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@grubworm There you go again, where do you get these things? (I want to put a V8 on that tiny boat.)

@Livefree603 40's? Any thing less than 30" rims should give you plenty of side wall to air down. The 22's are "probably" fine, but if you're going to do all the other modifications to fit 40" tires, I'd recommend what @madcratebuilder said, go for the smallest wheels that clear, to maximize the...

@Jeffrey Dill I was hoping that somebody who knew exactly where we went would respond to your question. I guess everybody forgot about this already. I found this experience more or less life-changing, personally.

@Livefree603 Basically, the answer to that question is, make sure you've got "enough" traction and "enough" clearance, and you're good to go. There's no absolute standard as to what "enough" is; this is determined solely by the use that you put it to. Generally speaking, a good all-terrain tire...

@JK-001 Welcome to the forum, and well observed! The standards and expectations change regionally besides their placement on the sliding scale of off-roading to overlanding. For example, in low-elevation places where the environment is wet and swampy, you'll find a lot of daily-driven "mall...

@orange01z28 I'm sure you already know the drill with gears, but here's a handy little calculation I came up with to get an idea of what gears you should use: (old tire diameter ÷ old gear ratio) ÷ (new tire size ÷ new gear ratio) - 1 This gives you the difference in "tire-to-gear ratio"...

@DosTacos Now this is the post that this thread needed. That Wolf is a looker, too bad they don't offer an ICE option. Seriously, imagine the sales if a company offered the same model with either gas or electric power; they would be so fundamentally different, they might as well be different...

@Jeffrey Dill Since you asked...

@Downs But the incompetence is a front shown to us so that we don't expect them to do their jobs in serving us, while they use their real power against us! They play dumb to hide how smart they are, and it's all part of a bigger scheme! It doesn't matter who believes what, or how right or wrong...

@98_GVitara_Adventures Nice rig, always liked the Rodeo/Passport/Frontera platform. Looks well cared for. Is that open diff, or have a LS on the rear?

@Downs @bgenlvtex has a point though, and you can't pretend that there aren't companies that exploited the pandemic as an excuse to crank out half-baked products marketed as protective measures. That's not to say that they have all attempted this, or that all who attempted have succeeded...

@Downs If only the governments would keep their grubby hands off it, we could see an impressive technology win the hearts of the people by offering its own trade-offs. In a perfect world, we would see fuel stations offering both fossil fuels and battery charging stations. Still gonna keep my...

@Downs Well, the drive to sustain commercial success by any means necessary amidst crackdowns on environmental politics seems to be the force that powers the advancement in electric car technology. On one hand, as I already said in this thread, people aren't buying $100,000 electric sports cars...

@grubworm My solution to organization is to have two boxes, one for the stuff I use and one for the stuff I don't (or hope I won't) use. The stuff I use goes on the top, the stuff I don't use goes on the bottom. I never use any of it, so that works out pretty well! In all seriousness... "how...

@No Known Boundaries Nice oldschool Ram, those things are monsters!

@jstarky Welcome to the forum! You'll find lots of useful information here about places to see and things to do, as well as recommendations for equipment that might come in handy for them. Nice rig! Seems you've found a balance of capability vs. practicality that checks all the boxes. The...

@HighVoltOverland Nice! And the reason I say "in the driveway" (moving the goal post, as it were) is that I carry almost a whole tank of gas in spare fuel on my outings, which can be used to fill my tank in the driveway in obviously less than 15 minutes. Here however electric fuel has a...

@HighVoltOverland Hold up, your rig can charge from empty to full in 15 minutes in your driveway? I'll have what you're having... if it still runs in 20 years when I can afford it. No lie, I'll be totally on board with electric cars once there is one that is appealing to me. I'm not knocking...

This is a sign you'll not likely see outside of the mountains.

@grubworm Well said! A smooth talker can make any bad idea sound good! I'm convinced that somebody with such lines of thought must be responsible for the "blind spot indicators" on mirrors, and automatic lane and parking assist, and self-driving cars. The obsoletion of car windows will solve...