Recent content by yamaha225

This is a pretty sick build, I’d also love to see an update if possible!

What company did you use for the new seat foam and upolstery? I need to do the same thing to my Superduty and there is a wide range of prices between the companies that offer replacements.

I think the key in all of this is just knowing what your vehicle will and won’t do, and how it behaves at the limit, and then driving accordingly. The trick is that you have to actually drive your vehicle at the limit to know how it will behave there. Most everyday people never approach that...

Yeah I like them so far!

Yeah the Bilstein 5100’s I put on the F-350 helped a lot. They’re on the stiffer side as far as damping so they help a lot with the body roll.

I have a fair bit of experience running rigs without swaybars. In college when I really started off-roading my Jeep Wrangler TJ I removed the front swaybar and ran without it for a few years. It made it miles better off-road and was tolerable on road. It was my daily at the time. The amount of...

Super interesting process!

The leverage on the bearings will also depend on the offset of the wheels used. If you add width to the wheels but also adjust the offset so the added width is split between the inside and outside of the wheel mounting surface, the bearing wear shouldn’t change. However if the added width is...

I am decidedly not a GM fan, but I’ll admit when a build is cool and this is certainly cool! Helps a lot that you’re getting rid of the worst part of GM trucks (the front suspension) in my opinion!

Great thread! Looking forward to seeing more of the build!

I’ll chime in just to throw in my vote for the Ridgeline. The J series V6 engine that Honda still uses in the Ridgeline has been in use for something like 25 years. It’s extremely smooth, torquey, and reliable. I have an Accord with the 3.0 liter version of the engine with 235,000 miles on it...

I have a very similar truck to yours with similar goals in mind! I also follow you on YouTube and love the content you’ve posted there thus far. Looking forward to following along here as well! Here is the tread on my truck if you’re interested! Early ‘99 F-350

They sold around 1.5 million of the new Cherokee during its model run. I haven’t driven one and wouldn’t buy one because it’s not really my kind of vehicle, but everything I’ve seen says they were pretty decent and 1.5 million sold in less than 10 years is nothing to sneeze at. I’d consider that...

That’s remarkably bad work. Glad you’re taking the time to give the community the information and heads up. Ultimately this is a big part of why I don’t let really anyone else touch my vehicles and I do everything I possibly can myself. Even with my house, I did essentially everything myself...

This! I have heard so many people complain about how all they want is a base model vehicle and if automakers would just make a simple car they’d sell like hotcakes. In addition to the wrangler you can also get base model pickups and base model cars. But guess what, everyone buys the higher trim...