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Tom uses mostly Spicer parts where applicable.

I have always went with Tom Wood. His customer service and warante is un beatable.

Thanks for the info! Yeah I plan to adress the transmission pretty soon. In years past I have pretty much been anti-auto transmission, but now am warming up to the fact that if taken care of will work. Plus in seattle it is really nice not to be "stirring the pot" in the traffic, especially...

I would usually agree with you on the widening trails argument, but that trail I feel a fullsize can fit through no problem. Without any snow it is easy and you could drive a cadillac through it. I've seen a lot more body damage, even on rigs from this board, on smaller rigs. I didn't...

Yeah depriciation is pretty insane. That was another factor in buy this rig, hopfully it will not go down much more! One more thing I forgot to add as to why I bought a 1/2 ton chev instead of a diesel is that if something *did* go out in a diesel, it would be a lot more money than a new 350...

Wow a lot of people are getting pretty upset. We should all know by now memorial day weekend should not be weekend you should plan to get places, there is just a lot of people to get through a trail. It is usually about half wheeling and have watching/bsing. It is like that every year, it...

4 grand. Thanks, yeah for these first couple years I can do 60, and less on the hills. As long as I dont need to rely on the Jeep for sole transportation and have something that can carry stuff.

Thanks for the replies. For the amount I will be towing the Jeep I really couldn't justify spending more money on an older truck with worse gas mileage. I just picked up a well maintained 99 Tahoe LT with 142 on it for well under blue book. I plan to install a trans temp gage and maybe a...

Thanks pooh bear, yeah he built it too nice to wheel at first, but he is getting more and more into it. I keep telling him tho I spent twice the money on my rig and get half the compliments :smile:

Heres my pics. The flatty is all stock except for a 12 volt conversion, 2.5 inch lift and 31s. Helped a guy fix an axle on his XJ:

I was up there on sunday, I think I passed you guys on the way down. I was in the Green TJ stuck behind the unprepaired guys including the one with the ATV winch. The flatfender was with me but he only took maybe 5 minutes to get through that section, if I would have have known you guys were...

Thanks guys I appriciate your information. I would love a first gen cummins, but I have only seen them in the 6500-7500 range, and even then there are a ton of miles on them and everything but the enigne is worn out. The Chevys I have been looking at are 4-5k, so with the money I save I could...

I thought about that. I dont tow nearly enough to have a designated tow rig, plus cant afford 2 vehicles. Trying to find something that I can get around in and get at least mid teens for gas mileage, and can tow the Jeep once in a blue moon, and a 19 foot boat. I should also say I will...

Amongst all the talk about diesels on here, I am looking to get a little gasser starter truck here pretty soon. Mainly looking at the 88 and up Chevy K1500s as they seem solid and the price is right. I would have this truck for a few years until I can afford the diesel I really want. Now...

Well it still wasn't fixed. I pulled the plugs out and the driver side bank was running really rich. the brand new plugs were already fouled. So I cleaned all the plugs and put them back in. Then I tore the carb halfway apart and checked the floats now knowing some numbers. Indeed they were...

Replaced the ignition module and coil today and it feels like the problem went away. Still didn't feel like it had the throttle response though and the idle quality started going down/didn't sound right. After being frustrated all day I finally figured I had nothing to lose and started...

Well I figured out the transmission, I didn't hook the kickdown cable spring up correctly. It works as good as it did before now.

Thanks for the reply! I have a feeling the trans issue is related to the carb. Would the running lean condition though make the truck throw black exhaust?

I have a '74 Dodge D100 (318 2bbl/727 auto) that I am fixing up to drive on the road reliabley, and I just rebuilt the carb today. The thing runs AMAZINGLY well, until I am on the gas hard or pulling a hill, once it gets about 3000 RPMs the power kind of goes away and the engine hesitates, and...

Thanks a lot for the replies. I ended up getting some cheap 25 dollar Heartthrob turbo mufflers. I figure if they turn out to be crap then it will be a 50 dollar lesson, then spend the ~80 each for some good ol flowmasters. Anything should sound better than the single rusted out pipe that is...