Recent content by Honger

The bummer on this... someone else took it upon themself to drive dad's truck up to him. Dad had gone up the hill to help with a recovery effort and before coming down this guy jumped in, started up, then started reversing back and flipped it. Dad handled it way better than I did when he told me...

Whoa... that sucks! Hadn't checked in on this thread in awhile, missed all the replies.

I started this project with a web search. I figured that these trucks must have a Class III hitch available on the aftermarket somewhere... and got several hits in Australia. Shipping something this heavy was going to cost an arm and a leg... but I got the inspiration I needed. My neighbor is a...

PM the name of the business and address if you have one… I’ll see if I can get someone to help things along. Not to make excuses for them, but the war has made logistics from the UAE quite interesting.

Overall, about what you’d expect. When towing up Lizard Head Pass on CO145, once I hit 9000 feet, any grade above 2% had me down in 2nd gear and cruising 25 mph. This really only happened in a handful of spots. In general, a lot of 3rd gear and 45 mph up in the mountains. On the trails, 4-hi...

So last summer my wife talked me in to a pop-up camper. She grew up with one and had lots of good memories. My only condition is that I didn't want to deal with a toilet/shower/blackwater system... and just didn't want to have people using the restroom in a place I eat and sleep in such confined...

Over the last 18 months or so I've been battling some vibration. It got bad enough that I was getting full on death wobble. I think the true death wobble was brought on my by incorrect attempt to help the issue by adding caster shims. I started a thread to get help on that specific issue. As...

For clarity, the death wobble proper (as @LDowney pointed out, it is a specific thing) stopped with the replacement of the trunnion bearings (knuckle bearings). There were visible grooves in those bearing races when I replaced them... and each knuckle would stay seated in a centered state based...

Resurrecting this thread because I hate old tech threads that never resolve... I'm just horribly late in doing so! TLDR; I've sorted out the driveline/steering based wobble in the truck. New tires, new shocks, new steering stabilizer, new trunnion bearings. Details... Steering shaft joints...

I'd missed this reply. I haven't done this... when you tighten the end nut, do you go to factor torque again? Added to my PM list...

This is an old post and thread... and I may have missed a more recent thread... But can we get a category in our build thread for adventures/travels? Understand if we want to keep it "tech" focused...

Still driving it around... and especially longer distance... all the way across AZ to the San Juans in CO. Even towing a pop-up camper now! Checked off a few bucket list trails... Lots of updates on the truck... lots of catching up coming...

Still following along my friend.

Downtown Ouray looking smart this evening…

Huge thanks to @devo and @Mike Shull for the spotting on Black Bear today. Bucket list trail for me today. Mike, Bob, Matt, Dennis, Riley, other Mike… great crew and an amazing run!