Well, after spending the morning taxiing my wife and daughter around town, I finally got the oil changed at Southtown, and then picked up a small torx bolt to replace a missing one on my soft top – couldn’t believe that Sherwood Park Chrysler had to have almost $8.00 for a little bolt! (Southtown quoted me $5.80 but didn’t have any). One other observation, the people working the parts department were FAR freindlier at Southtown than Sherwood Park. Next time I’ll stick with Southtown – even if I have to wait a day or two for the parts.
Anyway – I was then trying to find a pair of motorcycle mirrors, cuz I wanted to pull my doors off the Jeep, and then make my way to the Show & Shine with my wife and son. There were a lot of great looking Jeeps there – and I had a chance to see up close what some of the other guys were doing for mirrors.
Darren took some great photos of the day – including some blind run and ramp shots. Check them out below!
I took a couple shots myself – I’ll add them here later tonight!
Just returned from a week down in the Canal Flats area of the Kootenays – primary purpose was for fishing – and secondary purpose was to get a little wheeling in!
Lussier FSR
Well, I have to get back to the area to experience some better fishing. Our timing was a little off – as the stream fishing season didn’t open until mid-June, and the fish in the lakes seemed to be more interested in spawning. We did manage to catch a number of fish – but I really enjoyed the exploratory drives that we took to have a look at some other lakes and streams.
I managed to take a pretty interesting route to the Whiteswan – the new GPS had me turn off Hwy1 onto Settler’s Road – so I bypassed Radium and Fairmont – never saw Hwy 93 until I got to Canal Flats! This would have been great, but it was midnight so I missed the view. A few spots had me a bit nervous – I was pulling a trailer, and was hoping that no part of the road was blocked by a rock slide or something. On the drive home – I would have come back that way if the weather was nicer.
Another side trip involved going to Echo Lakes – and couple kilometres off-road, including a section that looked like it had been cleared after a fire went through it. At the end, was a great little lake where random camping was allowed, and some beautifully colored triploid Rainbow Trout.
I noticed this evening that Northridge4×4.ca is now open! Will be interesting to see how they do, and the impact it may have on current Canadian retailers. Looking forward to more choices! Northridge has a very good reputation in the US, at least judging from numerous posts on the JK-Forum.
Finally got a GPS – and I just didn’t have the patience to wait and see if and when the viliv devices would be released and available in Canada. Been wanting something that I could also use when out wheeling – and was thinking that I’ll probably end up needing a couple units.
BestBuy had a deal on the 255W – for $214.99 – which included a mount that can either go on the windshield, or onto the dash. The unit was amazingly easy to use – it took longer to open the packaging than it did to get the unit set up and acquiring satellites – the acquiring was done in seconds!
Was cool hooking it up to the PC, and using Google Earth, the unit automatically stored our trip yesterday. Was neat seeing our route out to Smoky Lake and back home, from the BestBuy parking lot on 137 Ave!
Maybe this will work for off-roading…with the addition of a netbook or something – like the Dell Mini 9 – and Google Earth
The package arrived yesterday, but I wasn’t around, so picked it up this morning from our neighborhood postal outlet. Thanks to Mike at DirtyDog4×4 for getting it too me for this weekend!
The primary set consists of one large panel, and two triangular side panels. I also ordered an optional 4th panel to provide netting above the driver and front passenger seats.
The instructions were alright, and pretty easy to follow. I managed to get all four panels installed pretty easily. I did run into a bit of difficulty with fastening the side panels along the bottom edge – there are 3 elastics with hooks, but I couldn’t find the spots that were referred to in the instructions. Hopefully Mike can clear things up for me.
I’m very pleased with how they look on the Jeep – I’ll be sure to add some shots with the top down soon! DirtyDog4×4 makes the netting for all model JK’s,TJ’s, and YJ’s.
After researching the different options, and looking at what the different manufacturers offer, I think that the netting from DirtyDog4×4 offers the best value. Highly recommended!
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