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Thanks. They’ve become like pets to me after feeding them for a couple of years and staying up all hours of the night doing overwatch to protect against coyotes every time a calf is born.
Keep @Tim Herald away from these precious creatures. We know he hunts big game animals. Joking.
Surprisingly, Belfab tire carrier was very easy to install, came power coated, reasonable priced. Anthony Bell was helpful.
I'll be upgrading to the weathertech truck mat later (using a mdx one).
 
Keep @Tim Herald away from these precious creatures. We know he hunts big game animals. Joking.
Surprisingly, Belfab tire carrier was very easy to install, came power coated, reasonable priced. Anthony Bell was helpful.
I'll be upgrading to the weathertech truck mat later (using a mdx one).
I do but can sure appreciate watching and photographing them. Beautiful and very cool. I do hear they are good to eat 😜!
 
Installed the LRNA cruiser company rear bumper and swing arms. A few little things left to finish, adjust, and wire the lights, etc

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I do but can sure appreciate watching and photographing them. Beautiful and very cool. I do hear they are good to eat 😜!
Indeed they are. The bulls will be sold/traded off and likely end up at a hunting ranch. I thought about taking one for my freezer until I spent as much time and energy feeding and looking after them as I have. I might be willing to go hunt one somewhere else, but not one of these
 
Loaded up for the Rubithon 😎
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Seeya there !
 
Is this a bad idea?
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Always wanted to do a 3-link so playing around with the 3d scanner this weekend and made up this lower link design in order to -

1. Keep steering stock (on a budget).
2. Have lower axle mount slightly below center line. - i have seen where the just put the lower mount above the tie rod but just seems too high for me and i still want it to have good road manners driving to and from the trail.

Plan is to have 2x 1/2" cut plates from send cut send for the front part welded together to a 2" dom tubing each side.

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So I have been fighting this noise that sounds like a clank against one of the drive shafts that at first I thought was the rear differential with the ARB air locker chewing up my air line. When I start to take out the drive shafts both ends are barely finger tight, but I was still worried, so I took the rear differential out and confirmed the air line was still intact. I put it all back together and got the drive shafts both ends tight and the noise is still there.

Next, I try and isolate the noise by taking out the front drive shafts but the noise was still there. Next, put the front back in and took out the rear shaft. When shifting the transfer case to low, I hear the same clanking sound I have been hearing but the truck is off and not moving. When I test drive the truck this time, the noise is gone. But since I had the same clanking noise when I shifted the transfer case into low, it is now making me think I screwed something up when I rebuilt the transfer case with the low range gears and converted it to part-time. I also saw a small drip coming from the front output shaft area of the transfer case when I was putting the front drive shafts back in.

The thought that I might have to pull the transfer case again is just devastating. I guess I am just going to sleep on it for a night or two and figure out what to do next.
 
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