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ATXKJ · **Posted:** Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:18 pm

Padre, Mustang, Port Aransas - are all much nicer the times I've been - actually Mustang was almost empty -
South Padre gets most of the Spring Break crowds.

Corpus tends to have more shipping & industry.

superj · **Posted:** Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:23 pm

we do have these here though. they fly up from mexico in groups and make a crap load of noise and can be coaxed out of the trees with apple slices.

i was trying to get you guys a pic of the street we live on. i thought i had one saved on photobucket. anyways, if you stand in the front yard you can see the bay at the end of the street where the pier and park is at. its about 5 minutes of walking. i would trade it for some hills and trees but you have to go where the work is and work is here in corpus for my wife and i. as long as our base doesn't come up on the brac list then we are here till retirement but if it does we will probably end up at redstone arsenal or something in alabama which would be cool because it was really pretty there when i was at fort benning and would drive up north for trips.

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

This site is awesome! LMAO! Yall are hilarious! Come to think of it, I've lived in every one of the states that were mentioned here plus a bunch of others, and Colorado for me is my fav. In a huge way. Winters get long sometimes... but the summers are to die for. I'm never leavin. If anything I'm moving even further into the mountains!

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:28 am

I hear ya..... I love the fishing and I'm good with the winters... I just want to get out of the city :evil:

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:34 am

i'm gonna retire in some shack in the mountains where the running water is a creek and the only radio is a bigarse Ham stickin out next to the wood stove chimney

gettin to it will be like a backwoods moab

then .. for the first time since 1997
i'm gonna stop wearin a high and tight.. and grow a beard like Grizley Adams

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

Dude!! I just came back from Denver. Hate it! Took the kids to Casa Bonitas for the evening. it was fun but I yell at everyone when I drive on highways and crap like that. I like county roads, country roads, and forest roads. If you do happen to see someone, they freakin wave. It's a whole different world. Big cities blow! Yeah I grew up on Oahu, so it was hard to escape that garbage. Now I do my best to steer clear of the herd. Here's a fishin pic for ya, Lake Dillon last year. The family went up to be in a Wooden Boat Show up there. We usually go to Grand Lake once a year. Dillon was on the schedule I guess. still fun.

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

LOL! bro I work up in the mountains now.. all the time. Love it. I drive a lot for my job. Hugely in the mountains. That's what made me buy this Jeep. I had to have more. I'm starting to collect names and numbers of people who Jeep and will let me get out and wheel on their land. People up there are awesome. I just met a guy who owns land up the Big Thompson Canyon.. He said " oh yeah there's some really old Logging roads that go way back in there, you're welcome to go anytime." I was like, YES SIR!!! **GASP** Still haven't gone up there, but I will. soon!

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:05 am

my favorite hole above alice. Its better in the summer when the water is flowing and it is full. This was taken just before they closed it for winter

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:06 am

even our mod can't post pictures right

rofl

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:15 am

Diggerfreek wrote:

my favorite hole above alice. Its better in the summer when the water is flowing and it is full. This was taken just before they closed it for winter

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:17 am

give me a brake will ya :twisted:

One bad post in 2900 + post... I have better success rate than NASA :lol:

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

LMAO!!! Thats a sweet lookin spot! Heck yes! yeah summer in Colo is rockin. Where is Alice? I asked my wife she doesn't know either...? Looks like you have to wheel to get there? no?

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:48 am

exit 238, Or fall river res road. It is one mile past Idaho Springs, and then 8 or 9 miles north right by St. Mary's Glacier.

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

HEY!!! woohoo. Sold a guitar to buy the Lift from Rusty's. It will be here uh,.. friday or saturday. I can't believe how fast they shipped it out. I didn't even pay 2 day or nothin. just regular shipping. I'm gonna do the lift myself. I did get the spacer plates for the front. I do have a Torq bar and truck loads of other tools. I gotta borrow a spring compressor. Do i really need a strut compressor? Any tips or heads up stuff to help this process? any thing I need to be concerened about? It looks like the back will be a piece a cake? But the front looks and sounds loads more complicated. I have done a 3/8" clevis lift, cut and worked the fenders a bit, so I've gotten a little familiar with the front end of this Jeep. But still, This lift freaks me out a bit. I have a wife and three kids. Can I do this safely? As long as I have all the instructions? Torq specs?

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

OK, Rusty's lift is on. The front struts are odd. Not the same number on the packing slip. Also they were about the same size as the stock ones. kinda weird. at least the back shocks were a bit longer. anyway. The springs were hell to get compressed into that small strut, and put back together. The lift is on. It did raise the jeep for sure. I think it had sagged from original or something. But it definitely lifted the jeep. Now the tires are too small. LOL. The ride is a lot better on road. I like it. I haven't wheeled it yet, but soon. I did get the spacers for the front, glad I did. had it realigned already. If anyone puts this lift on themselves, I would suggest AIR TOOLS. I did it all with wrenches and ratchets. Took 6 hours. LMAO! Now just need to reTorq after a bit of stretching. But overall I think with a set of bigger tires the Jeep will look better. With the lift though, it makes the Jeep look smaller(shorter)... anyone else notice that? We took the kids to Disney on Ice. and on the way back to the Jeep, it was way out in an empty parking lot. The jeep looked SWEET! High up off the groung with a wide stance with those Moabs. Bigger tires would be the cats stupid. There was a wrangler parked a few rows up in front of it, the liberty made the stock wrangler look stupid. anyway,..

superj · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:50 pm

dang man!!! that is sweet. i have to save some money before i can buy my lift.

i got a few pics of my liberty at the water at the end of my street. not good pics but pics.

if you go across the bay in those pics then you are on mustang/ north padre island about 20 minutes from port aransas

RkyMtnKJ · **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:02 pm

Haole, welcome! Glad to see you're lovin the site, If you scroll down on the main forum page check out LOST Rockies Thread where you'll find all of the other member in and around colorado in the surrounding states. There is also a club wide run that goes on every year that will happen in southwest Colorado in july this year and encourage you to check that out as well.

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

Yeah, this web-site rocks. It's helped me a ton with my Liberty. Here's our new Rig with our camper. Colorado, there is only one. I will check out the Colorado group. The kids take up most of my time,,... well any time left over from work that is. I get up and jeep whenever I can. Few times a month at least. The Jeep runs better when it gets off road. I've had the check engine light on a couple times after the wife has driven it,.. As soon as it gets some mountains and rocks off road, the light goes off. It likes the dirt and rocks. It may be something trivial but I'm gonna believe what I want. The one thing with Rusty's. There is no way it's lifted the Jeep a full 2.5". No way! It has lifted it. and the Ride is much much better. But a LIFT, should be a LIFT. Anyway. it's done. I don't feel like calling them and arguing that simple fact. No time for that crud. I knew a guy who was a cunsultant to some head honcho in the CIA... He told me that this head cheese had a plaque on his desk that you could not miss. It said, "Avoid Bullsh!t." Love it.

Haole · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:56 am **Posts:** 41

Here's the Liberty after the Rusty's lift. For those out there yet undecided.

superj · **Posted:** Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:00 am

looks good

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