Pete M

whomever can get a hold of a chinese company to order those regulators can make some money, that's for sure.

think they'll go back to the 20 feet of headlight wires?

I split your question off so it didn't get lost in the old thread. and the Ford front 1/2 ton 44s come in 5 bolt wheel patterns, chevy are 6. I don't know about the rest though.

what an odd world we live in.

cleaned up the thread to focus on the bumper. do you have any pics of it installed?

that sounds like a blast! but yeah, there's no way I can plan a trip there in time. Also my truck is still disassembled.

I also use a regular 'puter (win 7) and I clicked on the 3 little dots and it gave me a link that leads to that specific post you see above. is that what you seek? each post has its own 3 dots thingie.

I'm curious to see how the drums turned out after sandblasting

updates don't have to be epic, show-stopping upgrades that cost more than a house. pics of the truck's daily life work great too.

nice! I split your post off into its own, well deserved thread. but I'll do you one better, fill in more details about the truck and how the swap happened and I'll upgrade you to Epic

I'm a huge fan of the grands. great score!

33s have only one inch more ground clearance than 31s but come with 10 times the headaches.

score! sometimes life is about the little victories

how long ago did you notice this? did it happen at the same time we started hosting our own pics?

did you leave a club card behind?

Little ones are the best! I always have time for their tiny smiles (even though they look more confused than anything in the pic). A big thanks to Bo for hosting and feeding us. Next time though, let's pick a weekend that's a bit cooler than the upper 90s.

that's a serious milestone!

welcome to the club! details on your truck?

regardless of what anyone else thinks (it's your truck after all), if there's any doubt in your head then you probably will regret it later on down the road. longer bumpstops can help keep the tires out of the fenders. what lift/rims/tires are you going to run?

saw an ad for a broken CRD Liberty: " Turbo failed and caused an engine runaway condition". I assume that means the oil seal failed and let oil into the engine. that's just fantastic. one more item on the list of ways that Liberty CRDs have failed that I can now worry about. Oh well, I guess knowledge is a good thing and I can now prepare a method of choking the air intake. At least that'll be a bit easier with the V6 intake I have (it's right on top rather than buried in the grille like stock CRD).

your lowers are already shimmed to some degree. they come that way from the factory as an adjustment built in to perfect the alignment. The process is simply adding more shim. But yes, uppers start to be needed around 4-4.5" to fix caster. But having said that, uppers exist for a 3" lift and are an upgrade over stock.

well, technically the lower arms aren't steering or driveline. rules of thumb (and these can differ depending on who is saying them): 1-2" is pucks and shackles at 3" is where things get weird and you need coils, lower control arms, shocks, longer brake lines, longer sway bar links, and some sort of AAL or full leafpacks. 3" of lift and stock lowers usually pulls the tire back in the wheelwell. I've known guys to just run that way and not care (even though it looks funny and lessens your caster). Don found that he was able to shim his forward and since then others have done the same. But because there is only so much room to scoot the LCA bolt and all trucks are a bit different, I always caveat with this may work.

there is one caveat to this. The lower control arms have some adjustment in the form of shims. IF your truck has enough to give, you can shim the WJ (or stock, but who wants that?) arms to accommodate a 3" lift.

Welcome! Be sure to give your truck an introduction in the Pub and include plenty of pictures.