Things that make you go "Hmmmmm"?

[SemperVee]

Familiarizing myself with functions and features. Crawled under VroomHilda to check out her spare tire pressure and found that it is mounted with Valve stem hidden on rim with valve stem facing up so that you cannot check it without dismounting tire and flipping it, which I did. Why? It did bring wheel closer to the ground but not materially so. Wondering why make this so tough or was it done in error at the factory?

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[t4thfavor]

Because a somewhat under inflated spare is better than one without a valve stem at all? I'm also guessing it has to do with the chosen offset, and having it tucked up closer to the frame rather than lower. One of the things that they brag about is that there's nothing below the frame rails on the Ranger.

 

[SemperVee]

Because a somewhat under inflated spare is better than one without a valve stem at all? I'm also guessing it has to do with the chosen offset, and having it tucked up closer to the frame rather than lower. One of the things that they brag about is that there's nothing below the frame rails on the Ranger.

I guess that is as good a reason as any but with the tire offset changed it is not even as low as the top of the rear gear case so no danger of it touching anything?

 

[Kataphrakt]

Familiarizing myself with functions and features. Crawled under VroomHilda to check out her spare tire pressure and found that it is mounted with Valve stem hidden on rim with valve stem facing up so that you cannot check it without dismounting tire and flipping it, which I did. Why? It did bring wheel closer to the ground but not materially so. Wondering why make this so tough or was it done in error at the factory?

What pressure was your spare at? mine was at 48 psi when i checked it...

 

[SemperVee]

What pressure was your spare at? mine was at 48 psi when i checked it...

42... And mine came off the assy line about a month ago. Under carraige is still spotless...

 

[Ranger's My Middle Name]

What's a vroomhilda??

 

[FX4Offroad]

What's a vroomhilda??

I would assume it the name he gave his Ranger.

I call mine "My truck"

 

[Tracy Bowman]

I would assume it the name he gave his Ranger.

I call mine "My truck"

I call mine Butterscotch

 

[Ranger's My Middle Name]

I call mine "pickup".

 

[DHMag]

Here's what I call mine...

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Here's what I call mine...

 

[Rinn69]

Here's what I call mine...

When your truck starts acting up, the first thing I'd do is re-name it.....I know I wouldn't like the name Buttwheat....It teeters on cruelty

 

[LIMITY]

Mine is Mad Max.

 

[dmeyer302]

Back to the OP: wasn’t it difficult to get the cable/hanger assy in place with the wheel offset on the ground? That would be my leading reason to keep the offset towards the top.

 

[NickTheEnforcer]

Here's what I call mine...

nice, I call mine 'Sugar Ni**ples'... Oh sorry I thought we were talking about wives pet-names!

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