Building Sucia

Lift Day and Her First Run at Rifle

By Dan Ranta · · 1 min read

May 2, 2024 was a Building Sucia day: we picked her up from getting her lift. Two days later we took her to the Rifle BLM area for her first time off-road with the lift.

Lift day

Truckwerks in Brighton put the lift on: a TeraFlex 3.5-inch suspension lift, with its control arms and coils. She's on 35-inch Kenda Klever ATs on beadlock wheels, with the steel front bumper and winch up front.

Sucia from the front corner, lifted on 35-inch Kenda tires and black beadlock wheels, in a parking lot in Brighton
Picked up in Brighton, May 2, 2024.
Sucia head-on from the driver's side, the steel bumper, light bar and red winch hook up front
Sucia from behind, parked on a street in downtown Brighton under a Summer in the City banner

First time off-road with the lift

On May 4 we took her to the Rifle BLM area, her first time off-road on the lift.

Sucia climbing over a dirt and rock ledge in the Rifle BLM area, the front passenger tire up on the rock
The Rifle BLM area, May 4, 2024.
Sucia, splashed with mud, coming over a dusty rise between the junipers

Rifle Falls

That afternoon we stopped at Rifle Falls, and the caves beside it.

Rifle Falls, three streams of water falling over a mossy cliff under cottonwoods
Dan and Drea in sunglasses in front of Rifle Falls
Rifle Falls from below, the water running through grass and logs at the bottom
Rifle Falls from the side, with the overlook platform at the top of the cliff
Inside one of the caves at Rifle Falls, the walls covered in knobby rock formations
A close look at the knobby rock formations on a cave wall at Rifle Falls

Building Sucia

Building Sucia is the series on our channel: same Jeep, same two people, a little more built every step. Start at Ep. 1, Meet Sucia, and follow along on YouTube at @Adventures2RantaBout.

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