Look what the tire fairy FINALLY brought this afternoon.....

[DEMON44]

....for the record these were about 5 minutes per tire to get rubber on steel. WAY easier than my 42s were.

 

[mikey_d05]

Old school split rims scare the **** out of me. I was driving a beater '52 farm truck and had one explode and shoot part of the rim into the ditch.

 

[DEMON44]

NO duuuuut aboot it..................


HAve a REAL close look at the front rim on my truck from 3 years ago....they were a matched pair up front

 

[gmc4cw]

several styles of split rims are illegal in Pa now. we can dismount them and dispose of them but you can not remount tires on them. Dismounting is nowhere near as dangerous as mounting. post up pics of them tires on the truck already. you canadians are such teases. dragging this post out forever.

 

[DEMON44]

OK OK ...............so I'm a wide bitch now.


91.5" wide

 

[DEMON44]

 

[DEMON44]

Fronts aren't on yet due toooooo a couple things......need to shave the caliper. Not very damn much with the 2.75" backspace. but still. need to add a couple leafs back to my spring pack in the front, and have some sawzall time.

 

[Avery4jc]

nice!

ok, maybe I'm the only one that thinks this but does the word "wobbly" pop into anyone else's head when they look at the back of Demon's truck?
I'm not saying it is but it just pops into my head when I look at those springs, lol.

-Avery

 

[DEMON44]

thats the point brother........ it is a big slinky


and I'll only add a swaybar if I absolutely have to.

look at it like this watch the Video clip Whiteknight posted up here just a few days ago......watch the back shots of the black land cruiser (wolf359) my rear suspension is very similar to his. I still can't get over how much his diff moves in the cruiser.....awesome really. hes the next run through the gully after the white knight.



http://www.whiteknight.ca/Safari06%2001.wmv


I'm starting to think even as soft as the leafs are up front, its just not going to be good enough to match the rear.

 

[Avery4jc]

thats the point brother........ it is a big slinky





and I'll only add a swaybar if I absolutely have to.

I'm starting to think even as soft as the leafs are up front, its just not going to be good enough to match the rear.

Yeah but the difference between flexibility and an insane amount of body roll are obvious. How are you going to be sure that you are flexible without rolling all over the place? Or is that not the point either?

-Avery

 

[DEMON44]

Yeah but the difference between flexibility and an insane amount of body roll are obvious.

-Avery

hows that? I'm not sure what your getting at.

 

[Avery4jc]

hows that? I'm not sure what your getting at.

All I meant was say you have a rock and two trucks that crawl over it....a truck that flexes somewhat proficently could say crawl over and tuck the tires up in the fenderwells keeping the body as level as possible....the second truck that goes over the same rock with the large coil suspension and although it would tuck the tires as it goes over and leans, the truck would sway from over the top of the axles...
I don't know how to explain what I was thinking. Its late, I'm having issues w/ something I'm not going to share w/ CK5 and I'm leaving for Nashville in one day. My brain doesn't work.

-Avery

 

[DEMON44]

Ya I've still got leaf spings in the front.......so my body is pretty much going to do what ever my front diff tells it too. no matter what the rear is up to. I've got a big block a doubler 2 detroits 44" boggers and ram assist.


I don't much care how it looks doing it......... but damn sure I'm gonna get there.