Actually bought these for the wheels so I can weld in jeep centers.

Will play with them on the pickup for a month or so while I round of parts to make them jeep wheels.

 

There h1 12 bolt bead locks.

I've got to remove the 40lbs of runflat from each wheel. These are heavy with the run flats in

 

Itl get old quickly running 37s but I figure maybe I'll play with them for a few just cause

Edited January 23, 20214 yr by Evan

Looks like ohio is growing, same here lots of new construction

I didn't have to cut my drag link at all still have about an 1" 1/2 gap between the links, I used mopar stuff. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The boise idaho area is booming goal is four house clearances dug by end of Tuesday. Im on my own to get it done

 

. I have about. 5" between them now.

 

Mopar might be better stuff

6 hours ago, Evan said:

The boise idaho area is booming goal is four house clearances dug by end of Tuesday. Im on my own to get it done

Sorry meant to say idaho, well at least you're making money, that's good in this unknown economy/future.

Run the piss outa her wring er out put away wet n repeat.

Hoping to get steering on her tonight. Feel kinda bad I did my truck first its just sitting 

On 1/23/2021 at 10:37 AM, JAG1 said:

 Evan runs a Cat thru your house if you say anything.

Already have a cat running through my house. And two dogs. The things we do for love.......

No, kitty is inside. Chickens are outside where chickens belong. Except for one big rooster I know. He's everywhere.

07 steering is on.  We bought it new as a cab n chassis its actually 2wd but shares all front end stuff with my truck

 

Dad thinks its heavier duty than a normal 3500 im like no look at it its same everything as my 02.

 

I have a fox steering stabalizer laying around i may put it on the 07.

 

Also replaced all passenger side wheel studs they must have been loose all showed wear pattern at the base of the hub. Very thankful they are hub centric wheels 

 

The closest thing we have to a cat is this bobcat its not ours were trying it. Thinking to buy it. 

Debating sizes and types that machine weights 9300lbs . I kinda think bumping up a step to a 11k skidsteer. Though this one works circles around our old tire skidsteer.

 

Old man says I want want want.

 

30k digger a track skidsteer and I can concour the world take your hoe and shove it.

 

 

 

 outside you say....

Edited January 25, 20214 yr by dripley

You guys can let Mike out of the hen house now

Not going to jump in this pile... 

 mike must be busy! He is a big advocate of standard size or smaller tires and he let is go. What is the world coming to!!!! Ohhhh the humanity 

2 hours ago, Doubletrouble said:

 mike must be busy! He is a big advocate of standard size or smaller tires and he let is go. What is the world coming to!!!! Ohhhh the humanity 

 

Get this right...  I'm a big advocate of PROPER GEARING. I can careless about how big you want tires but when people just throw tires on and their final ratio is ruined (less than 3.40) and they don't like the answers to fixing the improper gear ratio. Either change the axle gears or ditch the tires. Both are expensive. Everyone assumes you can just swap bigger on without any support mods either. Doesn't work that way...

 

Currently I've this 2005 Dodge with a blown steering box from 35 inch tires and no supporting mods either... People wonder why steering and suspension damage comes so quickly.  Steering box on its way to @Blue-Top Steering being rebuilt. Might take a 2 or 3 weeks to turn around. 

 

Oh yeah I'm busy... 2002 Dodge Blue needed a new VP44 and FASS pump warranty since both failed in less than 100 miles. There is a 1985 Chevy on the other side of the 05 Dodge needs a MAP sensor which has been a treasure hunt. I've got 2006 Duramax in the shop now and needs a trans line replaced. Even got a 2003 VW Passat Turbo out there too with bad oxygen sensor and cam sensor wiring issue. Busy... Yup very Busy...

 

 

Edited January 26, 20214 yr by Mopar1973Man

wasn't trying to poke the bear. Just messin with ya mike. I agree with you on the ratio and tossing oversized tires on an axle that hasn't been modified to work with them. I'm guilty of doing it myself in the past. I refuse to do it to my truck now. I've outgrown that stage I guess.

3 hours ago, Mopar1973Man said:

Get this right...  I'm a big advocate of PROPER GEARING. I can careless about how big you want tires but when people just throw tires on and their final ratio is ruined (less than 3.40) and they don't like the answers to fixing the improper gear ratio. Either change the axle gears or ditch the tires. Both are expensive. Everyone assumes you can just swap bigger on without any support mods either. Doesn't work that way...

