New to Jeeps

[DirtDawg]

My first Jeep was a 2000 TJ Sport in same Stone White with beige hardtop and with same 8x15 "Canyon Wheels", which were nearly always bundled within option package with the beefier Dana 44 rear axle and 3.73 LSD gearing. Back then, that was as good as it got, with Rubicon not introduced until the 2003 model year. I started modifying mine nearly immediate for tougher terrain than intended but then kept going as things broke over the 21 years I owned that.

I bought a new 2017 JK Rubicon 6-spd which I subsequently modded conservatively (now with just 12.5k miles), however my buddy and I both purchased modified TJ Rubicon examples within the last month (both ~ 90k miles), which will be dedicated trail rigs to augment our Can-Am Maverick Sport Xrc units, depending which we prefer on any given day with weather forecast and round-trip distance. Mine is a 2005 Rubicon as shown in my intro topic.

With the OP's TJ, I agree on freshening service items where prior maintenance records are missing or incomplete, as is the case with both of ours. Online orders for those parts continue to arrive nearly daily with those projects ahead while we do conservative shake-down runs in our adjacent forest. No need to trailer to staging points here, with forest access just a few miles from home garage at 7.4k' elev...

 

[readc87]

What color is the brake fluid? It absorbs moisture over time and can make your calipers and wheel cylinders stick. That will smoke the brakes for sure.

It's a good idea to flush it once every year or two

I will check. thank you