No worries.

 

made it run on 3-cylinders


right at about 25 seconds into the video you can hear it switch from 6 to 3 cylinders lol...

the video does it no justice at all though, in person it REALLY sounds bad

sounds like a big kubota 3 banger tractor

for those wondering: it is perfectly normal operation for a cummins in sub zero temps.

In my case I used an IAT fooler to trick the engine into thinking it was below 0*F outside thus activating the built in 3-cylinder high-idle warmup mode.

 

Red?....thankfully merc knows more about them than me. How can you go wrong with 3"+ more travel though eh? So far so good. I figure too stiff /short springs may be why I recently had a lower control arm break on me. Time will tell.

Yeah bro whoda thunk it? I think the dude I bought truck off of must have hooked up with some 1.5"+ lift springs along the way because I measured those spacers at 6". Looks like I could be customer on those 7". haha

 

Technically speaking yesterday, but today I bed lined the bottom of my tailgate. Bottom 4" or so were getting scratched and starting to rust so I got the rust off, cleaned it and then bed lined.

 

Yup, I can say mine match ya on the color.

Why you breakin shiz? Oh yah....jumps!

 

Used it to pick up a set of 5 2nd gen Ram 2500 wheels.

 

I'm pretty sure it happened on the road. 2 concrete slabs had shifted with one sticking about 3/4 of a curb height above the other. Hit it around 50mph, driver side lower control arm broke near the frame. Quite the jarring impact if I recall.

Things which probably contributed besides me thinking it's fun to nail big bumps at speed...The bushings/pivots appeared pretty seized up with dirt and corrosion . put in all new bushings fasteners and some lube now. Those Tuff Country control arms are quite spindly and weak looking to begin with as compared to the stockers. Probably should replace with something more sturdy. Had my buddy repair the broken one for now. Finally those short stiff springs I had with that four link suspension probably isn't exactly the ideal pre-runner type suspension. I have hopes these longer springs may even help relieve some of the stress on the control arms.

In my mind I keep wondering why those four link suspensions don't fail more often. I don't see how they can really even work without binding up and potentially breaking stuff when things get squirrely. But then I'm no mechanical engineer. I guess you just go bigger and beefier when stuff breaks? Slowing down is not an option.

 

But some 60s under that sob. They are the definition of beefy

 

Drove it to work for the first time in three weeks.

 

read his sig sir. hes got 60's already.......stock!