My first winter I ran my Duratracs, I thought they were fine until I drove my Fiesta ST on snows back to back and it felt like a dry dirt road in comparison ? bought the Nokians for the next season
I'm on Fox 2.0s set at 2", no front crash bars with the ARB Summit bumper but I left the high-clearance crash bars in the rear and they don't cause any problems.
No wheel spacers but they're on a Toyota 30mm offset wheel so they stick out more than an OEM steelie would. Still within the...
DIY all of it. If you go the Runaway route, a V-Series is $3,300 MORE than a base CoolCamp or RangeRunner, I sold mine for $3300, bought it new in 2018 for $3300 and put maybe 600 bucks into it. Kept the Jackery when I sold it.
I didn't have any fancy suspension or anything, when I put it on...
I just sold this Runaway CoolCamp XL 4x8 trailer, I axle-flipped it and put it on matching 285/75/16 tires and it followed me down 50 miles of "damaged" forest roads on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon without question. A week or two before I was there some bad storms had come through the area...
That's uh, tow/haul mode on, traction control off, for the yellow lights behind the steering wheel, you can't see that its in 4WD, and yeah 30 in less than three inches of accumulated snow on the road. Seat belt on, doors closed? Don't know how you got that. Snow wasn't sticking to the...
The engine fan can kick on at low speeds to move air across the AC condenser to regulate system pressure. Defrost uses the air conditioning, even if the AC light isn't on, which is usually the cause of the fan coming on at low ambient temps.
How are the Nokians treating you in a real winter? I have a set, but of course since I bought winter tires this season, it's only snowed twice for a couple hours.
APG Standard Leaf Pack
One of the last "I can't stand this" things about the Ranger was the way the rear would hop and buck over big bumps. Cue the APG/Deaver progressive rate leaf pack.
Install was pretty straightforward, much easier than wrestling with the stock front coilovers and CVs...
This car has been in my life for a minute...
1993 Mustang LX 5.0. Has since been IRS-swapped, tubular K-member and control arms, coilovers, 04 Cobra brakes, full matrix brace underneath...
That's me in the passenger seat
The day I was finally taller than it
When it became my car in high...
Okay, so in a two-week span, three of my friends hit deer with their vehicles around town, I took it as a sign, broke down and bought the ARB Summit bumper I've had my eye on since they came out.
Installation wasn't too bad, some grinding, some drilling, and a lot of bolts in weird places...
Wow, life got busy. Okay, update: 21,500 miles on the clock, largely unchanged, except for the addition of Fox 2.0 suspension at 18k; I just couldn't stand the FX4 suspension bouncing me around anymore.
I had the issue with the CV popping out when I did my spacer lift, and it happened almost...
I used VViViD Air-Tint Smoke Black Film, and it looks great on the internet and fine around town, but it's a very sub-par installation in general. I was drinking some beers one Saturday and decided "ahhh, lemme wrap these tail lights!" and 5 beers later they were done, for better or worse hahaha
Lightheads are mounted! Still anxiously awaiting the control system. All Whelen products.
Two ION TRIO Red/Amber/White lightheads in the grille
Two Mini-T ION DUO Red/Amber on the mirrors
Two ION DUO Red/Amber on the rear door sills
Two ION DUO Amber/White in grommet mounts under the...
I'd run a 1/4" spacer if you're not looking to step all the way out. The slim margin I'm talking about is like a credit card thickness.
I rub on the little plastic pieces next to the skid plate in front of the tires, but if I had smaller spacers, those probably wouldn't be much of an issue...