Holiday Gift Ideas

As the holidays are fast approaching everyone is always looking for gift ideas...

For the 4 wheel enthusiast in  your life here is a list of things they would love...

• 4 wheel drive map books and videos

• Fog / Driving / LED light kits

• Recovery Parts -- Hi-Lift Jacks -- Recovery Straps -- Winches -- Snatch Blocks

• PowerTank -- Portable compressors

• Tire Deflators

• Grab Handles

• Floor Mats

• Differential covers / skid plates

• Fender Flares

• Seat Covers

 

Hopefully this has given you some great ideas!

Rigid LED Lighting

As the world turns, technology gets better, products change and usually everything is great. It keeps manufacturers on their toes always hoping to be the next one with the next best product. This also keeps us, retailers, constantly learning to find out what the 'next' product is and if it will be worth a darn. I won't lie, I'm a tough sell. And usually I'm pretty slow about new products. I know, not a great business practice. I just like to make sure the 'bugs' are all worked out before I try to sell it.

 

Ramble ramble ramble..get to the point right? Rigid Lighting is an LED lighting company that makes a wide variety of lights, ranging in size, brightness, beam pattern, price, use, etc... Four To Go has been carrying Rigid Lights for a few years now, but just recently I have been enlightened. LED lights as a whole are great lights, they are very bright lights that draw very low amp draw, which is great. The light itself is very small which is unusual to get this kind of light out of. These are very versatile, they can be mounted anywhere and used all kinds of ways. Driving light, fog light, backup light, spot light etc. Rigid even has a Marine grade version of most of the lights made. Rigid was one of the first companies to come out with these type of lights and have proven to me to be worth the time and investment.

 

After doing some extensive research this past week, I'm impressed with the lights. They do everything they advertise plus more. And the lights are affordable. For the smallest light it is around $100.00 for the biggest lights they do get up to around $500.00, but you are getting an amazing amount of LED's. Look on our website http://www.fourtogo.com/shop-by-category-lighting-rigid-led.html to see many of the different lights. Rigid also offers a limited lifetime warranty on their lights. Most of the LED bulbs have 50,000 hour life span. Rigid offers spot beam, wide beams, driving beams, and flood lights. That should run the gamut of what you might need. They have anywhere from 2 LED lights all the way up to 100 LED lights.

 

 

Many of the desert racers have been using these lights for years. The 4WD aftermarket has also been on board...so for those of you that like the night time four wheeling adventure...these lights are for you. Those that like to drive along the dirt road at night, these are for you. The ones that just need some light at their camp site for the night, there is something for you also.

Bestop Rebates

November seems to be the time of Rebates... Bestop is offering a $50 mail in rebate on any Replacement top purchased through the end of the year.

Bestop Replacement tops are made to fit on the factory hardware so all you are replacing is the parts that wear out. If, however, you don't have factory hardware these tops won't fit. You have two different material options and you can either get clear or tinted windows.The front door skins (if you need them) are made to fit over the factory frame.

The sail cloth material is a very heavy duty material that reduces noise and increases insulation in the vehicle. This is a multi layer top that lasts longer than the standard material!

These tops fit extremely well because Bestop has the factory contract for making all the OEM tops for Jeep, Tracker, Amigo and other SUV's.

Hurry in to take advantage of the Rebate Offer!

Warn Zeon Winch

Warn introduced a new line of winches called the Zeon winch a little over a year ago. As I'm slow to change from what I know, it took me awhile to figure out why this winch is better / different from the other line of winches. What can I say? I'm a self admitted slow learner.

 

Some of the new features of the Zeon line --

• Control Pack options -- This means that there is one winch, if you need to move the control pack, no big deal, if you like the look of the control pack on the top of the winch, no big deal. Great idea!
• All winches are one color -- the motor, gear box, control pack, tie plate are all the same color.
• New designed transmission and motor -- thicker stronger steel, new clutch lever, improved clutch operation. The motor has aluminum housing and new terminals with increased efficiency.
• New Drum -- Large one piece aluminum drum with better sealing and integrated rope anchor.
• Fast line speed and low amp draw
• Seals better -- keeping water and muck out of the winch.
• Automatic mechanical brake
• New light weight design -- especially if you go with the synthetic rope. This winch weighs about 20 pounds lighter than the VR Series of winches.

So summing it up -- this winch is faster, lighter, sealed better, new technology...It is a middle of the road priced winch. The Zeon series winch is available in 3 capacities ... 8000, 10,000 and 12,000 pounds. The 8 and the 10 are available with the synthetic rope as pictured below. All winches come with the appropriate fairlead and remote and wiring to the battery. If you need to remote mount the control pack a kit is required and sold seperatley.

The one problem that we have with the winch. The sizing is a little wider than all the others so occasionally fitting into a bumper can be a problem. Most manufacturers have fixed their openings in the bumpers so the new winch will fit, however, it is still something to watch out for!

Warn is starting their rebates Novemeber 1st through the end of the year. The rebate on the Zeon series is $100 .Check out the winches on our website at www.fourtogo.com

Rancho build for Easter Jeep

Four To Go has been contracted by Rancho Suspension to do a build on a new JK... By new, I mean it only has 85 miles. We will be changing the front a rear bumpers, Rock Sliders, wheels and tires, 4" long arm kit, Pro Rock Dana 60 Axles, K&N air intake kit and Warn Winch. Here are a few pictures from the first day of tear down...

A few of the boxes.

 

 

The contents of 1 box.

 

The front bumper

 

 

 

The Dynatrac Axles

 

 

 

Still factory....

 

 

With the front suspension and new front axle! Progress finally!

 

The deadline is Friday March 22nd so he can immediatly go try it out on the trails of Moab for the Easter Jeep Safari!

 

 

 

 

 

Dynatrac Free Spin Kit

Today the shop installed a DynaTrac free spin kit on a Dodge. Basically this puts an actual hub on the front of the truck that you can manually engage the 4wd. This makes the truck a little more reliable in the fact that some 'weak link' (the unit bearing) parts are removed and it slows down the wear and tear on the front end from stopping the differential from spinning all the time. You can also increase gas mileage by installing this conversion.

Here is an article from Diesel Power that talks a little more about the kit http://www.dieselpowermag.com/tech/dodge/0908dp_dynatrac_free_spin_hub_conversion_kit/

And the truck...

 

The Kit, with the Dyna Trac hubs!

 

Have a great weekend!

 

January 2013 ... new ideas!

In the midst of being thrown full thrust into technology and kind of embracing it and kind of wishing it away I have decided that Four To Go is going to make a better effort of being present on the web. So here I am blogging again. Not sure what took me so long to do this, as it isn't like it is difficult to pick a subject and write about it. Sometimes I think we just get so wrapped up in thinking that life is busy and who has time for that? But here is what I need...give me ideas you want articles about. So comment on this post and then in the near future we will address such topics.

Here are some pictures to hold you over

Moab

Miller Rock Trail ... Hopefully we get more snow, so our spring looks this good

 

We work on more than just Jeep!

Chad's Raptor's first wheeling experience.

 

Four To Go Supercharged the JK