Re: RE: Gas tank size question answered
Tow points... My very first modification to the Jeep was the Warn Trans4mer grille guard, acts as a very strong frontal tow-point, and installs easily enough providing you have a friend there to cuss at when you get metal in the eye, rank the hell out of your wrist when the drillbit catches suddenly and stops, and get it halfway on when you realize exactly where those extra mystery parts go, explained by the step that you somehow missed... After that, it was rear-reciever, easy enough install as well, on the post '97s, though, they have you screw in the bolts into pre-threaded holes on the passenger side frame rail... Yeah... Tap those, they will be rusty, or you will break a bolt off like I did... That was all sorts of fun, turned my nice little 2 hours install (I go slowly, no rush usually, I enjoy wrenching on it), into a three day nightmare... Anyway, yeah... Tow points... If you get stuck, you can always be pulled out of it.
Watch out for water. A biggie... I'm driving a stocker, and take it all sorts of places, follow lifted Jeep all the time (and I schooled one something fierce on a hole at the Mounds yesterday
)... But the lower you are, the more chance you have of pulling water into the air intake, should you hit a deep hole at a prodigious rate of speed... Not a good feeling to have it die, and pull the intake hose only to find the throttle body soaking wet...
I would also suggest a full-size spare, if you don't have one already. And I'm guilty of not having one myself, if I blow a tire, and I'm running an inch larger than stock, I don't even want to think about what I'm gonna do if I have to hit up the donut spare.
Other than that, it depends on your abilities... Tow points give you the power to be pulled out of those "I thought I could" places, and other than that, they're strong vehicles... Mud and trails are usually not hard enough to damage underbody components, if you're going rock-crawling, you'll be wanting the skid plates and rocker guards...