09/28/2026
Okay, we don’t trash talk people’s builds or knock people’s budgets, but I have to post this because of who we are, the standards we hold and what we do. We had a customer repurchase steering and balljoints for his JK from the phone, no problem.
He came in today with a smashed up JK, again, no problem, and wanted an inspection, we welcome all flavors of Jeep, but this thing was trashed and unsafe. Steering box was unsafe, it had no rear brakes and every matter of suspension and steering was wasted with spring spacers falling out of the suspension while on the rack.
But the big news was under the hood. It had a home brew LM7 conversion with exposed wiring, a home made dual battery set up with straps cutting into the positive terminals that were grounded into the body via self tappers with loose batteries and terminals, fuel lines resting on the the exhaust and the grand finale- a 10psi rated glass fuel filter on a 58psi LS fuel system. This Jeep is a bomb.
We invited the customer back, and we were going to offer a way to work with him, but he began insulting us saying that we don’t know what we’re doing, etc, refuting everything we found during our inspection and we decided that it wasn’t worth the liability and turned him away. He then left his special order parts, which he purchased, outside and sped away.
This Jeep is not safe, and he brags about how hard he uses it and how he pulls his horse trailer around. If this Jeep gets into an accident and that fuel filter breaks (which it is going to be prone do doing anyways due to the issues in the steering, suspension and brakes), an electrical ground will easily turn this Jeep into a fireball.
When people ask why things take so long, why they cost what they do or why we are so meticulous and discerning about the jobs we take, why we build things a certain way or use the parts that we do, this is why.
You don’t have to have boat loads of money to do off road things, and if you come in here on a shoestring budget we’ll do everything we can to get you on the trails, but it has to be safe, and if you don’t want to afford the big stuff, that’s ok, don’t take shortcuts that put us all at risk.