Here is a pic of my 2000 Wrangler. Bought it from a Volvo dealer in TX in 2004. It had 102k miles, female driven, always registered in TX- one owner. Put it on a car hauler and brought it to Illinois. It was in awesome shape, high miles but not a drop of rust. Installed a Full Traction lift kit. Excellent kit, horribble instructions. Took me 3 months to do lift, mostly at night. With good instructions maybe 2 full days. My retired buddy thought I'd never get the Jeep put back together. Also changed to American Racing rims bought on Ebay (runied the cosmetics of the rims when I put cleaner on them and didn't wash it off soon enough). This Jeep is a mall crawler- never sees mud. Lost the before lift pictures- it makes a huge difference in appearance.

looks sweet now hwere ya going muddin

what are those 33'*? i take it that you have the stock axles in with no major modifications. is it a manual or a automatic

Yes they are stock axles and 32'*. Did the 3" lift because it allowed Jeep to still fit in garage height wise and the tallest lift without having to modify drive shaft. Full Traction (the lift kit engineer) knows what works and what doesn't. Did a lot of research before selecting which kit to go with. One of the biggest mistakes I made during the conversion was buying Harbor Freight spring compressors. They were cheap and they were brutal. Should of rented some real ones or bought some good ones. The springs were not easy to compress.

This Jeep has been trouble free other than a water pump and radiator. I consider most Chrysler products as a short life product, the Jeep Wrangler as an exception. The nice thing about this Jeep is it is fairly easy to work on. I am not quite a backyard mechanic. Without boards/ forums like this I would never of been able to do something like this.

Also want to mention we bought the Jeep mainly because we wanted a convertible for summer time. Unless you have Purple Hazer'* money to buy and maintain a 60 Bonny ragtop, most convertibles are expensive to maintain, lose their value and overall a pain in the butt. The Wrangler IMHO is not and a good and fun summer vehicle. This is a 6 cyl/ 5 speed.... and it is a dog on the highway. Perfect vehicle for a summer drive to DQ, brutal vehicle for a trip to Florida.... Take the Bonny on real trips.

you can get urself in some deep puddles with that badboy =] my buddy has one the same year i think and its fun to drive around w/o doors etc.

i take it you have stock gears in those axles then, if you want it to be a bit less of a dog thorw a set of 4.10 gears in there.