+SconnieHailer's Build & BS+

Hey thanks man! You've got an awesome build yourself!

 

This build inspired mine. Read every page! Awesome build!!!

 

I like it!

Also I noticed all my pictures from image shack are gone... Lame

 

How do the KO2's work for you?

 

Really well. Great traction off road in the wet as I found out this weekend. Sidewalls are pretty squishy when aired down but they held up fine at 19 psi. On road is comparable to any AT on the market really.

 

Good to know. What part of Wyoming are you from?

 

West Central area. Been in Wy for the past 4 years

 

Was under the truck tonight to pull the mid and transfer skid for the winter. Found this lil gem on the drive shaft. Glad it tis but a flesh wound. Only a scrape no dents.

 

Any reason you pull the skids for winter?

 

Weight savings and the mid and transfer skid like to collect snow and with the snow comes the salt and anything else that wants to eat my truck alive. Plus it's easier to wash under there with them gone. @zscott

This last trip down to Shoshone I beat the front skid a ton and hardly touched the mid and rear skid... my front one is starting to look like a waffle lol.

 

And here I was thinking my skids were helping keep the salt and grime off. They definitely do collect slush and such in them though.

 

I keep my rig cleaner in the winter than the summer for that reason. They probably do help until they start holding moisture under there

 

Yeah, mine has been better since moving to the city. They get the roads cleared pretty quick and there is little snowfall as is. In the rural areas I grew up in and went to school in the snow and slush was a bigger problem.

 

Gotcha. Keeping some front mud flaps helped a bunch too.

 

I feel sorry for anyone driving behind me this winter

 

I need to put mine back on. Haven't put them on since I got the fiberglass fenders. Those help significantly though. My tires are pretty well covered.

 

There are a number of unsatisfied customers for the turn plates you use for alignments on Amazon, have you had any trouble with accuracy for the degrees when setting caster? Some of the clowns on there are complaining about the weight which I don't really care about, but the caster issues concern me. I'd like to do my own alignments but there aren't a whole lot of products out there to do it in a home garage smoothly, quickly, and accurately.

 

The needle that reads the degrees is a bit sloppy. I always just hold it forward to read the number, always the same that way. Yea they're heavy... Because you drive on them lol

 

I'm curious to know where you tucked the winch control box; I didn't see that discussed anywhere. I would like to put mine somewhere out of the way, but dislike the ideal of having to open the hood to plug in the hand-held. Or are you just using the wireless function?