What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Definitely this.

 

Very nice!

On a side note, how do you like your Fox DSC's? Do you use both of the adjusters pretty often? One more than the other?
I've been looking at these for my upcoming around the country on/off road excursion. Quick adjustments from highway to offroad would be ideal.

 

Have you tried DownSouth Motorsports in San Diego? Back when I got mine, King said they'd be a month out. DownSouth had them at my door 3 days later with the requested 700lb coils installed. That was a few years ago, but they seem to carry a good stock of items.

 

Heres a tip I learned today, the Tien spaner wrench is a perfect fit for the kings 2.5 coil over making adjustment a breeze on and off the truck

 

I called almost 20 shops for my fronts and finally found a set at battle born offraod in vegas

 

Which brand is this?

 

Trying to order the HPS intake pipe and they wont ship to CA. Lol WTF

Good thing ill be in El Paso next weekend ill ship it there.

 

I made these brackets so I could keep the cover on with ladders racks. While I can cut a semi straight line, I’m no welder so I currently have a fab shop making new ones. They’re also cutting the ladder rack legs down to just above the antenna fin.

 

Made a bracket for mine and used existing holes to mount it.

 

That works.. How many miles you got on yours? How often do you need to empty it?

 

I like it. Matches the Kings, lol. Would need to figure out where to mount though as the switchpros is taking up that space. But I see a need for it after a little smoking incident on a steep rocky incline a couple years ago.

 

350ml Oil Catch Can Tank with Breather Aluminum Polish Baffled Oil Separator Filter (Blue)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0893SVGZM?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image

The tube that comes with it fuckin sucks, buy some tubing before you do this.

 

I’m a skinny sob so a sideways shimmy will get me through

this was a heavy and awkward pain in the ass. Had to take it down 2 times (3rds a charm) because I was trying to hit that middle stud (spanned 3) but it ended up being to tight to tighten the hoist bolts after hung and the stud was directly in the middle of the 2 brackets. I’ll likely upsize the lags and add legs on the outside studs then bolted together with the horizontal piece.




nice and tight

 

Put about 300 miles on it today. First time the whole family was in the truck for longer than 30 minutes. My kids managed to use up all 2gbs of free data on my "trial" in like 200 miles.

A couple of take aways:
1. You can fit 2 razor quads in the back and close the tailgate. They literally fit perfectly in there. See pic

2. The truck is quite smooth at 70-80 miles per. Very stable and it tracks pretty well.

3. The transmission isn't very happy on the highways with anything other than flat. I now understand all the bitching about the transmission hunting gears. It feels like the truck needs about 20-25 more hp and tq plus 2 extra gears but not necessarily 2 more overdrive gears. Maybe 1 and 1. But the transmission is smooth and responsive.

4. The radar cruise control is fantastic . Really like this feature.

5. A large majority of Atlanta highway commuters are fucking stupid and dangerous, even on Sunday's.

6. There isn't much difference in my MPGs when it comes to city and highway. Been getting 20-21 mpg city. Highway is looking like around 22-23. Gotta be the way this truck is geared. Much happier around town/city vs highway.

7. More of an update really but the H11 Philips Xtreme Vision bulbs are definitely brighter with more light on the road. Glad I made the switch.

 

Wish I could do something like that but my cover takes up the entire rail so I’m unable to bolt on, I may have to buy a Diamond back or a rolling cover which rolls into a drum. Then I lose my bed back molle system. I didn’t think I would use it for camping originally, I’m new to this but I have the bug.

 

It’s not done till you’ve changed it 3 times

 

Can someone please explain to me the reason and need for a oil catch can?
Don't know if I need one for the Hanger Queen or the Road Princess.

 

Changed the low beam headlights from H11 to H9.

Purchased wire harnesses and cut the tab on the harness end that goes to the trucks wiring harness.

Purchased from Rockauto - Techsmart F90014 $8.90 each. Unlike Amazon harnesses you will need to purchase 2.


Small Tab cut out


Picture Shows Drivers side H9 Passenger Side H11.



Will post night shots when I take some.

 

Love them. I added a lot of weight before upgrading my shocks so I was able to put a lot of seat time on the stock shocks. What a difference after the Fox shocks. On my stock shocks, the truck would dive on every hole and every edge was extremely sharp. Braking, the car would use up all
The front suspension and sometimes pop. After fox, same dirt roads/lots, I can drive at regular speeds and it is so suple. No harsh sharp edges and the truck doesn’t dive. It also seems to put power down better since it doesn’t transfer all the weight around.
I only adjust the rears a bit since the weight changes. The fronts are Set with stiff compression. I late brake and the stiff compression keeps my body more centered. It’s not too stiff so there is still a good amount of compliance in the corners.
I like them a lot. I got them for only 1500$ And I did the install myself.