Oregon and Washington BS thread

What are your tires? $250 is a friendly price.

 

Lol that video.

Took care of the rear diff breather mod tonight. Another mod done!

I'm hoping to do the cab mount chop this weekend and prep it for being boxed back in (possibly by snowgod's guy). I got a Dewalt angle grinder from CL this week.

Still need to add some lighting in the center console, e-locker anytime mod, and add a 110 plug in the cab off the stock inverter. I should also sound deaden (at least) the front doors and put plexiglass in the big holes.

Oh and I want a couple d-rings near the cab of the bed.

I'd eventually like a front plate bumper but that may never happen.

Wow that list doesn't seem so small after all...

 

Well if you cant make it to the June trip then you for sure gatta go to our scouting trip. What weekend would be good for you to make it? Saturdays are fine... I was thinking the 14th or the 21st of May???

 

The list will only keep growing man

 

Haha alright well ill shoot Mike and Joe a PM and see if they can make it to either, I can do either. I dont mind that two others are coming thou, what are they driving?

 

Oh so they both drive Tacoma's? Thats no problem.. I was thinking you were gunna tell me one drives a S10 and one drives a Mazda B2200 or something haha. I was up there last week at the rock pit and there was a little snow but not bad at all... should be fun.

 

I have a feeling you're right

 

If you install rear suspension end of May then take it during the June trip to break that biatch in!!

x2

 

I did te body cab mount chop this morning. It's ready to be boxed back in on both sides. Under 2 hours to chop them with a Dewalt angle grinder:


Untitled by Bamfs01, on Flickr

 

^^^ Nice. What part of Oregon are you from?

 

Pdx

 

Depends if you go or not Zach

And for music...right now I find myself listening to a lot of Social Distortion, The Unseen, and NOFX.

You?

 

Ha I was referring to Joe's offer of trading rims. I'm still thinking about your rims but I think I still need to decide what size tire I'll need once I get to the desired ride height. I probably want it to have 33s and the tires on it right now have a ton of tread left on them. If only I could mount my mojaves... damn 15" stockers

 

Yeah no I'm holding onto my rims. I just like his as well so if he wanted to trade I would consider it. Still holding out on the tires though probably.

 

I'm getting Good Year MT/R's as my next set for the FJ. They look sick, work real well off road and last quite a long time. I've heard the KM2's are pretty soft. When the tires all cost virtually the same for the same size, I'll take the one that lasts the longest

 

The MTR's are a softer compound than the KM2s. I have both and the MTR's seem stickier and flex much nicer than the KM2s. This also means they'll probably wear faster.

 

Guess I'm not going then!!

Tool....blah! Not a big fan of tool...their songs bore me

They do look pretty nice! I like the tread design and the side wall..had them on our Humvees when I was still in the service..got two them stuck with mud caked in the tread trying to go up hill and had to use my truck to pull both out. And yes I have a picture to prove it

Do they wear faster? I haven't had 1st hand experience with them but based on what I've read from tire sites they last pretty long when properly taken care of. I'm sure they will wear a bit faster when 4wheeling and such.

I might go with treadwright(?) when my KM2s are done for..they have a designed similar to the MT/Rs. Kinda iffy but I'm sure they won't be in business still if they're garbage re-treads.

 

Ah, bad news on the MT/Rs. I guess I'll need to do a bit more research.

What's the tread rating on the KM2s you have? I thought I had heard they were soft.

Its just funny, everyone who bought Toyo MTs when they were new and cool are now purchasing KM2s (obviously "everyone" is a sarcastic statement). I wonder what the next "cool" mud tire will be.

 

Bad news with MT/R? What happen?

I've ran the Toyo MTs as my first set on my truck and now on the KM2s and honestly I can't tell the difference. Maybe I don't pay attention much..all I know is my Toyos wore on quick! I got maybe 30k on them and that was pushing them because I was to broke to buy new times. Got the KM2s because some guy was selling them for $600 for all 4. I've ran the original BFG MTs and their AT on my old 02 d cab and I think I liked the original a bit better.

Next for me would be treadwright..if not them imm a go with maxxis bighorn? I think that's what they're called.

 

Didn't you say your military rig had them and they got gunked up and sucked?