another vote for a welder, a trailer, and a small cheap beater rig. Don't mess up your Daily Driver
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another vote for a welder, a trailer, and a small cheap beater rig. Don't mess up your Daily Driver
Given my current money situation, and the fact that it IS my DD, a locker, small suspension and 35s will keep it a DD and still make it a bit better to handle the trail. ATs will keep it good for street driving and still give it traction offroad. I think this is a good happy medium for the f150 and itll keep it suitable for both types. save the hardcore offroad stuff for like u said, a small cheap beater.
I wanted to say thanks to all of yall for helpin me with this, i guess the title of this should more be "this is what i want, what the **** should i do?"
i think you'll want some MT's if you get new tires dont get all terrains
depending on what he wants to do with said beater, theres an extra $1000 in a trailer and/or insurance. plus all the money he will drop making the crappy beater in a bigger pile of poo, only to be torn apart later in its life. if he just keeps it sane on 35's "I" think he will be much happier.
38" all terrains? Really? That sounds kinda yag. If you are lifting it that much, is the difference between and AT vs an MT really a concern. My DD/tow rig has MTs with 40k on them and still have life left.
I attempted to wheel and DD my Bronco my freshman year of college. I was all hardcore, drive it to the trail, through the trail, and back home. My rims were shiny and my paint was perfect. A year of that and I realized what a bad idea it was. It was all beat up and I brokes several TTB shafts. By the time you buy an IFS kit and some magical 38" ATs, you could have bought a decent rig. But you won't realize that yet no matter what we tell you. I know because I didn't.
On the other hand, since you are a freshman busy with school, I doubt you have a couple Gs laying around to throw at a trail rig. Understandable. If I was in your position, I would put what money I had to spend into making the F150 a little nicer of a DD. It could use some more body work, maybe some body lift lips?, maybe some slightly used 285/70/17 MTs?:gigem:. Forget about locker and just wheel it at BVORR and Shiloh and ride along with others on the real trails like K-Rocks, Clayton etc.
Props to taking everyone's opinions/criticisms and not being a newbie jackass. Stay involved in the club and you will learn plenty.
the 285/70/17s sound good to me. The suspension is around $2500 and that includes new rear leafs, which i want to get because the f150 has around 170k miles and a bunch is from wheeling around our ranch in junction and doing work, so my suspension is in need of an upgrade. Especially since i plan on keepin the truck for a while. when i lifted the body i noticed that the suspension wasnt in "good" condition. i figure with the way things go, i can have more than enough for this lift and bodywork on the f150, and by the time i get a place with some friends where i can actually work on a trail rig, it should work out nicely, with a finishd DD, ready for a lil buddy to pull around. hoping all goes well.
holy ****!
I could buy 3-4 running FSJs for $2500. :eek:
yea its a *****...
Dude seriously if you are planning on spending that much on a suspension lift just get an XJ, ranger or S10. For some reason I see those three prety frequently in the ~$500 range. You could buy and build a decent trail rig for $2500, especially if you're patient and dont go balls to the wall right off the bat.
ranger! ranger! ranger!
got nowhere to put it
he needs to go balls deep on research to decide what he wants. and learn what parts sucks and whats good.
i know of a place at the end of dexter that charges the low low price of $50/month for storage
I know a place of of n dowling thats only 45:flipoff2:
Whatever you want to do, wait off a couple of months. Wheeling is alot of fun, but having a comfortable DD to drive everyday is alot more fun.
hate to sound like the rest of these guys but just wait some time and leave your truck alone. Don't destroy your daily driver and please dont drop 2-4k on lifting a truck that isn't even worth that in the first place. wheel it like it is and have fun, catch a ride with older members until you can actually afford to do something right