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Old Jun 24, 2010 | 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by pashadowops
You probably buy really nice off-road tires though too!

I only pay $268 for 4 Goodyear Wrangler A/T on ebay, albeit they are stock size 235x75 r15's. I can't afford big tires. Wish I could.....sigh...someday!
stock size tires(205/75/15) are $80 each but nobody stocks them around by me so i go with the ones they do stock (225/75/15) which are 95$+

thats for a 2wd too. why can't they be like my honda where they are $40 each.
 
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Old Jun 24, 2010 | 05:02 AM
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my tires where 150 each after road hazard
 
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Old Jun 24, 2010 | 09:35 PM
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My tires were only 121.25 after road hazard.
 
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Old Jun 24, 2010 | 10:40 PM
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was that for all 4?

the thing i hate most about my dakota is that i have to re-thread the holes in the axle yoke everytime i take the u-joint off. this time i re-threaded the wrong whole...
 
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Old Jun 25, 2010 | 05:00 PM
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no that was for each tire.
 
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Old Jun 25, 2010 | 05:18 PM
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i know this is 1st gen but what i hate about my dak (3rd gen) is that there is not a single company that makes a real suspension lift. and the one that is on the process of fabricating one, they say that is going to cost $3400.00. what kind of crap is that! you can buy a 6" lift for a full size truck for less than $2000.00. that is just wrong!!
 
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Old Jun 25, 2010 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by dakota_raven
i know this is 1st gen but what i hate about my dak (3rd gen) is that there is not a single company that makes a real suspension lift. and the one that is on the process of fabricating one, they say that is going to cost $3400.00. what kind of crap is that! you can buy a 6" lift for a full size truck for less than $2000.00. that is just wrong!!
thats almost how it is for the 1st and 2nd gens too. the f1st gens have a safe maximum of 4in of lift (6" the max) and i'm not to sure about the seconds but it must be close. you think they would have straight axled them by now.

another thing i hate about my truck is i'm pulling the trans out jsut about every week to fix somthing. this time it almost fell out when all the bolts(torqued down to specs) came loose after hitting a pot hole today.
 
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 07:24 PM
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2nd gens only have body lifts. it sucks
i hate that and that i didn't get a 5-speed.
 
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Old Jun 26, 2010 | 07:29 PM
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The way the calipers are atached to the spindles on 2nd gen Dakotas, who's idea was this? If I can move it that much with just my bare hand it needs to be stronger much stronger.
 
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Old Jun 27, 2010 | 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by 00dakSport
2nd gens only have body lifts. it sucks
i hate that and that i didn't get a 5-speed.
join the club and convert to manual... we got jackets lol
 
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