COMPLETED: Road trip!! UPDATED

[bartonmd]

that TB is SICK!
I expect he is on the road, any idea what rims those are and where they came from?

Is he going to need more trimming in the rear?

No idea about the wheels...

The rear should be fine...

[HARDTRAILZ]

Cragar soft 8s. One came with a hole in it and had to be welded to hold air.

[fishsticks]

Above. 3.42... Yeah, he'll have to go at least 4.10, if not 4.56...

He could get away with 4.10s without any trouble... Might be easier if he's going to just swap in some new diffs.

If he's going to do gears there's no reason not to do 4.56's. I would in an EXT. His MPG will still probably improve over those 3.42s.

[navigator]

I thought they looked like the soft 8's. I guess he is running spacers, from looking at the center of the hub it didn't look like he had spacers. The soft 8's don't come in our pattern do they?

[bartonmd]

I thought they looked like the soft 8's. I guess he is running spacers, from looking at the center of the hub it didn't look like he had spacers. The soft 8's don't come in our pattern do they?

6x5.5 with adaptors.

Mike

ETA: Just talked to him, and his tran temps are down in the 180-195 range, depending on terrain, in 3rd...

[navigator]

thanks MIke, I looked back at the pics again and noticed the depth of the hub where the adapters are spacing it out.

I was thinking if you could get D windows or soft 8's with our bolt pattern you can get 5 rims for under $300!

[mikepeters1983]

Hey I would just l8ke to Give a big thanks to Mike, and Kyle for all the help there this past weekend. If it was not for them then I would not be where I am at today. I am trying to get pics up but trying to fgure out my new phone to work with my computer is a little iffy. If you would like any pics of anything please let me know and I will do my best.

The tire rach is the best that I have sen on our TB's with out having to redo thwe whole rear bumper.

Sorry if there are anything misspelled I am on my phone posting this, and cvant get tapatalk to work yet. I cant find out what the name is of our form on there i think lol.But please feel free to ask me anything if you have any questions ofor me.

[bartonmd]

Not a problem, Mike! It was good having you over, and working on your TB!

Mike

[Trail X]

Quick question, when your trans was overheating, what was your water temp? I find mine tend to correlate together pretty well once it all heats up. If you were running 255 in the trans, I'd imagine you were running hot in the coolant too. Keep an eye on it.

[Gordinho80]

Truck is looking good!

Mike, nice work with the carrier. I'm tempted to update mine to a design like this as well. Teebes has this same setup. Only thing... doesn't seem like the carrier has much downward movement. Looks like loading anything back there would be difficult. I know it is with my design and I've got mine set to angle pretty far down.

[Regulator1175]

The truck is looking great Mike. Sorry I couldn't make it down there, but I just couldn't come up with the funds. That's the penalty of being self employed, sometimes I can go weeks without seeing a dollar come into the post office. I feel bad that I wasn't able to be there, but glad that Kyle and Mike were able to get you squared away!

[bartonmd]

Quick question, when your trans was overheating, what was your water temp? I find mine tend to correlate together pretty well once it all heats up. If you were running 255 in the trans, I'd imagine you were running hot in the coolant too. Keep an eye on it.

Temp gauge was right in the middle, on the 210 mark, he said... Trans temp was only excessive after long periods of unlocked torque converter.

Truck is looking good!

Mike, nice work with the carrier. I'm tempted to update mine to a design like this as well. Teebes has this same setup. Only thing... doesn't seem like the carrier has much downward movement. Looks like loading anything back there would be difficult. I know it is with my design and I've got mine set to angle pretty far down.

It does come off it needed, but we thought it more important that the tire be "pushed" instead of "lifted" back into place (especially with a 35" MT on heavy-ass steel wheel!), rather than for loading plywood or something... Also, the shelf for loading things on the EXT is migh higher, so it's not really a problem at all... It it becomes one for loading something big sometime, it's only 1 bolt from being completely taken off...

Mike

[mikepeters1983]

So far eveything works good if not perfect. Could not of ask for anything. Else like that

[DmccartneyFF2TB]

Agreed that is the sickest ext I've ever seen.

[mikepeters1983]

Testing it, not to bad so far.

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[djthumper]

I don't know why your pics aren't posting dude...

[fishsticks]

Showing fine for me...

[chevycrew]

Good for me too. I know my work computer blocks all photobucket stuff and everything it deems social networking...

So I cant see most pics from there, but here its fine.

[djthumper]

something isn't letting me connect to tapatalk as far as I can tell now. I can view it on tapatalk on my phone.

Looks good Mike.

[markmc]

Hey Mike
Your truck is lookin good!!
The boat is in the water tied to our dock just waiting for your arrival..
Come on down and spend some time with your toes in the water ass in the sand..

safe travels, see you in a few days..