Long Travel BS Thread

When your tires are further out than your fenders they make a nice upsidedown rain / dirt / rock spray that fans out towards and away from your truck that coats the side of your vehicle. Look at any pic of Blackdawg's long travel truck in mud and you'll see what I mean

 

Yep, with glass fenders its part of the lifestyle. If you go fast enough, you might even earn some trophy rock chips!

 

For reals..

Alberta Bound!-14.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr
DeTour-4.jpg by Monte Nickles Photos, on Flickr

 

You say that now....

 

Install on my +2 kit from Baja Kits went really smooth (other than me buying the wrong CV boot kit, but that's on me). Not sure what all the hoopla is about...had the old suspension ripped off and the new arms, coilovers, TREs, steering and limit straps put on in like 3 or 4 hours. Axles would've been done too, but I screwed up the boots part lol

 

Psst...you forgot to gusset ...everything

 

For this reason I’m considering line-x for the truck. I work at an asphalt plant so the truck is always dirty.

 

lol better to wait - I had to cut them shits out from the coil buckets. Not a fun game

Make sure you like what you paid for. Then gusset... everything

 

I'm looking at diy rhinoliner to save some money. Air compressor, gun that comes with the paint, some plastic and a calm day.

 

Oh IDGAF about the paint. If anyone does what I do and want their paint to last..they are in the wrong hobby haha That said I have a small dream of using raptor liner that is dye able to get back to silver. If you use paint thinner it can be sprayed from a paint gun so look fairly smooth vs most bed liners.

What sucks is just the colossal amount of shit that goes flying everywhere and covers literally everything every time you think about a dirty water hole but don't even make eye contact.

 

lol that's true. If I don't paint my truck, it will be four colors and I'm not sure if I'm that brave lol.

 

Mine is currently 4 haha green body and bed. Black fenders. Silver tail gate. White wildernest.

Driven hard every second of its life. Fuck it.

 

I’ve used the DIY raptor stuff. It didn’t last. It chips. I sanded the whole bed and used a self etching primer then sprayed the bed. I did it at work so I didn’t have to worry about the mess. It will hold up to light mud but if your tire grabs a good size rock it will chip.

 

Respec.

But is it your dd

I'm considering mine a restomod. I really like that kind of project - once I have another dd it'll probably go slightly feral lol

 

Just run em without any of that crap.... u don’t even need fenderwells lol

 

Yeah, well, baby steps...took 4 months just to get it installed

 

I have by bumpers and sliders Line-X and just an FYI if/when you get mud on it it's a royal PITA to clean. You basically have to use a scrub brush to dig the mud out of the texture.

 

Hummmm....... Thanks for the info. I'm just going to have to keep thinking about it.

 

Monstaliner seems to have a more washable surface than some other rough texture finishes. I've read it washes off more easily. Rustoleum bedliner is the same way as line x it sounds. Impossible to get black once it's dirty. Of course you could always tint your paint the color of dirt

 

Looks good dude! But I'd def do the spindle gussets soon!