Cheap shit is not strong shit, there’s a reason good springs cost more and they will be taking a pounding - if you fit overly stiff HD suspension to your overlander you’ll just crack the chassis or suspension mounts or something else that’s far harder to fix than a slightly saggy spring.

Because if there’s one thing the average driver is much better at doing it’s patching a tire compared as opposed to changing one out.

Not to defend Tesla and Musk, but MANY new car’s don’t come with a traditional spare anymore, instead they had a patch kit and air pump.

I’ve said it before in the comments of another article and I’ll say it again here: Tesla’s shenanigans are going to eventually affect the resale value of its vehicles. Consumers are going to wise up to the growing list of mid-year tweaks, and realize that you have to know the build date of the car to know if you’re…

I don’t anticipate any drivetrain/powertrain issues, and I’ll do my best to mitigate any cooling system/electrical faults.

In this wide world you can be days from a tire store.

I would like to share some wisdom with you, which I feel at this rate you will likely discover for yourself:

A Torchlopnik article AND a David Tracy biting off more than he can chew wrenching article in the same day? Truly we are blessed by the blogger gods.

Just one point, from one world traveler to an aspiring one. If you make this vehicle out of a Jeep, you will have to get your parts sent from home. And you will need parts - the World is rough, and Jeeps are poorly engineered/manufactured. So budget plenty of time waiting around in dusty little towns for the parts to…

Might wanna rethunk that.

I cook and enjoy eating Cream of Whatever-based casseroles and crockpot dishes, despite the scorn heaped upon them by modern fancypants food knowers. I grew up in the 1970s and ‘80s and my mother’s people are from the Midwest; the casserole is my culinary heritage. If you don’t like that, it’s okay, you’re not invited…

I like how I was scrolling through the home page and even before I could see the byline, I knew it was a Tracy article.

Wouldn’t be wiser to put $$ into the Lexus?

David’s rusty Jeep repair sagas, which were once entertaining, have become tiresome. All the details run together to make each new story sound like the last one. Time for some fresh story subjects. Man does not live by Jeepness alone.

“These parts weren’t cheap. The clutch kit was $125 and the new flywheel was about $90.”

The good news is that Jeep parts can be banged together and made to work just about anywhere in the world, and if there is a man alive more qualified to bang together old jeep parts to make something function...I haven’t met him.

“Unfortunately, it turns out, building what is going to have to be an incredibly reliable machine out of two vehicles on death’s door is much harder than I anticipated.”

This article is peak David Tracy.

Yeah. By gosh, why are they going to a company that makes overalls?

Julie Kenar, GfK’s senior vice president of mobility consulting, said the difference is most likely due to the high number of auto workers living in the Midwest.