NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I don't think they sell retail; looks like OEM applications only.

 

Whatcha replacing them with?

 

I'm not. I already installed a set. The company I purchased them through, and picked them up from, accidentally shipped me a second set.

 

Good misfortunes. How do you like your shocks as of now? Was looking into them a bit before I got my icons.

 

The rears are night and day from my 5 year old foam Ironman shocks. These ride much better. I already have the from FCP, and my only negative for them is how tough they are too adjust.

 

Seems like most adjustable coilovers are hard to adjust while on the truck. My icons weren't too bad, but @drr was struggling with his ADS coilovers and he had a fancy spanner wrench too. I think that's why all the companies recommend to take them off and compress them first now.

 

"fancy" lol

 

Built in bottle opener.

Fancy.

 

Yeah that was the most useful part about it.

 

I'm having a harder time being ignorant about my stock gears... I wonder what the lead time/turnaround is on this, I'm supposed to be in Washington for the weekend of the 15th. TW is doing it again

 

Does anyone else have a helluva time fueling their truck up without the pump wanting to shut off every 5 seconds?

 

Nope. I only have problems with holding back those stupid boots when fueling the moto, but I've bought a handy tool for that. I forget where I got it from, I have the receipt at home...

 

Generally nope. Every now and then Ill run into a pump that is being weird and have to hold the handle the whole time (but that happens on the car too)

 

Yes. The vapor thingies drive me insane.

 

Only certain gas stations. Chevron for example does it to me. But ARCO and COSTCO don't. I found I had to hold Chevron's instead of putting the hold thing on.

 

Every now and then I'll find a station that will let me lock the handle and pump a full tank, but lately it's not co-operating and I seem to think there's a problem with the filler neck on my truck. It doesn't seem to be an issue with just one fuel brand/station as it happens everywhere.

 

The safeway in Enumclaw has not stopped multiple times for me. Pretty awesome watching it dump fuel down the side of your rig. Refuse to go there now.

 

What tires do you guys recommend for out climate here? Truck is 90% daily driver with 10% forest service roads and light trails to go camping, hiking, and shooting. Priorities are good in snow, rain, long wearing, quiet, preferably not load range E.

Stock size is 265 70R16
No plans to lift above stock
My only complaints on my factory Goodyear Wranglers are shortish treadlife (~50% at 20k miles) and prone to punctures or bad luck (2 flats in the last 2 months)

I've looked at the Cooper Discovery AT3, Cooper Discovery ATP, Goodyear DuraTrac (can become noisy through tread life), KO2 (only seems to come in load range E in that size)

Any others I should look at?

 

Falken AT3/W in SL 265/75/16. I've had these in the 285 version for over a year now and think they are pretty awesome. Construction and load ratings are same or better than most C range tires.

 

My Hankook Dynapro ATMs have served me very well for about 50k miles now and they still have a lot of life left in them.