Provience
Kill!
needed a thread title I could find and I'll also have questions and needs with direction and stuff, so hopefully it is click bait enough
also need a place I can take random notes and hold random pictures
I was always a 100% street legal, drive to the trails, drive it home even when held together with zip ties kind of offroader. Trailers are for queens and all that, until I had a 4 hour drive turn into an 8+ hour drive due to driveshaft damage.
So out came tow rig #1. 1986 4runner 4cyl with a toy bar
as you can imagine, that made exactly 1 trip
it was time to upgrade to something that could use a legitimate trailer. So i scrounged up some cash and bought a $1000 trailer and a $500 van. previously used as storage, was a homebrew hightop because a tree fell on it and i was happy to drive it home. V8, fuel injection, O/D trans, all the things for a proper tow rig
Alright, so proper is a relative term. cut the hubs up and put 2002-2015 ram 1500 brakes and a banging stereo in it and was met with success. Trailer brake controller would have been nice, but it worked as is.
Things like an interior are more important to other people in my family than me, so it was time for tow rig #TheThird. Certainly I had to stay dodge so i could reuse my hubs, had to stay 2500 because the 1500 vans are basically cars, while the 2500 are 1500 pickups. Really wanted to stick with the small V8 for fuel economy.
and all was right in the world for a long time. (well, a year anyways). very long story short, the catalytic converter failed and this got a 5.9 magnum swap with a mild hughes cam, transgo shift kit, limited slip/disc brake rear end (9.25) and a straight pipe-ish 2-1/4" from the factory manifolds to 3" to magnaflow 14419. Absolutely kicks ass and i've been driving it nearly every day for a year (after it sat for 3 years, longest engine swap ever).
anyways, it shit the bed right before i had a trip from WA to UT scheduled (in 2017 ), so ran out and bought a $900 suburban. very excited to have a 454/4L80E/4WD/Full Float rear with gov-bomb
made the trip despite heavy oil consumption, not long after I ended up paying a shop to put a brand new engine in it. At that point, I resolved to own this thing for the next 10+ years of my life. it was the last vehicle i would ever need. flawless in everyway and absurd performance with the trailer.
too good to last. talk in General Chit-Chat about absurd used vehicle prices, talking to co-workers looking for cheap commuter cars, day-dreaming about putting the van drivetrain into something more interesting resulted in a couple days of craigslist watching....
also need a place I can take random notes and hold random pictures
I was always a 100% street legal, drive to the trails, drive it home even when held together with zip ties kind of offroader. Trailers are for queens and all that, until I had a 4 hour drive turn into an 8+ hour drive due to driveshaft damage.
So out came tow rig #1. 1986 4runner 4cyl with a toy bar
as you can imagine, that made exactly 1 trip
it was time to upgrade to something that could use a legitimate trailer. So i scrounged up some cash and bought a $1000 trailer and a $500 van. previously used as storage, was a homebrew hightop because a tree fell on it and i was happy to drive it home. V8, fuel injection, O/D trans, all the things for a proper tow rig
Alright, so proper is a relative term. cut the hubs up and put 2002-2015 ram 1500 brakes and a banging stereo in it and was met with success. Trailer brake controller would have been nice, but it worked as is.
Things like an interior are more important to other people in my family than me, so it was time for tow rig #TheThird. Certainly I had to stay dodge so i could reuse my hubs, had to stay 2500 because the 1500 vans are basically cars, while the 2500 are 1500 pickups. Really wanted to stick with the small V8 for fuel economy.
and all was right in the world for a long time. (well, a year anyways). very long story short, the catalytic converter failed and this got a 5.9 magnum swap with a mild hughes cam, transgo shift kit, limited slip/disc brake rear end (9.25) and a straight pipe-ish 2-1/4" from the factory manifolds to 3" to magnaflow 14419. Absolutely kicks ass and i've been driving it nearly every day for a year (after it sat for 3 years, longest engine swap ever).
anyways, it shit the bed right before i had a trip from WA to UT scheduled (in 2017 ), so ran out and bought a $900 suburban. very excited to have a 454/4L80E/4WD/Full Float rear with gov-bomb
made the trip despite heavy oil consumption, not long after I ended up paying a shop to put a brand new engine in it. At that point, I resolved to own this thing for the next 10+ years of my life. it was the last vehicle i would ever need. flawless in everyway and absurd performance with the trailer.
too good to last. talk in General Chit-Chat about absurd used vehicle prices, talking to co-workers looking for cheap commuter cars, day-dreaming about putting the van drivetrain into something more interesting resulted in a couple days of craigslist watching....
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