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the Ultimate Summer Camp Jeep I'm really
lucky I like got to have both of my
favorite jeeps out in Moab I brought the
Ultimate Summer Camp Jeep out I've had it
at home for a while I haven't actually
wield this thing since last year
Ultimate Adventure and Tube Socks was
out in Columbus Indiana at the Cummins
headquarters where they were fine-tuning
that crate engine that crate R2.8
liter engine that they're going to be
offering soon so what's the difference
between these vehicles what would you
rather have for wheeling in Moab start
with a Summer Camp Jeep under the hood GM
performance parts LSA engine 550
horsepower feeds a 4L80 transmission
from Gearstar Magnum 205 transfer case
from Off Road Design and then it runs
down to a pair of Spydertrax axles
the rear end is a spool the front has a
GearWorks locker giant 10-inch high
pinion ring and pinion Spydertrax
axles 300 M axle shafts big Burley race
parts disc brakes all around and then a
bunch of Fox Shox coil overs up front
coil overs and bypasses in the rear
trailing arm and it's a custom aluminum
body on a custom Jeep Wrangler chassis
that's been stretched and tweaked the
body is not a normal flat fender body
it's longer in the door longer behind
the door it's actually a 3b cowl so it's
taller here and then we brought the
fenders up the hood fenders tub are all
aluminum the windshield grill and
tailgate are all steel the so mostly
this vehicle is built from scratch Jeep
this I'm calling it a 47 CJ2a but it's
a conglomeration of a lot of different
parts that make up this vehicle people
love the beard seat or the PRP seats
with the plaid on them custom roll cage
the whole thing was built at Cynergy
manufacturing back two years ago for
ultimate adventure so this Jeep has been
around it's fun to drive it has lots of
horsepower squeaks the tires and it's an
automatic now this Jeep on the other
hand completely different ballgame
I built this Jeep originally to
2014 to come to Moab it had a 2.5 liter
gas engine an AX5 transmission a
5-speed manual so this is a manual this
is an automatic this is a little
four-cylinder this is a big V8 behind
that it had the 4:1 gear set in the
stock transfer case and then we built
some burly axles or Currie axles with a
RBS at front of Dana 44 the rear is the
rock jock 60 both of them are high
pinion axles keep the drivetrain up to
keep the drive lines out of the rocks so
both of them have high opinions that
Jeep has more of a race axle this is
more of a trail axle you can run these
in racing but spider tracks and like the
fabricated housings are what a lot of
guys run curry's high opinion on 60's
70's and the bigger stuff is what guys
are running in racing the 44 is not
really what most guys are running in
racing but a great trail axle this is
run in 538 that has I believe 543 s this
has a ARB air lockers so it's selectable
gears that is full time gears and the
rear end on that is full time spooled so
every time you drive it around Moab you
take a turn it chirps the tires people
think you're peeling out but it's
actually that's just the nature of the
beast under the hood in this thing is
that Cummins r28 turbo diesel this is
the one that we drove underwater and
then actually we swapped in another one
because they want to do a lot of
different testing so this is the second
engine that's been in tube sock well
it's the third engine if you count the
two five gas the two eight we drove
underwater
now this two eight and then this two
eight went back to comment and they
change the front accessory drive they're
just doing using this Jeep for R&D 166
horse 267 foot-pounds of torque it now
has the NV 3500 transmission still a
manual 5-speed and behind that the Atlas
transfer case the this Jeep is a much
different to drive the now and that one
has brute power it's fast but it also
gets hot and like your feet are warm it
just puts a lot of heat into the engine
bay in the and the cockpit this thing
runs cool all the time you're not
getting sweltering hot in it it's easy
to drive down the road
is running bias-ply maxes 37 that is
running BFG tires kind of a race tire
both of these tires I've noticed that
you'd park it overnight they get a flat
spot you drive it down the road and it
kind of goes away that's the nature of
the beast with a bias ply it's kind of
unusual on this race tire but I've heard
that before on the BF Goodrich race
tires
neither of these tire is a tire that I
would recommend for like long commuting
but four-wheel and rock Ron both of
these have been really good I think the
trip adores with their sticky compound
is probably a little bit better this is
more of a desert tire this is more of a
rock crawling tire but I know BFG has
some great rock crawling tires and I
know that max has had some great street
tires so it's kind of null and void I'm
just I wanted to try something different
I'd had those tires for a while they're
kind of out of date like BFG now has a
newer race tire that so they don't even
use that tread design anymore but I had
those and I wanted to bring on the Moab
and see how they would do both jeeps
have a full cage
