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Whoa, I had no idea! Is it safe to assume you're leaning toward a JT? :crazyeyes:
As you know, wanting to go fast in the desert means something will bend and then break, so I have been driving for a few years with bent axle tubes, nothing dangerous though. I was looking at buying the new JL and then I got a phone call from Mel asking for help on the JLX. I was sold on buying the JL after day 1 on the event......but my buddy Mel kept saying “you need to wait for the JT” followed by his infectious laugh and a smile. So I knew the JT must have been really good. After that week of riding with him and hearing the first hand accounts of the stuff he helped Jeep with on the JT’s development out in AZ, I decided to wait. Then my JK’s rear ring gear broke, forcing me to do a “trail type” fix to see if I could just drive it around through the winter.
Now I need to make a decision:
1- Replace just the ring gear, with no fast driving off road, but still a super capable rock crawler, wait a bit for a JT.
2- Replace the PR60 with a PR80, meaning no JT for quite a bit longer.
3- Buy the JT, and put the JK on cinder blocks out in the front yard surrounded by tall grass, weeds, an old broken refrigerator, wine bottles and broken lawn chairs, there by single handedly driving home prices down in my neighborhood, while muttering to myself every time I pull into the driveway to my home “I should probably get the old JK working” but instead pouring myself a Mexican Mule and forgetting I own a JK and wondering what happen to that old refrigerator that i used to have in the garage.