🔥🔥 HELP!! I JUST INSTALLED A SET of 40s...🔥🔥

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

They do! Its a RW TRX

Production like from Mopar haha. Not trade my house straight-up for another Rex

 

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

New fully Forged wheels on deck. Also found a way to keep the Mopar TPMS but ditch those shitty valve stems for some rock solid brass ones

 

[ScarlettHogg]

Sub'd for the love

 

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

Sub'd for the love

thanks bro!

 

[ScarlettHogg]

Something i just thought about. I spoke with Bowen Customs this morning, about potentially doing a bed lift. If these spring spacers don't cut it I might be taking the truck back to do it. For you Rick, you could probably buy an aftermarket body lift kit, and do just the bed portion of the lift. Just to add some rear clearance.

 

[TRXMIKE]

That would be one wonky looking set up!

 

[ScarlettHogg]

That would be one wonky looking set up!

Functional tho

 

[TRXMIKE]

Functional tho

True

 

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

Something i just thought about. I spoke with Bowen Customs this morning, about potentially doing a bed lift. If these spring spacers don't cut it I might be taking the truck back to do it. For you Rick, you could probably buy an aftermarket body lift kit, and do just the bed portion of the lift. Just to add some rear clearance.

Yea i def thought about them but id like to avoid the body lifts TBH. I dont really need any more lift but wouldnt mind another 1/2-1 esp in the rear for when we load up all the gear. But then again I never wheel with all that gear in the back anyways so I’m usually back to a level/slightly raked look on the trails. Come to think of it if I did add 3/4 of an inch in the back, it would probably make me want to lift the front to level it back out somehow

 

[ScarlettHogg]

Full body lift it is hahahah

 

[Dudebro]

Yea i def thought about them but id like to avoid the body lifts TBH. I dont really need any more lift but wouldnt mind another 1/2-1 esp in the rear for when we load up all the gear. But then again I never wheel with all that gear in the back anyways so I’m usually back to a level/slightly raked look on the trails. Come to think of it if I did add 3/4 of an inch in the back, it would probably make me want to lift the front to level it back out somehow

With everything you are doing, portals are really the only good answer for long term reliability. Just more $$$

 

[ScarlettHogg]

With everything you are doing, portals are really the only good answer for long term reliability. Just more $$$

I’d do just about anything for portal, but I can only find custom application setups. Open to refrences

 

[Dudebro]

I’d do just about anything for portal, but I can only find custom application setups. Open to refrences

74weld may be able to help.

 

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

With everything you are doing, portals are really the only good answer for long term reliability. Just more $$$

If it would guarantee 0 CV boot issues for the rest of my life, i'd go for it lol. I reached out to 74weld a long time ago but never heard back. Im curious though, can you still rip with portals or would we be stuck doing low range crawling all the time? I def cant give up my high speed romps - they're my fave and the kids' fave too!

 

[Dudebro]

If it would guarantee 0 CV boot issues for the rest of my life, i'd go for it lol. I reached out to 74weld a long time ago but never heard back. Im curious though, can you still rip with portals or would we be stuck doing low range crawling all the time? I def cant give up my high speed romps - they're my fave and the kids' fave too!

oh yeah you can rip. The idea behind portals is that it allows for ideal range CV angels with all the benefits of a lift. You are also able to get gear reduction if you wanted.

Look at king of the hammers or AWD tts. All portals now.

 

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

oh yeah you can rip. The idea behind portals is that it allows for ideal range CV angels with all the benefits of a lift. You are also able to get gear reduction if you wanted.

Look at king of the hammers or AWD tts. All portals now.

I could gear reduce without touching the diffs? Man that'd be sick to jump to like a 4.56 or 4.88. The 40s are definitely slowing things down quite a bit!

 

[Dudebro]

I could gear reduce without touching the diffs? Man that'd be sick to jump to like a 4.56 or 4.88. The 40s are definitely slowing things down quite a bit!

Yes sir. Portals are not cheap for a reason. Lots of benefits

 

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

Waited a while to put this together as we were trimming and trimming and cutting and trimming lolol. A few offroad shakedowns later and here we go!

 

[FULLTHROTTLERICK]

Decided to bite the bullet and do the trimming right so we never gunna rub again even at full stuff.

Rear trimming is done. Just need to Clean-up, spray paint & some door trim and the rears are done hopefully forever lol. Just followed the fender seam for a “relatively” clean cut.

On to the fronts now.

 

[04Ram2500Hemi]

Decided to bite the bullet and do the trimming right so we never gunna rub again even at full stuff.

Rear trimming is done. Just need to Clean-up, spray paint & some door trim and the rears are done hopefully forever lol. Just followed the fender seam for a “relatively” clean cut.

On to the fronts now.

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This gives you something to do while you figure out if your transmission truly did shit the bed!