Sacrifice's Crunchy Taco

Wider tires feel good on the road?

 

They have so far, but ive only driven maybe 20 miles on. No highway speeds yet either.

You wishing you had gotten them or still happy with the 295?

 

Still really happy with 295. Just so much extra work I wasn't up for this winter to get the 35's done. When the dough for gearz is there I'll make the jump!

 

Dont think i could have had better weather days when we actually cut up the truck here.

I can say i dont notice the lack of gear just in town so far. I think the highway is where ill notice it though since cruise will be useless.

Setup my ultragauge for "corrected" speed. I just used the 13% increase from base tire size and a speed app for my phone. Both the phone and ultragauge seem to be reading close. Need a true gps to verify.

 

Last i knew hankook had some oretty good summer tires out, might look into that brand

 

Wheres the fun in that? Mine still had some tread too

 

Home ownership problems, ha

 

Definitely is nice most of the time thats for sure. Wish i had a bigger property and wasnt in the city so much. Oh well.

 

@Palehorse1 were you ever able to find the seller/what trim you ordered on Amazon? I want to pick some more up

 

I might need some also

 

Im picking up a jigsaw once i get off work in a few minutes, hopefully get all the flares trimmed once i wake up later.

Out of curiosity, wonder why no one has bolted the flares back on from the inside? Stick the nut behind the plastic clip area on the flare itself and use a button head on the inside of the fender. With some loctite i dont think they would come off at all

 

Not sure.

 

Here it is. They show a plastic clam shell but it shipped as bulk in that bag. You are welcome to use as much of what I have as I went a different direction and won't need it.

 

Thanks. Well then next time we get together ill probably use some more, im going to go ahead and trim the rear bedsides and just be done with it.

Also marked out all my flares this morning, ready to be cut whenever i wake up later.

 

Thats what I planned on doing, and still might once I find the time. Your in a better situation since your flares are intact, I'm missing a bunch of the clip mounts so ill have to make my own. But some plastic welding and epoxy should do the trick

 

What was you wanting to do? The nut and bolt method?

 

The plastic clips where they clip into the flare them self , if you open up one side of the mount you could slip a bolt through and just plastic weld the side you broke/opened so the bolt will stay in place. Then you'll have bolt on flares without exposed bolts, you won't be able to hold down the bolt side while tightening but with a long enough bolt you'll be able to tighten it down while holding the end of the threads with pliers or such

 

Oh gotcha that's actually a really good idea

 

Never mind @Acerwin he's going to do the oppiside and put the nut on the flare and bolt on the inside, that would be far easier if you can get just the right size bolt, and hold the nut with epoxy

 

Hmm...good ideas