Baystate Jeepers

hello all! my names corey
ill admit i signed up to the forum a bit ago but i never had the time to actually introduce myself, or have a picture of my jeep to present.
i own a 1989 jeep wrangler Yj. built from the frame up!
since ive had it ive swapped out the motor from the 4.2 to 4.0. put some bigger shackles on, 1 1/4 inch shackles if i remember correctly.. ranchero steering stabilizer shock, 31 inch tires, 17 inch rims. crown automotive tubular front bumper. euro style tail lamp kit.
not to many extreme mods done to her

mods i have planned for later are a transmission swap from the tf999 auto three speed to the ax15 five speed. have pretty much all the parts together now actually!
some light bars, tow winch. and possibly a D44 rear axle with a locker.
not to many heavy mods that i will probably do to her.

im a new member here at baystate, fresh recruit! i actually got introduced to this forum when one night when i was out to dinner, someone stuck a card right on my driver window. haha

i havent been offroading long, still kinda new to this. ive gone to go topless day 2 years ago and offroaded there, will be attending again this year as well!

no this is not my first jeep. first one ive owned yes, but briefly i owned an 88 jeep comanchee pioneer 2wd 2.5L but i had to sell her sadly.

Hi Corey!
You just missed our Jeep 101 training course we held 10 days ago. Would have been a great opportunity to get to meet some great Baystate people, learn some off roading stuff and get to run some nice trails.
Your Jeep is virtually the same as my first Jeep - a red 1989 YJ with the 4.2 and the ever delightful Peugeot 5 speed. My first build started out just like yours with some 31's and a shackle lift.
Sure hope you can have the opportunity to check us out, join the club and wheel your rig.

thewrangler wrote: im a new member here at baystate, fresh recruit! i actually got introduced to this forum when one night when i was out to dinner, someone stuck a card right on my driver window. haha

That was me Welcome!

welcome to the forum and hope to see you on the trail!

Thanks guys

Kurt wrote:Hi Corey!
You just missed our Jeep 101 training course we held 10 days ago. Would have been a great opportunity to get to meet some great Baystate people, learn some off roading stuff and get to run some nice trails.
Your Jeep is virtually the same as my first Jeep - a red 1989 YJ with the 4.2 and the ever delightful Peugeot 5 speed. My first build started out just like yours with some 31's and a shackle lift.
Sure hope you can have the opportunity to check us out, join the club and wheel your rig.

Darn, well I'm sure there will be more than one of those course gatherings so I'll try and make it to the next one if possible. In the mean time I'll just have to carefully learn as I go!
Well.. it was a YJ no doubt but to get more detailed the one I started off with was originally the light metallic blue color. Previous owner didn't like the blue and sprayed flat green over it.. I ended up building one YJ from two haha what was red is now orange. Timing chain on my 4.2 magically stretched on me so that's why I have the 4.0
I've heard about those Peugeot transmissions haha not really even sure why they ended up in jeeps in the first place
But yeah, I'll definitely do that wheeling is what I want to do haha

Joliet Jake Blues wrote:welcome to the forum and hope to see you on the trail!

If I can make it to the trails I'll definitely try my hardest to be there!

asauer17 wrote:

thewrangler wrote: im a new member here at baystate, fresh recruit! i actually got introduced to this forum when one night when i was out to dinner, someone stuck a card right on my driver window. haha

That was me Welcome!

Haha well thank you and thank you for the card
I look forward to wheeling with all of you!

Which GTD are you going to- NH or MA?

NH May 10
MA May 17

Our Jeep 101's are held in the Spring. One shot a year! Sorry you missed it! Welcome!

I didn't even realize there was two of them!
But I'm actually going to the one may 17 in MA

And oh well bummer on the 101 course but then, there IS always next year. And thank you!

Hell : Just join the club and with any luck , you can teach a newbe at next years 101 ! Welcome dude ! FjR68

Really tempting actually
And thank you!

you don't have to take the Jeep 101 to join the club...btw...it didn't always exist!

Oh well I kindaassumed that, it just would have been nice to learn a few things from the pros

total creep status.. but I hope you are ay townfair tire to get bigger tires!!,;)

i was legit going to go inside and introduce myself to "thewrangler"

Hahaha that was me in there today lol
I wish I was getting bigger tires!
I was actually getting a front end alignment done to my jeep. Getting it ready for tomorrow
You should have stopped in and said hi! if you're at GTD I'll be there as well