DuneCummins
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So I broke the 2 rules in buying a used truck. Don't buy a commercial truck and don't buy a plow truck. I did both....
Wife and I hopping in though and headed to the Silver Lake dunes. Could only crawl around but we had a great time, impossible not to.
Like a true "Cummins Bro" put leveling coils on it with Bilstein 5160s and 35s on Brotometal wheels. Loaded up with 3 bikes in the bed and a RZR with 3 more bikes in the toy hauler and cannon balled from Jersey to Glamis while the rest of the group flew out.
Peer pressure had me ripping up Oldsmobile Hill and that's when the snowball started.
Made a basic bed cage to hold the trans cooler, spares and 2.5x16 smoothie Carbon shocks with Deaver springs.
Front got and axle truss, Thuren 3" springs and towers, 3.0x10 Carbon shocks and inverted hydros mounted to the axle aimed at the underside of the frame. 37s and basic bitch Methods
Wild summer ensued back at the Silver Lake dunes with us drive it home 800 miles. Not trailered.
Also ripped a lot of our local fire roads in Jersey
But I wanted to take it to the next level. So talking with Daniel owner of Carbon Shocks he came up with a 4.0x11.5 that had a lowered hose port for a small bump zone.
Install was as simple as clearancing the upper and lower coil buckets cycling the front end. Long Arms also went on the truck at this point.
Now we had 11" of front travel with a 4.0 shock bumped and strapped with a bolt-on shock tower, 3" leveling coil and bolt-on long arms.
Toys loaded back to Silver Lake.
And the truck RIPPED!!!
So what's next. The rear 2.5 smoothies can't keep up now with a truck that's a hair over 8,000lbs on the scale. So these 3.5x16 5-tubes are going in the back. Also changing up the traction bar setup so the rear cycles more freely. After that this winter it's time for a full 2" interior/exterior cage build and the AEV flares kit so it can get a set of 40s on it.
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