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Yeah, had to replace one on my 2000 but had replacement axle shafts so I didn’t have to do any pressing. Just the seals. Looks like I’ll be going all out on these.

 

I have the limited trim which is why I want the wider wheel. Right now I have the 4.3 bs with 2" wheel spacers from when I had stock wheels. I could probably drop to an 1.25" spacer and be flush but I want to ditch spacers all together.

 

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Last year I owed $1 to California. I don’t think I’ll get that lucky this year

 

Yikes

 

Ultra bling.
You can barley see it with the wheel on.

 

I like dis

 

Wheels look 100% better with some fresh paint on em.

 

Need more bigger

 

Neither do I, but here I am on I-10 driving to Phoenix at 83 mph and 13.6 mpg

 

Main reason I’m going to a 17. So I stay away from a 35

Frick. and I’m here afraid of what a 34 will do to my mpgs. I’ll miss my 20+ Hwy mpg

 

I think I’m driving into the wind. It’s never this bad and I just did an oil change and air filter yesterday.

 

Update, I’m probably going to run out of gas before I make it to a gas station

 

Better call AAA now.

 

Made it. 184 miles 14.6 gallons

 

F150 tank soon

 

I was impressed with my fuel consumption this weekend in the desert.

Oh side note I survived

 

Pretty standard, you learn to deal. Wheel spacers sometimes help, and sometimes they’re worse because then the tire will grab the frame at a different point. Like sidewall vs. shoulder

 

Oh that’s really bad. I thought I was bad at just over 200 city.

 

A lone coyote won't get too aggressive with a bigger dog. Most coyotes are what, about 35-40lbs? I had a black lab that liked to chase coyotes. She was a 55 pounder. I had her two days, inherited from my nephew, took her out to show her where me and the older black lab walk around off-leash. She spots a lone coyote and takes off after it. Coyote runs away and they're out of sight into scrub oak and pines in a few seconds.

Older lab doesn't give a damn, she sticks by me and we try to follow their track on soft ground. I see some track, listen for sounds of battle, hear nothing. I circle back to the truck, thinking I'll put the older girl in then look around some more. New Lab is sitting by the truck waiting for us all happy with herself.

I trained her up after that, but she just never was an obedient dog. When she focused on chasing something nothing else mattered.

I saw her twice more chase a coyote, one time she was nipping at the coyotes heels as they went over a ridge and out of sight, two seconds later she comes barreling back over the ridge looking over her shoulder as the coyote is nipping at HER heels.

Second time she sniffed out a coyote laying down in the tall prairie grass, coyote runs off, she chases, coyote squares around and does the hump-back thing teeth bared. Lab slams on the brakes and they eye each other about five feet apart. I could almost read their thoughts, neither one of them actually wanted to do battle. They bro-posed for a few seconds then they went in opposite directions.

She went after some critter one night in Arizona, I don't know what it was maybe a fox, probably a coyote. We were in the trailer on BLM land out in the boonies, pitch dark, I open the door to go outside to relieve myself and blam, she leaps off the bed, takes my knee out and is gone for three hours. I thought she might be a goner but about 0200 I hear her barking outside the trailer door, quite happy with herself, drinks a quart of water, goes to sleep. That was a hell-raising dog with a zest for life.

She's passed on now, this latest version of black lab is a New Mexico rez rescue, she's a lot calmer. She's having a competition with some kit foxes here in Nevada, though. I left her food dish out one night, come morning there's a turd in it and urine. Dog is looking forward to morning feed, spots that, sniffs, growls and starts looking around for the culprit. She sniffed around all day but of course the fox is hidden away.

But she formulates a plan, next night she has her nose glued to the trailer window for hours, about 2200 I'm reading at the dinette, I hear an "oomph" and she leaps off of the bed and wants out. I let her out and she goes sprinting after the culprit. I could see a little bit in the moonlight, dog went south, then scrambled 90 degrees east, then disappeared into a gully. She didn't get the fox. There's a reason for expressions like "Quick as a fox" and "Clever as a fox".

They survive competing with coyote packs every night, so they can survive a black lab.