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Might as well start one of these rather than clog up the forum with several threads about tiny things I do to my Jeep.

I’m TJ Willy and my real Jeep story began in 2001.

But we won’t go back that far. Much.... Suffice it to say... I’m a Jeep guy. Had a ZJ with mild mods. Had an aha moment later when I test drove a used TJ. Bought my first TJ 2004 Willys Edition and built her for the big rocks. Parts and parts later she was my daily and my axle locked, junkyard axle swapped best friend. She earned the name Lady Bird after Hank Hill’s loyal bloodhound on the show King of the Hill and I became TJ Willy everywhere online.

A marriage, three jeeps later and three rug rats later we find ourselves here in my no compromises and no regrets JT Rubi

I have a plan. Much of it follows my JK build - overland - as I have a journey to finish. I have criss crossed the US speaking about ALD - the disease my boy has. I promised a lot of people I would go from Mexico to Canada along the divide after I did the TAT east to west. Http://www.expedition-awareness.org

And I almost made it. I had the 08 with the notorious overheating problems. Add the fact I supercharged the weak 3.8 and it was bound to bite me in the butt. I put the best radiator money can buy and still I had issues. Having said that she still could have made it but when my GPS files corrupted and I lost the route in northern Wyoming.

At this point I made the hard (and teary) decision to turn back. I was solo pulling an off-road trailer and had conquered so much included the devastating Forrest fires that swept New Mexico that year. I have a good story about that. Anyway. Lots of medical bills later and I sold the Jeep. Three years later i am back in a Jeep and ready to finish what I started.

My son underwent an amazing gene therapy treatment. A trial I became a spokesman for many years early during my campaign. Fast forward he began forming lesions on his brain and the trial had made it to the US and was accepting patients. And God bless us the timing was perfect. Brooks was the 8th kid to undergone this type of Bone Marrow Transplant. He is not out of the woods but he has a real fighting chance for an otherwise terminal disease!!!! We are so happy.

Come hell or high water I am finishing this trip. This time tho, it won’t be solo. My boy will cross the finish line with and our JT.

So the build will come. I have some knowns and unknowns. I will leave you with a pic or two of my boy and our first mod. :)

him working on the JK with me. Our haircuts and the first mod. Bigfoot of course. Lololol

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You're an awesome dad. I am going to add your son to my prayer list. I pray for a complete recovery an a long healthy life.
 
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Being a Dad is awesome. And thanks for the prayers. We should find out in late July if the procedures worked.
 

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Might as well start one of these rather than clog up the forum with several threads about tiny things I do to my Jeep.

I’m TJ Willy and my real Jeep story began in 2001.

But we won’t go back that far. Much.... Suffice it to say... I’m a Jeep guy. Had a ZJ with mild mods. Had an aha moment later when I test drove a used TJ. Bought my first TJ 2004 Willys Edition and built her for the big rocks. Parts and parts later she was my daily and my axle locked, junkyard axle swapped best friend. She earned the name Lady Bird after Hank Hill’s loyal bloodhound on the show King of the Hill and I became TJ Willy everywhere online.

A marriage, three jeeps later and three rug rats later we find ourselves here in my no compromises and no regrets JT Rubi

I have a plan. Much of it follows my JK build - overland - as I have a journey to finish. I have criss crossed the US speaking about ALD - the disease my boy has. I promised a lot of people I would go from Mexico to Canada along the divide after I did the TAT east to west. Http://www.expedition-awareness.org

And I almost made it. I had the 08 with the notorious overheating problems. Add the fact I supercharged the weak 3.8 and it was bound to bite me in the butt. I put the best radiator money can buy and still I had issues. Having said that she still could have made it but when my GPS files corrupted and I lost the route in northern Wyoming.

At this point I made the hard (and teary) decision to turn back. I was solo pulling an off-road trailer and had conquered so much included the devastating Forrest fires that swept New Mexico that year. I have a good story about that. Anyway. Lots of medical bills later and I sold the Jeep. Three years later i am back in a Jeep and ready to finish what I started.

My son underwent an amazing gene therapy treatment. A trial I became a spokesman for many years early during my campaign. Fast forward he began forming lesions on his brain and the trial had made it to the US and was accepting patients. And God bless us the timing was perfect. Brooks was the 8th kid to undergone this type of Bone Marrow Transplant. He is not out of the woods but he has a real fighting chance for an otherwise terminal disease!!!! We are so happy.

Come hell or high water I am finishing this trip. This time tho, it won’t be solo. My boy will cross the finish line with and our JT.

So the build will come. I have some knowns and unknowns. I will leave you with a pic or two of my boy and our first mod. :)

him working on the JK with me. Our haircuts and the first mod. Bigfoot of course. Lololol

Jeep Gladiator TJ Willy’s Glady thread. 0DE02A99-8D1A-485C-BBDA-B92FE18290E6


Jeep Gladiator TJ Willy’s Glady thread. 0DE02A99-8D1A-485C-BBDA-B92FE18290E6


Jeep Gladiator TJ Willy’s Glady thread. 0DE02A99-8D1A-485C-BBDA-B92FE18290E6


edit: removed an extra pic I didn’t know I had selected. :)

Jeep Gladiator TJ Willy’s Glady thread. 0DE02A99-8D1A-485C-BBDA-B92FE18290E6


Jeep Gladiator TJ Willy’s Glady thread. 0DE02A99-8D1A-485C-BBDA-B92FE18290E6
God Bless you, and your son........ We will pray for his continued success.
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