Florida B.S. Thread

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Huh? The wheels you have are 4.5 BS

 

You sure about that? Factory is supposed to be 5.5 and these seem fairly close to that. they don't stick out very much like we spoke about before. When I saw John on Saturday he said his are 4.5. Without spacers his stick out just right. Now I don't know what to think.

 

been wheeling with a few YJs ive noticed they all have detroit lockers and have no issues daily driving. I feel like if i had detroits id be burning rubber constantly. Did you have detroits?

 

r u running spacers with them? if you aren't they are prob 4.5 then

 

Hahahaha! Nope. There was only mud back then. I was open/open and I was still tearing driveshafts in half like wet tissue paper...until I had the driveline shop build me a driveshaft from hell (.25" wall, 1 ton U-joints). Then I ripped the yoke off my pinion gear and cracked the tail housing on my t-case. Gotta love 16x35 Boggers.

I could only imagine the damage I'd have had if I was locked. Still, nothing could really stop that thing for long up until it broke. I would occasionally get stuck, but after getting pulled out, I'd hit the same hole again a little differently and claw through it.

Jeeps are amazing things. Even before the Boggers, when it was just on 31x13.5 TSL SXs I made it through a hole that Yotas on 40s were getting stuck in. 'Course, I hit it balls to the wall, and I still damn near didn't make it when it bogged down coming up the other side, but I worked the front wheels a bit and it clawed its way out. The sucky thing about the 31s though was they just weren't any fun. Anything that was shallow enough for me to play in I could just walk through without spinning a tire. Anything that might have been challenging was just too deep. I'd be on the frame as soon as I was off in it. There was no middle ground.

 

I have the spacers on the front. The rears are almost flush with the fenders. Well, that may be the tire. I will have to look tomorrow but i think that's right.

 

Oh Yea my jk was a beast I would go through anything until it broke lol

I'm considering a Detroit locker now just for the rear. I'll stay away from crazy fast turns or maybe I should just stick with arb. I don't know yet hmmm

 

Personally, I'd probably do the Detroit just because I'm a cheap bastage and I tend to follow the simplicity equals reliability philosophy. Still, I do think a selectable would be a nice option for the rear, if only to keep the tire wear down.

I had a Detroit in a Mustang once. Honestly, I hardly even noticed any difference from the LSD when cornering. I don't really think Detroits are as ill-mannered on the street as people seem to think, but your mileage may very.

 

Lol yea it'd be nice to not have to deal with an arb compressor and lines and stuff but i do hear that if you break a shaft that the clutch plate on that side will break too then again how tacomas have we heard that have broken shafts while wheeling like we all do.

Might do Detroit out back and arb in the front let's see

 

I'd be extremely surprised if someone broke a rear axle shaft in FL--even in more extreme places, I'd be surprised, unless they were running 37s or better. That's one thing I never broke on the YJ even with the Boggers and I'm pretty sure a Yota rear end is stronger than a Dana 35. I have broken a Dana 60 axle shaft before, but that was in a Lincoln-locked rear end running 44" Swampers being driven by a 460.

It confused me for a minute that you'd want to run a selectable in the front instead of the rear and then I remembered you're saddled with that silly ADD front end. Makes me thankful for the Spartan package my truck left the factory with.

 

Same here that's why when it comes down to it later this year there might be a Detroit going to my rear diff rather than an arb.

Yea I wish I had locking hubs up front I'd be set. I'm jealous of your spartan package. I swear one day someone will buy my truck randomly just cause and I'll get a first gen and party.

 

my wheels are 18x9 w/4.5 backsacing and they stick out just a little but i am running 285's

 

Working a lot...getting over a back injury..

Need to lift the new Taco...

 

But first.......let me take a selfie. LOL. Posted this on the fb page this morning.

 

lol, you're freaking so many people out with this spark plug thing. pretty sure you scared half of the internet away from doing their own spark plugs. hell of a marketing strategy

now i'm just waiting for these pictures to pop up on a ford forum, saying "look at how retarded toyotas are. you have to do all of this to change the plugs"

 

Guess my days as chief tickler are over It was a good run. I now pass the duties to your, Sir Ryan of Madcow.

 

It was pretty awesome. Kept me entertained for hours. I am still laughing about it.

 

Haha, still though, I have to admit, I do miss having cruise control (not that I used it much, but it was a nice option when I did have the opportunity). Don't miss power windows and door locks. But...It would have been better having the TRD OR package even if it did stick me with an ADD out front. I'm thinking it'd be a lot easier to convert to manual hubs than it would be to swap rears and sort out the wiring involved for the E-locker and definitely cheaper than running an ARB.

 

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