Today was a big day, removed my coil spacers, installed the 4" spindles, 2" aal, bilstein shocks, painted my frame, axle, leafs, control arm etc. Sits at a perfect height in my opinion, rides like a dream even with the aal plus i love the extra width the spindles gave

Next weekend will be spark plugs, brake pads, roof rails

No other up coming mods though, after Christmas I'd like to get a cb then 31's



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Bout time haha. Looks good man

 

Thanks!

 

Changed my brake pads and added some explorer roof rails to my cap today, next weekend I'm going off roading so expect lots of pictures

 

The rear end looks like it's sitting a couple inches lower than the front. Are you gonna level it out?

 

I'm actually parked over the sewer grate there, on flat ground the truck sits fairly level, might add a 1.25 oem block(08+ models have them) but we'll see

 

 

^Yeah in that pic it looks a lot more level

 

Went off roading yesterday, one of my friends brought a nicer camera so we got lots of pics. Overall it was a fantastic day, everyone got stuck at least once and the weather was amazing for December!





I made it across the one frozen puddle but defiantly heard some cracking, sure enough the Dakota broke through and I ended up pulling him out, funny looking behind me only to see the *** end just drop down haha


The other mazda trying to go around, didn't work


Same with Riley





Tucking tire


Then a good wash up and quick shoot



Sits pretty level imo

 

I think it's time for some bigger tires!

 

It is haha, #Skippinglegday

Couple months then I will

 

Lol it still looks a lot better than before. Still thinking duratracs?

 

I'm defiantly aiming towards them

 

About a year apart


Not sure exactly what's planned next besides just enjoy it. Tires will be in spring, hoping to get a detroit tru trac and an exhaust by summer and we'll go from there :)

 

Looking a little taller than last year haha. I forgot how stuffed those tires were back in the day

 

Surprising they never rubbed even under full flex, actually could get the back closer after the lift shackles. Crazy extra flex with them

 

Transmisson cooler line blew on my buddies Dakota so I got to tow it across town, defiantly not safe but we had to get it to his Grandpas shop and it was late, power was surprising fine but man if you thought starting on ice with a 2wd was bad wait to you have a that big turd behind you..

Also bought some cheap lights from Canadian tire, just 6". The plan is to get some 6.5" hella 500's also and have them across the grill/bumper and get brighter bulbs for all of them eventually

Then pictures :)


Going to be ordering the hellas in February as with a cb/3 foot whip and avs window visors

 

Typical dodge haha. My buddies cummins is getting a trans rebuild right now. My truck wouldn't have been able to tow that thing in 2wd on ice haha. It's pretty much useless in 2wd and slippery conditions with the balding MT's I have lol

 

It was just a transmission line leak so its all back and running, surprised how decent it towed it though. Being a 4cylinder and all

 

Nice. Well yeah it's a rolling mass though. You yourself could push that thing haha. Still impressive on the slick road conditions though. When's a dude getting some new tires? Have you checked out the bfg AT KO2's? I'm digging the sidewall tread on them

 

Since my last update I replaced my battery and broke another sway bar link so i took the bar off

Colour matched my front bumper and grill. Took forever to grind off the bed liner but it was worth it, plan on doing my rear bumper in summer and redoing my rockers with better bedliner



Besides the painting I'm really hoping to get some 1.5" hubcentric spacers for the rear and 1-1.5" blocks to pump up the back. You guys also really got me thinking about 32's... Not entirely sure which ones but I'm looking at the new Cooper stt pros but being more of a mud tire I'm a little scared about ice performance, could just go with the ko2s but time will tell

 

Got new 31" Dick Cepek Fun Country tires put on, looks so much better to me. They defiantly are noisy compared to the bfgs but I already gave them a try in a mud pit and they did absolutely amazing. My friend with 32" bfg at and a limited slip struggled a lot more then me with an open diff.

I'm not sure if its just me but they look hella wide, kinda cool but they defiantly stick out up front a lot!

Excuse the rusty front bumper..gotta fix that again this spring with better quality paint



These came in :) 2 sets, eventually hids will be installed in them



I defiantly want to do some 1.5" rear wheel spacers to match up front and 1.5" blocks, the rear sagged out and I can't take the level

 

Mounted the lights last night, took it the wash after work today, they look really good imo and the black covers really match my plastic on the top/bottom of the bumpers and my mirrors etc. Wiring should be done on Saturday

 

Since my last update I replaced my oem leaking muffler with a Dynomax Super Turbo, overall I'm extremely happy with it, idling and causal driving sounds just about stock, once you hit 3k+ the tone gets much deeper with zero droning over my tire noise.
My Grandfather made me a mount for my firestik whip and using my old hitch receiver with a shackle I have a much safer/strong recovery point in the rear, at some point i need to make something for up front though
Just needs some paint

 

Looks good!