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The Golden Triangle (Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland)

Discussion in 'Texas' started by texascolt45, Sep 25, 2013.

  1. Nov 15, 2016 at 8:30 AM
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    User Name01 Little boy from FairyTale Land

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    WTF??
    I have not gotten any notifications for this thread, since Tuesday of last week
     
  2. Nov 15, 2016 at 8:46 AM
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    Tacodriver08 To have faith, is to trust yourself to the water

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    Nah was supposed to go out to West TX tomorrow through the weekend. Went to go get it alligned this morning, said both my inners are bad and thats why she has been driving squirrely on me. After checking it myself I also found that my upper BJs need to be replaced too. Just throwing money at this thing until its safe to drive again I guess :bananadead:

    I appreciate the offer, I just ordered 2, looks like i'll be ripping the front end apart this weekend.
     
  3. Nov 15, 2016 at 8:47 AM
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    NorthWest Texas?
    :rolleyes:
     
  4. Nov 15, 2016 at 9:36 AM
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  5. Nov 15, 2016 at 9:40 AM
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    Me too, sending ICONS to get rebuilt and ordering new UCA uniballs since I'll have it apart and can use them as spares. Then wiring up the compressor will be shitty. I hate wiring with a passion
     
  6. Nov 15, 2016 at 10:00 AM
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    I'm still running stock gears with 35's and didn't have no real issues until I added the RTT and bars. Now with the extra weight the tranny wants to stay in 4th most of the time. I can manually shift it back into 5th and feather the throttle to maintain but it will find 4th again when I'm not looking.

    4.88's just seem to be overkill. I was going to go with the 4.56's but now you have me wondering....
    How many things does that make in the last month?! :confused:
    Phone a friend.
    You have not been very fortunate recently with that truck. I think that last wheeling trip did you bad:mudding:
     
  7. Nov 15, 2016 at 11:12 AM
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    [QUOTE="Overkill07, post: 13663011, member: 135020"


    4.88's just seem to be overkill. I was going to go with the 4.56's but now you have me wondering....


    Phone a friend.:mudding:[/QUOTE]
    I was going the get 4.56 but saw a video of a guy with 4.88 and running 70 it was around 2500 RPM. Thes talked to that guy and he said 4.56 with 35's is good but if you've got all the extra gear and weight get 4.88.


    What are you doing this weekend?
     
  8. Nov 15, 2016 at 11:46 AM
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    Go big or go home I say, especially if your going to be toting an offroad trailer behind it on trips.

    Shit man, Idler pulley, Tensioner, PS Pump, Inner Tie rods and Upper BJs now. Honestly it was all along time coming, hell everything was/is an original part minus the upper BJs, but even those have around 85k on them. For 200k+ on all the other parts, I can't really complain. I can honestly blame it on some ignorance on my part as well since I don't drive it everyday, tend to miss issues when you get out of touch with your truck.
     
  9. Nov 15, 2016 at 7:29 PM
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    See, I just don't understand that. I'm still running stock gears, 3.73 and 35's while only pulling 1980 rpms at 75mph :notsure:

    This weekend, not sure. I'm sure the misses has plans of some sort for something, why what are you thinking?

    Yeah, 200K on stock parts is good in my opinion.
     
  10. Nov 15, 2016 at 7:56 PM
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    Finish ripping my diffs out. I already started but can't get the CV out. Not to mention I still need to build a trailer for Colorado. Did you commit yet?
     
  11. Nov 16, 2016 at 8:01 AM
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    I think at stock Rachaels runs around 2300ish RPM at 75. It sounds like 4.88 would be the way to go if you want all the power back, but 4.56 would be the way to go if you want a balance between MPG and power. My .02, for what its worth, Id' roll with the 4.88s in your case. If you jump to 37's one day and start pulling a trailer on long trips, I think your transmission would like you for it.

    And yep. 200k inst bad at all. I'll be working on that stuff on Saturday if anyone wants to learn some new cuss words.

    Just sent you a PM
     
  12. Nov 16, 2016 at 7:36 PM
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    Just need to pull the front driveshaft and unbolt the three bolts holding the front diff.
    Got the rear out and broke a wrench trying to get the front shaft out

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  13. Nov 16, 2016 at 7:44 PM
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    BulletToothTony You’ll have that on these big jobs.

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    yeah that front diff is a real bitch and half removing and reinstalling
     
  14. Nov 17, 2016 at 6:43 AM
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    My biggest Hangul was removing the cvs but after smacking the shit out of it with a chisel it came out pretty easy. Has not been too bad yet.
     
  15. Nov 17, 2016 at 7:12 AM
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    It sucks to not have an extra set of hands, to pull that shit out.......if only we were mutants, sometimes.
     
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    I'll have my brother in law look into that with him being a BioChemist and all. You want to be the test rat?
     
  17. Nov 17, 2016 at 9:52 AM
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    Only if it requires minumum effort, on my part.
     
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    Just sit still and keep looking beautiful
     
  19. Nov 18, 2016 at 9:45 PM
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    Have I been committed yet?!:goingcrazy:No they haven't found me...:spy:

    I'd like to say yes for sure to Colorado, but I need to confirm the cruise dates. From what I can tell there shouldn't be any issues but we are talking about my oldest graduating so I'm not sure what I will have to do before hand....

    I have committed to a trailer build though :sawzall::welder:
     
  20. Nov 19, 2016 at 7:42 AM
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    Still waiting on the metal for my trailer, and new welder, and 220 relocate and chop saw
     

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