New England B.S. Thread

Elevators are tested now nap time

 

Anyone know who has a blue taco about 6-9 in suspension lift and a small body lift. Spotted in Hull,
MA (near Hingham, Cohosset, Quincy) only has 33's on it. Has a back rack.

 

Not when you have the unknown of rusted on bolts.

 

Yup.

Even though I had all new hardware when I did mine it still took like 9 hours

 

I was at about 8 hours with someone helping me. We had to put a fair amount of heat on the leaf spring bolt to break it loose, we were also working slow so as not to make a silly mistake.

 

Mine actually wasn't too bad since my truck had been re-framed the year before. I don't think I actually had to cut anything, it just took a long time doing it on Jack stands

 

Lucky! I didn't have to cut the leaf spring bolts, but I did break the ubolts getting them off (which was fine because I had new ones). I was fortunate in that I did mine at my dad's house, nice garage and we had 3 jacks and a set of jack stands for the frame. It made positioning the axle a lot easier.

 

Icons were a tight fit. Some gentle taps with a hammer helped.

 

Was anyone in Norwalk Connecticut today? Saw a black taco with 33's and spacers, was near exit 40 off the meritt.

 

I must have been super lucky. I didn't have any bolt issues at all. The only issue I ran into was disconnecting the front sway bar link bolt on the driver side. I didn't have bolt sides of the truck on jack stands and I didn't remove the sway bar mounts under the skid plates so I damaged the bolt threads when I tapped the bolt out.

My leafs came out easily. I suppose only having seen three NE winters helped.

 

I found that the 19mm nuts/bolts had the initial struggle to break loose, but were easy to remove after. The 14mm nuts/bolts put up a fight for every single turn of the wrench.

 

Morning guys

 

Looking for 2 day off roading trips located anywhere from jersey to NH or Maine. Lets here your recommendations!

 

I am beginning to feel the effects of working overtime for the past week plus the overnight. I hope they find someone for the second shift soon

 

Mornin'

Nope. They'll keep working you until you drop.

 

Morning Rob

 

Rausch creek isn't too far from Jersey. Otherwise there's tons of class 6 roads in nh, vt, me. I think there's also some state forest in NJ full of mud holes you can wheel in. Pine barrens iirc where Alex submarined his 4runner

 

Sloth- thanks, ya I have done Pine Barrens. good stuff.
I'm from northern NH near Franconia Notch and currently living in Boston. So i'm very familiar with most stuff in NH.
I've got friends in NJ, PA, and CT. We are trying to find somewhere that we can all meet up and go wheeling and camping for the weekend. I feel like there's gotta be some good stuff in NY state.

 

Good stuff in the Tug Hill area of NY

 

Seth, are you thinking about going to Rausch with us?