Official Tennessee Thread

I have the new one set in place with bolts threaded just not tightened.. I ended up getting it in to place sitting on the ground and putting the bumper on my shoulders. had to do it twice because i didn't remove those little plastic pieces under the lights... now i just have to adjust the bumper and tighten... then put on the hitch!

On the license plate lights do i just cut off the connectors and butt connect them together or can i get disconnects somewhere?

 

This is all just my opinion ........

I wanna say it wasn't too long ago in here that we were talking about this same thing. Tires are the best off road mod you can do. Tread design is the most important characteristic of tires. Just think about if you had 18" of lift, no armor and street tires. What could you do? Drive through 5' of water? Probably not because your tires couldn't handle the river bed. Drive over 4' boulders? Probably not because your tires won't get you traction. Oh I know!! Be able to stand in the bed and pet the giraffes at the zoo!! Oh wait ..... you probably couldn't drive through the dirt terrain to get to them.

Ok now you have a truck with a plate front bumper, rear bumper, sliders, full skids, an exo cage, no lift and street tires. What can you do? Bounce off of rocks and trees? Probably not cause you can't get up the one semi muddy hill that leads to the trail head. Ram your buddy's while following them through a grass field just after it rained? Hey wait up!! I'm stuck again cause my tires suck. Oh I know. Ram people on the road!! Cause street tires son!! Good thinkin!! Haha

Now you got a truck with badass offroad tires, no armor and no lift. What can you do? Hey!!! You can drive through the grassy field without getting stuck. Yay!!! You can also make it up the slightly wet hill to get to the trail head! Yay!!!! You can now also cross the river opening without getting stuck on seaweed! Yay!!!!

I don't think theres a debate of tires being first. But after that my list would probably be: recovery gear, rear locker, sliders, ifs skid, front bumper, rear bumper, suspension

 

Rick Flagg

 

I thought that's who Tom hardy was playing ?

 

He dropped out. That would be weird anyway since he played Bane in the same Universe.

 

I'd put sliders in front of locker

 

Gotcha.

 

Sliders are next on my list to get. After that it will be time to start getting skids.

 

Almost got my rear bumper on! Im running back and forth from my office out to the shop going to be a long day!! but probably one of my favorites! All i have left to do it tighten 6 bolts...

 

My fiancé brought up that the truck would look better with a back bumper last night, sounds like permission to me. She doesn't know about regearing yet though.

 

lift in front of bumpers. If you have no lift and you put on more weight, you end up losing height and thats just way too much weight to have on stock suspension.

 

Sweet!! Is he cool? I have no clue who that is. Haha

 

I could swap those up as well. My thinkin was that you can go many places without sliders but you may go no where without traction.

I put suspension last because everything can't be first. Suspension is absolutely at the top of the list on a SA rock crawler or a desert runner but just a mid level trail runner is fine with stock suspension. Yes body clearance is important but ground clearance is much more important. Tires create ground clearance. Bumpers create body clearance. It's either your truck rides nicer off road and you destroy your front and rear end or your truck rides like stock and you bash some metal bumpers against the terrain. I'll take no body damage. Plus if you have all the things on my list that come before suspension then you are on awesome tires, locked, armoured up and can get your unstuck if need be.

 

No idea, but found this on a wiki:

Rick Flag, Jr. is an elite soldier working for Task Force X, and the leader of the Suicide Squad. Beginning his career as a fighter pilot, he started going on suicide missions after a tragedy wiped out his entire unit.

 

Nice, my fiancé is buying me some rock sliders for graduation. Good to have them on our side lol. Makes things easy

 

Lol it's all about how you bring it up to them. It's been about a month and she still hasn't noticed the skid plate.

 

They don't notice anything, mine didn't even notice the giant dent in the bedside or that I went from km2 to tsl haha

 

Speaking of km2 where are they

 

Sitting in the bed of the truck which is in my shop being tore apart

 

Hmmmm