Alabama thread!

I did a little camping/mild wheeling this past weekend, snapped a few pics for you guys.





the view from out camping spot

 

Nice, where's the camping spot?

 

it's a place called Cherokee rock village in sand rock. It's a pretty popular climbing spot and also has a pretty good view.

 

Well finally getting around to posting but my newest addition!! LED off road lights!!!! The 2 on the outside are 2000 lumens per housing and the 2 in the middle are 3500 lumens.





Sorry about the bad quality phone pics, but just headlight on.




And with everything on minus one of the 2k lumen lights. The phone really is not able to pick up the brightness very well but trust me they are stupid bright!!!

 

update on the truck mounted up my Hellas and shackles for the front. also spent some time today trying to de-pinstripe the truck ive got half of it done but its a long process. anyway thats just a quick little update. not much going on just a few small things

 

What are you using to de-pinstripe?

 

looks like WD-40...

 

Goo gone sticker lifter with a plastic blade designed to be safe for paint. It's working good so far. Just got some residue to clay bar out. Just heat the stripes up apply the goo gone and scrape away

 

oh ok. I was gonna recommend gas and some elbow grease! lol. It doesn't hurt the paint either!

 

this thread has died. RIP

 

thought i might throw this out there and hope for the best.... anyone have a set of degree shims they dont want/need for sale?

also Jim, are you using shims on your dakars? did you keith?

 

In my experience with drive line vibrations, the only way that worked for me was a cb drop.

 

Thanks Bill and Dave for all the hard work and help yesterday. I love the way my truck looks now just need some more mod $$$ for some new tires now.

 

Yup, I tried the CB drop that OME includes in the kit, and it did absolutely nothing.

I got these: With the 3º angle, and they fixed it right up.

I read all the stuff in this article:
http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTricks/Driveline-101.shtml

got an angle finder, and started measuring. The 3º was just right for my needs.

 

that is what i was wanting to get, just dont need all the extra stuff that comes with. already got the extender things for the center pins and will have brand new center pins with the dakars... so i was hoping someone would have just the shims they might want to part with for less. but it looks like this changeover is gonna cost a little more money.

btw i think i more than proved the walmart authority tires worth yesterday in riding. if my testimony doesnt speak enough just ask brian or ty how they did.

 

If it's any consolation, I paid $1 less, and they didn't come with the pins and all, just the shims. So toytec isn't reaming ya too hard for the extra pieces.

Shipping, on the other hand... they bend ya over.

 

I got the BeefedTaco CB drop. He has different sizes depending on how much rear lift you have. Never tried OME.

I did use the 3 degree shims first, and they made my vibrations worse.

I didn't know about the angle finder when I was messing with it though. That sounds like the best way to figure out exactly what you need.

 

I had vibes with the ulk lift, put in the cb drop spacer things and the vibe got a little better and I haven't messed with it since.

 

hey ty, have you lost the smile yet???

 

Yeah, that article helped me understand a lot. I think the three degree is a pretty "one size fits most" for the usual lift that people run on the second gen trucks.

I like knowing how it all works though, even if I end up doing the same thing that lots of other people do. There's no voodoo to it, just measurements and some math.