Recent content by Aaron

My only experience with balance beads on my raptor was interesting. I bought the truck in phoenix and drove home to so call. 2012 Border patrol raptor with 115k miles, 1 year old bfg KO2 with about 90% tread. The truck drove great with no vibrations upto about 80mph then would develop a...

tell me more about the mojave trail trip. I need to make that run

My son got a new car and is posting a bunch of shorts on YouTube.

(y) Im going to try and make it with my 14 year old son. Been trying to get in on a trip like this. If I dont go in the few weeks death valley lake looks like a cool site to see thats not around toof often.

Any update on the route? Start and end, ONX gps file?

I was going to make a day trip to plaster city but glamis sounds fun too. Trip from flats to diners diner sounds fun. What’s the roll out time? I’m about 3 hours from glamis store and would just be day trippin.

maybe invest in a 110w race radio...

I might be up for this trip in my raptor. I need to do the Mojave road. My parents live on 5 acres in golden valley. Thinking about starting at their place and driving back to slash x off road. Should be able to hit oatman ghost town and then all the regular Mojave spots. Camp one night.

Where are you located and what are you asking for it?

Im just starting to get my rig setup. Picked up some pelican type bins for tool storage in the truck. Working on mounting and organizing now. Got tired of the HD special totes getting destroyed every trip in the bed or making noise in the cab.

"Brisker" pace won't make up for lack of 4x4? Is it rock crawler type terrain?

So we picked up this project from the BLGT forum for free. My first thought was center mount a arms or beams and big links in the rear. After some time staring at it and being more realistic for short term success we have decided to make it a running and driving rock crawler. We poured some...

how much travel does this kit get? I have a sas 92 pickup i want to go back to ifs.

On raptors they run extended bump stop pads. Works just like an airbag. You can jack up the truck and pop it out to put the shorty back in once you disconnect the trailer https://www.rpgoffroad.com/product/air-bump-extension-pads/

Next item on the list was adding some cup holders... Some of these trucks come with a cup holder bolted onto the rear of the console, but mine did not have that sweet option so I had to add it myself. Some scrap aluminum and $10 cups holders from amazon worked out pretty good. I promise...