Meet my new DD, "Marty McFly" (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Sam Stewart
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Nice looking little extra cab Sam. No that you need it BT congrats on getting it up and running so quick.
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Thanks Jason.
Looking at my spelling, I need to stop posting at 3 A.M. lol.
Between here and there
Between here and there
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Negative. It would def just blow up.
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Gonna attempt to drive Marty to work tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Good luck! What size of tires does it have on it?
From a iPhone with autocorrect...
From a iPhone with autocorrect...
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Thanks guys. I don't doubt he will make it. Rush hour through downtown Atlanta is just going to be a little hair raising.
Marty has 31x10.50s but the fronts are horribly chopped out . It sounds like 42 mud terrains at 10 mph. :/
Marty has 31x10.50s but the fronts are horribly chopped out . It sounds like 42 mud terrains at 10 mph. :/
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Well I survived. My exhaust basically fell off. It was apparently zip tied on. So I will need to do something about that today. The tires are literally the worst riding tires I've had on a vehicle and I'm including my trail truck. 
Nothing a little bailing wire can't fix. 
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Nothing a little bailing wire can't fix.
Yeah I'm eyeballing a couple of wire hangers out in the shop...
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Got some tunes back in the ride!!! Score! Now I wonder if the volume will be loud enough to cover up the tire noise... 
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Also got hooked up with a couple of coat hangers for my exhaust. It's... marginally better.
Sam why not switch the front with the backs and see if that helps?
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That's probably my next move. It really depends on speed. Low speeds the fronts are awful and steering wheel shakes, high speed the rear feel like is bouncing all over. I'm a bit nervous about swapping because I don't want to have a bad vibration on the highway.
Also noticed tonight that I have a bad oil leak at the front corner of the pan. There's a rubber gasket on there which I think should just be FIPG. I couldn't get the pan off since you have to drop the front diff. So, I'm gonna goop a bunch of FIPG in there and tighten the bolts up and see what happens. I'm most likely going to have the guys at the shop do the oil pan since I don't have a lift at home.
Once I get that sorted then I'll see about some tires. I might just go with like a Cooper AT3 because I can get them cheap and this truck won't see much (if any) off road use.
I wonder if who did the oil pan before meesed up the block and that's why there's a leak...I did that to mine and still need to fix it, just don't wanna deal with dropping the dif yet if it's that. An I understand that with the tires, I just got a set of bighorns from a guy and the front were worn weird and I did that switch and it made them quiter.
I almost ended up with the AT3's on my 3rd gen. I have had really good luck with my cooper's.
Here's to hoping the tunes drowned out the tires tomorrow.
Here's to hoping the tunes drowned out the tires tomorrow.
