Florida B.S. Thread

yeah, a body lift would help with the fenders and well, but they don't do anything if your hitting frame at all of course. and yeah, lots of work compared to swinging the hammer for an hour.

i don't know how the 1st gens work, but if the sway bars are as easy to remove as on the 2nd gens, might as well pop it off real quick and test it out

 

I'm thinking that I'm not having much rubbing on the frame. I'm effectively running 3.50" back spacing on the wheels which is helping keep the tires off the frame. As it stands, I have three clearance issues: the front tires hitting the pinch weld at full locks, the pinch weld knocking against the slider legs when hitting bumps (or before the bias ply tires heat up and get round again), and the rear tires hitting the forward edge of the rear fender when approaching stuffed. A 1" body lift would definitely solve all those issues, or at least mitigate the rear tire rub a bit (I forgot to look and see if it was fully stuffed and sitting on the bump stop when I tested it).

The question would be if it was more work to install the body lift than it would be to flatten the pinch weld in the front wheel well and over each slider leg. I'm thinking it would be at this point, but I might change my mind once I start hammering, lol.

Oh, and yeah, the sway bar is pretty easy to detach.

 

Dunno if the angle helps any...but I had to beat the crap out of that weld flat and then run an 1" wheel spacer but those are 285/75. I now have a 2" body lift in that picture and the tire perfectly rests inside (because the spindle is no longer attached to the LCA) I don't know the back spacing though, got the rims and tires from Tim.

As far as sway bar, I took that bad boy off and have no plans to put it back on. Even with a tight uturn, I never see an issue.


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I started in Jan. to get back down to 170 Lbs.. Last night on the scale there it was 170 lbs... It took 8 mo. to get off 20lbs. Cut the pig outs to sat night only. and no pie, cake, or ice cream worked over the long run..Going to try to get down to 160 - 165 by end of the year..

 

Woot good job

 

Bs was 4.5 fink

 

Good job. I'm about to begin getting myself back into shape. I'm 260lbs right now, want to get back to about 225. I haven't been under 200lbs since I was 16.

 

Great job Jim.

I dropped just over 20 pounds this year. Got to 223 lb, I hadn't been 220 anything in probably 10 years or more. My back went out and I have already started putting it back on. The hardest thing for me is hitting that plateau and then not pushing past. I need to get back to it, my goal is to get to 200 or less.

 

I'm the same way. I haven't been less than 200 since I was a freshman in high school playing football.

 

I hear you guys on the 200lb thing. I'm at about 216lbs right now. When I moved to Florida in 2010 I was about 255lbs or so. Managed to keep it off with a little fluctuation, up to about 225lbs and then back down again.

Good for you guys getting healthy...I've been hitting the low carb thing hard again but with a vacation coming up this week...we'll see how that goes.

Fink

 

Several of you guys have

$90 Midland 75-822 Handheld CB Radio & Mobile CB Radio – Walkie Talkie with 40 Channels, NOAA Weather Alerts, Long Range, Compatible with CB Antennas

this radio and like it, right? About to pull the trigger on at least a truck radio, if not one for the truck and a handheld, both of which this radio seems to accomplish.

Thanks!

Fink

 

That's a popular alternative to the Cobra 75WXST. I personally haven't used that radio, but I've heard its a very good one.

It one ups the Cobra by being able to become handheld, where as the Cobra has to be hard wired into the truck.

 

when I'm not romping through mud holes at work, I'm driving through the warehouse






background story, were putting CBs in all the yard trucks, already got one in mine and another truck. we're setting up a base station in our warehouse distribution office and after putting the antenna on the roof and running the cable down into the warehouse, I drove my yard truck pictured there into the warehouse and plugged the antenna into the CB in it and the other guy took the other truck with the CB in it out and I into the yard to check reception. only reason is because the base station radio hasn't came in yet but it worked out great, prooved my theory that once we got the antenna up on the roof and out of the metal warehouse the reception would be fine

 

Plasti dip'd my emblems today

 

Thanks for the help Nammer, I think I better go find one on a lot to drive or something before I order one.

 

The camper tops arent so bad visibility wise, i have had one
On my truck for the past year and i can see
Out my rear view perfectly fine.

It all depends on how clean you keep the windows and if you
Tint the s''t out of them. Ive never had any issues with visibility.

 

Looks like my bumper is taking the long way to get here. Went by my local fastenal this morning to check and its still not here. The manager called some last and said it is currently somewhere in Minnesota. It should hopefully be here Thursday.

 

yea good point, i didn't remember any film on it, but i guess i was basically looking through 3 layers of tint/dyed glass

here was the one i had

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/florida/174106-f-s-topper-double-cab-short-bed-tampa-area.html

 

The one I had on my F250, I removed the front glass from the shell. I could see out of it a heck of a lot better then. My advice would be to get the shell without the front glass and have them install a gasket that seals the shell to the back of the cab. Barring that, get one that has the fold down front glass so you can clean it and the back window of the truck easier.

As was said, keeping the glass clean is critical if you're going to be able to see out of it. I know that sounds like a no-brainer, but you have to be extra diligent with the shell glass than you normally do with the truck glass. Or you could just get used to using your outside rearviews. It's really not a bad practice to use anyway.

 

Oh my god

that's some quality efficiency right there.