1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I was coming down Big Bear this past weekend and taking some of those turns pretty fast...getting to where I'm more confident in my truck's cornering ability without the sway bar. Never once felt tippy or like I was on the verge of something dangerous. Only time I'd really worry about that is if it was an abrupt, evasive maneuver at speed...but even then, it's a truck and they aren't designed to do that very well sway bar or no sway bar. The lifts and big tires we put on our trucks probably does just as much to make that dangerous as taking the sway bar off does.

I didn't take mine off until I put my Kings on for what it's worth, if I had stock or stock equivalent suspension I don't think I'd risk it personally.

 

Good point. You don't hear of insurance freaking out over lifted trucks not being able to stop as well. We're probably more at risk with 33's on stock brakes then with no sway bar

 

My brother does that kind of work for Geico (assesses accident damage, writes out the reports and what not). He's the sole Geico claims adjuster up in Bend, OR and has to travel to reported accidents where Geico insurance is involved and assess damage. I'll run this by him and see what he says.

Geico paid for him to take welding classes and get certified so that he could identify good welds, so they are pretty thorough in some respects I know that much. But as far as dinging someone for having no sway bar, or lifting their vehicle, I don't think that's something they care about but I could be wrong. It might depend on a case by case basis and how far the other insurance company wants to take it, if there's great bodily harm/fatalities involved, etc.

Also wasn't it back in the 70s or sometime around then that a law(s) put into place that protected people that wanted to modify their vehicles and such? Which is why we're allowed to do most of the things we do to our trucks without getting in trouble for it. Otherwise, I don't think there's any way an insurance company would be okay with us putting big steel bumpers on our rigs that amplify damage to others, or large tires, lifts, etc.

 

Interesting, I'd be really interested in what he says. I'm jelly he gets to live and work all over bend though haha love that town

 

Oh believe me so am I, lol. He hated his job when he was doing it here, he was the claims adjuster for a bad part of town in east Los Angeles and had to deal with all sorts of crazy, upset people involved with car accidents. He told me he saw them post a relocation listing for Bend, OR right when it went up and jumped on it without even talking to his wife, because he knew someone else would take it. He got it and they moved up there earlier this year, he loves it now.

 

Also I should mention that when he's assessing welds and other kinds of mechanical work, he's assessing work done by body and repair shops to make sure they meet the insurance company standards. I don't think it applies to work done by us to our own vehicles unless that work directly correlates to a major accident or claim having to be made, but that's the part I'm curious about myself now.

 

Who has photo shop and wants to make one of my pictures better or whatever @BartMaster1234 was talking about?

Just for fun.

 

This is why my truck sits at home most the time. Afraid I'll hit someone or someone hits me.

 

I’d offer to do it, but Adobe revoked my lifetime CS6 subscription a couple months ago. Unfortunately.

 

post it up and I'll see what I can do

 

Same here. Mine didn't come off until I got my Kings. Around the same time however, I bought another vehicle, so the Taco was no longer a daily driver.

I'm not sold that I would have taken it off if it were still my daily driver, even with the Kings.

That said, I don't notice all that much difference in driving unless I purposefully whip the steering wheel around like a doofus. THEN you notice the body roll, lol

 

You get pid to photoshop lol

 

I overheard this walking through campus:

“If you want to save a shitton of money, go to Dollar Tree and buy a shitton of Ramen. But don’t just eat it...” and then I didn’t hear the rest of it.

 

There’s sooo many to choose from though

Now you choose.

 

Speaking of. Here’s one of the quintessential college meals.

Third one is my favorite.

 

Maybe sell it to freshmen in the dorms?

 

That was a shitty day.
But it did end up pretty cool.

 

Who wants to bet I can have these off and revalved, and back on again before tyler does his front lift

Cmon @BartMaster1234 accept the challenge, you can win this one just put down the corndog

 

At this rate ill have my frame put together before his front lift

Jk

 

Why didn’t I paint the control arm red...