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Katemcy and Wolf Caves are just up the road ;)

One more time for those in the back IH8Overdrive - can't get these gears back to all the same soon enuf....anyways... Tire destruction continues....this is the front passenger tire... two layers of cords showing, still not down to the steel belts. Ran portions of Arrowhead, Side Chick...

Squish those seats in the press and you'll drop your butt down, add thigh support, and your back will appreciate it. I squished mine 3". https://www.rockcrawler.com/forum/threads/jhf-trail-chassis.3977/page-2#post-6946

Is it just me, are you oversteering a lot? That's looking like way more than 50 degrees.... Mine turns 45 degrees with a 3x9 ram and isn't nearly that sharp. A steering arm change and the 3x9 will steer 50. More than 50 = boom, and frankly anything more than 45 is a bind.

Pics of mine, straight and almost full lock. Reposition your ram.

LOL Yeah, still not seeing an advantage that makes the shifting headaches worth it. Getting too hot here shortly to wheel much, so I'll get a set of gears ordered up for the front and drop my overall ratio to 5.29 at some point this summer. Had the t-case (rear) kick out once this past...

Well, that took less than a minute...literally loaded onto the trailer and had to R-N-D-N-R the shifter to unbind the t-case...on the trailer. It still shifts FAR better than the MMW did overall, but the added bind issues are a given. As a friend put it yesterday, the only reason to do...

Ironman today in Hurricane/StG, so traffic around Sand Mountain is a disaster ...took me 90 minutes from fully assembled to this pic...next, clean up the housing, seal and soft-set the new 5.29 diff, assemble the balance, then torque and fill with lube tmrw (I like to let gasket maker sit...

Currently, 30 minutes to Sand Mountain....new home will be about 10 minutes :) And yes, I'll get out a few days a week.... #threehourtour There are a handful of others here with "flexible" schedules who can wheel a few times a week too, so that helps. And I bet there are a couple dozen portal...

In car from today's run up Easy Street....a few t-case shifts mixed in :)

The MMW liked to pop out of gear....likely due to the other headaches that existed with that case....it worked fine until I did the OD setup, and I only ran that for a couple months before swapping back. I need to get motivated and re-swap the 5.29's into the rear....

And lastly, a tire update. These Milestars went on some new 20x8.5 BattleBorn forged wheels in mid-August 2024, and I had grand plans to swap my earlier tire/wheel combo back on to wear them out. Well, short but sweet, I like the new narrower setup SO MUCH BETTER that I never swapped back...and...

2025 updates... First, I ended 2024 with a junk D300 intermediate gear....my "guess" is one of the set screws for the Midnight case fell out and made a mess. Either way, that meant a new intermediate gear. The shift rods were also tweaked, I had a spare set that were supposed to fix the...

turns out, it IS stolen! The friend I sold it to then sold it to a rancher...who just talked with my friend and told him it was stolen a week or so ago. Apparently, one of the thieves has been caught, police are tracking another, and the UTV has not yet been recovered. Any info you have is...

The 32-spline front output requires specific parts - the bearing/seal are included, and I already had the star washer, yoke, nut, etc. Notes for future reference... bearing: NTN 30207 seal: National 473454 rubber star yoke washer: Chrysler #4210973