This truck I slapped together in short time to go play had 2.5 ton duce axles with 6.72 ratio and 46" military tires that weren't light, but because of ratio I had no issues, just needed a front locker. 

This truck had same axles but instead of 46" I used 52" had to build a bbc for that one to compensate, still top speed was slower than before I swapped the axles, I believe I was close to 2800 rpm at 70mph, yeah I drove it on hwys my dream was to put a cummins in it. Life changed that. I don't have any regrets thought.

 

 

I don't mind poking the bear once in awhile but yeah the amount of truck I work on where the owner slaps on a set of 35 to 37 inch tires without supporting mods and support axle gearing it absolutely sickening. Day after day I try fixing these truck because they just wanna look cool. I'm the one replacing steering boxes, tie rod ends, track bars. Always for a customer rarely and I mean rarely for myself. Hmmm... Maybe I figure something out. Big tires suxs... 427k miles and still going...

1 hour ago, Mopar1973Man said:

I don't mind poking the bear once in awhile but yeah the amount of truck I work on where the owner slaps on a set of 35 to 37 inch tires without supporting mods and support axle gearing it absolutely sickening. Day after day I try fixing these truck because they just wanna look cool. I'm the one replacing steering boxes, tie rod ends, track bars. Always for a customer rarely and I mean rarely for myself. Hmmm... Maybe I figure something out. Big tires suxs... 427k miles and still going...

keeps the $$ rolling in though.... (to a customer)  yeah those tyres look great, BTW $1000 to fix the steering  and I'll see you again soon for another 1k 

Yup. Hence why I have zero love for big tire trucks. 

Thing is though, I work for myself on heavy plant and if it wasn't for stupid drivers I'd be out of a job

I can't fix stupid but I can fix what stupid does..... over and over and over again   £££££££££ keerrrching thank you

 

For instance, I got to several sites where the operators keep resetting bucket levellers on the loading shovels so the bucket is cutting edge down, cutting edges typically last 4 to 6 weeks, I've told them once and reset once, will not tell them again and will not reset to level so at least every 6 weeks I change a cutting edge at £200 labour.... thank you Sir see you in a month and a half.... oh and then there's the cost of the cutting edge at £600 plus, I also go to sites where the operators are anal about the bucket being level... edges last best part of a year

 I guess that's the bright side. You guys can make a living off of some else's stupidity. I myself have had bigger tires, 33x12.5x15 on a '95 gmc z71 and I noticed then that it ate steering parts on the regular. Pitman arms, idler arms and tie rods once every 18 months on average. I do my own work so after have the truck set up like that for 8 years it was getting old. After that truck and a bad experience with a '99 suburban at the same time I decided to sell both when I bought my '01 3500 Cummins. Haven't looked back.

 I've had a couple issues with the dodge but nothing out of the ordinary for a truck with 150k on it. Stock tire size and only "mod" is a fass ddrp lift pump. So far so good.

7 minutes ago, Doubletrouble said:

 I guess that's the bright side. You guys can make a living off of some else's stupidity. I myself have had bigger tires, 33x12.5x15 on a '95 gmc z71 and I noticed then that it ate steering parts on the regular. Pitman arms, idler arms and tie rods once every 18 months on average. I do my own work so after have the truck set up like that for 8 years it was getting old. After that truck and a bad experience with a '99 suburban at the same time I decided to sell both when I bought my '01 3500 Cummins. Haven't looked back.

 I've had a couple issues with the dodge but nothing out of the ordinary for a truck with 150k on it. Stock tire size and only "mod" is a fass ddrp lift pump. So far so good.

I got maybe 33" to 34" tyres, doesn't eat steering, looks right, it's mine so if I have to change worn out parts then it's down to me anyway, I bought it because the pizza cutters had been binned

Thing is it comes down to the owner to decide what he/she wants his/her vehicle to look like, myself I don't get the dropped to the ground EU shoeboxes the youngsters here like, I can't see where sitting 2" or less from the road and a 5" exhaust with a 1.2 litre motor is appealing but we are all different

Evans truck looks the dogs danglies and I'm sure he can change out steering parts on his lonesome