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Haha I'm glad you enjoyed that. I'll definitely be taking it in as soon as I'm on my feet again from whatever needs to be done to the daily driver. Thanks for thinking of the wheel as well, not sure what I'll do if that's trashed but I'd be hard pressed to imagine it is. Yikes. Has...

Hello All, This last weekend saw a misfortune for my '99 as I hit a small boulder in the desert doing about 40MPH on tires aired down irresponsibly low. The tire is donezo. Unfortunately that's the least of my problems. After freaking out about the tire and being driven around town the next...

Very cool, you and I are in pretty similar places. I'm halfway done with the spindle lift at the moment, gonna keep at it after work today. Which spindle are you going with?

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I'm about to install a spindle lift so I've been in the market for replacing as much as I can while I'm in there. In fact, Gmanpaint, your thread on heavy duty IFS parts has been instrumental in my parts search. Thank you. At any rate, I'm struggling to...

That's impressive suspension work. Does anyone else not appreciate the color though?

I can vouch for both of these statements. I've never used heat to remove but PB blaster and an impact wrench go a looooong way. If that doesn't work (which is usually the case on the mounts below the front seats) I just take a dremel to it and let that mount be a dummy. Take it to a shop and...

My buddy saw this near the 91/57 interchange yesterday and was nice enough to snap a picture for me, do we know who this is?

How have I not seen you around Fullerton/Placentia/Brea yet?

Found this a few months ago in old town Orange while on a family bike outing, just east of the circle a couple streets. In advance I'd like to advise all to keep an eye pealed for "Gold Member". Should be seen around Whittier.

It's probably nothing. It's not visibly noticeable right? I'm assuming you didn't realize it until after measuring. I guess if you really wanted to be sure that it was like that before you could measure a stranger's explorer in a parking lot somewhere, just do it quickly lol.

I like turtles

That's correct, you won't need steering extension with the lesser-known 2" BL. At that point you'll have 4" of lift w/ TT and shackles and be able to run 33's with very minor trimming

Looks awesome to be sure, I like. This cracked me up. I know for a fact you aren't getting better than 14 MPG avg and THAT is what destroyed your gas mileage lol

Very clean, I like it. You fabbed it yourself?

Largest tire I've seen on a 15x7 is a 33x12.5, not sure what the metric equivalent would be but you could find out here... http://www.dakota-truck.net/TIRECALC/tirecalc.html And just to echo, we'd need to know more specifically what you would need it to do to qualify as reliable. I would argue...

You wouldn't necessarily take the kit to a mechanic, but more along the lines of a suspension or motorstyling shop. If you have a solid understanding of the process you should be able to do it on your own, if not be able to explain to a specialist the major things to take note of (i.e., the...

Gold, early 2nd gen @ 57S/5S interchange Saturday night. Couple inches of lift, 6k HIDs. I exchanged acknowledgement gestures with the brodozer driving and parted ways. Probably on his way home from Monster Jam

Just did this project again a second time on the new Ex. Much, much, much smoother/faster the second time around. I HIGHLY recommend buying, renting, or borrowing a powerful impact wrench to punish the factory mounts with (preferably compressed air; I used electric which worked great but steer...

haha That's awesome. Looks good, definitely keep us posted as you go, and let us know what you decide to do about lifting. Definitely start with the tried and true torsion twist for 1.5" in the front (free; can't go any higher with the 4WD's for fear of binding CV axles) and the shackles in the...

Also, I'd be very interested/grateful to see some pictures and a list of parts for your roof light install

The 883 will work. I recommend the 2" BL I'm installing (p/n PA-792) as we speak if you don't want your undercarriage "gut" to hang (as much) when you're done. Couldn't tell you about the basket vs tire gate situation, sounds like preference. Also, check the sticky'd threads at the top of this...

WOW! Why is this happening? I did the 792 2" lift last summer and didn't use any penetrators prior, never occurred to me this could happen. Is this a rust/regional issue?

No

Looking forward to it

Nice! I have been showing this rig to people. Pretty awesome and (unfortunately these days) unique