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I have not read the whole thread so someone my have already mentioned this. Lots of guys who drive Porsches and other high-end cars, especially those who use the cars for track days, have a clear film applied to the nose or front end of the car to protect against rock chips. Probably similar...

"Clear tint" is a contradiction in terms, but 3M makes a clear film that blocks most of the UVA and UVB. If you do a Google search for UV-blocking window films, one of the hits will be a skin cancer prevention organization that lists most of the available clear films by maker and UV-blocking...

White paint won't help much. All my trucks and camper shells are white and they still get really hot. I used to carry a digital thermometer in the truck and once recorded 185F inside the shell of a white truck. That was the day my sixpacks of Diet Coke exploded all over the interior. If you...

Ramsey used to make a series of hidden winch mounts, kind of like Dodge did with the Power Wagon, with the cable feeding out under the factory bumper. I almost put one of those on my old GMC, but they could only accommodate winches up to 9K at that time. That was years ago, but check with...

The dead blow hammers from HF are a great value when on sale. No moving parts at all. Probably why they continue to work.

I use a Reese hitch D-ring that I got from WalMart, and I think I have seen the same one at Home Depot. It's old enough that I think it was actually made in the USofA, and seems plenty heavy for my big *** Dodge. I wouldn't trust HF for mission critical stuff like this, and just about...

I'm not a big fan of Cooper or Goodyear or Goodrich for this type of tire, but it's been a long time since I've had any Coopers or Goodyears. I would lean toward Toyo or Nitto, in that order. My trucks are currently running Toyo AT2 and Nitto Trail Grappler G2, both quiet and seem to be long...

A lot of us think we would like that and a couple have been home-built. Dodge showed a prototype 5.9 PW at Moab around 2006 or 2007, built by KORE, but it never saw production. The party line from Dodge was/is that the diesel would make the truck too long because the intercooler pushes the...

Thread Title: "Super Raptor" When the Rapturds were new on the market, a bunch of yahoos got their rocks off by jumping the trucks and posting YouTube vids of their exploits. There were a number of reports and pics/videos of Rapturds that had folded their frames right between the between the...

You might want to beef up the frame so that your truck doesn't fold up like a cheap suit when it lands hard. Ford showed a prototype F350 knockoff of the Power Wagon about eight years ago. Looked slick but never saw production. There was at least one magazine article about it, with pics...

I called AntiGravity yesterday and they told me that they will not honor the warranty unless the product is purchased through one of their authorized sellers. I don't remember that much about the Uniform Commercial Code, but I think they they have to honor the warranty if it is a legitimate...

Seems like a stretch, but maybe not a huge one. When the EcoDiesel was first released I watched a video review online and the reviewer claimed 26mpg over the course of the test in a 4WD crew cab. Don't remember where I saw the test/review, but the truck was white. Looks real good compared to...

I have SmittyBilts on an older GM and they have done well over almost 17 years. I put a set of similar Smittys on my Dodge in 2005 and they started rusting badly within a year, so I replaced them. My conclusion: the old Smittys were a lot better than the current Smittys. I won't buy any more...

[/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] [/IMG] First two pics show the standard N-Fab pinch weld mounting. Per their instructions, the only things supporting the steps are six bolts each side, through the pinch welds. I substituted 3/8" stainless bolts for the supplied hardware. Third pic shows the...

I have 9011 HIR in the high beam buckets on my 98 GMC with quad headlights, and 55W drop-in HIDs in the low beams. The 9011s are so much better than this particular set of HIDs that I'm going to switch the lows back to HIR if I keep the truck. Headlights are aftermarket units with actual glass...

Just finished up the other side last night, so I'll try to get some pics this weekend. Driver's side wasn't bent, but I decided to do a preemptive reinforcement while I had all the tools and parts out.

I just used rivnuts to reinforce the mounts on my my N-Fab nerf steps. They normally mount through the pinch welds on the rockers and I bent up the mounts when I got stuck last fall. Straightened everything and then drilled through the box section of the rockers from under the truck and set...

I tried to buy a Hannibal 2M last year, with no success. Called and emailed everybody I could think of, and there were none in North America, with no expectation that there would be any within any reasonable time frame. I still like the Hannibal for my purposes, but I wound up buying an EZ-Awn...

My Power Wagon is north of 8,000 pounds, loaded, and I got more than 30M out of my last set of 35" Toyo M/Ts. If you can fit a larger tire diameter, you'll get more miles out of a set (fewer revs per mile), but it adds weight and changes effective gear ratio, plus it takes a toll on braking and...

The PW has softer spring packs than the regular Ram 2500, to help with articulation off road. The PW ride is very comfortable and mine is running on 35" Load Range E Toyos with stock suspension and H2 wheels. The guy with the Tundra has a bad back and always sat on one of those goofy wooden...