New England B.S. Thread

Unfortunately I do not. You may want to find someone that does snowmobile or SXS repair/suspension. They normally have a rig for charging shocks

 

I have a much bigger box from HF but I really like that 34" service cart.

 

I have nitrogen, and regulators, etc.

Which fitting on the shocks? Schrader?
Do we know charged PSI?
Bottles are typically 2200psi, most regulators are stepped down to 400 or 600psi

 

No clue, but I’m willing to drive and pay for someone to do the service on em.

 

Only 2 more days for the release of the all new Tacoma!

 

Personal record I think 392 miles before the low fuel light came on.

 

I could be wrong but I want to say around 300psi. I could be wrong. I believe most are Schrader on reservoir

 

Now if they'd only give details on next 4runner and Lexus GX

 

I typically service my own stuff. Haven't done any Kings, doubtful I have any of the specialty tools(whatever they may be), but, I can charge N2 into damn near anything as long as I know the fitting ahead of time.

That tracks with most of what, I have seen.

 

I think the most specialty tool is a spanner wrench and then hex key for set screws

 

DIY on a Ford? You're brave. Or stupid. Or both!

(Have they fixed the spark plug shearing issue?)

I have heard decent enough things about this shop. If they do it or not, no idea, but they might know someone if they don't.

https://www.offroadelements.com/

I missed that memo. Nice. Gonna be a turbo 4 on coil springs, disc brakes. Basically a boxier ranger I bet. Which I'm okay with, I test drove a ranger when I got the tacoma, that thing was nice.

I have a few >400 mile trips on my fuel log. Hoping to get one in a couple weeks - might try to get up and back from Woodstock on a single tank

 

I sent my rears to Kings for the rebuild because I needed new shafts as well, they didn't hold up to the salt up here at all. Took about 33 days to turn them around in the middle of the pandemic when they said they were short staffed and running 2 months behind. Rebuild seems fairly simple, I just didn't want to deal with the mess so I just paid to get them serviced. I'll have to do the fronts eventually but they charge you if you don't remove the spring, I also need to find temp suspension setup to run as I can't have the truck down for a month.

 

1 - Might be worth it, if you have to do something sketchy to get the spring off.
2 - That's my big thing would be having to have a second set of struts so you don't have no vehicle for 2 months. Or a daily. I know you got some ford POS, but still.

 

Interesting vid if you have about a half hour to kill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

 

I did 43k on the rears before having them rebuilt and technically they didn't need it, I had them done because the upper bushing blew out. The fronts have 53k now and don't need a rebuild but I was going to do it as preventative maintenance. I am tempted to buy a set of Fox/Icon's to swap between but at the same time I'd also rather spend that money on a nice bolt action rifle and ammo... Gotta pay to play in these hobbies haha

 

It's like the fox shocks on the pros/raptors. You take them off then what? I think if you go through the dealership they'll put refurbs on or something like that. But I dunno. I'd just get a set of stock takeoffs to throw on there - but might not work if you do bigger wheels+tires.

I'd rather spend the money elsewhere too - I just don't own pew pews

 

Hi All - A while back I tried to move a set of Gen 2 X-cab running boards and nobody claimed them so I'll try again.

They're the iBoards style, they need to be cleaned up and painted as the brackets have surface rust - they look like this:


If you're interested, send me a PM - I'd like them to go to a good home - paid $100, asking for a Large 3-way & fries from Bella's, Atha's or Nicks on Essex St., Rusty Can is also on the table. No shipping but willing to meet up between Woburn and NH border on 95.

Thanks for looking

 

I think that was just an issue on the older Triton V8s and V10s.

I did expect the plugs to look pretty rough after 63,000 miles in a twin turbo engine. I was wrong, though - the gap was within spec and the ends were a nice brown color.

 

This is manual transmission summer gas not driving over 70 mph on Waze using cruise control and 95% highway miles. No air conditioning and windows up basically perfect storm.

 

WISH I had a garage. My shed is a slide puzzle and I need to replace the lower half of the back wall