobs gm s rick wagoner has said on [friday march 27 i was in washington for a meeting with [obama administration officials in the course of that meeting they requested that i `step aside as ceo of gm and so i have your-job-don t-panic programs banned black vehicles in california if you follow the twitter/blog/old-mediasphere then you know the world went nutso when it heard that california was going to ban black as a color option on new vehicles it seems that in 2006 the california global warming solutions act came into play featuring the state s ideas for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 something called cool paints came into play with a target date of january 1 2010 the air resources board told inventors to go make specifically make paint colors that could reflect heat from the sun thereby keeping a vehicle s interior cool and reducing air-conditioning use and that turned into california is banning black paint scream and loot arb s response this is laughable and this program was never at any point intended to limit consumer color choices or ban any colors for cars july 2009 new fuel-economy standards obama edition yup it s already time to mess with the 2010 fuel-economy standards that george dubya established new ones for 11-model cars and light trucks have been mandated by the new guy in office these equate to a combined average of 30.2 miles per gallon for cars 24.1 for trucks which is a bump of 2 mpg over 10 models to keep everyone on their toes the government will mandate that this round of standards be based on models dependent on their size so for example chrysler light trucks will have to get 24.2 mpg while ford s at 23.6 and gm is 23.3 14 jp www.jpmagazine.com www.fantamag.com www.storemags.com

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look for the made in usa badge on edelbrock products all edelbrock carbs are manufactured in the usa for unsurpassed quality performer series #1406 america s #1 carburetor for over 20 years 5 reasons for selecting america s favorite carburetor bolt-on and run out of the box smooth and consistent throttle response dependable two-piece design for a leak free operation and no power valves to blow-out or replace value priced ­ starting at $299.95 made in the usa edelbrock performer and thunder series avs carburetors are undeniably the best carburetors on the market today and are available in 500 to 800 cfm models with manual and electric choke right out of the box edelbrock carbs deliver dependable performance and smooth throttle response across the power band performer series carbs have been the #1 street performance carb for over two decades unlike other brands the gaskets are located above fuel level for a leak-free operation performer series carbs are reliable and easy to tune for trouble free operation made in usa thunder series avs carbs feature all of the benefits of our performer series plus more thunder series avs carbs have adjustable valve secondaries for limitless adjustability of the secondary circuit changes can be made in seconds with simple hand tools and no extra parts to suit your application thunder series avs carbs are the best calibrated carbs for optimum performance made in usa make a great carburetor even better with our long lasting show quality endurashine finish this unique finish offers the brilliance of chrome but with easy maintenance at a reasonable price and is available on select performer series and thunder series avs carburetors when it comes time to install all edelbrock carbs include a free installation and tuning dvd plus we have a complete tech department staff ready to assist you if needed signature series accessories these accessories are stamped from 18-gauge steel and are available in chrome or a textured black powder coated finish they are value priced for an affordable new look that s easy on your wallet go to edelbrock.com for these products videos and more get free catalogs 800-701-7957 toll-free tech info 800-416-8628 7am-5pm pst m-f © 2009 edelbrock corporation some parts not legal for sale or use on pollution controlled motor vehicles total power package ® www.fantamag.com www.storemags.com

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