{"id":542,"date":"1996-10-26T18:18:03","date_gmt":"1996-10-26T23:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=542"},"modified":"2020-02-09T18:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T00:34:06","slug":"onward-and-upward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/onward-and-upward\/","title":{"rendered":"Onward and Upward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After separating from the Air Force on 9 Oct 1996, I decided I wanted some bigger tires and a lift kit on the Jeep.  I went to a local tire shop (big mistake) and inquired about an Explorer Pro Comp 4&#8243; lift with some 33&#215;15.50 Interco TSX Super Swampers and 15&#215;10 black modular rims.<br><br>First of all, never go to a tire shop for 4&#215;4 work.  They overcharged (like 200%), took 3 times longer than promised, basically lied to me on pricing, and kept bugging me about how to do the installation (duh, it&#8217;s 4 leaf spring packs, shocks, a drop pitman arm, and 2&#8243; spacers for the transmission\/T-case mounting bracket\/skid plate &#8211; not rocket surgery).  Should&#8217;ve been an easy job, but nope.  Lesson learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But &#8211; it was so damn cool when I finally got it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep1.jpg?resize=673%2C556&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep1.jpg?w=673&amp;ssl=1 673w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep1.jpg?resize=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep2.jpg?resize=780%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep2.jpg?w=856&amp;ssl=1 856w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep2.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep2.jpg?resize=768%2C517&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After separating from the Air Force on 9 Oct 1996, I decided I wanted some bigger tires and a lift kit on the Jeep. I went to a local tire shop (big mistake) and inquired about an Explorer Pro Comp 4&#8243; lift with some 33&#215;15.50 Interco TSX Super Swampers and 15&#215;10 black modular rims. First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-jeep"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}