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  1. TomDirt

    DREAM GARAGE coming soon!

    When you're a MAN, the whole world is your urinal.
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    DREAM GARAGE coming soon!

    My knees cry out in pain when I see all that flooring work.
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    Gen 1 to Gen 2 Suspension

    You get more uptravel this way. If you step up to 37's, though, they will definitely contact the fender at full compression.
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    Evil Manufacturing/Off road

    Boom! The copper mining industry is going to grow bigger every year for a loooong time.
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    eBay Knockoff Fox Shocks

    I'm guessing they don't update as often. Or, suddenly the shipping will be $400ea!
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    eBay Knockoff Fox Shocks

    For those prices, you can order a pair of 2.5 Kings instead.
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    eBay Knockoff Fox Shocks

    WTF. This is from the Summit website today.
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    Evil Manufacturing/Off road

    I started high school (trade school) in 1974. Very different world back then. There were 7 different trades: Automotive, Building Technology (my major), Electronics, Metallurgy, Mechanical Technology, and Photolithography. I was lucky that I found something I enjoyed, and found work in the...
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    Evil Manufacturing/Off road

    Now we understand why the Chinese companies found it easier to hire barefoot children and chain them to the workbench, paying $4 for 15 hour days (kidding.... a little bit).
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    Evil Manufacturing/Off road

    Are you able to find guys who can just put down the hood and weld, or do you end up training them instead? It sucks that nobody is learning to weld in high schools anymore. It's easier to teach someone (who was raised using computers), to program a water jet table or a cnc machine than it is to...
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    Evil Manufacturing/Off road

    Newline took 4.5 weeks to build mine, (which is exactly what I was told to expect). Unfortunately, in Cali it's very difficult to get a crew (and keep them), that are both talented, reliable, and that can keep on knocking out those parts. I'm always impressed by any business that can survive...
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    King Shock Anodization Stripped?!

    Same with condoms. If it breaks and you knock her up, they will gladly send you more, but they're not paying for the kid.
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    GEN 1 Finally found a Terrain Scab!

    So it went from 3900 miles last November to 11,900 miles this month?
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    Show off your latest pics

    Newline's Raptor-spec prerunner bumper finally got painted.
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    Drove a Gen 2 for the first time - Pros and Cons

    Look at GM's Mary Barra. They chose to make a female engineer the BOSS, because of the optics. She championed their plan to build only EV's in the future, because of politics. They now loose billions on their EV's. Look at USSS ex-director Kimberly Cheadle; same reason for promotion, same...
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    Drove a Gen 2 for the first time - Pros and Cons

    "So they can get impregnated by Muskrat, berated, embarrassed, and then laid off for no reason with no notice, then have their severance pay suspended?" Smart employers Never hire female engineers.
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    King Shock Anodization Stripped?!

    Someone was paid to detail it and didn't (or couldn't) read the label. That's my guess.
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    FRONT END STILL GRINDIND AFTER RCV INSTALL

    This dude says he's happy with them, on a big old dodge truck with 37's
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    FRONT END STILL GRINDIND AFTER RCV INSTALL

    If you replace the axles, RockAuto sells these "extended articulation" units for the Gen 1 Raptor. They are gnarly compared to stock.
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    FRONT END STILL GRINDIND AFTER RCV INSTALL

    On this video, at 29sec in, you can hear that axle sound
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    FRONT END STILL GRINDIND AFTER RCV INSTALL

    If you have the oem tire/wheel combination then fender clearance isn't the problem. That clunking in reverse is definitely NOT tire scrub. That's metal on metal. Did you compare this (freewheeling) sound to the sound while actually IN 4wd?
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    Drove a Gen 2 for the first time - Pros and Cons

    You mean like dealing with Ford to fix your F-150 cam phasers, right? I'm pretty sure that the Gigapress will get sorted out before the UAW union is. And, it will never go on strike and halt production, like auto workers have done for decades. Years ago, there was a photo released of auto...
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