After 5 years and 45000 miles the BFG's were about done (found myself using 4WD on wet roads to keep from going sideways all the time
) so it was time to replace them. And since my wife doesn't drive the thing much anymore I figured why not lift it a little more, go a size bigger, etc, so here I am. I can't tell you how nice it is to find a place like this with such a wealth of info for this second round of mods. When I lifted it 5 years ago only a precious few had done so requiring me to pretty much figure everything out for myself. How nice it is to have other's footsteps to follow in this time! As you can see, I've completed quite a few upgrades but I'm not done yet:
I'll try and put together a build thread fairly soon with details. Haven't gotten the new setup dirty yet so for a dirty pic you'll have to make due with one of the old setup:
I'm hoping the new 33" Duratracs are better in mud. They sure fixed my spinning on wet road problems, that's for sure. Tougher tests to come....
We have a few engineers here. I'm a product design ME for a power tool company. The Roadie is an EE in the semiconductor business. BartonMD is a sheet metal design ME (but I think has an EE degree?). There are probably more that aren't as prolific about talking about their jobs. You're in good company.
That is Redneck Engineering 
