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Old 09-05-2017, 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by habanero
I liked your trip report so much I was seeing double! Love Mineral Creek. Saw a new stock GMC Suburban with an older couple sweating it out and a Jeep Compass with a flat tire coming down as we were going up. Some of that stuff had to be....interesting...in the Taco, simply because it's so long.
I am not sure why it posted double, copied and pasted it from another forum. Mineral Creek was definitely made harder by the long wheel base of the double cab. It made it through with little trouble though
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Once we left Carson Ghost Town we headed back to Cinnamon Pass.

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From there we went up and over California Pass

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...and then Hurricane Pass

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After that we headed home and I picked up my Ram, and a car hauler.

Good news got to play with my winch for the first time!
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all loaded up and heading home

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Not how I wanted to leave the National Park

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Old 09-07-2017, 07:14 AM
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Some drone footage. No off-roading just scenic shots of the where we went.


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Need help w 2wd suspension.

Hello. I have a 94 2wd pickup that I have been living put of for the past year. Everything I own, mostly tools and toyota parts, and all my art supplies. Plus clothes. When I first got it, it was lowered w/ 3" lowering blocks and when I put my stuff into it, my drive shaft was rubbing on the body. So I got different leaf springs cuz the ones I had were flat. Put those on and took off the lowering blocks and with my stuff in it, no rubbing and it didnt look like a cockroach. Kept that setup for a few weeks but my feet kept getting hot when I would drive it so my ex told me I should put smaller lowering blocks on it cuz the angle of the driveshaft to transmission was too steep, hence the heat from the tranny. So I put on 2" blocks and that seemed to be fine. About 3 weeks ago I decided to change out my 18" low profile tires to 215/75 R15. They were too big for the truck with lowering blocks so I took them out and cranked up my torsion bars all the way.. still rubbing in the front so I had to take my fenders off the truck and had to smash the lip so that it wouldn't cut through my tires. It still runs and I was wondering what the best solution for the truck would be. I also replaced the tierods and some of the bushings.. I definitely have to do the strut bar bushings, the bottom sway bar bushings on the control arm, and the control arm bushings(already bought all of them in a kit) just didnt have a big enough socket to do them with. Moved somewhere now where I have all tools to fix anything I need so I figured it might help asking to see if I could get some insight as to what is the better way to go so I dont spend money unnecessarily. I won't really be 4x4ing but will be going slow down camping roads to go fishing, etc.. just want to make sure the trucks tires dont rub and my driveshaft doesn't rub.. I have to replace my body mounts as well. I tried but the bolt just kept spinning with no way to hold it in place I couldn't get the nut off of it to replace them.. oh and I was checking out torsion bars today so the front of the truck is up on Jack's right now
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