both jeeps were built only for two
people that Jeep has enough room in the
back for a full size spare and a
full-size fridge freezer it's got an
angle in it right now but it could also
fit in Arabi fridge freezer this Jeep
the spare is you notice it's up at an
angle
there's no backseat in either of these
the cage has this kind of fastback
design so that you're only have enough
safety in here for two people this is
running some Mastercraft seats in it it
used to have best tops when I drove it
underwater those seats actually lifted
you up a little bit too much they were
kind of a early CJ low back seat so we
put these master crafts in it the best
tops will probably end up in one of my
CJ 5s or flat fenders at home these
master crafts sit a little bit lower and
keep you down underneath the roll cage
as you're kind of going off-road what
else do we do the rear bumper was a
poison spider Kustoms bumper when I was
in Hawaii and I was rock crawling and
mud mud climbing I'd slid backwards and
hit a tree really hard and I bent that
bumper so I just put a new bumper on
from swagg off-road the guys at axis
industries build us a skid plate for
underneath that oil pan you remember
when we took it rock crawl
and compared it to the two gas Jeeps we
smash the oil pan on the 2:8 because
it's a polymer style now we have a beefy
skid plate underneath that what else
have we done to it the headlights the
off-road lights are still a quarter full
of water from when we drove it under
water it really needs some better
off-road lights the headlights are kind
of just they're kind of dull also so
both off-road lights and headlights on
both of these jeeps could be well at
least on tube sock could be upgraded
summer camp Jeep has some JW speaker
headlights and they're pretty good off
road and on-road both of them are fun
jeeps to ride to drive this one doesn't
have any turn signals you just have the
signal when you're driving this one
everything is still original turn
signals work the heater works on this
that one doesn't even have a heater but
it has plenty of heat when you're just
kind of for wheeling and getting some
heat out of the engine and transmission
overall two very different Jeeps this
one has a little bit shorter wheelbase
you definitely notice that on some of
the steeper climbs out here in Moab that
one has plenty of horsepower driving
with the automatic it's a it's smooth
and easy the stick shift is a little bit
more difficult if people don't know how
to drive stick shift but I have had a
good time driving both of them I know a
lot of guys in town the Cummins guys
have had a lot of different people
driving tube sock to kind of give them
the person impressions of what the
comment is like and so I think a lot of
people have been enjoying tube sock out
here in Moab this year I've had a blast
having two jeeps I think next year I'm
just going to try and bring one because
it's a lot of work to have two vehicles
and keep them both running the steering
box on tube sock is leaking something is
leaking from either the transmission or
transfer case on the summer camp Jeep
maybe it's just a loose line or it's
ripping out of the vents but that's the
way it is you take your vehicles out and
you play with them and you beat them up
and things start leaking or getting
scraped the axles and everything I'll
probably have to go underneath the
bottom of these things and see if we've
knocked anything loose but for the most
part they're just kind of wheeling right
along I can tell that the joints all the
suspension joints on summer camp Jeep
are getting a little bit loose and
either need lubricated or read
built so that's something we'll have to
look into next as far as tube sock
what's next for tube sock as much as I
like these tires I'm going to put some
all terrains on it and we're going to
drive it back to California and see how
it does on long highway driving what
type of mileage we're really getting
most of the all the gauges on this work
and so we can do mileage testing and
really see how it does and I'm actually
going to toe summer camp Jeep back it's
fun Jeep to drive on the highway but I
brought my big RAM and my tow rig to tow
my trailer to tow that back but overall
this Jeep is ready to drive probably in
two days we're going to put different
tires on my buddy Tony is going to hop
in this and drive it I'm going to drive
the tow rig with summer camp on it and
we're going to be headed home from Moab
boo
we hate leaving Moab but it's been an
awesome week we've have two jeeps here
we've had a lot of fun wheeling with all
our friends we did some night wheeling
we went we on with all the lady drivers
we met a bunch of cool guys from Jeep
and all their concept vehicles and it's
been an awesome time out here in Moab
Easter Jeep Safari
we can't wait to come back for next year
we hope all of you viewers will be here
too soon don't plan on seeing both of
these jeeps here I don't know what I'm
bringing next year maybe we'll have a
whole new project maybe it will stretch
tubes or maybe we'll cut tube sock and
summer camp Jeep in half and weld them
back-to-back we're probably not doing it
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