TJ got raided for food out camping!

Sneaky little buggers arent they? =)

Short trip eh?

I heard about the bear siting down near Dundas (just read they shot it).

Where abouts did ya's go?

I'm still trying to find some wheeling trails (I am only stock yet) but think I'll have to venture further north (in Barrie now) to find anything....

We went Wed. night and I was running shotgun. My friend had to be back for a wedding today and I couldn't find anyone to come into the bush today or tomorrow to pick me up if I had of stayed.

We go into the bush out Bancroft way. It 'used' to be a serious challenge in 4x4 to get into the lakes I like to camp at, 4 plus hours one way from paved roads.

Now the loggers have made the roads so nice, minivans fully loaded can make it right to some lakes in less than an hour.

It has way too many 'yahoos' able to get in there now in any truck so has pretty much ruined the area.

We were camped on a lake you still need a 4x4 to get to and the yahoos with their ATV's with no mufflers were annoying us from two lakes away still! They were loud enough voices carry.

We should have had a camera with us though. We were 3 feet away from a beaver working his pond without a worry, saw lots of deer, hawks, snakes, found a beaver skull that my friend grabbed and generally had a nice couple days.

Most of the trails I run are ok for any stock 4x4 if they take it easy so if you see me post about a trip and feel like coming speak up!

Going to James Bay the end of August. All paved roads up to an hour from the Bay though and the last are nice graded gravel. A car can run this trip.

Mike

SB wrote:

Sounds like a really nice trip Mike.

How you been feeling? Things getting any better??

-jenn

We had a nice time.

I really didn't want to bitch and complain, but the TJ has to be one of the more uncomfortable vehicles I have ever driven in!

I just plain don't fit in one set up stock and I even tried driving for a while. If I have to drive in one again I will bring my seat back brace and a butt cushion. I need that brace to drive in the Cherokee still.

Basically just driving the hour and a half on dirt was/is as much as I can take at one time. Getting better, but really slowly. Pinched nerves are nasty.

I thought the TJ was supposed to have a soft cushy ride, this one was worse than my CJ7! It literally could knock fillings out and it kept trying to ring my bell off the roll bar during the bouncing, I couldn't believe it. I had to hang onto the side bar to keep my head safe.

So we got out of the woods and found the first gas station (running on fumes with the red light on, no gas stations were open Wed night late because of the holiday but we had a jerry can) and I comment about the s***ty ride now that we are out of the bush and ask what he runs for tire pressure.

'I don't know' he says, 'what ever the shop put in them'. So I get out a gauge and the gauge only reads up to 50 psi....... Hey the sidewalls 'say' 50 psi on them....

I have no idea how much was actually in those tires, but it took a 'looong' time to get them down to 30 psi. WOW!

The drive home and the dirt road detour we took to check out some land was sooo much of a smoother drive.....

Mike

jbjeep wrote:

What year TJ? They changed the seats in '02 I think...

It was a 98 and we were commenting on the seat change. I am a big boy,

Mike

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:

I'm only 6ft...but a heffer for sure! I find I can't sit directly behind the steering wheel without hanging an arm on the windowsill. Seat are comfie enough for me in my '02....but I find the rear view mirror right in the middle of my vision!

Actually, there's a quick question....what do ya gotta do to get the mirror off? I know it's screwed on to a little clip that glues on to your window...how to you remove the glued part? would love to move that thing up higher!

It has a pivot right at the glass on the arm so the sucker can move wayyy up. Some were fixed in place, not the Jeep one.

Mike

SB wrote:

yup....I crank it up...but it eventually settles back down....I'd just as soon mount it to the glass at the top metal bar there....

we'll see..

Thank God it wasn't a skunk!

Tom

Mike, this reminds me of a fishing trip I took a few years back near Eagle River, WI. We had about a dozen guys in our group and stayed at a resort on the lake we were fishing at. The resort owner warned us not to leave anything out that the raccoons might get in to. We heeded the warning and brought all of our food coolers into the cabins. We left our coolers with the minnows outside, but tucked them under the deck of the cabin. Mind you, these were large coolers (about 80 quart if I recall. The next morning our coolers had been pulled out from under the deck and most of the minnows had been half eaten. We saw raccoon tracks all around the coolers and cabins. We then went down to the boats at the docks to get ready to go fishing because we all had left bait in the boats. Well, when we got to the boats, there were coon tracks all over the boat seats and floors. They had raided the minnow buckets in the boats as well! They also opened all the nightcrawler and leech containers and ate most of them as well. We were all shocked to say the least. For the rest of the trip we brought everything inside at night. To get even with the little thieves, we took a leftover pot of very hot, spicy chili and "baited" them the last night we stayed there. We put all of our spicy and greasy food in the pans we set out, and lo and behold, the next morning everything was gone. I truly expected to see a couple coons dragging their butts along the ground from the burning sensation from the chili, but unfortunately it never happened. Coons are incredible thieves to say the least.

Chris

I've done a lot of travel with work through northern ontario (ok, central ontario!). I remember a place out near Seault Ste. Marie (closer to WA-WA I think).

It was a cabin type campground....it was a change from staying in motels all the time.

Anyhow, we were told at the front desk that if we hear a knock at the door....ask who it easy. If there's no answer...DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!

I guess they had some bears in the area and they have no problem going door to door with their AMWAY! haha Someone had opened the door once and shat themselves quite well!! I'm sure the bear got a scare (rhymes...hee hee)

I actually like the new lower seats. I sat in a friends Unlimited today and I felt like I had more headroom than in my '00 TJ. Wifey wants one now...might wait until the Rubicon version comes out, if it does. :-)

I think you can get them off with heat and a twist, but I don't know for sure. Maybe make a post asking everyone.

Mike

SB wrote:

-Brian

Seats are too low for me. They lowered the YJ seats just a bit, but really lowered them in the TJ. A friend's daughter is petite and had to have some spacers put under the driver's seat so she could see out.

I asked 3 different glass shops about getting that little mount off and all three just shook their heads and said forget it. The general idea of the conversations was that either the damned thing is gonna just fall off by itself or it's going to take a divot out of the windshield when it comes off. The most helpful guy got this silly grin on his face and told me that if the glue had setup for more that a day or two that he would bet on the latter - and don't ask how he knew that.

They did say that there were some solvents that were supposed to take that glue off but that they had never had any luck us> yup....I crank it up...but it eventually settles back down....I'd just as