Official Tennessee Thread

my neighbor with the Jeep is the dude who needs the handheld CB btw

 

Manual. Fast feet + 5.29 gears

Not in this video, but if I’m talking off on a super steep spot, I use the hand brake release technique if rolling backwards would be a bad thing.

 

damn... I need to regear. I was thinking of getting 4.88s. But I would like to just yank the whole front out and leave it out and maybe swap in a toyota axle to keep the ground clearance about the same (maybe be able to run 35s but that's it, I don't want a monster like @slander lol)

 

Why SAS just to stick with 35s? Too much work for damn near the same result IMO. You dont need lift or a straight axle for 35s.
Also, if you're wanting to gear your truck to not roll back offroad, you want a crawl box. Dump the clutch and crawl, easy peasy. Leave your diffs geared best for the highway, tcase for the trail.

 

You're biased but yeah, I agree a crawlbox would be nice.

 

My monster sits lower than half the trucks on TW with smaller tires!

 

This is true haha. But you've cut a lot to make that happen

 

This. 35s and ifs on a first gen is just dumb, the crawl box will give you kick ass performance offroad, you will be able to go places you can't go on 35s and with 255/85/16s on there you can dd the truck. Plus you won't have to be changing CVS every other trail ride which is an added bonus. My truck had the above combo for 8yrs and it was my DD and it went 90% of where I wanted to go off-road, the winch did the rest for me.

 

Wait so... is this a pro-SAS argument or a pro-crawlbox argument?

 

Read this as me being genuinely curious, not smartass.

I've heard you say this several times. Why do you say this, and what are you basing your opinion on?

Outside of how much work it is to fit them on a 1st gen, the only thing I can think of might be the bigger/hevier tire being harder on cv's, steering rack, brakes. But is it that big of a concern? You know I'm very seriously bumping up to 35's this winter. If there's something I'm missing I want to figure it out now.

 

Pro crawl box, pro smaller tires anti 35s.

 

I gotcha. I'll have to look into this more.

 

You hit the nail on the head. More stress on parts for very little gain in height and actual performance. Plus tubbing the fire wall brings teh suck. Crawl box is hands down the best bang for the buck mod I ever did on my truck. Better than the SAS, 37s and front locker.


In before Gideon starts boasting about suspension setups and sweet drifts....

 

but SAS on 35s takes away all those stress related issues, no? And you still get 35s but maybe a little more ground clearance/less hacking away at the firewall? Or is this bad thinking?

 

Bad thinking

 

Says the guy who was gonna swap his IFS for a SA, instead traded his IFS truck for a SA truck and who's never wheeled a stick ...

 

*drops mic*

 

But it looks COOOOOL!

I get all that. However, I don't hear the 1st gen/35's guys complaining about an absurd amount of 35 induced breakage. You never ran 35s IFS right? WHere is this strong opinion coming from?

Not saying you're wrong. Just trying to make sure I don't do something I regret. With the way my truck is wheeling right now, I'm having second thoughts about moving up in tire size. Here's my logic...The bastard goes any damn where I point it. Fack it's cool. The one place it lacks is in gearing with the manual. Even 5.29 with 33's isn't enough in the bad stuff. Moving up in tire size is going to make that worse.

Obviously a crawler would fix it, which is what you've saying all along.

 

Well, this is the last time I invite YOU to my birthday party