Official Tennessee Thread

Damn, that’s taking forever.

I’d run without TPMS. Atleast I am with my new wheels. Took the tpms out and put them in a pvc pipe with 35psi in it and threw it in the back.

Call up freedom tire guys to come mount them. Think it’s like $20 a tire for mount and balance plus a $50 “mobile fee” but they’ll come to you wherever and you won’t have to haul the tires around. That’s who did my new tires.

 

My truck, with the stock rear bumper, has been rear ended 3 times. I still have said stock bumper.

First time was at a red light. Damage to my truck - small ding left of license place and a couple of scratches. Damage to other car - front end damage, hood damage, cracked radiator. Had to be towed away.

Second time was at a stop sign (people are fucking dumb.. see the trend here?). Dude ran straight into my hitch - zero damage to my truck. Their car had a hole in the headlight.

Third time I don't remember because I'm losing track of all the people that have hit my truck over the years.

Unrelated incident, was apparently hit by someone while my truck was parked in a parking garage. Person left a note saying they hit my car and didn't see any damage. They were correct: ARB still in tact, not a scratch on it.

Here's a picture of the bumper after being rear ended 3 times. Apparently my truck is a dirty whore that loves being plowed from behind by strangers.

 

That's pretty cool they did that actually. Don't hardly hear about stuff like that, most folks would have just driven off

 

Yeah thankfully I can drive the truck while I wait.

I'm heavily leaning towards the PVC pipe bomb approach. I check my tire pressure regularly anyways.

That sounds easy, but I need to find somewhere that doesn't mind doing dynabeads rather than wheel weights. Maybe they would make it easier. I'll check them out!

Yeah you definitely can't tell haha. I've got that steel rear bumper on mine now so I'm not too worried about it. Lat week when I was sick with the flu I backed into a metal post a bit and you couldn't tell. Steel + LineX FTW.

 

Honestly that's the best vehicle to drive around Nashville... there's really no other way other than getting an old beater car and painting it destruction derby colors.

 

Get a spicer. Toyota u-joints are insanely strong and @slander managed to break a parts store one pretty quick

Ive not heard of many people having luck with beads...hit a bump and wobbles, etc. Big problem on solid axle rigs getting deathwobble

 

If you want, I’ll give you their number. I know the guy that started up the company.

As @Snowy mentioned, I haven’t heard of a ton of people that have good luck with beads. Personally I’d just do steel weights and slap a piece of tape over them.

 

Love my beads! Tsl are shit to balance anyways but my km2 was really smooth with airsoft bbs in it. My buddies marks truck running 40s and diy beadlocks and smooth as butter with bbs. Just luck of the draw really

 

@Knoxdavid34 just get a matsuba brand u joint from lowrange off-road. They supply the stock ones. I sheared the cross right off a O'Riley's joint I was running as a spare on an easy obsticle on 33s.

Japanese only joints!!

 

It's always O'Reilly's parts. I never buy any parts from there.

 

Okay, okay, you told me so! So what's that make you 2 out of 100 so far???

 

Thanks for all of the advice, guys. I’m out for a work trip. When I get back in town I’ll take a photo of my CV angles and see what you think.

 

I've been working on sealing my windows since I got home, only stopping to reheat some leftovers.

On the bright side, it's 33 outside and my heater is only coming on every 30 minutes or so already, instead of every 5-10 minutes. I've only sealed 3 large windows in the living room and two small ones in the basement. Rope caulk around the big cracks followed by window film. Tomorrow's low is 15 degrees so time is money, gotta get as much done as I can tonight.

 

Heat has legit not come on since I posted that^ needless to say my windows were suuuper leaky before. I'll have to call it quits for the night but so far 80% improvement. Hope I save like $100 on my next bill, would more than pay for materials and time.

 

Yup, but I had no choice as that was the only auto parts store in evarts ky.

 

Had a brand new o'riely's tie rod snap on my old 2wd nissan. Happened on the I24 at 70 mph and almost sent me into the opposing traffic. Never again will I buy from them.

 

I feel you. I live in a 50’s house and I’ve been chasing drafts all week with this weather coming in. Great stuff expanding foam has been my friend. Windchills today and tomorrow are supposed to be around -30

 

I strangely don't miss Chicago as much right now

 

Built my beadlocks 2 or 3 years ago, have now run Dynobeads with 2 different sets of tires and they seem to work just fine on the road. Gonna put them in the new set too.

 

Trying to text you, but it won't go through. Did you get a new number?