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Hey Homie, hoping for a speedy recovery!

 

You know that your cruise control dash light doesn't work, right?

X2

 

Gotcha. Cool man. I guess that's all I'm looking for is that it drives like stock again. Hope you get better soon. Give an update on the gears when you get to cruise around a little bit more.

 

2 weeks off of work? Or just 2 weeks of no driving? If you weren't recovering from surgery id bother you to come over and drill the holes for my sliders.

 

Yeah I had no idea till I was talking to Josh about it. Hope I don't have to go through that.

Heal up quick brother!

 

thanks bud!

surgery was last wednesday morning, so today is day 9 of recovery. still feel like shit, drinking lots of ice water and tylonel w/ codine. haven't eaten more than a few spoon fulls of mashed potatoes a day.

absolutely the worst. I thought it would be so much easier.

thanks man!

lol yea it does, the scan gauge blocks it

will do.
thanks!

If you're around this weekend you could come by and ill give you a hand. I'll work the floor jack and you do the drilling.

Thanks again bud!

 

Saturday morning or sunday evening. Work is 2-8 saturday and 8-4 sunday

And if you still have that blue sea ill take that too

 

Alright come over Saturday morning then

 

Bright and early 9 am sound good

 

Yep

 

So I finally got to drive the truck again. My gf finished breaking in the gears while I was recovering so now I can get on the throttle without worry. Feels great. Feels like driving a stock truck with no extra weight. I'm really happy with how it drives now, I just can't wait to see how the cruise control works now.

 

Awesome glad to hear you're recovery has gone well. Think I'll definitely be buying me some gears soon.

 

Thanks !

If you're handy but don't know how to set up gears, I reccomend east coast gear supply. You can either ship them your diffs and they'll regear them and send them back to you, or they can send you already regeared ones and you just send back your old ones. The installation really isn't that bad, just a full days work. There are how to threads on here and on ecgs's website.

 

Sweet man thanks! That will certainly save me some good money. I appreciate it.

 

Can't wait to hear how they handle the trails!

 

Yea. 4lo in low gear is going to be nice and slow

 

Finished my bed rack yesterday-






Need to change the engine oil and spark plugs today. Going to change the rear diff gear oil, transfercase gear oil, and transmission fluid in a few hundred miles. Then after I break in the front diff gears a few times Ill change the gear oil in there too.

Changed the tie rods a couple weeks ago and now my alignment is off... Idk why, I measured the old ones and set the new ones to exactly the same length. Haven't messed with anything else that should affect alignment but the wheel is turned while going straight, and I rub the frame where I wasn't before...

 

Bedrack looks good!

Did you count the turns when you took the old tie rod end off and new one on? Either way, an alignment should handle it

 

No you can't go by turns because they aren't guaranteed to have the same thread pitch as the old ones. I just measured with a tape measure from the outside edge of the inner to the outside edge of the outer. Got them exact so I don't understand why the alignment was affected.

 

Looks great Dude!!