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  1. chet

    Bolt on wheel spacers.

    I ran 1.5" ones on my hardcore wheeler. I abused them lots and never had a problem. The key is retorquing them after a short drive.
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    On The Road w/ KC ~ August 6 - ?

    I for one do not mind your ramblings one bit! I say thanks for sharing them. I fully support your philosophy. I went through the soul searching and finding myself thing around 5 years ago. I decided that the bottle was not the way and built me a kick ******** 4x4 that kept me busy and sane. Once my...
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    new pop up for us!

    yes there is it fold down into another bed. the table is big enough to seat 4 at.
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    tire fitment

    don't you have some sort of a lift right now? I would get some OME struts and springs over the Calmini stuff. All of their kits ride really rough. Plus their customer service sucks! Or you could put in a small 1" body lift and some slight trimming to make them fit.:jumping:
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    new pop up for us!

    its an 1989 :camping:
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    new pop up for us!

    the lift looks bad but I have seen where this rig has been since it was lifted in the early '90's and its still in one piece so I guess it works. It has slapper leaf springs (ride on the frame at one end) and massive lift blocks between the axle and the springs. I would probably go to proper...
  7. chet

    economics of diesel conversion

    I was going to do this to my kick. I even had the motor bought! If the motor you are looking at is not turbo then forget it. I was figuring around $3000 CDN to do the conversion so your 2 grand is probably not far off. The main swap is fairly simple. its the small things that will get ya. Power...
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    new pop up for us!

    can you believ we camped for 3 days this weekend and didn't take one picture of the new trailer! :smilies27 It worked really well though. We had about 4 km of really rough gravel road and it seemed alright but needs some better springs I think. We also need a heater the 4 month old needed some...
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    new pop up for us!

    I'll take interior pics this weekend. I took one the other night but its too dark. The local RV dealer here sells these really cool A-frame units made by chalet. Lightweight and small but too expensive for the amount of times we will use it.
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    Peppers Lake - Aug 25 - 27

    very cool! We hit up the northern portion of the FTR from RMH North to Hinton? A few years ago. Can't remember where it came out. Holy crap we same some cool stuff. some massive mining equipment and some very crazy logging truck drivers! We always try and come home from Edmonton through RMH as...
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    HAHA! FWC are sweet!

    nice camper! I camped beside a fullsize with a FWC on it last year. nice setup. How hard is the door to get in and out of?
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    new pop up for us!

    thanks guys. I have been looking for a good cheap small tent trailer like this for sometime. We went and looked at a used cub camperoo but there was just not enough space inside. It needs a few small things fixed (like getting rid of the Jeep sticker!!!:rolleyes: ) but it will serve us well...
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    new pop up for us!

    here's a couple of pics
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    new pop up for us!

    We picked up an older coleman Colorado pop up last night that had been lifted by another club member quite a while ago. They are a neat rig in that the be slides out over the hitch and there is a built in awning over the rear door. I haven't weighed it but I think its around 750 lbs. as it sits...
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    2007 Jeep Wrangler Four-Door (pics)

    Damn 455 ft.lbs. of torque in the small Cummins! :wings: I wish they would choose that motor! I was the same as Life_in_4Lo I never really liked Jeeps before this one.
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    Nice Pinzgauer!

    ya a fellow in our club had a pinz as well and it spent alot of time on its side!! They look cool but fail for North American markets in things like top speed, comfort and parts availability
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    D-cab owners opinion

    I would say go with the double cab as well. If you ever plan to have kids in the near future the Xtra cab is useless. I have owned an Xtracab mazda and it was just big enough to be annoying and not big enough to be useful to everything went in the bed with a canopy on it!
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    Time for new tires

    I have the Cooper discover STT's and they are good but they are down to about 60% now and are starting to humm really loud. I will rotate them to see if it stops that. My buddy works at a tire shop and he runs the Toyo open country MT and its seems like a good tire. Super quiet on the road. and...
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    Why CRD Liberty no manual tranny?

    I have been doing some more reading on this and apparently in Europe and Aus a 6 speed is offered (as mentioned above) so i guess its just a market thing. On a side note I may go check a CRD out this weekend. They are offering 3-5 grand off with incentives right now so a new CRD is around 30...
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    Couple pics from Seattle and Vancouver

    nice pics. You missed me by a ferry ride! I am on vancouver Island
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