OK Fellas I'm kinda new to this Jeep stuff, I've had my TJ (X) just over a year & it's running stock wheels & tires Goodyear, Wranglers GS-A's. The only thing I've done to it so far is install a Wilderness rack from Garvin. I've been wanting to replace the stock bumpers with something a little more substantial but I have that old Italian disease (Myfunds-r-low) Anyway on the way home from work yesterday I ran over some junk in the road, (turned out to be a busted up headboard that musta fell offa someone's truck) And somehow it blew a 2 inch hole in the sidewall of my rear tire. Luckily I was only doing about 35 mph cause it went flat right now. The weirdest thing was as soon as I pulled to the side of the road 2 guys form nowhere were at my door & were in the process of helping me change to tire & it's good luck because it wasn't till then that I even thought about the POS bottle jack that comes with the Jeep. One of the good Samaritans had a rollaround hydro jack in his car that I used. It really got me thinking I need to get a real jack for this thing. Now don't slap me in the back of the head but will the stock bumpers hold up to the Hi-Lift jack? They seem kinda cheesy. I've got the rack to bolt it to. Now it looks like I'm going to spend a good part of my Xmas Eve looking for a good price on a new tire.
TIA - George