New Mexico Owners BS Thread

Nice pics, man. I didn't know you ran a 3/4 elliptical rear suspension! haha How'd you like that? Any problems with unloading while cornering on the road? Your build says you've got the 63" chevies now, how do you like those? Sorry for the questions, but I'm planning on picking some 63" springs up at u-pull and pay in a few weeks to replace my current way-to-stiff-for-flexing-with-no-weight all-pro expedition leaves.

 

oh and the bedliner looks sweet, man. Way better than carbon fiber!! hahahah

 

Yo Dawg, would your old All-Pro Expedition leafs fit my stock '04? Would that be a bad idea?

Edit: I see that they give a 3" lift, so maybe that would not work w/o lifting the front as well.

 

Yup, they'd fit for sure. But you're looking at about 4.5" of lift. And definatly a lot stiffer than stock. They handle a load really well though. Since they're expedition springs, they're design to only sag one inch with 400-500 lbs

 

The reason I ask is that I'm in a band again, and haul a bunch of heavy gear around; the stock leafs are marginal for this.

I had Hellwig add-a-leaf helpers on my 2wd Taco, and they worked pretty well; I'm looking at solutions to the sagging under a heavy load situation.

 

yeah the elliptical was a bit strange but worked... had it strapped on road... the chevy springs flex like crazy! not a bad ride either... had to make some hangers to use them though.

 

As the late Michael Jackson once said as a very young man, "I'll be there".



*gets nose all chopped off & stuff*

 

where is this papa's burgers?

 

It's on the west side of 4th street at Osuna. In a shopping mall kind-of thing.


Great burgers, IMO.

 

at 12 huh? on friday?

 

ok i might have to bring the whole fam lol... ill be there just gotta figure out if wifey is comeing

 

I guess I could bring my inflateable love sheep.

 

So it looks like I broke something on my truck when I pulled this moron out!

I have a strange noise when taking off from a stop, and a wicked vibration over 40mph when I'm on the throttle, when I'm coasting its nice and smooth. Drive shaft U-joint???? Thats what I'm thinking, but idk, I sell these things not fix them!

 

Did you slam any rocks during the pullout? What happened?


That's a pretty heavy truck to pull out.

 

Oh ok, nice! These wouls definitely cure the sagging problem!

hahaha nice. I've heard they ride great. Are you running an AAL with them? 3 leaves or 2? Overload? Since you had to move the front hanger forward, do you ever run into problems hitting the hanger on rocks and stuff since it's so much lower than before? Also, how long of a shackle are you running?

 

No, I didnt slam into anything, but with the transfer case in compound low with the doubler, thats like 3000 lbs of TQ going to the wheels, so I guess bouncing up and down trying to pull that POS out I might have broke something. I talked to the previous owner and he said that is most likely what happened, he also said, that I should only use the winch from now on to pull people out! LOL We tried the winch, but it didnt work. Lesson learned!

 

True, that's a lot of torque multiplication. Twisted a driveshaft, maybe.

 

I don't think I want the rear of my truck 4" higher than the front, though.

 

I do have a snatch block! LOL Forgot about it tho! I wont do that again. I will be checking out everything under there, drive shaft, and ujoints.