What did you do to/in your 5th Gen today?!

Brought this little guy home :) First car ride home in a 4R

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I finally decided what size tire to get. 255/80-17 BFG KM2's. I am looking forward to seeing how they ride. Thanks to SEP for being the guinea pig. The wheels are FJ Steelies.

I can tell you already, from looking at this picture, YOU NEED SPACERS!

It looks weird with those skinny tires sucked in the wheel well like that, just doesn't look right.
 
I finally decided what size tire to get. 255/80-17 BFG KM2's. I am looking forward to seeing how they ride. Thanks to SEP for being the guinea pig. The wheels are FJ Steelies.

Please share your impressions, that tire size may not be as tough looking but it is very functional.
 
Got to wrap my hood today. Has a pretty good bit of wrinkles, but I'm debating having it LineEXed or having a buddy of mine who does wraps professionally do it, or try it again.

The 3M stuff is really easy to work with as stated, but I feel like the wrinkles were directly related to starting at one side and working across and over the hood. I think it might have been easier to start in the middle. We had debated it, but since there was no slit in the middle of the backing we decided to try it that way.

Heres a crappy cell phone picture
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Got to wrap my hood today. Has a pretty good bit of wrinkles, but I'm debating having it LineEXed or having a buddy of mine who does wraps professionally do it, or try it again.

The 3M stuff is really easy to work with as stated, but I feel like the wrinkles were directly related to starting at one side and working across and over the hood. I think it might have been easier to start in the middle. We had debated it, but since there was no slit in the middle of the backing we decided to try it that way.

Heres a crappy cell phone picture
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Looks great :bluejump:
 
I made a muddy mess. While offroading I got stuck in mud - rear tires were completely under the mud, mud up to the base of the doors. Managed to get out after about 10 minutes of wiggling. Almost had to winch it.




 
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Mangowalk 4" antenna. Finally got rid of the 30' mast that was cluttering up the hood.
 
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Oh nothing...just some Icon Omega rear shocks. As usual, Ducmonstas shop did a great job, even whilst he is lounging on the beach drinking umbrella drinks...
 
Please share your impressions, that tire size may not be as tough looking but it is very functional.

I love them so far. They are pretty quiet for a mud terrain. I have had the Firestone MT's and Duratrac's and the BFG's are quieter so far. I don't know how much my mileage has suffered yet. Power loss is noticable, but not as bad as I had expected.
They are great off road. I was a pit official at the Vegas to Reno off road race this weekend and there was a spot about a mile from my pit that the trophy trucks had turned into a two or three foot deep uphill silt bed. The class 10 buggies kept getting stuck there and I ended up pulling three of them out of the silt. The tires dug through the silt and I was actually high centered, but the truck just kept moving.
 

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Took a ride over to Stankie Finger's house to pick this up for the camping trip in October. Even has a 3hp electrip motor. Sweeeet!:fishing:


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It barks real nice. Big thanks to Toystry for his write-up

(and yes I know its missing a hose clamp, it was shorted in the box and I've already been back to the dealer this morning to get a new one)
 
Then today I got half of my BudBuilt sliders installed, left side. First I had to remove the rest of the XREAS that I left behind when I did the lift. I also cut the rocker on that side which is what took the most time. I'm not too impressed with my trim job so i'm going to order the trail rockers and fender over moldings tomorrow.







Tomorrow the right side :boink:
 

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