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who wheels hard but is careful about body damage?

original balzer

original balzer

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Not to gripe or anything but I usualy prefer a rig thats fairly straight as far as the body work goes. Dont get me wrong its great to be able to bash a fender in and not cry about it. And after enough rock rash or perhaps a mild rollover its kinda pointless to worry about the body.

But I would like to see some rigs that do higher difficulty trails and yet avoid body damage. Be it with the use of body armor or careful driving.

One thing I hate to see is a beutiful rig with beefy bumpers and sliders and other body armor that NEVER goes off road.

Post a pic and name the most difficult trail it has run.
 
I dont know.. If you are going to run a 4x4 hard you are going to get damage. I like a straight truck too. I am careful not to bash up mine usually try to take the easy way around things. But I broken and bent things under my truck, have caved in my door, dented fenders, ripped off mouldings tore up wheels, and scratched the hell out of my new paint job. I repair damage and paint to keep my K5 looking ok. I have been thinking of building some body armor tho.
I have done no trails anyone here would know of. Just normal 4x4ing in Nevada.
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Pic of my K5 after repairin drivers side door and paint job
 
There is no such thing as "Wheel hard and no body damage" It goes hand in hand IMO.

I dont like banged up trucks, so I only trail ride my rig. I stay off the hardcore stuff. I dont want to fix a broken truck. Most of the time, once ppl get trucks banged up they tend to careless about them and end up with alot more damage or broken or neglected parts.
 
badmix said:
There is no such thing as "Wheel hard and no body damage" It goes hand in hand IMO
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Exactly , sooner or later you have to decide to go all out , or waste time and money fixing it each off season .

I'm poor , I'll let Craig pimp his perfect body as a saved example , and bash mine .
 
I wheel and try to keep the body straight. But I have already ended up with 2 dents... :(:(

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badmix said:
There is no such thing as "Wheel hard and no body damage" It goes hand in hand IMO.

I dont like banged up trucks, so I only trail ride my rig. I stay off the hardcore stuff. I dont want to fix a broken truck. Most of the time, once ppl get trucks banged up they tend to careless about them and end up with alot more damage or broken or neglected parts.
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I have to disagree with ya sorry, ALSO I didnt mean no body damage whats so ever I simply ment you still at least try to keep the body off rocks and trees. My 72 K5 was rusted bad but I never did bash anything in. It had been on colorados 21 road trail and several local hard spots including U.R.O.K. prooving grounds in Vernal. I was simply careful in my driving. I still took difficult lines and stuff just never did take the impossible line. by impossible line I mean gaunenteed body damage.

While far from stock, Jason, (Willyswanter) kept his rig fairly straight and we all know he took hard trails.

Once again Im not asking for someone who has run the Hammers and never got a scratch, Im just wanting to see those who still try to keep the damage minimal
 
Ah yes, careing about the body :thinking: that seems like so long ago....... If you have a full-size anything,your gonna have body damage.
 
original balzer said:
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But I would like to see some rigs that do higher difficulty trails and yet avoid body damage. Be it with the use of body armor or careful driving...
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Talk to StormTrooper, or Dirk Phillips.

Me, I'm getting iffy on the 4+ trails in Moab, and on the 4s in AZ. I know my limits :wink1:.

badmix said:
...There is no such thing as "Wheel hard and no body damage" It goes hand in hand IMO...
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That may be true. But there is "Wheeling hard trails and no body damage". When you get a chance, watch Dirk Phillips and his show truck in Pritchett Canyon.
 
i tried also. then in one day, it all went downhill. before i cut it up, the latest pic is in my avatar. now i'm going to have a street truck that see's very little wheeling , and one that will do everything.
 
I tryed and succeceded for a long while just small dents in a couple of places then all of a sudden both front fenders both rear corners the grille area. could have avoided most of it if I would get off my butt and build bumpers.

So yah I try to avoid body damage. I still have to drive mine to and from the trail
 
by the standards of this board, i don't wheel all that hard. 3s mostly, with part of a 4 stuck in there from time to time. i'm not one to use bypasses except unless it's simply too narrow to fit my k5, so i take the hardest lines available. i've managed to get by with one small dent in the rear, on slightly bent, but easily corrected rocker panel, and the usual "colorado pinstripes" from branches.

here it is right after the trip that gave me the small (fist-size) dent in the rear...

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When i first got my a few years ago i bought it for DD use with occasional offroading. I took it wherever i could without putting huge dents in it. Here is the pic then



Then after a few times in the mud the inside was trashed so i just yanked the carpet and found all the rust hidden underneath. After that i pretty much just said screw it and made it strictly a trail and mud (not so much mud anymore) rig. here it is after a nice paint job haha



Now to the truck that will soon be the one you're speaking of. A soon to be DD that will see offroading but keeping the minimal body damage possible. I have to build it but it has very little rust and lots of brand new parts. It's a project



BTW i'm not using that cab. As you can see the cab corners are rusted a bit
 
Thats what Im talking about. The black K5 is wheeling hard in my book but still looks nice. I wasnt sure if its 2slo5.0's or bushwackers but thats about as extreme wheeling as I would do.

Maybe its just those carolina fellas.....I belive dontoes rig is still pretty straight and he wheels hard.
 
thats why i wheel in sand, no pinstriping for me, just as long as i keep rubber side down :)
 
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