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After a full week sitting in 95° sunshine , found my 3+ year old wipers melted to the wind shield ...I went into town, Auto Zone , bought a set Bosh Icons...The nice young guy man offered to install, ....Soo I let him. He got a smile when I pulled my front floor carpet and threw on my...

Not the Cool Factor of the Soupie spinner knob......my upgrade to my steering, APG Billet Tie Rod end...no deflection , Fk Bearing Heim joint end...greater range of motion , and holds toe alignment angle much better than the O.E.M Balljoint...

If you are not on a budget, this is a lift that will perform both on and offroad..... Adjustable height and damping for road comfort and handling, or desert bombing. I am at 3.0" on front Coilovers, and 1.0" of rear leaf spring lift....

Recipe for driveshaft vibration will include a 1.0 rear lift most everytime.....dosent matter if its done with leafs or blocks..... To address or minimize the vibration a combination of lowering the carrier bearing with washers/shims and lowering the rear pinion flange angle with wedge shaped...

Not sure how Dave feels around snakes... My self , having grown up in San Deigo county and spent alot of time in the foot hills and deserts with probably 100+ encounters with rattle snakes, I learned to respect but not fear them... Now I can tell my " only happens in the Ozarks" story ...

I was going to spare everyone the gory details , but here is my Recluse story... Was at the girlfriend's house boat on Table Rock Lake, I left my swim trunks on the railing overnight...Recluse in my trunks... 3 bites to my pubic area...3 boils , that after a week finally came to head, and I was...

The Brown Recluse are commonly found in the Ozarks.....Dave Beware !!!...

I pictures of what you speak... 3.0" total lift coilovers, front... 1.0" ICON spring pack, rear,,,, 255 70 R18 Cooper Rugged Trek on 8.0" x18.0 Ford BAP wheels , 32.0" with 55mm offset......

My 2021 XLT FX4 has been the same..... In park , one front tire still on ground,... It's not hard to spin, but dosen't spin freely. It's been like that first time I removed a wheel with 440 miles , to upgrade , and level my front with new Coilovers and UCA's....It was the same before and after...

A short screw driver in the rotor edge/ cooling fins against the caliper assembly, allows you to get the torque with out the hub spinning....for us elderly folk a 1/2" drive long handle torque wrench is the preferred tool for getting 110 ft lbs without hurting oneself. ...?... Frenchy you...

Spacers are okay....Don't cheap out, use high quality Billet spacers...( aka Faction Fab)....Keep width reasonable ,,1.0 - 1.5" .. Install properly...use a little antiseize, and Red Loc-Tite ...Torque to specs (110 ft lbs)

I was an owner-operator long haul , coast to coast Bed Bugger all through the 1990's I had the Galaxy 88 with an upgraded sound board paired with a Road King 56 mic, single Wilson antenna..... I would get complements almost daily on the clarity ,and asked what I was using...

I did not spray or grease the leaves at all. I sprayed all the bushings , Uniballs, and Heim joint ends with the 3 n 1 Dry lube... I have cleaned and given the joints and uni ball a maintenance squirt about once year during tire rotation...

The APG Billet UCA's are milled aluminum, with an anodized finish....I live outside a small city, on a secondary road that they don't treat with salt or brine when it snows. I also will put on a rain suit and take my creeper to the carwash for wand spray of suspension and under carriage after...

For "tearing up the desert" with minimal weight in the bed , a King/APG/ Deaver or ICON/APG/ ICON Mid-Runner system is the way.to go... ICON 2.5 CDCV EXT RR Coilovers, APG Billet UCA's and Billet Tie Rods ICON 2.5 CDCV Piggy Back shocks. ICON RTX Progressive leaf springs ICON Universal foam...

Are you on a long travel set up??? Most with the bumper and winch, do well with the ICON 2.5 / 650lb.spring. Only other time I have seen someone needing a 700lb. coil springs was on a +3.0" long travel setup...

I"ll be making the trip out there at the end of this month...My daughter and grand kids live in Julian....and they have a RV with lots of desert toys ...Can't wait....

The Coopers are very good tire....the reinforced sidewall XL rated are better for towing and aired down offroading if you ever get the itch....I have been running with the more aggressive tred Cooper Rugged Trek , a 45lb. XL Rated tire for 3 yrs, absolutely nothing to say but good things about...

Rapid Red, "21 XLT FX4 with close to $10K in mods , way more awesomer than anything available in the 6G..?..