Long Travel BS Thread

10K?

 

You know...them dolla dolla bills, $10,000 individual $1 bills all lumped together

 

I know I'd have fun with LT, and it's going to be a "while" yet before I really start on getting things done. Just hoarding what parts I can get until then.

 

I don't see it. Did you literally put 10k on the seat one day?

 

It's a trap.. I don't even have LT ... just an excel spreadsheet with everything I need .. with prices .. it adds up.

 

You know, like the cost of a partial rear set-up.

 

You can't take money with you to the grave, and might as well have fun. I'm estimating between 15-20k just in getting it ready. Not figuring the parts I am going to break the first time out.

 

Stupid question. Is there any reason my truck can't be alligned at a shop after this?

Also what caster degree should I request. I don't want to max it out. Only on 33s. 3 degrees?

 

Any shop "should" be able to align it. Depends how smart the guy doing it is.

You want as much caster as you can get really, so shoot for 4 degrees

 

Mmkay. Should I stay away from the big guys like Les Schwab for example? Really 4 degrees?? That's not gonna make me feel a little "floaty" on the highway?

 

No idea I'm up in Canada haha.

The floaty feeling is not enough caster.

 

THIS^

That^^

Buy a rzr or get a SR1 Rhino instead. You will be able to go faster, go more places, break less things, go harder, and be 15X cheaper.

I had over 30k into my old truck. And all it was, was a fucking money pit that every time i took it out and went balls to the wall, I would have to spend a grand fixing it, just to do it all over again.

Bought a SR1 rhino, and im not looking back. haha

Having a badass truck that could mash the biggest woops, and do anything basically is awesome... Don't get me wrong, and the bitches flock.... But they (the truck) just suck all the money out of your bank/wallet.

There are just way too many moving parts on a truck, and they are way too heavy to not break after hard abuse....

Just my opinion..

 

Oh I see. Thanks guys!

 

You are spot on with the buy a RZR concept. I wish I had known this before I started and its what I encourage people to do all the time.

My truck has seen pretty mush everythink imaginable from Moab slick rock to BITD pre-runs and everything in between. In 8 years of ownership and hard abuse it has only seen a tow truck once. Breaking is usually the result of poor prep, and owning a LT truck requires a lot of it which in turn requires a lot of time and money but spending the money before hand is usually cheaper than having to fix it after the fact. Once you hit a certain point in a build daily driving basically goes out the window if you want to keep it reliable.

If you stay up on maintenance and prep it like you should you eliminate a lot of the headache. I only broke because I was lazy and chose to drive on a steering rack that was well past its expected life span, and I can't be upset about that in the slightest and thankfully its an easy fix.

End of the day trucks are more fun, more comfortable, more unique and safer when built right but 10x more expensive at the end of the day, I don't even like to think about how much I have invested into mine.

 

Rzr's are like fat chicks, their fun until your buddy's see you riding one. Plus I like having ac, xm radio, and I stay a lot cleaner than my buds with rzr's

 

LOL.

different strokes for different folks i guess, when your broke all the time in your truck in the middle of the dunes and your sitting there working your ass off just to get out of the dunes, and all your buddies are ripping around you in rzrs, doing 65 through 3 foot deep woops, you might think differently....

but like said.... AC sure is nice, windows and doors are great, but thats about it.
well and i guess if people see a truck mashing woops at 70 their jaw/panties drop, if they see a rzr doing it they just go "meh" HAHA!

I like owning the truck to take out on night runs and stuff, especially when its cold, but the SR1 rhino tops it in every way, besides windows, ac, and doors. LOL

 

You gotta account for everything with a rzr for a fair comparison price wise, first 25k for 1000 4 seater, do you have a truck? How about a trailer? 4 seater rzr's are 16' long so you'll need a car hauler. Then if your like me you would still want to mod the shit outa one which is not cheap. And we have broken down in rzr's plenty of times too, broken axles bent trailing arms broke belt. When I wanna go 15 miles down the road I get in my truck and go and my buddy's ride with me cause they don't wanna load up their trailers to go 15 minutes of hwy

 

got the truck back from paint a couple weeks ago. still need to build front and rear bumpers.

 

well..... i bought a SR1 Rhino completely done for 12k...... i would never spend the 25k on a new rxr 1000, that is insane IMO... but people do it all the time..

and yes i already had a tow rig, and a flat bed trailer, because i needed one for my prerunner to take it anywhere. like tubbisisland said above, there comes a certain point where keeping your prerunner a DD just is not feasable. i didnt want to pay a tow truck every time i broke down....

yes rzrs break too, but bend some A-arms, break some cv axles, and be in a couple hundred bucks...

break 1 rear diff in your truck and your out a grand.

once you get your truck to a certain point, you will need a tow rig and trailer for that too ( most likely)