Here was a fun situation! While traversing the crack my drivers side tires slipped and I ended up sideways. It took 3 winches and about 1 hr. to get me out. The jeep suffered NO damage...bonus. This picture is at Convicts Rock pile near Carson City. Thanks for checking out my 1951 Jeep CJ3A. It has been in my family for almost 40 years now. I acquired it in 1997 and immediately started "upgrading" it. As stuff broke I replaced it with bigger more accessable parts. My Willys has a 300HP Chevy V8 350 motor with an HEI distributor, AA motor mounts, shorty headers, a mild cam, an aluminum edlebrock intake and quadrajet carb. The cooling is handled with a high flow water pump, a mechanical fan and an aluminum 2 core radiator with a homemade diamond plate shroud. I have hydro-assist power brakes put together with 3 different vehicles! It also has a kick butt PSC steering pump that makes the braking and steering great. I use a saginaw box and a hydraulic assist steering ram that makes the steering awesome. A 10.5" hydraulic clutch and SM 420 4 speed transmission are in front of a Dana 20 T-case with twin sticks and Tera low 3.15 gears that was built by Scott Hendricks of Hendricks 4x4 in Gardnerville. The crawl ratio is around 118:1. I made my own tranny/t-case mount with a polyurethane leaf spring bushing since I kept breaking the AA mounts.  The front drive shaft is ¼” wall with a 8” long slip yoke and in the rear I use a CV style driveshaft from the front of a Cherokee Jeep that is .120” wall. I built an anti-wrap bar to control axle wrap that also has a tube welded to it that runs under the rear driveshaft to keep it from being damaged by rocks. In the rear I just installed a 14 bolt with 5.13 gears with disc brakes and a Detroit Locker for better traction. In front I run a Dana 60 with 5.13 gears, after market tie rod, passenger side high steer arm, PSC hydraulic assist ram, a Detroit Locker, Warn Hubs and 35 spline chromoly inner and outer shafts with spicer u-joints. It now rides on 39.5 Pitbull Rocker tires that I absolutely love with 17x9 in. aluminum Summit Racing wheels. A full cage roll cage provides protection and is tied into the frame in 10 places. I also fabricated a rear tire carrier that pivots down and holds 2 - 5 gallon gas or water cans and a big ice chest as well. I now have replaced my worn out Ramsey 8000 winch with a kick ass Warn XP 9500. It pulls like a bastard!  I have accomplished the lift with a spring over front and rear. I use 2.5" lift Rancho 44044 springs in the rear that were moved back 5". They carry weight good, flex good and ride awesome. Up front I did a shackle reversal and use stock 1978 CJ5 front springs and cut and sectioned the frame to move the front axle forward 9". I lowered the spring mounts up front to compensate for the 2.5” lift springs in the rear. Both axles get around 22" of travel from full compression to full extension. Front and rear axles use RS 9012 XL remote resevior shocks with remote control adjustability from the cab of the Jeep. The shocks are awesome and take unexpected air born jumps very well. I also have Rancho limit straps at all 4 corners and stainless steel brake lines with a Jamar line lock for the rear brakes. I use PRP high back suspension seats and 4 point 3" RJS seatbelts that are all tied into the cage. Behind the seats I built a storage box to carry misc. stuff and also acts as a speaker box with two 8" subwoofers. Inside is also an overhead center console that I built. It has a dome light, two speakers, a CD radio, two 12V assessor plugs and a CB. The Jeep also has a Rubicon Express hand throttle that mounts to the transmission stick shift that works great when stopping and starting on steep hills. The Jeep also holds 30 gallons of gas. I use a Summit aluminum 20 gal fuel cell in the back where the rear seat used to be, a polyurethane 10 gal tank under the driver’s seat with a fuel selector switch right next to the drivers seat. The wheel base is now around 97” while in stock form it was 80”. I use offset center pins in the rear springs that move it back an additional 2”. I also built a belly pan/skid plate that goes from in front of the oil pan to behind the transfer case.  I carry a Ready Welder wire feed to weld on the trail and a 15 lb CO2 tank to re-seat broken beads and fill up tires after a trail. I have 5 rock lights to help with night wheeling and two additional lights up front to light the way. There is probably more I forgot but one of the most important things is that the Jeep did great on the 1500 mile ULTIMATE ADVENTURE 2007 Texas Tour  with Petersen's Four Wheel and Off-road Magazine! The Jeep drove the entire way with no trailering! It was 8 days long. Glen Leighton, another club member, and I were awarded “The Hardcore Award” for our performance during the event by the staff of Petersen’s magazine and Clifton Slay of Poison Spyder Customs. Love three wheeling