Chaser999

I was just reading up on this last night and in fact the warn manual hubs are safe to put on an r50 with the "electronic" style 4x4 shifting. It's in the pinned topic section under the manual hub install write up i believe. I have hubs coming for Christmas and I was just double checking to make sure they work with the on the fly shift dial.

I see your Pathy fuel tank stays empty just like mine always seems to be....... However, Has one of these been mounted in an R50 yet? And what would one use to paint the covering to match their interior?

I'm looking into installing a safari basket in the near future and I'm just looking around for ideas of what products fit my price range and what, if any parts im gonna need to mount it. I was looking at the proline rack because of the optional extension you can purchase but my biggest question is what and how do they mount? (Yakima racks are awseome but way to expensive for my college budget) Should i buy new cross bars or are my factory cross bars usable? In my opinion it looks like after market crossbars would let the basket sit lower on the roof which would be ideal. Is this correct though? Any input would be nice and If you have a safari basket if you would post what equipment your using that would be nice. Oh, and i once heard that pictures are worth a thousand words, so lets see them. -Chase

Ok well, long story short, I had the old pipe welded on for 35 bucks and im sending the new piece back (thank god for a 30 day refund policy). Truck is driving alot smoother and hopefully my MPG's will go up. Averaged 11 mpg last tank even though it was majority city. Thanks for all the input, you guys saved me 50 bucks!!

Still haven't gotten around to trying this out. School has been busy but I should be able to get under the truck this weekend sometime. If the rust too much I might looking into returning the resonator and just getting someone to weld up the old one. I'll find out my fate tomorrow I guess....

Im still hoping I'll be able to salvage the bracket on the rear of the muffler. I haven't had time to get back under and check it out. I think with WD-40 and a wrench I;ll be able to get everything on and functional, if not, well I'll just go from there haha

Went ahead and ordered the part online, 80 bucks for a direct fit replacement. Should take about a week to get here. I figured eighty bucks shipped to my door is worth it and ill just install it myelf. Its two bolts and two rubber hangers.

In regards to that other muffler piece, It's still on my truck, just the piece pictured is what came loose. It was held on by those two rubbery looking connector type deals...

Yea i noticed the other "muffler" looking unit further up. So if I just had a pipe welded on to that and run that to the back I should be ok? That was what i was thinking of doing because it seemed to be the less expensive root. Plus I feel like an aftermarket system would run me quite a bit of cash. Thanks for all your input! -Chase

So My muffler broke off my truck today and I need some opinions on what to do. What's the cheapest option? Do i need a muffler at all or can i run a straight pipe from the cat? I went to a muffler shop and they quoted the part at 350....yea right. Online i found an aftermarket, OEM replacement for 60 i believe. Any suggestions would be awesome!!! And Im currently driving around with out the muffler on is this bad for back pressure on the engine?

You sir, are a genius. I didnt even think about what would happen when i rotated the tires. And eventually, yes steelies will come into play but that could be another year. I still owe a small amount on the truck and being my only income is in the summer......well i cant mod everything at one time. After my lift the next thing will be new wheels and then eventually bigger tires. Good things come to those who wait (because there broke)

Yea, i have the knob on the dash. My main reason for purchasing these is my six hour drive home at 70 mph on which i get 18 mpg......bad pathy but i just wanted to get a little extra mpg's for that reason. I guess if i just be knowledgable about the whole thing I'll be alright.

What i was reading i thought was referring to the part that the transfer case is lubricated by a pump that is turned on by the wheels spinning but since you unlock the hub, the transfer case is no longer being lubricated.

So I just read in the member's ride section that installing the manual locking hubs on an LE with the 4wd selector on the dash (the knob) is ok but running with them unlocked is bad for the transfer case. Something along the lines of it not being lubricated and what not. Can someone elaborate on this or is there a post somewhere that elaborates on this? I Haven't quite gotten used to the search function yet. -Chase

Thanks alot, that's exactly what i wanted to hear! hmmm decisions decisions

I was considering this option, I just don't want to take away the rigidity of the wheels especially if I start taking it off road. This is an option that I might look into I just need to call and get a quote on how much that would be. Any ideas?

So i just converted the 245 mm to inches and it comes out to be 9.6457 inches. So what would be a safe rim width to run with the tires? I looked all over the interent to find the width of the stock le rims but I couldnt find it anywhere. -Chase

So my stock LE wheels apparently do not fit warn hubs. I wanted to put the hubs on my Pathy before installing a lift so I seem to have run into a little problem. I want to look into a a set of 17 inch rims for my pathy so I dont have to buy new tires as well since my tires only have about 1200 miles on them. Does anyone know how to tell if rims will fit the warn hubs? Preferably aftermarket rims. I would think that any "truck" style rim would fit the hubs but I'd rather be safe then sorry. How do i find measurements of certain rims that would tell me if the hubs would fit or not? Any info is greatly appreciated. Also the tires i bought are 245/65/17 and rims that I've been looking at are 17x8.5. Is there a conversion method that would tell me if the width's are the same or close to the same? Sorry if these questions are "noob" questions but i figured smart guys and gals like yourselves could answer them rather quickly. Again i greatly appreciate any info you can provide. This is just one more step until i get my lift

You have a different set of rims. Ours are six spoke but not the tri star pattern and they are 17's not 16's.

hmmmm....thanks for the reply

Thanks for the pictures, your truck is bada$$, no joke. Yea I know warn no doubt probably has a better quality product, but I think for my usage I wont need to spend the extra cash for them. I can't make any purchases untill I'm back home anyway I have no tools at school with me. I can't even change my own oil.

Yea i was planning on Mile Markers, at least for now. I plain on hitting some trails out here at school but nothing to harsh. This truck still drives me to class everyday and has to make a 6 hour trip home every so often After school is when the real mods will come.

Once again, thanks for the help. You guys make me want to start ordering parts!

Instead of starting a new topic for my next question I figured I'd post it in here since the answer should be simple. I'm looking into buying the warn manual hubs and I've all the topics I could find on them but I still have a question. 1) Will the warn hubs fit the LE model R50 wheels? I don't mind if i have to dremel the opening a little but will it work at all? Any pictures of this already done would be great.

Thanks everyone, I honestly can't wait to get it muddy. The previous owner was a State Troopers wife so it probably has never seen a trail. This thing even has the dvd player in the back seat, talk about riding in style!!!