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LittleFR

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  1. I rotated my tires and pulled the driver side wheel spacer and Warn apart to tighten a loose bearing and retorqued everything. In what may be a record 45minutes start to finish for me by myself. And the 4wd still worked when I got done! Ha

     

    No more wheel bearing wobble though. Wish I had just done it right last time I was in there.... I could have had my feet propped up eating a sammich instead of hustling to get my truck together for a long work trip this week.

  2. I use my receiver on the rear.

     

    I had a bull bar on a truck before, I hit a deer and it destroyed my bumper and grill then I bent it back with a tiny tow strap and gave it away. They are flimsy junk.

     

    You could make a tow point on each side with some fabrication that would be better than the stock holes. I would even mess with the rear though, just get a towing hitch.

  3. Everybody in Colorado has that many stickers.... I think, but I've never left this county just of the three people from Colorado that got lost here they all had stickers like that. haha

     

    It should have an adjustment if its just slack in the cable.

    Could need pads or shoes though.

     

    On a side note of the 20 vehicles I've owned since my wife and I got married 4 years ago many were manuals.... maybe 3 had functional e-brakes. I draw the e-brake short stick in life every time, I used to hand the valets my truck keys and a brick if it was a hilly parking lot.

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  4. Just to verify, you did the upper and lower bushings on the rearend yourself so you know it was actually done and torqued properly?

     

    If a shop did it they may have done uppers only or lowers only.

     

    You may want to check each bushing one by one again and retorque. Could also be a faulty rear shock causing some similar symptoms.

  5. My 01 has the same clips and stuff but they are bolted in the floor of the cargo area. I didn't use them one time and I went around a curve and heard my daughter giggling uncontrolably I looked back and the seat was almost on its side.

     

    not good! now I put her in the middle and use all three rear seatbelts and the clip, like I can grab the seat and shake it and the Pathy rocks.

  6. Also, there is a huge difference between the 3.3 and 3.5. I am running 4.36 with 33" and I don't feel like I lost alot of power with it.

     

    3.5 FTW :happy:

     

    Also I'm glad XPLORX4 caught my gear ratio mistake earlier.

     

    I def have 4.36 gears and 32's not 3.36 it's stamped right on my firewall. Wish i had the 4.6 for towing but DD I don't notice the tires and in 4Low i could get out and walk beside it so no torque issues there.

  7. I have an 01 with 32's and never honestly have had or noticed an issue with low power. It has the 3.36's too. When I did it i was worried and wanted to regear like my other lifted trucks, but unless I go SFD and get over 33's I'm not worried about it yet. I do want mechanical lockers if I ever do any gear or diff swap though.

     

    I wonder if it's not brought up a lot because so many people had the 3.63's to start with.

  8. I got my pathy out of body shop... she's got new shiny paint is is slick as a greased whistle. I had a buddy do some work on her on the cheap because I don't drive junk and I love my R50.

     

    Then my brother and I went to pick up my old car an 1989 LTD that the title got tied up in some nasty legal junk for over a year...

    We changed the oil in the Vic went over the tires fluids everything.... jumped in and hit the key, NOTHING... cleaned the solenoid... nothing!!! crawled under it to beat the starter and holy crap... literally nothing, somebody had stolen the original freaking 30yro starter!!!

     

    So we hooked it to the pathy, hauled her home (the car weighed more than the R50) we put a starter on the LTD and my brother is driving it now.

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