yeah i agree u dont need anything in your bed or any fancy bumpers. Just either powerslide when you go into a skid or slow down!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA

 

welded rear and bald 31" AT's and no trouble, unless I give'r some skinny.. however my 4runner has more weight over the rear than a pickup would..
When snow starts falling, I'm gonna throw some new tires on the back, and take it easy in the corners..
gotta first find out how this homebrew spool treats me.. might need some skinny to get the rear end to come around the corner, might have the tendacy to push and understeer..

it's not my fault that throttle induced oversteer corrects understeer
Gotta love Canadian winters..

 

it's allll in your tires buddy!..my '86 used to spin the tires at even the slightest bit of rain and fishtail all the time with my 31" TSL swampers on it..

got my 31" PC Xterrains (about 90% tread..bought em for $350 with no holes or anything) and i dont spin anymore..unless i want it to of course..lmao..

believe me..it'll light em wet or dry..hahahaha

 

he might have a locker he doesent know about, it has downey torsion bars, who knows what els is in there....

 

Good memory from my build thread!

I have considered this... the rear end does spin quite a bit. When the roads are wet, I have to be pretty careful not to peel out at stop lights and stop signs almost 50% of the time. And I definitely do not have a lead foot.

My tires have 80%+ tread on them: Toyo 30x10.5 mud terrains.

The truck has (so far that I've discovered) Downey 26mm t-bars, Downey AAL, and a Downey IFS strut... I've read that you can jack up the rear of the truck and figure out if I've got a locker. Any easier method?

 

go to a field, grass or dirt, and try n do a donut...i know it sounds kinda dumb but if she spins like a top...locker if it goes in a big circle spinning one tire...yeah no locker

 

Learn to like it

Nothing looks cooler then a nice yota pitched sideways round a corner I can't believe you are having so much trouble with an open diff...

get a few used 33x12.50+ tires with steelies and throw em in the bed..

 

I'll sell you one of the big limestone rocks out of my fields as a winter weight for your bed. All you gotta do is dig it out of the field and hope it's not bigger than the truck (a few of them are). They weigh anywhere between 50 and 1000kg. I've been using a 200kg one on my light as hell wooden bed (40kg of pine and thin angle iron) for extra traction until I get around to building my new flatbed, doesn't even need to be tied down.

 

I know how you feel man, I used to go through intersections with ruts in them from the cross traffic and fishtail just from the little hop they caused. You cannot beat a set of high rated wet traction tires > tirerack.com

 

ORRR.... you could just put a floor jack under the 3rd, jack it up so both tires are off the ground put the truck in N and then rotate one by hand... if the other one rotates with it in the same direction then you have a locker... much easier and mroe legal that way..

 

and so much less fun!!

 

slow tight circles in a dry parking lot.. clicking, binding, chirping = locker..

 

Larger tires arent really going to keep you from fishtailing. If they are wider, they are going to make you fishtail more. skinnier tires are better for slippery conditions.

 

fishtailing is much better with mudders hehhe. yeah those tsls suck in the rain, give a little bit gas and im spinning everywhere

 

Trade it for a 4Runner!

 

This has got to be one of the most ridiculous threads I've ever read on here, no offense.

 

Yeah, I just need to learn to drive. This is my first pickup and I'm learning as I go, the result being threads like this (and my build thread). Thanks for all the input everyone.

 

Fair enough, driving a pickup truck is most different from a FWD car, that's for sure.

 

There's a reason why I've seen some guys using toyota pickups as practice drift cars. Easy to drift when you want to, but also a very stable vehicle

 

Oh, boy I know, I gots one, haven't drifted in ice and rain like that in years