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Just a heads up if you change tire size. Changing the tire size will change your speedo reading. You might get a speeding ticket when you think your are on the speed limit. Just in case, grab your GPS and have it give you a speed reading and correlate it to your speedo. In many vehicles you...

You may be right. The key is to get in the middle of the power band. This is mainly effected by the cam grind. Mine is an RV cam and it peaks around 2800-3000

Remember that if you put bigger tires on your vehicle, you need to change the speedo gear, otherwise you will be actually traveling faster than your speedo says. This can play heck with your actual MPG as well and mess with your calculations on your mpg.

A DD214 should be enough.

The first and most important thing is to find out what type of radios is everybody using, not brand, but band. CB? GMRS? Ham 2M? Ham 70CM? For the most point, none of these can talk to the others. Once you know that, get back and we can help you with good brands and installations.

The single biggest detriment to gas mileage on overland rigs is big tires with stock gearing. You end up lugging the engine. To get good mpg, you need to be running in your peak power band. My 1985 XJ with a 4.7L stroker with 35" tires gets 21mpg on the freeway. Most older XJs get 14 on a...

He is the one with the booze.:confused:

Drilling permits are up is red herring. From the time a fed permit is issues, it can take 2-3 years to get all the rest of the permits before drilling begins. If and only if they hit a good enough well, the task becomes setting up a supply chain to get the product to a pipeline and off to a...

Check out my trailer build and see how you can make your own bender on the cheap. You can use the HF pipe bender, but get a different set of dies the correct size. Only this size is the problem.

Out west, they are of zero value.

From my decades of experience, the biggest impactors for mileage for an overlander are; correct gearing for big tires, excess weight. I am running a 38 year old 4.7L stroker in my Cherokee running 35" tires and I get 21mpg on the freeway, 18 pulling my teardrop. I have control over the...

I was going to drive home to Colorado from AZ (1000 miles each way) for a week to install a custom axle I have been building in Colorado, but I guess it will be cheaper to ship it and install it here.

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I have been doing extreme rockcrawling for over three decades having grown up on a ranch at 9000 feet in Colorado. Very rarely have I ever used full throttle when geared down. People get antsy when it gets vertical and tend to want to go full throttle. Rarely is that the best answer. The...

Make sure and run Corkscrew. Should be dispersed camping. Have you been up to Yankee Boy Basin? Ophir is pretty but not that much camping in comparison. Hit the hot springs in Ouray. Just north are some clothing optional springs ;-) You can head over to Buena Vista. More trails than you...

Our gas went up over $1.50 a gallon in the last month. It was 4.29 at my local pump this morning but I was just told that they bumped it to $4.79

Not to brag, but...A full tank of gas.

I made a living racing expert open class motocross back in 1970 .

How much you want for it. :grinning: Your first upgrade should be the big trail sprocket for the rear. I had two of those back in the late 60s for exactly the same thing you want it for. I always regretted getting rid of them. I also had one of the CT70s that could fold up and go in your...

Make me an offer.