I have 38 acres of property in Irwin County, just over the Coffee County line I own with a couple of fishing/hunting/off-road buddies. I lived in Ga. for 14 years (Lincoln, Toombs & Coffee counties) until I moved to Fl. about 2 years ago as my stepfather & mother fell seriously ill. I used to make monthly trips but only until recently their health has kept me here full time. Have not seen the place since March & they tell me our 4.5 acre pond that has yielded me two ten pound plus bass is now about 1/3 of an acre.
About your truck, I don't know what the minimum specs would be, but my 4" suspension lift easily clears 35" tires during some pretty good off roading with 4.5" backspacing and -12mm offset.
I have an '04 4x4 with a torsion bar setup so there are going to be differences.

 

hey guys. i just had my 2007 dodge ram 1500 big horn edition4x4 5.7L hemi with stock 20" rims lifted at 4 wheel parts store. it has the only 6" pro-comp suspention lift kit that fits the 07 1500 4x4 with 35" toyo open country mud terrians and 18" pro-comp 6005 series rims. it looks so sweet. and very quite on the highway/roads. here are some pics. If you are looking for great deals on truck accoriess or lift kits/tires/rims, go to www.4wheelparts.com. they have several stores also troughout the USA to install anything you buy from them. to do the tires,lift,rims,and insatllation, it only cost around $5,500...pretty cheap to have it done the right and fast way!

 

i can add this to the sticky if you want....

 

what is the sticky?

 

why would you want to go from factory 20's down to 18's?

 

i went down, cause when u put a lift and bigger tires, you dont want 20" rims you want like 18" and smaller. the factory 20" rims would look stupid and not help off raod.

 

Does anybody here use FabTech? If so, Pros/Cons?

 

I want to get rid of my 20" as soon as I can. For one 18" are a more simple size wheel to find tires for, second the more sidewall you have when you are doing "true" offroading the better off you will be. You need bite on more than just surface tread, the sidewalls have to have a good area to bite with so you can pull yourself out of some of the nasty ruts. With 20" you just cant get a good amount of sidewall before you run into the wheel its self and what is more sickining than messing up a nice set of wheels because you scraped them or hit a curb. Now for the people who dont do any 4-wheelin its not a big issue and they go more for the look than the function, me I am going for the function. Does anyone know if there is a solid axle swap for the 06 1500???

 

I'm guessing because he actually plans on going off road with his 4x4, 20's can't flex or give a footprint big enough to be worth a damn off road, unless you're talking huge lift and like 39" tires, then you could get away with 20's...

 

I've got a 2006 and I'm looking for front springs only that will give me2 - 2.5 inches of lift. I DO NOT want to use the push down style method. It will never see any real off road use , just deep snow. Stock springs are just two weak and I think one is abit tired. If you've heard of any plz let me know.