If you don't mind, take pictures of where you have to trim. I have the Slee 4 inch lift and would like to change my wheels and go to 37" Toyo MTs as well. I have 35s now and the Toyo MTs have been the best tires I have had on the rig in the 25 years I have owned it.
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I'll try to remember and post in my build thread. Your results would be entirely different based on rim size and offset.
george.arnold
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What a bugger this is. Took 30 mins. Will take 10 next time. I recommend a good pair of knee pads to work from. I knelt on the ground and worked from there instead of trying to lean into the footwell.
Edit: I need to clean my leather.
Edit: I need to clean my leather.
Did you lube your shaft
Before you reinstalled? I think that may contribute to its demise if not lubed with a silicon lube.
Added some clearance isle L.E.D strips in the back. Haven't figured out how I want the switch so it is pinched between the panels for now.
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And the upgrade:
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And the upgrade:
Today I painted the new track bar bracket and reinforcements I did over the past week.
cppl nights camping with the local 4x4 club
I love early spring at the top of the world!
I was able to get out for the day to do some exploring, I am trying to find undocumented petroglyph panels because I want to make a book documenting all the panels local to me. I was on my way out to the desert and I came across this rolled car on the side of the road.
A couple of young teenage girls had rolled their car right before I came across them. Luckily they had their seatbelts on and were injury free, although they were completely panicked and freaked out. I was able to drive them to cell phone coverage so they could get some phone calls out. Than I drove them back to their car and kept them company until their family made it out to pick them up.
After that I put about 6 miles on the boots looking for new petroglyphs and I didn't find any panels. But I did get some good pictures.
Can you spot the cruiser?
Other than that picture I forgot to get other pics of the rig, but here are some cool ones of the area.
A couple of young teenage girls had rolled their car right before I came across them. Luckily they had their seatbelts on and were injury free, although they were completely panicked and freaked out. I was able to drive them to cell phone coverage so they could get some phone calls out. Than I drove them back to their car and kept them company until their family made it out to pick them up.
After that I put about 6 miles on the boots looking for new petroglyphs and I didn't find any panels. But I did get some good pictures.
Can you spot the cruiser?
Other than that picture I forgot to get other pics of the rig, but here are some cool ones of the area.
Hope you didn't do what i did - forget to mark the shaft alignment first!. My wheel was 10* to the right, now its 10* to the left.
Gotta fix it since i'm guessing it'd be bad to fix that by adjusting the drag link and have the steering box "center" not actually centered
Made a surprisingly large difference in steering wheel play reduction too.
I finally got around to installing my slee brake lines and replaced my front brakes. I have also been experiencing some front end grinding/vibrations during deceleration. I was dead set on ordering a front knuckle kit and going through it all. But thanks to mud I decided to grease my drive shafts and u joints before tearing in to the front end. It appeared as though the front driveshaft had never been greased. Long story short, no more vibrations. I will monitor it for a few days and see if that's all it was.
Hmm, wonder if we're going to see that rolled sedan in one of Matt's Off Road Recovery videos...
Is your Cruiser white? If so, I suspect it's that white spec surrounded by green in the upper left of the picture.
Much appreciated! I was thinking I might buy the same wheels you have. They look great! What offset are you using?
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Went out to one of our favorite trails northeast of Phoenix; Claudia in the LX, A/C on; myself in the K5, all windows open, 110°F, and I like it (the truck has functioning A/C, by the way). More importantly, it's 4WD again, courtesy of a newly rebuilt front driveshaft, but I digress.
The Saguaro cactus bloom is still ongoing:
Even in the area of last summer's fire (I actually caught some of the lightning strikes of that T-storm on camera last August):
Actually, almost all Saguaros in the burn area had blooms. But my understanding is that these plants live and die slow; it may take up to 10 years to see the real consequences of that fire for the affected cacti.
It's bone dry around here, a real tinderbox. We actually watched a plane drop fire retardant (a 'slurry drop') last Saturday; fire was caused by human activity, presumably shooting (acc. to a Forest Service ranger we met the day after) despite the target shooting ban that's in place because of the fire danger.
By the way, not from this weekend, but a few weeks ago; we collected this stuff at one of our favorite overlooks, in perhaps 20 minutes:
I couldn't leave good enough alone and emptied the trash bag to see/count what we had collected. The majority wasn't there the week before.
I did find the ear protectors fairly charming.
It was also fairly odd to run the trail today without hearing a single gunshot.
The Saguaro cactus bloom is still ongoing:
Even in the area of last summer's fire (I actually caught some of the lightning strikes of that T-storm on camera last August):
Actually, almost all Saguaros in the burn area had blooms. But my understanding is that these plants live and die slow; it may take up to 10 years to see the real consequences of that fire for the affected cacti.
It's bone dry around here, a real tinderbox. We actually watched a plane drop fire retardant (a 'slurry drop') last Saturday; fire was caused by human activity, presumably shooting (acc. to a Forest Service ranger we met the day after) despite the target shooting ban that's in place because of the fire danger.
By the way, not from this weekend, but a few weeks ago; we collected this stuff at one of our favorite overlooks, in perhaps 20 minutes:
I couldn't leave good enough alone and emptied the trash bag to see/count what we had collected. The majority wasn't there the week before.
I did find the ear protectors fairly charming.
It was also fairly odd to run the trail today without hearing a single gunshot.
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After three weeks of welding, grinding, sanding, prepping and painting the new inner fenders are installed and waiting for the outers to go on later this week. I am leaving them machine grey, because it makes it easier to see oil and other spills. An added benefit is that it also makes the engine compartment much brighter.
You are correct my friend.
Make sure you save that brass. Last time I took a five gallon bucket of brass to the scrap yard I got over $200 cash...
ChaseTruck
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It's gone. But I'm sure there'll be more once the no-shooting order is rescinded.
Two years ago at the annual cleanup organized by a local 4WD club, they had a competition for kids to bring in all the spent metal cartridges they could find. Winner was a little girl - 76lbs, in perhaps 2-3 hours. Second and third place - both girls - weren't far behind: 72lbs and 69lbs.
But in all fairness, we do see more and more folks who clean up their brass, and their targets, compared to 5 years ago.
I'd rather shoot my camera, anyways. Got a lot of macro shots of cactus blooms this spring - as much as I like this stuff, I'm wondering whether I should get myself a true macro lens. I'm still on Nikon DX, though; perhaps I should think of going mirrorless anyways, and in that move address the lens situation.
