Midwest typically, but I’ve made it out west (CO and Moab) twice in the last two years and also have been down near the Appalachians.

I never saw the bill, but my cousin hit her head while in Belize where they didn’t have health insurance (presumably because healthcare there is extremely cheap) and they couldn’t treat her at the local hospitals. It was decided to fly her via helicopter to Florida and I’m told that it was upwards of $125k for just…

Interesting, my experience is the opposite. I typically drive fairly slow over rocks and rougher terrain, but with 40" tires and a good amount of ground clearance, the rocks I typically drive over aren’t exactly bumps in the road. Mud, since it requires some momentum, there’s often unexpected bumps that are hit at…

I think I disagree with you. While rocks definitely do cause breakage, I think it’s typically more controllable. You know when you’re giving the vehicle a lot more throttle on a potentially high traction surface (or bouncing to get up something). In mud, since you have to give it throttle to get through stuff - if you…

As David mentioned, most people do not enjoy it because of the added maintenance and cleaning required after. I don’t think they don’t enjoy DOING it - it’s a blast during, but the consequences to some simply aren’t worth it.

I think he made a typo... he meant valve core, not valve stem. The valve core threads into the valve stem.

Ever thought that there might be tires larger than 32" like the ones you have on your jeep? :P

You lost me at customers doing R&D...???

Possibly.  I’m guessing they used the same lower control arms so it actually pulled the tires inward inside the wheel well.  I assume they replaced the upper control arms with something different, but can’t say for sure.

Right.  Can you imagine how annoying it would be to spend 20+ minutes on 4 tires doing so?  Removing a valve core takes seconds and cuts that time in 1/3 or more.

Accepting orders doesn’t mean you’re shipping trucks. There’s fine print stating that they can rescind, delay, or cancel the order for situations just like this I’m sure.

It slows down when you get to the lower pressures.

When I had 33" tires, I used a device that held the shrader in and it took 4 or 5 minutes to go from 34psi to 14psi.

I’ve never tried the shrader method on my 40s, as I just pull the valve core now.  Even pulling the valve core takes nearly 2 minutes to go from 28psi to…

On any tire with a substantial sidewall (larger volume of air in the tire), this could take 15+ minutes to go from ~35psi to 10psi.

COTD right here.

Depends how soft, I guess.

If you had a confirmed date from the project manager running the program, wouldn’t you accept orders early?

I think the 4.3L is popular for fleet vehicles.  When the 5.3L is a ~$2k option over the 4.3L and you’re buying dozens of trucks at once, it becomes a major cost savings or allows you to get more trucks for the same price.  And while it’s not as good as the 5.3L, it does get the job done and long-term costs are about…

The new 4.3L shares almost nothing with the old 4.3L other than displacement.  The new ones have direct injection and make 285hp and 305lb-ft of torque.  That’s the same horsepower and nearly as much torque as the 5.3L in my 2001!  Pair that with the 6 speed instead of the 4 speed an early 2000s truck has and I bet…

“Off” meaning, at factory specs?  All IFS trucks have a little bit of positive camber.  It’s just more obvious with the larger wheel arch gap I think.

Well... I also cannot afford to drive a new truck.  But I still like it.