Official Tennessee Thread

pay attention!!

 

my dakar medium leaf packs arrived. 885 coils on bilstein 5100s on the way. tan Softopper too (haven't seen a tan on black yet, thought I'd give it a look). spidertrax 1.25" on the way as well, now on the hunt for the final stage of the first step of my build - looking for a good deal on 255/85/16s Cooper st maxx's - gonna keep stock UCA and wheels for now and see how that goes. im pumped. that is all! cheers

 

Nice, man! Throw up some pics when you’re finished.

 

I’ll be ready for a quick AOP run soon.

 

100%, cheers.

I'll try to do a lot of before and after for folks interested. people's build pages really helped me pick and choose where I wanted to go with initial mods from stock.

hopefully won't have allaignment issues without UCAs

if anyone has any regrets they remember while at this stage, fire at will.

edit: hey I saw you are from Carthage. my moms from there.

 

The biggest problem I had was finding somewhere to get it aligned properly

 

Yep. Born and raised. I’ll never leave it.

 

I got a great tip from a tacomaworld guy in Nashville yesterday. said for $200 you can go to Firestone and get alignments for life on your truck. he said to make sure to buy that before you lift the truck or they may not do it. then lift it, and boom. align that bitch whenever you feel like it.

gonna get mine this week

 

Kirk at Ron Hibbard Toyota in gallatin is an alignment master.

 

Yes, but if they don’t have a competent alignment tech, then that does you no good. John at Firestone I’m mount Juliet has done good work for me several times.

 

Don't believe him, he's really from Oregon.

 

great point.

 

It's a good deal, but it's also hit or miss on qualified techs. But if they don't get it right, they will keep trying!

 

I messed up and tried the dealership, they made it worse than when I brought it in. Found a shop that does alot of lifts and had them do it lessons learned I guess

 

Ive heard that so much I’m starting to believe it.

 

In Paris, TN. West's wheel and tire are very good with lifted alignments as well

 

Are they open during the week?

Is he back there? Last I heard he was in Rivergate.

 

Yes, they are open all week I think. I just need to rebuild a couple axles.

Idk, maybe im mistaken. I can find out if he’s interested in taking his truck to him.

 

Hell I've heard it so much I thought you were

 

Rebuild Axles? Once they break they are toast lol the outer cage blew up on yours so the only option is to get another axle. As far as I know no one makes the cages and all that for rebuilds. Ebay and wrecked trucks will be your best friend