Klitch my biggest concern was hitch ratings, b.c i dont really know much about it.

Blue, Zaair its not pretty:*( but i will be able to reattach that plastic trim, and it will hide alot of the damage. My next mod will be getting my valence painted, and fully shaving my tailgate.

And now for the pics.



Then we stopped to work on my other roomates car b.c it was acting up. We just put his stock PCM back in...

 

And i had put my stock shackles back in, so the truck was dropped 3/3 in those pics, but it was sagging about 2.5 inches.

And now for the damage pics




Basically what happened, was I took the trailer off the truck to try to put a taller reciever in, but the ball was rusted on the bar so i couldnt flip it over, and I tightened the trailer back down around the original ball, but didnt tighten it down all the way aparently, but it was tight. So then we get to tryin to get the car on the trailer and we are rocking it on b.c its only running on 4 cylinders, and has a stout clutch so it really wasnt too much help. And then the trailer rocked back and forth and worked its way over the ball, and pushed into my tailgate.

I think im pretty lucky the damage wasnt more extensive!

 

Holy ground clearance!

 

LOL yah, that's what happens when my lowered truck does work, but its still better then this

and that was before i put my full 3/5 drop on, i think that is 3/4 right there

 

Wash your wheels

 

hadnt washed the truck since 5-24

it rains every day or every other day right now. I will probably wash it when we get our new place in two weeks

 

Haha, damn. If I went two months w/o a wash my doors would be stuck shut and you wouldnt be able to tell what color my truck was

 

battle scars for the wetodded truck owner! although my tailgate has a dent in it, i didnt get to do it.

lol btw didnt you know you go for the beefiest hitch so you dont have the excuse "its not rated for that"

 

damn ur almot tuckin. haha u prolly coulda backed the car on put more weight over the trailor axels

 

Klitch i have several other battle scars too so its not that big of a deal, it blends in with silver okay, and once i put that strip back in, it wont be very noticable at all. Plus i needed an excuse to shave the gate anyways

thought about that, but it wouldnt be as aerodynamic, and im pretty sure if i had the lowering shackles still in, the frame would have been laying on the axle

 

Hey Pat,

Ouch....

So how did your truck do towing on the bump stops? Now you know that your 4.6 is tuff enough to tow most everything At least it was an open trailer, nothing's worse than towing a tongue heavy 6500lb enclosed trailer up hills. Had to drop it in second and go about 50 mph up a 7% grade. Oh yeah, you should get some 4:10 gears, finally got mine, and uhh.. it's just as good as you think it would be on stock tires The CHP unfortunately noticed I was having too much fun....

Have to throw in the Chevy joke, figures you would need a Ford to tow it

Remember if you have any gate shaving questions, you know the person to ask

 

Hey Flareside, where in Garden Grove do you live?

 

It wasnt on the bumpstops, but i think it was close. I was actually just seriously thinking about doing 4.10s recently. But i got a few visual things i want to do first.

 

WEST SIDE!!

 

what the blonde in the headlights?